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RESTAURANT, 9 and 10. Haymarket.--The CAFE DINNER is now served from FOUR instead of five o'clock as heretofore. The Severn Salmon Season has commenced. WILLIAM JOHN NV ILDE, Proprietor. FLORAL HALL.-COVENT GARDEN:- NOTICE.— Phe FLOWER MARKET will be Ope ned to the public on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, May 22. On the previous evening, viz., Tuesday, May 21, the Floral Rail will be illuminated, and there will be a Private View of the Floral Arrangements, to which the subscribers and visitors to the boxes, pit stalls, and pit, will be (exclusively) admitted. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1861. No. 21,491. PRICE 4D , STAMPED, SD. THE ROYAL HO RTICULTURAL FETES - a- at the NEW GARDEN, SOUTH ,W. The GRAND FLOWER and FRUIT KENSINGTON SHOW, on JUNE 5. Admission JUNE The GRAND ROSE SHOW, JULY 10 6 The GRAND DAHLIA SHOW , SE PTEMBER 11 2s. 6d. The GRAND FRUIT and CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, NOVEMBER 6 2s. Cd. NOVEMB 7 ls.. Fellows, Ivory Tickets, and persons registered Eß under the Debenture Agreement, Free. Doors open each day at 1 o'clock. 'Pickets for the above will be ready for Sale on MONDAY, the 13th, but can only be had on O r d ers signed by a Fellow. All the Shows will be held under Roofed Buildings. After the opening, on .Tune 5, Bands will play on Wednesi= days and Saturdays, in June and July. As the Works in the Garden are still in progress, the Coun cil have decided that the right of entry to these Promenades must, for the present Season, be limited to Fellows, who (except on W . dnesday„Tuly, 10, a Fete Day) may personally introduce two Friend s , the holders of Ivory Tick e t s , w h a may i ntroduce two Friends and to those persons whose names are registered under the Debenture Agreement ; and on Satur days after 1 o'clock, by Tickets, price 2s. 6d., obtainable on the Order of a Fellow. * 4 ,* Ballots for El e eti on o f F e ll ows will take place on the 14th, 24th, and 31st of May. PUBLICATIONS. 1 .4 OYAL AGRICULTUL SOCIETY OF ENG & LAND. The Annual Meeting of Members will be held in the Society's Rooms, on Wednesday, the 22d May, at 12 o'llock. THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. the earliest Fathers, but, like many other doctrines", it was made a matter of dogmatic statement and belief. I can make but a few quotations on account of the short ness of the time. Two of the ancient Fathers :—Origen, who was ordained a Presbyter in the year A.D. 228, and who died in the year A.D. 253, says, "That if anyone care fully examines the i ncons i stenc i es of the four Gospels with regard to historical facts, he will find himself giddy as it were, and no longer insist on the truth of them all, but choose to adhere to one of them singly, not daring wholly to reject the faith of Christ; or else, if he admits them all, he must allow at the same time that the truth of them idoes notrip in the outward character or letter of them." St. Chrysostom, who was born in the4th century, speak ng of the discourse of Paul in Acts xxvi., 6, says that the Apostle speaks after the manner of men, and does not:on all occasions possess grace, but is allowed to mix up something of his own too." NEW WORK BY SCRUTATOR. Now ready, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, R ECOLLECTIONS OF A FOX HUNTER By SCRUTATOR. Hurst and Blackett, 11, Great Marlborough -street. The following is the eighth of a series of Dis courses, delivered at Christ Church, New Road, by the Rev. Robert Ainslie, on Saturday last : IL HALL DARE, Secretary. 12, Hanover-square, London, W. PVANS'S MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS. Gentlemen meet as usual every evening. Maclaiey as ever—Sydney's admirable New Song—The Lee Family's elegant Performances, superior to anything• yet seen. Four part Songs, Glees, Madrigals, and Classic Vocal Music form the main element of the entertainment. "Play-goers sup at Evans's to glees extremely, yell sung."—Atherueum. 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THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTLNG the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY , the 28th init., at half-p as t O ne o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONI RACT for sup plying and delivering* into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz. : RAISINS.. PEPPER 5 MUSTARD SEED S (White).... f 30 Qrs. (Brown).— / 30 50 Tons. When to be delivered.—Ralf of each i n Three Weeks, and the remainder In Three Weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre ferred by the party tendering. VINEGAR 15,000 Gals. Ralf in One Month, and the remainder in One Month afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the articles. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an Unlimited power of "election. The Raisins, Pepper, and Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and parties tendering are to state where they are respectively lying. Samples of the Mustard Seed (not less than Two Quarts of each, of the Pepper, not less than Two Pounds, and of the Raisins, not less than Three Pounds), must be produced by the parties tendering. Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several Trade marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its growth or produce, and a fresh drawn Dock sample of each cask or Package must be produced by the parties tendering, and any cask or package that is found not be of the same mark, num ber, or quality as the sample tendered and accepted, will be rejected by the officers Samples of the Vinegar (not less than a Quart) which the parties tendering may purpose to supply must accompany their Tenders, as the delivery will be required to be made in accordance with the samples which may be accepted, and the Vinegar tendered to be No. 20, Trade denomination: The Vinegar to be delivered in good, sound, strong, and substantial casks, which are to be retained as long as re quired by the said Commissioners or their officers without payment therefor, bnt are to be taken back from the sa d Victualling Stores (when emptied), by and at the expense of the contractor. 'I he samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted, are requested to be taken away by them immedi ately after the contracts have been decided. form No Tender will be receivedurpose unless made on the printed ped for the , and wich ma be obtained on Ilimlica rovid tion at the said office, or to the officer conducting the -Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the collector of Customs at Bristol. Particular attention is called to the recent modification of the conditions of the contracts, which may be seen at the said office, and at f.iverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day qt contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his pro posed sureties in writing. 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Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann. 39, Ucurs gousultAtlo4 - 10 ty 3 awl 0 ty 6 ; §varasyel i o •til3 2. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Bight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrheea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob servation, to any address, on receipt, of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. DE, JELF AND THE "EDINBURGH REVIEW." TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The last number of the Edinburgh Review contains a charge against me of so serious a nature that I cannot pass it over in silence. A note or erratum is promised me in the next number of the Review. But there are few public men wbo can afford to wait two months for the vindication of their characters. I have, therefore, recourse to you, who can give, as no other man can give, the most speedy and effectual redress of wrongs. The following extract, from the article on "Essays and Reviews (b dinburgh Review, April, 1861, page 4931, will show the nature and gravity of the imputation: — "In a pamphlet embodying his speech in Convocation, and requiring, as he justly says, the strictest accuracy-- accuracy in minute details—an estimable opponent of the present volume, in order to prove a contradiction on the point between a solitary passage of one of the essayists and the 31st Article, has actually been obliged to interpolate into his quotation the very expression at issue between him self and his adversary. In place of the comprehensive Biblical expression adopted by all parties in the Church, he substitutes, without acknowledgment, the phrase found neither in Bible nor Prayer-book, pacifying of God's dis pleasure.' The contradiction which he endeavours to fas ten on the essayist thus recoils on his own head. We en tirely acquit him of anything but temerity of such a kind as certainly to deter him from appearing again to denounce his brethren. He is himself too conscientious and honour able a man not to deplore so strange a mis-statement." In a note ibid, Dr. Jelf is said to have substi tuted " his gloss" for the word " propitiation." Now, sir, I, on my part, entirely acquit the re viewer of anything but ignorance of the fact that I had quoted the very words of that edition of the Thirty-nine Articles which has the highest sanc tion of the law. I have the best reason for know ing that subsequently to the publication of his re view he had himself "discovered the ground of my variation." Let me now repeat what I stated shortly in a note in page 17 of the second edition of my " Specific Evidence" (an edition published on the 23d of March, and not seen by the reviewer). I took as the basis for my extracts the edition of the Thirty-nine Articles of 1562 rather than that which is better known—viz., Jewell's revision in 1571, not because I saw any difference between " prbpitiation" tend tho pacifying of God's dis pleasure" (to me, in a theological sense, they seem exact equivalents), but because Dr. Cardwell had long ago convinced me that the English edition of 1562 is, to use Dr. Cardwell's own words, " the exact record that received the authority of Parlia ment" (13th Elizabeth, cap. 12). The grounds of Dr. Cardwell's conclusion will be found stated in his " Synodalia," vol. 1, note, beginning at page 53 (edition 1842). From Dr. Cardwell's reprint of the original edition by Jugge and Cawood I took my quotations. The original is the one referred to in the 13th Elizabeth, cap. 12, as " a book imprinted, entituled ' Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy of the Convocation holden at Lon don in the year of our Lord God one thousand five hundred sixty and two. " No change as to the book to be subscribed is found in 13 Car. 11., or in 5 Anne, 5. To this may be added the well-nown fact that the edition of 1562 is the one specified in the 36th Canon (Art. 3), headed " Subscription of such as are to be made Ministers." Upon thisevidenceTlsubm — it, - fam entitled to a verdict of acquittal on the charge of " temerity," or inaccuracy or " mis-statement," still more on that of bad faith, for any unworthy controversial object. The facts prove conclusively that I have " inter polated" nothing. I have only exercised my own freedom of choice in preferring, on definite grounds, the authorised Parliamentary edition of the Thirty nine Articles, as subscribed by the clergy, to Bishop Jewell's later revision, which, according to a ll appearances, never received the sanction of Par-. liament. Consequently, I shall not be ashamed to raise my voice once more, if nee d b e , in defence of Gocl's truth. — l remain , sir, your obedient servant, W. JELF, D.D., Proctor for the Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. Ki n g's College, London, May 18. D E ATH OF Mi. RENTONN--=ICHOLSON.—ThiS G of or , d , o T n he H L o o te r l d , eccentric individual, better known to metropolitan pleasure seekers under hisdiepdstoslaetgaraldacyognatomo: C ow a after am i l lF l e 6f/ weeks' duratiQu, Chief t ßaron t ," , • At the time that Jesus is said to have done this, not a line of the New Testament was written. It was towards the close of the day after a walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus that Jesus did it. Two disciples had left Jerusalem, and were conversing on all the wonderful things that had just taken place. Jesus drew nigh to them and said " What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad ?" Cleopas then narrated to him what had taken place. Jesus chided them for being slow of heart to believe what the prophets had spoken ; and, beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning him self. There was no Bible, no roll of MS. used, but Jesus evidently quoted from memory the passages he expounded to them. After they had some refreshment, Jesus disap peared. The two disciples went back again immediately to Jerusalem, and told the eleven, who were gathered to gether, that " The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." While they were conversing, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said, " Peace be unto you." They were afraid, thinking they had seen a spirit; but he allayed their fears—He showed them His hands and his feet. He partook of a broiled fish and of some honeycomb, and after alluding to his ministry, " Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures." That is the Old Testament, as none other was then in existence. Since then a considerable number of epistles, gospels, and tractates have been written, out of which as inspired, or as Sacred Scripture, there Jravn-come down to us four gos pels, an ecclesiastical :history, 13 acknowledged epistles by Paul, an epistle to the Hebrews by an unknown writer, one epistle by James, three by John, two by Peter, one by Jude, and the Apocalypse or Book of the Revelation—making a total of 27 epistles and tractates, by eight or nine different writers. There have also been published by Archbishop Wake translations of the genuine epistles of the apostolic fathers, including two epistles of Clement to the Corinthians, one epistle of Poly carp to the Philippians, seven epistles of Ignatius, the Ca tholic epistle of Barnabas, three books of Hermes, and the narrative of the martyrdom of Polycarp and the epistle to the Church of Smyrna respecting the same event. These, with the writings of the New Testament, form, as Arch deacon Wake says, "a complete collection of the most pri mitive antiquity for about 150 years after Christ. These writings stand in the same relation to the New Testament as the Apocrypha does to the old. The Roman Church in cludes in her Old Testament as inspired the whole of the books we call apocryphal, but in the New Testament she reckons only the same books as we have in our Testament. It is, however, due to truth to say that the Alexandrian MS. of the New Testament, supposed to be the oldest until the discovery by Tischendorf, includes the two Epistles of Clement as sacred Scripture, and the M.S. lately found by Tischendorf, supposed to have been written about A.D. 350, contains, as Holy Scripture, the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Shepherd of Hernias; both these MSS. thus proving that they were written before •ur present Canon was finally formed. Eusebius, the oldest ecclesiastical historian whose writings we possess, tells us "that the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, 13 epistles of Paul, one epistle of Peter, and one epistle of John, were universally received in his day (about A.D. 315) as Sacred and Divine. The books that were controverted, received by some and rejected by others, were the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, 2d of Peter, Jude, and the Book of Revelation." He also enumerates some of the apocryphal books which were read in churches, and some of the books which had been forged under the names of the Gospels of Peter, of Thomas, and of Matthias, and the Acts of Andrew and John, and other Apostles. In all these coses it is clear there was no external ecclesiastical authority imposing the reception of any books upon the Churches. The bishop or pastor, with the Church, used these writings, which, on the best evidence they could col lect, appeared to be genuine writings of the Apostles. As an illustration of this, the Church of Rome did not receive the Epistle to the Hebrews as the genuine production of the Apostle Paul ; and to this day it is not known as a mat ter of certainty who wrote it. As councils of men or of bishops must be made up of individuals, there ought to be the decision of every individual mind in the settlement of any question without the influence 61' position or power being brought to bear upon the question. It is singular how some intelligent men will employ an argument when they think it will prop up any favourite opinion or dogma which they wish to propagate. Take that, for instance, o! au eccle siastical council, such as the Council of Nice, or any other convocation of the clergy. The argument of their number is relied upon. It is said, " Do you think so many great and good men could come to a wrong decision ?" I answer it by putting to the Protestant clergyman another question,— Do you think that so many great and good men could should w r come to a wrong decision in the Council of T r ent, with the Pope at their head ?" Do you think th a t th e C onvoca ti on o f the English clergy in the time o f th e b ru t a l Q ueen M a ry could come to a wrong d ec i s i on ? I nee d not pu t t h e ques tion as to the convocatio n o f th e c l ergy i n Inl, for that has made itself a butt of ridi cu l e b e f ore a ll peop l e. I n a ll R oman Catholic cases the P ro t es t ant c l ergyman w i ll not allow that there is any force i n th e argument from num b ers, nor w i ll the Catholic allo w i n th e case of Protestants. A judgment to be worth anythi ng must b e the result of a thorough exa mination of all access ib le evidence, carefully, calmly, honestly, and imp ar ti a ll y summed up, and logically and necessarily resulti ng f rom the evidence. And therefore to say that we must su b m i t to Church authority—the decision of councils—and th e creeds they have enjoined, is too ridi culous to be seriously rep li ed to. At the present time there is a great clamour on th e su b ject of Divine Inspiration, be cause of some expre ss i ons i n the Essays and Reviews which seem to question it s extent and universality in the Bible. Now, I ask every h onest man, whether clergyman or layman, weh o ha s studiedayllf, er e u r theseques tions knowledge : eourn principlesw at autho rityenitth e n estubbjee,ct firstof Divine of el R th e e ve s la eri tio p n tu an re d e Itnhsepmirasetliovnee?. Where they are silent, it is not for men, some eighteen centuries afterwards, to be clamorous. Our obvious duty is to go* the books of the Old Testament, and the New, and dili gently inquire of them what they say ; for we cannot be required to believe more than they ask us to believe. We have got to ask who wrote the 39 books in the Old Testa ment and the 27 in the New. What claim those books lay to Inspiration; what parts of them can be said to be Re vealed or Inspired ; whether the allusions to science, chro nology, Jewish wars, genealogies, the speeches said to be made by God's enemies and by the devil, are Inspired, and other topics I need not enumerate. We have got to ask what the Old and New Testament writers meant by the word Inspiration. It is a remarkable fact that, when applied to written documents, it is not once used in the Old Testa ment, and only once in the New, and that before several of the books now in the New Testament were written. The modern doctrine of Inspiration rests on Church authority, ecclesiastical creeds, and systems of theology. Next to the Scriptures themselves, we ought to go, in the case of the New Testament, to the evidence we can get of the opinions of the early Churches, and if it can be proved (and it is in disputable) that the early Churches acted on the great prin ciple of private judgment, considered as in contrast or oppo sition to ecclesiastical authority and coercion for at least three centurion, who are the men, whether Papists or Pro testants, who dare to take away theliberty from the Churches of the 19th century that was enjoyed by the Churches of the first three centuries ? The fact is, that the Essayists have touched on subjects which are all very well to be dis cussed by learned meu,but for clergymen to bring them within the range of the popular mind, popular inquiry, and popular information is a " a traitorous act" against all the ecclesias tical traditions of reserve handed down from the days of Augustine when he propounded the iniquitous doctrine I have quoted in a former lecture, and which I quote a second time, as it cannot be too frequently, too severely, and too indignantly repudiated. These are his words That there are many things true in religion which it was not con venient for the vulgar to know, and again some things which though false yet it was expedient should be believed by them." The former part of this statement I believe is the opinion of the great body of the clergy, both episcopal and non-conforming—and too many faithfully carry out the iniquitous advice embodied in the latter part. As for the word Inspiration, as applied to the Bible, it has among theologians almost every variety of meaning. One class of men, now a small one, believe in what is called verbal In spiration, that is, that every word in the Old and New Tes tament is Inspired of God, and that the writer could not and dared not to have used any other. The celebrated Dr. John Owen went so far as to claim Divine Inspiration for the Hebrew points, vowels, and accents; he laboured dili gently and accum u l a ted largely of Heb rew l ore to esta b l i sh his proposition that without the points no certain truth could be learned from the Hebrew Scriptures, and now the Rev. John Ayre, to whom we shall refer presently, says, 44 When the Hebrew ceased to be a living language it was of course most difficult to retain the pronunciation with out expressed vowels. We shill not greatly err if we sup pose that the system of vowel signs was adopted between the sixth and tenth centuries." Among the more modern and strenuous advocates of verbal Inspiration was the late Robert Haldane, of Edinburgh, who published a volume in Edinburgh in defence of his theory, which had reached a fourth edition in 1832. And it cannot be doubted that many of the Reformers, as well as many of the Puritan divines, rigidly adhered to the doctrine of a strictly verbal Inspira tion, There is no intimation of it in the Scriptures, nor in Zwingliu9, a distinguished reformer, says "It is not true that the writings of all the holy men are infallible ; nor is it true that they do not err. This pre-eminence must be given to the Son of God alone, out of all the human race." Martin Luther utterly rejected the Epistle of James be cause he thought it opposed to the doctrine of Justification by faith as taught by the Apostle Paul. He certainly had no leaning either to verbal or plenary Inspiration. The celebrated Bishop Lowth the translator of and com mentator upon the Prophecies of Isaiah, says, " that where the Apostles treat of the common occurrences of life and such things as have no relation to divine truths they were not inspired. As when St. Paul speaks of his design.to take Rome in his way to Spain and to call at Corinth as ha went into Macedonia, but yet it appears he wag uncertain as to that resolution and did not actuallymake it good. Hither to, we may refer slips of memory in matters of no conse quence,some of which them are to be found in the New Testa ment. Another instance, wherein we may reasonably suppose the Apostles spoke without Inspiration is,when theydiscourse of such things as our Saviour told them they must be con tent to be ignorant of. In these cases, I think (says the • Bishop) it will be no ejudice to the Divine Inspiration of the Apostles to alloWthem to have spoken like men." The present Archbishop of Dublin says :—" In matters unconnected with religion, such as points of history or natural philosophy, a writer who professes (as the Apostles do) to be communicating a Divine Revelation, imparted through him by the means of miracles, may be as liable to error as other men, without any disparagement to his pre tensions ; but if we reject, as false, any part of the religion which he professes himself Divinely sent to teach, we can not consistently believe but that his pretensions are either an imposture or a delusion, and that he is whollyunworthy of credit." The present Bishop of St. David's says :—" As the more rigid theory of Inspiration was abandoned by the learned on account of the insuperable difficulties opposed to it by the discrepancies found in the Gospels; so these same discre pancies compel us to admit that the superintending control of the Spirit was not exerted to exempt the Sacred miters altogether from errors and inadvertencies." These quotations might be numerously increased, but the question of Infallibility must occupy us for a short time. Is the Bible from Genesis to Revelation an infallible Book ? Among Roman Catholics the Church is infallible. The Pope is infallible. And among certain Protestants the Bible is declared to be infallible not only in those parts that truly contain a divine revelation but in its scientific allusions,—historical and genealogical narratives,—in its prodigies,—in its quotations,—in its chronology and other matters. Now if any writing be put into my hands and I am told it is infallible, containing infallible truth, it is most natural I should ask who wrote it ? when and where was it written,—what is its external history and what are its internal evidences,—what are the precise grounds to its claim of infallibility and by what process of evidence is that claim established ? Is it the autograph, the original writing, or is it a copy,—or is it a copy of the 100th or 1000th copy that had been taken. Is the original of modern data or hundreds, or thousands of years old? You will immediately perceive the bearing of these ques tions from what will follow. To give answers to-night to all those questions in reference to many of the books of the Bible would be impracticable. And yet before we decide one way or the other about the infallibility of the Old or New Testament, we must examine some of the books, by some of these questions. A clergyman of the Church of England, of the name of Ay re, was selected to re-write the 2d volume of Horne's " Introducti* to the Scriptures," because Dr. Davidson had written one alleged to be hetero dox. Mr. Ayre was chosen for his well-known and esta blished orthodoxy. As to the infallibility of the Bible we may learn his opinion of it from the following paragraph. He says "It is indisputable that the Bible, as we have it, is not wholly free from error. We have it only in imper fect translations, or, if we take the originals, in an uncer tain text. No one now questions the fact that transcribers have erred, that interpreters have mad 6 mistakes. Unless there were a perpetual miracle, affecting every copyist, and every printer, and every translator, we must acknowledge that we have not the Book exactly as it proceeded from the authors ; if altogether perfect, then it has come down to us somewhat tarnished with the rust of ages, soiled by the human hands that have carried it along." Let us now hear what this clergyman, selected for his orthodoxy, is compelled by the force of truth to admit respecting the several books in the Old Testament. As to the Pentateuch, he says : " It is very possible that a student, after diligent research, may be persuaded that he sees traces of more than one hand in the Pentateuch. The question is confessedly intricate ; and if the varied use of the Divine name, and any perceptible difference of diction incline the mind to the conclusion, that the most reasonable mode for accounting for the phenomena is to believe that pre vious documents were worked up into the composition as we have it, the present writer is far from censuring such a cone elusion." As to the book of Joshua, he concludes that it could not have been altogether composed by Joshua " We must, at least, believe that this book was written not later than the earlier years of David." The book of Judges bears no author's name. Mr. Ayre thinks there may have been a compiler and editor of this book—that they may have used written documents, but there is no ground for supposing that the latter moulded his own and other mate rials into a whole. Of the authorship of the book of Ruth, he says nothing satisfactory can be said. As to the Ist and 2d books of Samuel Mr. Ayre says, " It is not easy to ar rive at any certainty with respect to theage and authorship of these books * • * that some use was made of pre viously existing documents none perhaps will deny." The Ist and 2d books of Kings, Mr. Ayre considers were mainly complied from the book of the acts of Solomo a—the book of Oil Chronicles of the kings of Judah, and the book of the Chronicles of the:kings of Israel, and probably some others for the histories of Elija and Elisha. The Ist and 2d Chroni cles were compiled from documents then existing, but by whom is unknown. The first six chapters of Ezra Mr. Ayre does not think were written by Ezra, but that he did write from the 7th to the 10th chapters, or that some one edited the whole and incorporated in it what Ezra had written. The book of Nehemiah had also an unknown author. The book of Esther had also an author unknown to us. The book of Job, Mr. Ayre considers as a complete production flowing from a single pen, and then it is a point of difficulty to determine in what age it was composed, and who was the author. There can be little certainty here is evident from the guesses which range over almost the whole period em braced by the Bible history. The book of Proverbs, though many of them the proverbs of Solomon, Mr. Ayre says is admitted not to have been collected by Solomon in its present form. The book Ecclesiastes is, of unknown au thorship. Of Solomon's Song, Mr. Afire says : " It is readily admitted that if the subject be proved to be the re jection of Solomon's love, he is not likely to have himself written tho book. On thin paint, sign, good and wise men will differ." As tothe Prophets, Mr. Ayre admits that " it is not certain that the Prophets always collected their own productions. This was, doubtless, done under Divine guidance." These are some of the sentiments of Mr. Ayre, an Evangelical Low Churchman, uttered and recorded by him honestly—and as one specially selected to do away with the influence of the alleged heresy of Dr. Davidson. They are contained in a book specially prepared for the clergy of all denominations, for students as well as ministers—a heavy book of four thick Bvo. closely printed volumes, but now enlarged. Neither of the Essayists could have more than Mr. Ayre has said, and neither of them has said half so much. Nevertheless, what Mr. Ayre has written is strictly true, and some who had specially to do with his appointment, becau,se of his thorough orthodoxy, are an noyed that he has so frankly and honestly spoken or written so much of the truth. Let us now look at the consequences of every one knowing the truth. Some persons allege that you unsettle men's minds by communicating to them what they did not know before, especially if not in harmony with their previous notions. And what then if it should be so ? And who are the persons that make the complaint, and what do they do themselves ? The complaint is commonly made by clergymen and dissenting ministers and such per sons as they teach and influence to echo it. And what do they do themselves ? They support societies to unsettle the mind of the Jew, to alienate him from Judaism, which to this time has been his hope, his joy, and his happiness I and they hope by missionary agency to bring him over to Christianity. It is the same as to the Roman Catholic—they unsettle them, take away from them their old hope, destroy their faith in the Virgin Mary and they justify it by saying that they give them truth instead of error. It is precisely so with regard to the Bible. As in Mr. Ayre's case he has given students in theology, truth as to external evidence and history of the books of the Old Testament, instead of the unscriptural notion of verbal inspiration and absolute infallibility. Wherever in science, commerce, politics, or theology, you give men truth and sound principles instead of error, it is very natural that they should be unsettled and even perplexed for a time, but from any difficulty of that kind in the present day, it is quite easy to emerge. It IS the fear of the loss of clerical iigunge, mi d of PM and WO" men becoming independent of the clergy that awakens much of the alarm. It cannot be denied that many of the clergy of diflerent denominations have privately and pub licly done all they "the bookcouldto present is an d g th e e ro E us s , sa fil y i s l and d in ß fi e d vi el e it w y s , being read ; an old clerical practice that has i n ti me a l wa y s failed don't . re T ad he it y .' s ' ayr ill e fact is, that if a thorou g hl y i ntelligent layman read and mastered the book, and seleeted some half dozen points to take to his clergyman for explanation—for grounds of opposition—or for grounds of defence, the cle agyman, in a large majority of cases, would be compelled to make excuse. He is not read up in theology to grapple with these questions. He has been going on in a quiet way, believing what the Church believes, and settling all difficulties by compounding with them. He does no t want to be troubled. After what the bishops have done, he got the Essays and Reviews, and began to read them ; but it was of no use ; his usual reading and writing are quite un like them. He has been accustomed to "reading and writ. ing made easy," and his habits of thought, as well as his social habits, prevent him grappling with the masterly treat ment of the topics in the Essays and Reviews. He does not want to be disturbed. And when any of his congregation come to him he says "don't disturb yourselves about them. Even the bishops have condemned them, and therefore they must be bad." With these sentiments and habits we have no sympathy. We adopt the Scriptural principle: Buy the truth, and sell it not. That is, make every sacri fice to obtain it, and when you hive got it, never part with it for error, nor sell it for fine gold. But it may be said that if the Bible be not infallible what are we to do ? Be assured that there is enough that is infallible in the Bible for you and for me, without our attempting to grasp at every word of it. All truth is from God, both in the book of nature and the book of revelation, and all truth is from one and the same God : the Father of light, the fountain of wisdom and the God of love. As in the works of God you labour after the truth, so also you must ,labour in the Scriptures of truth. Men have com mitted errors—priests have perverted religious truth: Jesus tells us they had done it in his day : the Reformers tell us they had done it in their day, and we all know and feel that what they have done has sent its influence down to our day, to say nothing of what is being done in the present time. Let it have a place in your mind—that all truth is infallible, and all truth is from God. Personally,—to my self it is infallibly true "that there is (in the words of the Ist article of the Church of England) but one living and true God, everlasting, without body parts or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the maker and pre server of all things visible and invisible,"—and that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have ever lasting life. lam grateful for and I give the heartiest wel come to the truth taught by the Apostle Paul, "that all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of recon ciliation." I receive with pleasure the grand and ennobling doctrine of ancient Judaism, confirmed and expounded by Jesus, that we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength ; and I feel bound by the deepest gratitude and admira tion to love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and in truth. The practice of doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God must commend itself to your heart as powerfully as it does to my own. Truth of all kinds, and especially all truth bearing on the moral and spiritual nature of man; on his duties here in all the relationships he sus tains ; and on his future life, I value as one of the greatest treasures possessed by mankind. And that I should love my neighbour; that I should love mankind, and be inte rested in their welfare, I consider to be one of the plainest lessons set before us; and that we shall all live for ever ; that we shall be judged as the Scriptures say, every man according to his works, and that that judgment will be con ducted by a just and merciful God, all these and much more I steadfastly believe : but I do not believe in Jewish fables, copied from apocryphal Jewish books, such as that the sun and moon stood still for a whole day; or, that it came to pass by the way, in THE INN, that the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him. Nor do I believe that anyone was In spired by the Holy Spirit to bless God and extol Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for treacherously receiving and then murdering Sisera in the hour of his flight from tie field of battle. I cannot believe such things ; I have too much reverence for the Being who made me to believe such tales. God is incapable of error, of falsehood, of cruelty, and he could never do what he has strictly forbidden his crea tures to avoid and shun. Nor do I believe that Jesus Christ is coming in 1867 ; nor that the Jews will return to Jeru salem ; rebuild the Temple—re-organi. e and re-establish Judaism—restore the sacrifices of bulls and goats—burn the heifer to ashes and set aside Christianity and supersede Jesus as the Saviour of mankind. Other persons may believe what I do not believe, and it will never alter my respect for them, nor interrupt my association with them : but it is the moral or the immoral life that determines character, and that society has to do with. As to intellectual opinions, he alone who holds them is responsible ; if we think them wrong, we may, in all kindness, logically try and set him right ; if we cannot do it, and are assured of his honesty, it is a libel upon human nature in any way to punish him for his speculat ions or his faith. Of the Bible, although as Mr.'Ayre admits, "that as we have it it is not entirely free from error"—although its science—its chronology—its statistics—and some other things are not free from error—yet we have no book that can be compared with it. It has been truthfully and beau tifully said—" That in these fallible writings, God has trea sured up for us infallible truth, the food of our souls—and the glory of our being—truth, lasting as the rocks and eternal as the heavens." In whatever light we view the Bible,—as a literary book, with so many beautiful narra tives so graphically recorded—as a work of history pre serving facts, confirmed by the labours of the archmologist as a devotional book, containing the deepest, sincerest, and devoutest thoughts of holy men of olden time—and the thoughts, conversations, lessons, and prayers of Jesus—as the guide of life, full of wise counsels amidst all its perplexi ties and troubles—as the revealer of a future life, telling us freely, frankly, and fully of Jesus, who came to seek and to save the lost—and as a book of poetry, containing the grandest and most glorious drama ever written, and some of the divinest lyrics that ever sounded on the string of the harp, or ever echoed on the swell of the organ. As a book of literature, as a book of poetry, our obligations to it can not be counted nor comprehended. The noblest poets of the Christian era have gone to its fountains and slaked their thirst. They have delighted in it, as in a beautiful garden, and have plucked its choicest flowers. Its poetic hints and imagery have been seized by our greatest poets, and worked up into their simplest, most touching, and even most gorgeous passages. The Hebrew Prophet says " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field; the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it ; surely the people is grass." The Psalmist also says : " The wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it more for ever." Shakspeare seizes these beautiful thoughts, and with his own magic power and genius embodies them in a speech for the fallen V? ol sey : "' Farewell I a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope : to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost—a killing frost ; And when he thinks, good easy man ; full surely His greatness is a ripening —nips the root, And then he falls as I do. It is probable that Lord Byron is Indebted to the begin ning of the book of Genesis for that beautiful apostrophe to the ocean, at the close of " Childe Harold." "Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow ; " Such as creation's dawn beheld, th ou rollest now, Thou glorious mirror, whore the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests : in all time Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime 'Dark heaving : boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity—the throne Of the invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made : each zone Obeys thee ;—thou goest forth dread, fathomless, alone." There are beauties in the Scripture not yet appreciated : there are glories, on which the eye of man has not gazed sufficiently long to admire them, and in the words of Mr. Jowitt with which I conclude—" there are difficulties the depth and inwardness of which require a measure of the same qualities in the interpreter himself. There are notes struck in places, which, like some discoveries of science, have sounded before their time ; and only after many days have been caught up and found a response on the earth. There are germs of truth which after thousands of years have never yet taken root in the world. There are lessons in the prophets, which, however simple, mankind have not yet learned even in theory ; and which the complexity of society rather tends to hide; aspects of human life in Job and Ecclesiastes which have a trukh of desolation About them which we plainly realise in ordinary eircurastr world are shut out. I m lt ea is n p in e g rh o a f p t s h the g words rea t o e f t is apt short of fashion ing' „mid o ris . e as to thtoemdistarb the balance neitherdiihviene attemptto addingillustrate t o on t o h ow e r mhdirn_hao_ draw h.e marringo. labouru t oi theirnf ad simplicity. :t can eevite3bl of truth. The interpreter to guard against their abuse,. a not fCh • t H h or intellectual world from which the thoughts b i n e g b ' oinr into n h a i g m a s i e n lf the image t r w o fstr4tl uai It is one of the highest tasks the wor d s of Christ a little nearer to the spent, to bring t heart of man." is ab Christ —so of all t e o , selo it t e .u rln a..n : tb s,o e it Now toi , Hi m that le to do exceeding abundantly ask or think, above allthat w ile him be 1 in according to the power that worketh m us, g ory the Church by Jetaie t cirrist, throughou all ages, world without end. " Amen. - _ THE FINE ox Ant. J. T, FERNANDES.—The fine of £5OO on Mr. J. L. Fernandes, for Contempt of Court, at the last York assizes, Las be en pa i d, a Queen's messenger LitlYiAg visited WAliCtield aucl Qbtaiaecl the money. t, • sere is something extremely peculiar about 'JAI a 1, Princes of the House of Savoy—a rare blending of - lest dignity and the easiest affability iu their dealing with strangers ; a strange, almost magnetic power of fascination, with a strong disinclination to exercise it. Those who have known Charles Albert only at a distance, or who judge him from his inconsistent and wavering policy, can scarcely believe the enthusiastic description his intimates give of his consummate address, of his stately and courteous, but irresistibly winning demeanosr. The present King ;- o.eknowledged by aU who know him as a pattern of all gentle behaviour, in spite of his somewhat uncouth exterior and ultra-soldierly hearing. But the Princes of Savoy seem to shrink from society with a shyness proportionate to the very talents which would fit them to adorn it. c o gn i as t o Theirs i s th a t roya l ty w hi c h never makes itself ; u d r t g h e L y raffectra Lorraine e n . ot they y eh d not bourgeois affability o h a eip psb aistinguished some o f th e d espots of the house of mingle i ncognito with the People of the lower classes, intent upon learning their grievances and astounding a wicked Minister or an overb caring police -agent by sud denly throwing open their greatcoats and showing the crachats of the Grand Mastership of their knightly orders, blasting the subject with the mere suddenness of the revelati on of - their exalted rank. No ! the Princes of Savoy are, generally speaking, solitary spirits. They are the heirs and representa tives of a dynasty many members of which sought in the cloisters a refuge against the inanities of regal splendour, of a race of Royal monks, sai n t s , and popes, who made of Hauteconabe or Superga a palace and a tomb at the same time. With an ab dication to boast of at every three or four genera tions, the Savoy Princes usuallyshowed themselves as ready to resign power as they were eager t o attain and extend it. Their longing was for action and strife, not for enjoyment ; and the sablimest fruits of ambition turned to ashes in their mouth sooner than in that of any other mortal race. I had often occasion to observe how ictor Emmanuel's triumphal progress through Central. Italy last year, and his entrance into Naples and Palermo this year, made the_good King far more unoiinafortable than the hottest fire at Palestro and Solferino. He bears himself with a good grace when duty bids him, but he is never so happy as when he walks alone or with a few friends, with his doable-barrelled gun on his shoulders, a private sportsman about the woods of Pollenzo. His cousin the Prince of Carignano's tastes are more those of a student and dilettante, but he is no less disinclined to show himself in public, and he doubtless thinks that what with six months at Florence and three at Naples he has sufficiently sacrificed himself for the good of the country. THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION. (From La Pre. The addresses voted by the m two ) chambers of the Austrian Parliament have singularly aggravated the already threatening situation of Hungary. In his opening speech Francis Joseph signified his firm resolution to maintain the unity of the empire. The bearing of this declaration was clear ; the cabinet of Vienna wished to make use of the united representation as a legal instrument for the coercion. of dissentients, and thus, by means of the deputies, to render the provinces dependent on, and responsi ble to, the government. The plan has succeeded, but it remains to be seen whether the government will have any long enjoyment of its success. Hun gary at present finds herself between these two alternatives ; either she must confess herself conquered by sending her deputies to the Coun cil of the Empire, or else she must remain firm. in her resistance, although the oth er na ti ona li t i es may reproach her for compromising the new liberal • institutions by so -doing. This antagonism may have terrible consequences, and it is important to obtain a precise idea of their nature. Should the Hungarians consent to send their de puties to Vienna, Austria would at one blow obtain what she has been vainly:seeking. for 300 years, i.e., the union, or rather the amalgamation of Hungary with the rest of the empire. That is the real ques tion, which is misrepresented on the one side, un consciously, by those who do not well understand it, and on the other, wilfully, by those who wish to obscure it. By now withdrawing from the struggle the Hungarians would betray the cause which has been handed down to them as an heirloom by their ancestors, and for which their most illustrious chiefs have died gloriously in exile, in battle, or on the scaffold. The repeated attacks of Austria on the ancient constitution of Hungary produced the insurrections of Bocskai, of Bethlen, of Tokoli, of George and Francis Rakoczy, and that of 1848-49. In all these insurrections, except the last, victory remained with the Hungarians, and numerous treaties, especially those of Vienna, in 1606 ; of Nicolsbut..., in 1622 ; of Presburg, in 1629 ; o f Li nz, i n 1645, and of Szath mar, in 1711, have recognised the autonomy of the kingdom of Hungary, whose independence under Rudolf and Maximilian was even guaranteed by the hereditary provinces. That independence was con secrated afresh by the Pragmatic Sanction, in virtue of which the crown of Hungary, hereditary in the Hapsburg family since 1686, became so even in the female line from 1723. Considered historically and from the treaty point of view the resistance of Hun gary, then, is perfectly unimpeachable ; it is no less so from a legal point of view. The Hungarians invoke the laws of April 11, 1848, the last voted by the Diet, sanctioned by the King, recognised by the whole nation ; all that the Austrian Government may have done subsequently to these laws, especially the decrees of Oct. 20, 1860, and Feb. 21, 1861, they reject as illegal and unacceptable. What they require simply, and in conformity with their ancient constitution, is the " personal union" with the Emperor, on the follow ing conditions ; the political and territorial reunion of the provinces already annexed to the crown of St. Stephen ; equality of all the citizens before the law, without distinction of religion or nationality ; recall of all the banished ; restitution of confiscated property; nomination of an Ilungarian ministry, separate and responsible ; application of Art. 12 of the Constitution of 1848, which places the armed forces in the hands of the nation ; a separate bud get ; lastly, the refasal to recognise the Aulic chancery, and to send their 85 deputies to the Council of the Empire. Such, according to M. Deak's clear and forcible exposition of them in his address, are the preliminary conditions of which the Diet should exact the strict fulfilment. The principle of the " personal union" does not indeed satisfy all the Hungarians ; many of them, and those not the least considerable for ability, influence, and service, aspire to a...more radical solution, i.e., to the complete separltion of Hun gary and Austria. But if parties are divided as to the future, they have only one feeling and one voice, first as demanding the re-establishment of the state of things in force in 1848, and next, as to rejecting the decrees published at Vienna in 1860 and 1861. From the first, the Magyars have unanimously adopted the programme of M. Deak, and now, so far from admitting that that pro gramme can undergo any restriction, they wish on the contrary to enlarge it by the democratical ° principles introduced into the constitution of 1848. The situation, then, is very clear, and admits of no doubt or hesitation on either side. The Austrian Government pronounce definitely. It must either grant the j us t an d l ega l d emands of H ungary or dissolve the Diet. In the former case it deprives itself of the resources it derives from Hungary an_d . dissatisfies the party of union; in the lattervitiat. dooms itself to suppress by force an almost looks able insurreciton. From whatever side 0 of dangers, and it will be very wr-c without at the matter it is a violent position, Austrian Government to extricate Itse uv an _uid:ofeig full path of laceration. tioet f i th e y in the Hungarianß them msoiu Among the sincerest friends w h P ain, or rather there are some who see with anxiety, advancin g ji resistance. They dread, absolute and unconced g j o t liberty, a struggle whose for the common c ause - noa lculable; they ask if it would consequences wiser,ari more prudent, to give greater not have been erations of opportunity than. to the weight to con of strict legality—that is, to t h e • Fin , f liberty than that of exigencies independence, ci P6 e „f or tunately, the Hungarians, like all the other i, eoples o f the Austrian empire, know that liberty, P • &i t is understood at Vienna, is the supremacy of er olany ; and it is precisely in the name of liberty that they reject th at crushing and domineering supremacy. r the Hun gar i ans , th e ques tion wbether or no t they should sen d d e puties t o the Council of the Empire is tantamount to the ques tion, shall Hungary remain Hungary, or be trans formed into an Austrian province? This is the real question, and we have endeavoured to put it clearly, that the importance of the discussion which is to come on to-morrow in the Diet on M. 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