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Eistar . y of E 1815, to th 1852 sideration but its nicely-adjusted proportion to the offence, and the unerring certainty of its aim. Evi dences of this impartiality are numerous through out his history, but we shall content ourselves with quoting the remarks by which he concludes the present volume ; they have immediate reference to THE FRENCH INVASION OP SPAIN IN 1823 No doubt can now remain that the French invasion of Spain, against which public feeling in this country was so strongly excited at the time, was not only a wise measure on the part of the Bourbon government, but fully justifia ble on the best principles of international law. The strength of this case is to be found, not in the absurdity and peril of the Spanish constitution, or even the immi hazard to which it exposed the royal family in that and the entire liberties and property of the -it is to be found in the violent inroads which e Spanish revolutionists and their allies to the north of Pyrenees were making on France itself, and the country ne hazard to which it; institutions were exposed in consequence of their machinations. Ever since the Spanish revolution broke out, France had been kept in a continual ferment : the second in succession to the throne had been murdered, and his consort, when enceinte of an heir to the monarchy, attempted to be murdered, by political fanatics : military conspiracies in great numbers had been got up to imitate the example of the soldiers in the Isle of Leon, and overturned the government ; Paris had been convulsed by an attempted revolution ; France was covered with secret societies, having Lafayette, Benjamin Constant, Manuel, and all the Liberal leaders in the Chamber of Deputies, at their head, the object of which was to over throw the government by means of murder, treason, and revolt ; and a band of desperadoes had been collected on the Pyrenees. under the tricolour flag. who onenlv invited the french soldiers to fraternise with them, throw off the yoke of the Bourbons, and rally round the standard of Napoleon 11. When such measures were in progress, it was evident that the safety of France, and the preservation of its institutions, were seriously menaced, and that its government was warranted in taking steps to extinguish so perilous a volcano in the neighbouring state, by the strongest of all reasons—that of self-preservation. It is more difficult to find grounds to vindicate the intervention of England in favour of the insurgent colonies in South America, which was done in so efficacious a manner, and from the success of which consequences of such incalculable importance have ensued to both hemi spheres. Nothing can he clearer, indeed, than that when the colonies of Spain had become de facto independent, and Spain was obviously unable to reassert her dominion over them, we were warranted in treating with them as independent powers, and sending consuls to their chief towns to guard British mercantile interests. If our inter- vention had been limited to thi public morality could not have ob sued. But we not only did thi s, the most scrupulous jected to the course pur s—we did a great deal more, and of a much more questionable character. We repealed the lawss against foreign enlistments ; permitted expeditions of eight and ten thousand men, many of them Wellington's veterans, to sail from the Thames under the government advance( immense sums loan, to enable the insurgent states to prolong the contest. It was by these means, and these alone, that the conflict was ultimately decided in favour of the colonies, and against the mother country. The decisive battle of Cara bobo was gained entirely by British battalions and a charge of the British bayonet. What was the justification for this armed and powerful . . intervention? Was the freedom of England menaced by the re-establishment of Spanish authority in South America ? Confessedly it was not : the hope of commer cial advantages, the vision of a vast trade with the insur gent states, was the ruling motive. But commercial dvantages will not constitute legal right, or vindicate As of injustice, any more than the acquisition of pro vinces will justify an unprovoked invasion. It sounds well to say you will call a new world into existence to lance of the old ; but if that new world is to of the dominions of an allied and friendly tis better to leave it to itself. England saw very early the iniquity of this insidious mode of proceeding when it was applied to herself, when Louis XVI. allowed covert succours to the American insurgents to sail from the French harbours, and the Americans sent some thou sand sympathisers to aid the Canadian revolt in 1837. She loudly denounced it when the Americans allowed an expe dition to sail from New Orleans, in 1852, to revolutionise- Cuba; and she exclaimed against the Irish democrats, who , petitioned the French revolutionary government, in 1848, to recognise a Hibernian republic in the Emerald Isle. Bat what were the two last but following her example ? redress the b be carved of She sees the mote in her neighbour's eye, but cannot dis cover the beam in her own. It will appear in the sequel of this history whether England in fact derived any benefit, even in a commercial point of view, from this great act of disguised aggression ; whether the cause of freedom and the interests of humanity were really ad vanced by it ; and whether the greatest calamities, public and private, its inhabitants have ever undergone may not be distinctly traced to its consequences. To aver that so great a task as that undertaken by Sir Archibald Alison, has been executed, even hitherto, without error or blemish, would be to affirm what cannot be sustained, and what ought never to be expected of any human work ; but, to state that by his European History he has earned for himself a renown, more lasting than could be con ferred by the dedication of statues, and which shall perish only with the language in which the work has been written, is to do no more than echo the general opinion of civilized man. To rejoice in the success which has waited on his labour—to wish perennial verdure to the wreath which encircles his manly brow—and to congratulate him on the honour conferred on him by his Sovereign, in token of his worth and of his intellectual powers, is but to ex press in weak words the loudly-proclaimed senti ments of his admiring country. To thank him for the additional lustre he has bestowed on the character of English intellect by his labour, is the duty of his countrymen. To ensure the resonance of his achieved fame will become the willing duty of their posterity. --- Criticisms By the Rev. John W. Lester, B.A . London i Longman, Brown, and Co. This is a very tastefully got up reprint, it being the third edition of Mr. Lester's brief but spirited commentaries on several of the most popular authors of the day, illustrated by select passages from-tlieir works. The criticisms are rather expo sitions of beauties than analytical examinations, and as, such form pleasing annotations on our most generally admired writers. The specimens are well seleckd, and the remarks show a fine perception of their beauties. The volume being very handsomely got up in all respects, and containing as it does choice selections from the favourite literature of the day, it is happily suited for a presentation memento. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. London :N. Cooke. The third volume of this beautiful and cheap edition of Pope's works, which, through some inad vertence of the publisher's, we presume, did not reachus forreview,has just been published. Its con tents arealmostlimitedtotheDunciad,andthe Essay on Man ; the last two pages being devoted to the " Universal Prayer." The first of these, the most pungent as well as the most elaborate of English satires, is profusely annotated,andonits preparation the editor has bestowed much pains, and no small amount of judgment, united to good taste. The volume is copiously illustrated by clever engrav ings, and as a whole the set, when completed, will form a beautiful library edition of the works of the great English moral poet. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates. London . Henry G. Bohn. _ _ This volume forms"one s one of Bohn's interesting series, the " Ecclesiastical Library," and embraces the history of the Church from the accession otCon stantine in A.D. 305 to the thirty-eighth year of the reign of the Emperor Theodosius 11.,—a period of one hundred and forty years. The time named will at once remove any misapprehension as to the authorship being in any way connected with the re nowned Greek sage and moralist, the prestige of whose appellative scarcely seems to have fallen on this compiler of the Church's annals.. To the student of ecclesiastical history the volume will prove highly acceptable. It treats of an impor tant epoch_ in the affairs of the Christian Church, on which it throws much light. The volume is prefaced by a brief biographical notice of the • GOING TO SEA. ree once more, the storm-tossed waves, litraaAH i Hurrah ! we We are leaving To safely tray Or rest in B..ep in their We fear not to face the Storm King's wrath, Though he lash to madness our proud bark's pat We fear not tornado, or tempest's crash. The whirlwind's blast. or the liThroin, , ,, flash. What is there on earth like our ocean hone, When scudding along through clouds of foam ? gis the height of a Briton's sea-born pride Harrah t there is not With us we bear the red cross of the brave, Protect in nan, releasing the slave ; It Boats al The foeman's flag st It's presence with rapturous To our own. at the voice of Duty's o'3l arm'd with at, that flag shall fall klieg r then, Eng,land, t Tby hills are 1, We bid thee farewell with our cannon's roar Hurrah ! hurrah f wa are free one t's name be told. I ext REVIEWS OF BOOKS Accession of Louis Napoh By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. burgh : William Blackwood and Sons. The present forms the second volume of this mteresting, work. Commencing with the histol of Spain and Italy, from 1814 to 1820, it '072, 22 Edin noceeds with that of Russia and Poland, from the peace of 1815 to the accession of Nicholas in 1825 ; it next treats of the Royalist reaction in France, up to 1821; the domestic history of England, from the passing of the currency act of 1819 to the death of Lord. Londonderry in 1822 ; the relations of Eng land, France, and Spain, from 1819 to the congress of Verona ; the French invasion of Spain, and the death of Louis XVIII. From the above summary, it will be readily apparent that the period treated of, and the events recorded in this volume by Sir Archibald Alison, have donemuch toshape and colon' the political as , -+ d social bearing ...pect any, European society at the present momentous crisis of affairs. By a careful analysis of these facts, and a studious attention to the relations unfolapd -- Luc patent, we may be guided, to an important extent, in any attempt to unravel the present enigmatical if not conflicting policy of the leading European powers. Presumptuous self-conceit has, indeed, prompted some shallow prater petulantly to describe history as an " old almanack," fit only to be en the appearance of some newer light. Arrogance like this must be treated with that mixture of pity and condemnation awarded to the dogmas of pre tenders in every branch of science and of art— condemnation for fhP nresuro- - 4 tv for 0- sown as: _ ion —PlLj _- conceit displayed, and derision of the trouble taken by such oracles, in demonstrating that " knowledge to their es Rich with the spoil ..c er nnrol. To the contracted understandings of men like these, history can never appear a monitor teaching by example. Their little all of knowledge is centred and swallowed up in the present—to them the past presents no lesson of wisdom—the future offers only a boundless ocean of hopes or fears, as whim or fancy assumes the rudder of their chartless barque. To the studious and the wise the pages of history have ever been the store-house of wisdom. From those stores they have obtained rules of con _ _ • - - s of tin presem, and deduced precepts of gui dance for the future. By them the vocation of the historian is held to be a high one. They know that its requirements are numerous and varied, and difficult of acquisition. They know that, to an extensive and minute knowledge of facts, the histo rian must add a clear and ready perception of the springs of human action. That he must be largely gifted with the faculty of arranging circumstances and classifying events—of analysmgtheirprinciples, and balancing the results of their combinations— of reconstructing and comparing them, to test the value of his deductions, the truth and importance of which, experience will often show him, differ widely from the conclusions to which a priori rea soning would have led him. These are only a few of the pre-requisites indispensable in theintellectual composition of an historian ; and to those enumerated he must , add the capability of readily perceiving and lucidly recording the current of events, so that stream affects the positio n o f c l asses and determines the destiny of nations. While attona;n s - be and measuring the relative bearings of this comprehen sive survey, he must follow with equal fidelity and care the steps of individual actors in the great drama, appointing to each circumstance, and allot ting to each character due place and fitting influ ence in working out the grand catastrophe. While labouring to philosophise his theme, and reduce it to the severity of abstract generalization, the historian must preserve with faithfulness individual icatnres; and by representative incidents delineate national peculiarities, and pourtray the form and bearing of popular institutions. In his principles, habits, and person, he must embody the stoic, the philosopher, and the orator. To secure the public ear he must enunciate his thoughts in sonorous eloquence, and while deaf to applause, must be studious of its acquisition—unerring in his deduc tions, he must carefully avoid the form of demon stration—seductive in his eloquence, he must yet be sparing- of its strains. Whoever shall assume to himself the high prerogative of thus chronicling the past, embodying the present, and elucidating the future, must set himself above the influence of such reward as is conveyed by popular applause, and seek his true meed of approbation in the proud consciousness of having faithfully discharged the difficult duties of a noble office. If such and so numerous are the qualifications necessary to one who would successfully wield the pen of history, we are immediately led to inquire how far the natural talents and acquired habits of Sir Archibald Alison fit him for discharging the onerous duties of his self-imposed task ; the ordi nary difficulties of which are, in the present in stance, greatly augmented by the comparative re centness of the events, which, crowding on each other, pass in rapid and often dazzling review, over the field which he has selected as his instruc tive panorama. Born of parents pre-eminent for genial piety, and nurtured in a family remarkable for its practical and extensive philanthropy ; a family, not less distinguished by its intellectual refinement than notable for sound religion, and the application of christian virtues to the business of life, the future historian was from his cradle tutored by precept and trained by example to the exercise of those faculties upon which useful in tellectual manhood depends. His father, the eloquent author of the " Easay on Taste," a gen tleman of scholarly refinement, a sound divine, and a man of fine perceptions, early imbued his son with a love of the beautiful—a high appreciation of the truthful and the just—and, by a liberal education, fitted him to discharge, with credit to himself and advantage to his country, the judicial position he has many years held. His forensic studies, added to his practice at the bar, rendered our author familiar with the means of tracing and weighing, and estimating the value of evidence of class, and has strengthened his natural capacity to -L.. ....L. ........5u ULM UM,. 1.71 aucu. i His indefatigable industry has stored his mind The Botanic Garden and Fruitist. London : Groombridge and Son, with knowledge, which Ms previous mental dis- The December number of this elegant companion eipline has enabled him to convert into ready the flower and instruments for furnishi ng t ru thf u l d e d uc ti ons . to fruit gardens continues the attrac- He has thus been prepared by discipline,. animated tions so well advanced by its predecessors. The by family prestige, and sustained by intellectual letter-press matter is popular, and the directions endowments, in pursuing the path which he had for culture simple as well as precise. marked out for himself ;and which, with indomita- ---. ble energy and unswerving courage, he has Orr's Circle of the Sciences. London and Liver followed till the plaudits of admiring Europe have pool : W. S. Orr and Co. acknowledged his success and hailed his triumph. Under the comprehensive title of " Circle of the At so advanced a period of his successful career, Sciences," Messrs. Orr and Co. are publishing in a it can hardly be desirable to do more than advert very handsome form, and at a cheap rate, a series to that scrutinizing intelligence and clear sagacity of popular treatises on elementary science. The by which Sir Archibald Alison marshals, dissects, design of the publication seems happily digested, and exposes the hidden motives of political un- and so far as can be judged from the initiatory truth—unfolds the sources of commercial and moral number, the work, when finished, will form a ifluences of valuable addition to our popular literature. lestinies _ _ indiNidu Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. Liverpool : Orr. It must be almost unnecessary to call attention Ind unravels the to the merits of a work which speaks so well for ?lations as these itself. Established in 1832, it was nearly the first ;Eno- nonulations ' of the class of cheap periodicals, and it has since go farther ,ensiveness 01 iillgineni ougmaatir of the Frenchst at the Russia.,.—+l ppant ardour , maintained its ground with increasing favour, uechanis' m oft owing to the steady perseverance with which rbid specula. , quality has been preferred to the mere desire for ady jealousy, 1 excitement. Entertainment and instruction have ie English— ; been judiciously blended; and, though sometimes Lo . i ls of the tt fra4; ~-ether with all t which these ations its pages express opinions in which we cannot :tures, concur, it would be difficult to point to any other mpre- publication of the same class which can be so con by hi s fidently recommended. The part just published r ea dn ob e al I ntellect ent - nun the fx fraction of h er we may mention a desmiption of the Crystal Palace crated , • uuer such infraction at Sydenham, the approaching revolution in agri , Un C 1 atiOn 0 f friend or f oe ; an d i n h ur li ng hi s cultu r e, how bogs are turned into candles, and the i ug he s regardless of every eon- monthly letter about things talked of in London. VARIETIES "ENTERTAINING" KNOWLEDGE. Ascertaining the cost of a dinner party. A REFLECTION (by MEcRI).—It is not the sharpest blades that are always the truest steel. THE PRESENT FASHION OF BONNETS.—A lady dresses first, and then puts on her bonnet. The bonnet is now, completely an " - after-thought." IT SEEMS that "Fanny Fern," however enchanting as a writer, is not enduringly captivating as a wife. Her husband is understood to have found it for his comfort to get a divorce. Her lord having thus taken leave of her, a wag wants to know whether this leave is one of the Fern Leaves. A MATCH FOR A. JEW.—" We were remarking to a gentleman, who was affording us much pleasant and general information, how few Jews one met in New England ; and asking if he could assign any reason, he replied, Oh, yes, the reason is, that no Jew on earth is a match for a Yankee.' "—Bunn's " Old England and New England." DUTCH WOMEN.—The Dutch women, especially among the peasantry, are very beautiful. They are incomparably more so than those of any other continental country. That part of Holland called Friesland abounds with ex ceedingly handsome women. If the sex in Holland only possessed a little more vivacity of disposition and elegance of manners, they would be irresistibly attractive. " WOMAN'S RIGHTS" are decidedly progressing in the United States. A marriage_ ceremony was performed at Rochester, on the 16th nit:, by the " her." Antoinette L, Brown, the female preacher. The Union says, " Those present state that the `Rev.' Antoinette went throu i ,h the ceremony with marked grace and propriety, omitting, however, all allusion - to the primeval injunction." _ DIALOGUE ANENT SNUFFING.—The son of a worthy minister, in the kingdom of Fife, who was in the habit of indulging in a pinch, a few days ago addressed his father in the following terms :—" Father, you shouldn't snuff." " Why so ?" said the other. " Because," replied the son, " your nose is not your own." " Then, whose is it ?" was the somewhat indignant rejoinder. To this the son most gravely answered, It's the congregation's !" MOTHER.—As an infant begins to discriminate between the objects around, it soon discovers one countenance that ever smiles upon it with peculiar benignity. When it wakes from its sleep there is one watchful form ever bent over its cradle. If startled by some unhappy dream, a guardian angel seems ever ready to soothe its fears. If cold, that ministering spirit brings it warmth; if hungry, she feeds it; if happy, she caresses it. In joy or sorrow, in weal or woe, she is the first object of its thoughts. Her presence is heaven; the mother is the deity of infancy. CA.LKELASHANS POE CHHEASMAS.—(Private infarna shan.)—Drop yer owd rich outs an uncles (if thare single) a few nice affeckshanat lines, abaght t'forend a December, uppa gilt-edge paper, an say, at yo hoape at there enjoyin good health, in at yol be moast happy if thale cum and spend Chreasmas we yo. An wal yer pen iz wet, an paper at hand (not gild-edge), just write anuther letter to yer poor relaslians, at's plenty a nevies an nieces, an tell em at yo sud be varry glad to see em az usual at Chreasmas, but yor sorry to say at yov a sad badly hause, an's likely to hey for sum time.—Pogrnoor Almeneck. BEEA.KFAST has been famed as one of the most delight ful of meals. And so it is topersons who meet one another in all the bloom and freshness of the morning toilette, but certainly not to those who tome down stairs with all the marks of haste and carelessness —hair poked up in any fashion—gowns unhooked—slates down at heti, or other signs of neglect, either in male or female attire. The consciousness of this makes the party uncomfortable; and indifference to it is accompanied with surliness or unarnia bility. In nine cases out of ten, a defect of character betrays itself in the dress, and we may take it as an index of the disposition. SUBSTITUTE Fon COFFEE.—ASIAIVHS, according to Liebig, contains, in common with tea and• coffee, a priati pie which he calls " Taurine," and which, by the way, he considers essential to the health of all those who do.isot take strong exercise. Reading this le& me to' think that asparagus might be made a good substitute for coffee.. The young shoots which I first prepared were'not agree able, haying an alkaline flavour. I thew tried the ripe' seed. These roasted and ground make a' full-flavoured coffee, not easily distinguishable from fineldocha. The seeds are easily freed from the berries by drying them in a cool oven, and then rubbing them on a sirnie:—Corres , pendent of Gardeners' Chronicle. A SKETCH BY L.AtDir BLESSINGTON.—" Shedeseribed Lord Abercorn's condi:let at the priory. She said it was the most singular place- ow earth. The moment anybody became celebrated they were invited. He had , a' great delight in seeing handsome women. Everybody , hand some•he made Lady Abereorn invite; and all the' guests shot, hunted, rode, or did what they liked, provided: they never' spoke to Lord Abereorn except at table. If they met him they were to take no , notice. At this time Thad deus of*Warsaw was making a noise. Gad, (said Lords Abercorn,) we must have these Porters. Write, my-dear Lady Abercorn.' She wrote: Any answer came from Jane Porter that they could not affordithe expenses of travelling: A cheque was sent. They arrived. Lord Abercorn peeped. at them as they came through the' hall, and running by theprivate staircase to Lady Aliersorni exclaimed,' Witchssi. my lady ! I must be off' and immediately started post, , and remained' a w ay till they were . gone."—Haydonts , Autobiography. Low AMBUTION.—The • true' pleasure• of life is to Rya , with your inferiors. Be the• cock': of your village, the.! queen of your - coterie; and, hesides- very great persons,. the people whom. Fate has speciaßY endowed with this kindly consciation are those- who have seen what are called better days—those who-have had;lesses. lam like Cesar, and of a+noble mind; if' I cannot' Toefirst in Picca dilly let me try-Hatton Garden ) and see - whether Isaunfit, lead the ton there: If I ....mt., (aire-tlleeleao at wrote s. or the Traveller's, let me be president of the . Jolly Sand boys at the Beg: of" Nails, and; blackball; everybody who does not pay me honour: If my darling Bessy cannot goo out of a drawinproom until a haronet'enieee (ha! ha! a baronet's niece; forsooth!) has. walked' before. her, let us frequent company where we shall be -the first; and how can we be the-first unless we- select our inferiors for our associates? Thii kind of pleasure is tohe-bad by almost everybody, and at scarce any cost. With a shilling' sworth of tea and moifins, you can get as muali. adulation and respect as many people cannot purchase-with a thousand pounds' worth of plate and profusion, hired footmen, turn— ing their houses topsey-turvey, and suppers-from Gunter's. Adulation! why, the people who come teyou give as good parties as yam do. Respect! the very menials who wait . behind your- supper-table,- waited at a duke's yesterday,. and actually - patronise you! Oh, yon silty - spendthrift, you can buy flattery for two-ponce ; and you; spend ever so.. much moneyxin entertaining your equa and betters, and. nobody admires you !- , ---Tito Newcomes:. A DAV* , EatPLOYMEN4I - AT; run IXIGGINGai—It is; early morning, and as yet the only labour going on bears, upon brealia.st. The air- is perfumed' with the scent of mutton, for pans of chops are being- fried at every firer down all the miles of tent , that line theriver. Stretched?, on the grass, .with the pots.of tea by their sides, and with; huge cuts of damper covered with- tuntton in their fists ) the diggerstreakfast.. As the sun wakes its appearance over the Wallaby Rocks the morning~ meal comes to+an ; end, andlthe men. walk off to their- claims, and credits ; : the tools,leftin the holies last night.are taken up, and a short time. gold-hunters are fillingthe whole place with noise. Those at work-in the clainx.. - wield picks, shovels,, and crow-bars ; others;, who carry washing stuff fromithe holes to the cradles, trot continually backwards and .for wards, with the precious dirt, either contained ialiaga hung over their 'bauks or in buckets: slung by a yoke-from: their-shoulders. Those whose duty it is to wash the stuff so brought to then* are not less busy, and:the air resounds withlthe loud'clatter of hundreds. of cradles in,thll,plaY. Thasun , rises brighter and higher, and its heat makes. the severe labour-oppressive ; but-though the perspiration. pours from the digger's brow, good humour prosila,. and; the-work is.carzied on with a gaiety that robe-the hard life of its, worst fatigues, Occasionally, high above the rattle of the cradles or the .ethoing strokesof - the-pick and crowbar i , rises a hearty laugh begotten of a rough practical jokeperhaps, or a song shouted at thetop of the voice in thneto the movement of the. rockers,, unlooses. a chorus of imitative tonguesall down the river. At-noon a general. cessation of labour. Eight bells,is: struck upon a, prospecting pan by some nautical digger ) . doubtless a runaway sailor. Nature is-again perfinned.witheunton ; damper ; tea, and chops are again consumed+ On, Sunday the attempt at cookery is generally more. ambitious—a joint of meat baked in the camp, °ven l ig. sometimes sub stituted for the usual, fried mutton,, and, opium -duff or pudding is also a MAWR, luxury upon the. day of rest. An Your at the most ieallowed on werkdays.for• the dinner and a draw at the pipe; labour is. then recommenced. The afternoon passes, away; the 414 R begins to cast long shadows. When A altogether dhiappears behind a range of hills our work is over—the dyers in the holes throw down their tools. and take up their serge shirts ; the cradles are washed out for the , last time, and men in troops begin to saunter to their tents,, conversing as they go on what each may have done,—HonseAold Words. A STORY OF TILE HVOIJRNOT PERt3ECITTION —A husband and wife attempted to escape separately from some town in Brittany ; the wife succeeded, and reached England, where she anxiously awaited her husband. The husband was arrested in the attempt, and imprisoned. The. priest alone was allowed, to visit him ; and after vainly using argument to endeavour to persuade him to renounce his obnoxious religion, the priest, with cruel zeal, had, re course to physical torture. There was a room in the prison with an iron floor, and no seat, nor means of support or rest ; into this room the poor Huguenot was introduced. The iron flooring was gradually heated (one remembers the gouty gentleman whose cure was effected by a similar process in " Sandford and Merton ;" but there the heat was not carried up to torture, as it was in the Huguenot's case) ; still the brave man was faithful. The process was repeated ' • all in vain. The flesh on the soles of his feet was burnt off, and he was a cripple for life; but cripple or sound, dead or alive, a Huguenot he remained. And by and-bye, they grew weary of their useless cruelty, and the poor man was allowed to hobble about on crutches. How it was that he obtained his liberty at last, my informant could not tell. He only knew that, after years of im prisonment and torture, a poor grey cripple was seen wandering about the streets of London, making vain in quiries for his wife in his broken English, as little under stood by most as the Moorish maiden's cry for " Gilbert, Gilbert." Some one at last directed him to a coffee-house near Soho-square, kept by an emigrant, who thrived upon the art, even then national, of making good coffee. It was the resort of the Huguenots, many of whom by this time had turned their intelligence to good account in busy commercial England. To this coffee-house the poor cripple hied himself ; but no one knew of his wife ; she might be alive, or she might be dead ; it seemed as if her name had vanished from the earth. In the corner sat a Pedlar listening to everything, but saying nothing. He rounds. Aow the three naroours of Llle X team emigrants were Norwich, where they established the manufacture of Norwich-crape ! Spitalfields, in London, where they em barked in the silk-trade ; and Canterbury, where a colony of them carried on one or two delicate employments, such as jewellery, wax bleaching, &c. The pedlar took Can terbury in his way, and sought among the French resi dents for a woman who might correspond to the missing wife She was there, earning her livelihood as a milliner " A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU,-SIR !" (FROM KIDD'S JOURNAL OF NATURE.) " A MERRY CHRISTMAS; TO YOU, SIR !" will soon be ringing merrily in all our - ears. It is a delightful greet ing —savoring of good-temper, good-will, mirth, jollity— happiness. We shall see, anon, all the good things of this world gathered together from the four quarters of the world in unlimited abundance. Our railways will be blocked up with hampers, boxes, baskets, crates, &c.,—all well filled with the choicest delicacies of the season. Carts, wagons, vans, and trucks; all will be full. We shall see turkeys by the thousand passing to and fro. Game, too, of all sorts. These will be changing hands with the rapidity of lightning. A vast multitude of other season able delectabilities will also be seen in never-ending supply; pouring in from one end of the country to the other. And what are all these good are they sent in such lavish abundance at this particular sea son ? They are " presents," good people—remembrances of love and affection from one friend to another. Christmas is the recognised time for universal rejoicing—the time when young and old re-assemble ; the latter to rub off the rust of the past year, and the former to assist in the ope ration. Shyness now must be exchanged for a hearty grasp of the hand (no " two fingers" now !); suspicion for frankness; jealousy for love unfeigned; cold-hearted ness for true charity (which " envieth not ;") and the love of gold for the love of one another. Such are the proper elements for the enjoyment of Christmas festivities. And then—our parlours, our drawing-rooms, our studio, and sundry other snug "little rooms"—will they not all shine again —decked in the glories of Holly and Missel toe ! And what about the Christmas log, and the bright fire on the hearth ; and all the winter games, &c., impro vised and performed by our mer r y boy s , and laughing, rosy-faced, innocent, giggling girls ! Call we that nothing ! Hide your ugly features, oh ye cold-blooded, dried-up prudes, who would forbid our darling mother, — Nature ! to preside at the season of Christmas. In spite of ye—God willing, " a Merry Christmas" will we have — aye, and a " Happy New Year." We have lived many years in the world, associated with the best company, and seen such professions of goodness as have positively made us tremble. People professing to hate the world—and yet living as if they seemed to care for nothing else ! This is the case with one-half the polite world at least, whilst we are now writing. It is this deception that we hate. Demure looks, and faces too feet long, do no manner of good—either to their possessors or to those who are associated with them. Our Creator abhors such shallow artifices. With Him it must be all the heart, or none. Therefore is it that we so ad vocate cheerfulness, honesty, and an obedience to the sweet laws of Nature. Playfulness is not wickedness. People may be merry, and wise withal. We defy any one to say that a single word from our pen has ever had an evil tendency. We love society too well for that, and yet we are perpe tually cheerful and merry trying to make others so also. Joni soit qui mal y pence I say we. So come on, young and old ; and let us set a lesson worthy of imitation all over the world. " Let us kiss and be friends." In, boys—in with the Christmas bough ; and let it hang aloft in the centre of every room in our dwellings ! But now, friends, listen. Having drawn the picture of ou happy Christmas, we must look a' reale further. Whilst we all hope to be "jolly feasting; playing, and keeping up " good old customs," within; let us not for get the immense amount of sorrow and 'want" that awaits the- eye' without. We see much of it; but alas!! real worth hides its sorrows in its own breast.. It pines in secret, and tells its piteous tale to ONE "who'seeth in secret." Let us, one' and all, be the happy instruments in the hand of that Great " One," in trying' to make' " some " heart' happy—" some " sorrows less. At certain widow gave 'two. mites." We hear it recorefedto her honour. It is left as' an example for us. We• are' not indulging in cant ;'but we' speak the pleasingfeelkgs that now animate our " breast. Let not any heartbreakz' that WE can " bind nix!' Oh—no'! We would sit `'happy" at the festive board on Christmas Day. To feel " happy,!' one muss have a clear conscience: Let us then vie wAh. each other, and see wno Wig fedi most happy. So, hurrah for Christmas ! and tairee' eheers for the delights of loving, and being loved ! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. 171 E EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER SEVEN Orrtlie7th of the 7th month a holy observance was ordained to tlie'ehildren of Israel, who fasted 7 diiys, and remained 7' &vs . & tents. The 7th year was directed` to be a Sabbath of rest for'all things, and at the'endof 7 tines 7 years com mencedithe grand jubilee:. Eiery 7th year the land lay fallow';' every 7th year there' was a grariegrelease from all debts, and bondsmen were'set free. Froreethis law may have origfitated the custom' of 'binding yang men to 7 years' apprenticeship, and' of punishing- - incorrigible offenders y transportation ihr 7, twice 7, or three times 7 7 years. Every 7th year thelim was direeted to be read to the people: Jacob served' seven years far the posses sion of Recline! and also another 7 - years.. /Vieth had 7 days' warning of the flood, and' was commeaided to take fowls of the' air into the ark - by sevens, and the clean beasts by sevent.• The ark tomtied the grotmdion the 7th month, andirr7rdays a dove was sent out, and 'again in 7 days. after. The 7 years of plenty and the' V years of famine were erter foretold in l'haroah's dream , by the 7 fat and the 71eari beasts, and th 3 , - ears of folVand the 7 ears of blasted corn. Miriam was shut 'up 7 days to be cleansed of her *rosy, the young' animals were-te remain with the dam 7 days, and at the • close of the 7th to be taken away-... Byllienkl law man' was commanded to for give his offending...brother 7 timea.; , .lont the meekness of the last revealed religion extended' his humility and for bearance to '7O times " If Cain shall 1,0 rawrenced truly Lamecti 70 times 7." hi' the destruction of Jericho 7priests 7 . 1 trumpets 7 days. Orr the 7th they surrounded the walls 7 times, and after the Ithi 'time the walls fell. &damn prepared 7 bullocks and reams for trsacrifice ; 7 of Saars sons were hanged, to stay a famine. Lab= pursued Jacob 7 - days' journey'- Jab's friends sat with him 7 days and 7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and Trams as an atonement for their wickedness. David, in Bringing up the ark,offered 7 bullocaind Trams; • Elijah sent his servant 7 times to look for the cloud ; the ark of God remained with the Philistines Vmonths. Saul was ordered by Samuel to tarry at Gilgal Vdays, the ei'd'ers of Jabeek requested Nahuali the Ammonite 7 days' respite. Jesse made 7 of his sons to pass before 'Samuel, the men of 'Jabesh Gilead fasted 7 days for Staii;.the •Shniramite's son- raised to life by Elisha, sneezed 7: times ; Hlezekiah, in-cleansing the temple, offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams and 7:lie-goats for a sin efering; the children of Isaac, when Hezekiah took away - the strange altars,, kept tins feast of unleavened bread 7 Guys ; king Ahasuerus had 7 ehamber maids, 7 days' feast ; sent for the queen+ on , theeith day. Queen Esther had 7 maids to attend her; in the 7th year of his reign Esther ia.taken to him. %lemon was 7 years Minding the temple, at the dedicatiosucirwhioh Pie feasted 77d45. In the tabernacle were 7 limps; 7 days were appointed for an atonement uvon thealtareand the priest's son was ordained to wear his father'S. garments 7 days. The children of Israel ate- unleawaned' bread 7 days. Abraham gave 7 ewelambs to Abimelecli as a memorial for a well. Joseph mourned 7 days forJecob. The Rabbins say-God employed tßepower of answering this number to perfect the greatnesaeof Samuel, his , name answering the letters in the Hebrew, word, wide% signify 7, whence Hannah, his mother, , in her- thanks-sayai. that the barren had brought forth 7;'' Solomon mentiens 7 things that God hates, and that the sluggard is. wiser in his own con ceit than 7 men can, render a season. The house of wisdom in Proverbs- had 7 pillars. The vision of Daniell was 70 weeks. The fiery furnace was made 7 times hotterr, for Shadrach, Meshaeh, and Abednege. Nebuchadnezzan ate the grass of the fields 7 yeara,, the eiders of IsraW. were 70, the blood' was to be sprinkled before the altar '7,-• times. Naamant was,. to be dipped 7 times in Jordan.; : Apuleius speaks of dipping the head 7 times in the sea far purification. In,all solemn rites of purgation, dedication and consecratione the oil or water , was 7 times sprinkled; out of Mary Magdalen were east '7 devils; the Apostles chose 7 deacons ;• Enoch, who was translated, was thelth after Adam, and Jesus Christ the 77th in a direct line. Within the number are conneeted all the mysteries,of the. Apocalypse revealed to the rChurches of Asia ; there ap peared 7 gottlin candlesticks, and 7 stars, in the hand - of him that was in the raidat,7:lamps being the 7 spirits of God the book with 7 seals, the lambs with 7 horns and , 7 eyes, angels with 77seals, 7 kings, 7 thunders, 7 thousand men slain, thedragon with .7 heads and 7 crowns, the beast with 7 heads, 7;angels bringing 7 plagues and phialaorwrath. There are also numbered 7 heavens, 7 planets,. 7 - stars, 7 - wise men, 7 champions etchristendom, 7 noten.of music, primary colours. Petifection is likened to gold 7 - times, purified . in, the fire. Anciently a child was not named beforel - days, not beingaccounted fully to havelife before that- periodical deer ; the teeth spring 444 in the 7th month, and are shed (renewed) in the 7th year, when, infancy is, changed into childhood. At thrice? years. the fzeulties are developed, manhood commences, man becomes legally competent to all civil acts, at four times 7 a man is full possession of his strength,at I:betimes 7 he is fit for• the business of the world, at six times 7 he becomes grave• and wise, or never, at seven times 7 he in na his apogee, and from that day decays, at eight times. 7 he is in his first climacteric or year of danger, and at ten times 7, or three store years and ten, has bF tlie,royal prophet been pronounced the natural period of human life, and the 7th thousand year is believed by man to be tia) Sabbatical thousand or Millenium, and on the 7th day God rested from his labours, after creating the heavens and the earth. AT the 4th of July celebration in Marion county, Illinois, a young lady offered the following toast:—" The young men of America—their arms are our support—our arms their reward." A LONELY C EEI ETMAEL — After having finished his meal, he took up a book and tried to read, but the pages seemed full of the words, " Christmas Day, Christmas fun, Christmas dinner," so he pitched it from him in a rage. Then he poked the fire, and sought to trace some thing in the fantastic forms of the bright coals, but all he could make ood merry and jolly, whilst what seemed to be a figure of him self was a the door room full of company, very oor, and was not allowed to enter st ou t outside to participate in the fun. His eyes now fell upon a news paper, he took it up d e t erm i ned to read accounts o f murders or other horrors, but the first article he pitched upon was headed " Approaching Christmas Festivities ;" he dashed the paper to the floo r , and paced the room with hasty strums, reeling perfectly certain that there was a general conspiracy in the world to make him feel his lonely position. At length he lit his pipe, and cast him selfunder the soothing influence o f t o b acco, w h en u p th roug h th i the air a n ir to ro a se ch t ai he r, S a o n u d nd w of gradually sinking into repose, t' Christmas bells, gushing forth in a merry ding dong dell, ding dong dell, which upset him completely, and to add to his discomfort his eye at Don some estivity, in- deed ! ehristiitas loneliness Ile pulled them down, pitched them into the fire, and laughed fiercely as they were burnt. " Ah," he exclaimed aloud, in a towering. passion, " that woman put them there to insult me, like her impudence; I'll give her warning at once, hang me if I don't." He rushed to ring the bell, but ere he had reached it, he heard the street door bang to, and, throwing up the window, saw Mrs : Chuxem in her very smartest attire, ... . and believing her hisband either to be a galley-slave, or accOmpanied by the little Chuxems, aLso very fine, pro dead long since in some of the terrible prisons. But on ceeding down the court, with laughter and happiness hearing the pedlar's tale, she set off at once to London ) around them ; and as he saw them disappear round the and found her poor crippled husband, who lived many f corner, Jack would have given anything to make one of i years afterwards in Canterbury, su P ported by his wife ti the humble, joyous party,— Christmas Day, and .11m exertions,—Household Words, it was S'pent, THE CHURCH'S FESTIVALS TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The festival of Christmas has always, by the Church universal, been observed for the celebration of her most solemn rites, the offering of her highest praises, and the decoration of her sanctuaries with appropriate symbols of her joy and gladness. Christmas is almost the only period of the Church's year which has retained a hold upon the affections of Englishmen, and yet I am sorry to think that the re ligious observance of that holy season is much below that of our ancestors, who, whatever may have been their errors, put this enlightened age to shame by the earnest ness and sincerity with which they walked in the light which was given them. It was an ancient practice of the Church to prepare for the celebration of her joyous festival by a watch, or vigil, which was generally ended by a midnight service on the eve of the feast : they were, however, discontinued, ex cepting on the eves of the great festivals of Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, &c., and of these the feast of our Saviour's nativity has always been so observed, even as at first the angels announced the glad tidings of great joy, " while shepherds watched their flocks by night: Why so appropriate and primitive a custom should have been suffered to fall into disuse amongst English Church men, I have never been able to ascertain, unless it has been because Rome has retained it, which is, if any, a very strong reason why we should have done so also ; for it is certain that many Protestants are in the habit of at tending "midnight mass" on Christmas-eve, at the Ro man chapels of this town ; and to those who know any thing of the Romish system it will not appear strange that some of these, whose religious feelings are likely to be excited by the beauty which meets the eye, and the melody which salutes the ear, should be captivated through their senses, and, if they are not of strong mind, they are often led by Romish friends to compare the two churches from a Romish point of view, which, of course, will place the English Church in a disadvantageous position, and their faith in it will continue to be steadily undermined by the zealous and untiring emissaries of Rome. All this may and does often happen to those who are induced to attend a service to which they would never have gone, if an opportunity of attending such were afforded them by their own Church. About two years ago a suggestion appeared in one of your contemporaries, that the observation of the approach ing festival of Christmas should be commenced by a mid night service in our principal Churches s in only one, St. Martin's, did the proposition meet with a response. I attended that service, and though—for reasons I need not specify—it was not a popular church, the service seemed to be eminently so ; there was about 1,500 of a congrega tion, whereas the average attendance at this church was, I believe, about 300. Last year the Rev. Dr. Hillcoat, of St. Matthew's, Scotland-road, had a midnight service, and there is little doubt that these two churches being open kept many Protestants out of theneighbouring mats house. But why should the practice stop here? In Lon don, Leeds, and other towns the Tractarians have for some time revived this ancient custom, and why should we leave this or any other primitive and Catholic practice for the sole use and benefit of Romanists and Tractarians ?' I for one cannot see the wisdom of so doing- I would remark that the service used up'On this occasion did always incitare;. if not entirely consist of, the celebra tion of the most, solemn rite of the Church=—the Holy Communion, with,- of course, a sermon. -At thesservices we have already had in this town the usual. evening prayers only have been , used, which are not very appro priate. At the parish. churches of Leeds and Bradford, where they keep the vigil of the feast of Circumcision, or New Year's Day, they arways celebrate Holy Communion, and I hope we may also: see the same at some church in this. town, on Christmas-eve next. If the .Litany were used, it would be a most appropriate service; it is evident it never was intended to. donfine the use of that most beaatifal devotional composition to the morning service, but that it may be used at other times, at the discretion of the•O'rdinary; and the Bishop' of London sanctioned the use. of it at special evening services held at several, churehes•in his diocese, during last Lent, and I feel sure` our own good Bishop would sanction• its use upon Christ— maseve-- I truer that the above imperfect remarks, if by your kindness.permitted to appear irnthe Liverpool Standard, may be a means towards attaining the object they advo cate, and any, Sir, yours respectfilly, A CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAN. Liverpool,. 13th Dec., 1853. [The views which our correspondent" urges with such Moderation. will be readily responded to by many sincere Churchmen, but a strong: objection presents itself, whichi it will be difficult to' overcome, and the:more so on. this occasion, from' the day of the week- on. which. Christmas-eve faM.• A midnight attendance at church in a populous , town involves the • necessity of passing through crowded streets at' a , time • when]. from the number of drunken raf- Sans and abandimed women, it is neither - prudent nor' safe. for deeent people, and especially females, to brout; and theseevils would be considerably increased on - a -Saturday, which is too often devoted by ? the tower orders to indulgence in dissipation, aftorthe.receipt of their - wages. There are also objections,from.the injury to health through i f6gs, and the chars- occasioned by sitting in a cold, dimp church.] TILE ANGZ2VAN RACE -1.07,D• ITS CZZ , U IC C:_l3. (F2O 3I JOHN DULL.) MAai are the causes of discouragement - which in the presentt , day tend to , damp the zeal of those who are labouring for the welfire of mankind, and 'for the glory of God:: The serious- dangers which, ini more thamone direction,' threaten too interrupt the peace of 'the world, and to , ,disturb the refatious of amity in which it is to our and theireommon interest that we should live with all the nations and kingilonas of the earth ;—the various causesopf dissension, mid tendencies to disruption, which have grown up in the body politic ; the consequent weakening of the tie* which attach to the mother country the vast foreign and: colonial possessions of 'the empire, and °Cabe bonds by which the different: parts et the United Kingdom are• cemented together:; :and fae tiouauese of spirit which the conflict of opposite principles and of antagonistic mass--interests has engendered;--the marked deterioration of our social conlition ; the relaxa tioniof the ties by which, both in domestic , life, andin. the wider circles of society, man hangs on to man, as well as of the bonds of mutual sympathy and of moral obligation, resulting from an increase of selfishness,: and from.a mul tiprocity of causes and opportunities of alienation ;—lastly, meat distressing of all, the irreconeileable dittrences which have rent Christendom asunder, and have arrayed large portions of it in open hostilitr.against each, other, cast against that truth which is theonly sure foundation oennity, as well',.as, with regard to our own ,Church in particular, the spirit of sectarianism:which .has given rise to numerous separatist movement*, and actual...schisms, and which, within her pale, is cons 4 loutly, begetting jealous sturpicions and .bitter animosities,—all ,these worktogether to produce a state of things most painful and disheartening to every rightly constituted, every.• truly .Christian mind. In the midst of these discouraging facts it isnot a little cheering to fatd that the one influence to whichaChristian mind looks, , as to the only source of solid improvement and of real peace, is gaining strength in a manner at once striking andunexpected. Wit.h.our readers we need not labour to establish the poini; that theprineiples of the Church .form the only true bond of union, the only foun dation ofi• lasting peace ; nor. need we be at the pains of casting . about for argumentsto,prove thati_to the Anglo- Saxon race- belongs, in the• order of Divine Providence, the high. privilege of exhibiting the. character of the Church,.h.er doctrine and her constitution, in these later ages &the world, in the Bona, which ma kes the nearest approach to primitive purity and integrity 2 whilst to the same-race is likewise assigned the task of spreading by its widely-extended commeree.the arts of civilization in every quarter of the globe, and, of upholding• by its influence auctexample the ascer.dancy of right against might in the-political world. We cannot look batik to the. 'history of this country without perceiving thatshe.was greateet and most power-- full at those periods at which her.people were religiously, twitted ; that her seasons of internal weakness have been. those at which the nation was tors by religious discords. No one can doubt that the dissimilarity of the course which the Reformation took in the northern and in, the. southern part of the, island, greatly retarded the union,_ and still obstructs the hearty amalgamation, of the. two kingdoms. No one will, call in question the feet, that the neglect of the Church in, the sister island, in not car-. rying out the work of the Reformation, but allowing the old stock of superstition to spout afresh, and to extend its vicious growth in rank luxuriance, has been. the main cause of all the calamities which have fallen upon Ireland, and of all the embarrassments which she has created, and continues to create, to the Imperial Government. No one will deny that to the supineness and, indifference of the authorities in Church and State, in making no provi sion for the planting of the Church in our transatlantic settlements, the separation of the United States of America from the mother-country is mainly attributable. Nor is it possible to cast a glance over the present condition of our colonial empire, without discovering the fact, that it is on that part of our colonial populations which is attached to the Church, that the greatest dependence is to be placed for loyalty, that they form the link by which the connection of the colonies with the mother-country may be preserved. It is not only as Churchmen, therefore, but as citizens, as true patriots, that we have cause to regard with deep satisfaction every indication of the increasing influence of the Church of England, both within and beyond the limits of the British Empire. And that that influence has been of late greatly on the increase, in spite of many ad verse circumstances, is a fact altogether beyond dispute, Amongst ourselves, at the very centre, the asperities of party divisions and sectarian animosities within the pale of the Church have been greatly softened during the last few years, and it is not chimerical to hope that the next generation may enjoy the blessing of a united Church, undisturbed by the admixture of Genevan ingredients on the one hand, and of Romish elements on the; other ; nor need we, considering the marked revival of spiritual life within the Church, be alarmed by the convulsive efforts of Popery and Dissent to impede her progress and to undermine her position. In Scotland we see the sister communion of the English Church rising afresh from the state of deep depression to which she had been reduced ; and her Irish sister is achieving the most astounding conquests over the darkness of Popish superstition. At the very same time we find in all our foreign possessions and settlements the influence of the Church growing apace, under the fostering care of a Colonial Episcopate. And, to complete the pleasing picture, we behold the auspicious renewal of intercourse of the closest and most brotherly kind between the Church of England, and that branch of the Anglican Church which flourishes with in creasing vigour in the United States. Viewed in this light, the report presented the other day by the English deputation on its return from America to the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," is no less deserving of the attention of Statesmen, than it is gratifying to the heart of every- Churchaaan. It is not merely the promise of a more united, more consistent, and therefore more ective prosecution of the mimtouayy labours of the Church in every quarter of the globe,—the immediate object for which the deputation was sent out, — that renders the result of the visit paid to the American Church by four delegates from the mother-Church, so highly important, but the pledge afforded by the reception given to the deputation, of the active influence in both countries of a mutual sympathy in those principles and feelings which constitute the best guarantee of peace and amity between nations. Whilst for so happy a result we must look up with deep gratitude to the Supreme Author of every blessing, it were ungracious not to acknowledge the important service rendered on this occasion by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, not only to the cause to vrhich its labours are specially devoted, but indi rectly to the cause of humanity and civilization, of " peace on earth and good will towards men." ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. A. Alington, 8.A., to the ltoctory of Burnell, Lin colnshire. Rev. W. Atkinson, M.A., Rector of Gateshead Fell, to an Honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rev. F. Bachel°l', M.A., to the Rectory of Caistock, near Cal lington ,Cornwall. Rev:F. H. Bishop, M.A., to the Incumbency of Grazeley, near Reading. Rev. E. 'omen, 8.D., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Holt, Norfolk. R v. E. M. Clissold, 8.A., to the Rectory of Wrentham, Suffolk. Rev. J. J. Cort, M.A., to be Chaplain of St. Michael's Church, in the Church of England Cemetery, Birmingham. Rev. J. H. Croft, M.A. to the Vicarage of Timberscombe, near Dunster, Somerset. _ Rev. W. Dry, 1.A., to the Curacy of Barwell, Leicestershire. Rev. T. Evetts, incumbent of Prestwood, Bucks, to the Rural Deanery of Atnersham. Rev. J. Fawcett, to be Assistant Curate of Lismore Ca Rev. H. E. B, Ffolkes, M.A., to the Rectory of Hillington, Norfolk. Rev. R. Fisher. 11. A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Sbaw, near Oldham. Rev. J. R. Hoare, M.A., to the Curacy of Castle Bromwictr, near Birmingham. Rev. S. HOsegood, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Wayford, near Crewkerne. Rev. J. Winstanley Hull, to the Vicarage of North Musk ham,. Nottingham. Rev. J. Jameson, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of the Pro prietary Chapel, Leamington, Warvackshire. Rev. L. S. Kenny, MS., to the Stipendiary Curacy of the Parish Church of Lancaster. Rev. .1, R. Lauder, 8.A., to be Assistant Minister of St. Catherine's. near Niagara, Canada West, Rev. I. Lichtenstein, 8.A., to the Curacy of Wheatacre, Norfolk. Rev. R. Pike Mate, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, and Perpetual Curate of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Wimeswould, near Loughborough , . Rev. A. Matthews, M. A., to the Rectory of tEkunley, near Market Harhorohgh, Leicestershire. Rev. T. Miles, Curate of Dromkea, to the Rectory of Tienoagh. Rev. A. Perceval, R.A., to the Curacy of Horfieht. Rev. E. R. Pitman, to the Perpetual Curacy of Pipe Ridware, Staffordshire. 'Rev. W. Proctor, M.A., : Perpetual Curate of Doddington, to an Honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rei.E.l.Wanbaut. A. 8., to the Curacy of Templemon. Rev. J. D. Ridout, M.A.,• Fellow of Christ's College, Cam bridge, to the Vicarage of Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Rev. T. Saulez, M.A., to• the Incumbency of All Saint's Church. Islington. Rev. W. M. - Smith, 8.A., to , the Curacy of Kirk Michaell, Priwof Man. Rev.. H. Weightman, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Emmanuel Church, Bottom Rev. K.. Whittington, M.A.,otTrinity College. Cambridge,. one or the Masters of the Islington% Proprietary School, to the Assistant Mastership in the Merchant Tailors' School. Rev. W. Whyatt, 'M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Mark's, Cheetham-hill, Manchester- DIOCESE OF CASTER, PREFErbtrXTS.—The Rev. William Thomas Newenham has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. John's Church, West. Derby, in the county - of Lancaster, void by death of Rev:- W. H. Tuer. Patroni,Edmund Molyneux, Esq. _ _ The Rev. Jail% Davies has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. John's Church, Smallwood, in the parish of Astbury, Cheshire, void by cession cfßev. F. Twemlow. Patron, Vicar of Astbury : value £lOO.- OBDINA.TIONI—The Bishop of Chestert intends to hold bis next Ordination at Chester, on Sunday, the 12th of March next, being the Second Sunday in , Lent. Candi dates are required to send all necessary papers to Charles T. W. Parry. -Esq., Chester, his Lordship's secretary, on or before the Ist February, at the latest,--after which day nono can be receive& Tir REV. W. MAXWELL SMITH, B. has been licensed by the Bishop.of Sodor and Man to-fie curacy of Kirk-Michael, Isle of Man, on the nomination-of the Rev. J. Brown, M.A. ST. PiTYL'S • CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London, assistedby Dr. Lushington and Sir James Fitteson, sit ting as assessors, will coca hence an inquiry into certain alleged abases connected with the above cathedral on the 9th Januiry. THERE' ARE IN ENGLAND, in the gift of the crown, 2 Archbislioprics, 24 Bishoprics, 38 Deaneries, 4£ Prebends, and 1,028 livings : the Lord Chancellor has 888 ; First Lord of tfie Treasury, 103 ; and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 39 in their respective gifts. OUR CiornEouALs, the- Athenceum says, seem to be walking up one by one, to a:resumption of something like their old musical state. We. are now informed that, for the first time these two centuries past, the HD musical cathedral service is daily intoned by a competent and powerful choir in Peterborough cathedral. DIOCESE 0.1 , MAN cirEsTE - ru--Preferments : —On. Tues day, .1, the I>»000wn Itvglsiry, the Bishop or nteueneet.ii licensed the Rev. Lewis Stanhope Kenny, M.A.,..tc, the stipendiary earacy of the parish church of Lancaster.-- His lordship has presented, the Rev. John Winstanley Hull, incumbent of Grimsargh,near Preston, to the vicar age of North Mnskham, in thecounty of Nottingham and the diocese of Lincoln. His lordship presents to thin living alternately with the Bishop of Ripon. PRESENTA7IIONS VACANT.—The .Rectory of Little Tey, near Coggeshall Essex • value. £l6O a-year ; patron, the Bishop of Rochester.. The Viearage of Yarcombe,: near Honiton, Devun; value, x7co. a-year ; patron, the Crown. The Rectory of St. George's ; . Glamorganshire;; value, £l5O a-year ; patron, L. Fraherne, Esq. The Vicarage of St. Hilary, Glamorganshire patrons, Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The • Vicararge • of: North Elkingtonp Lin colnshire ; valtte, , .£2oo a-year; patron, Rev. W._ Smyth. The Vicarage of Easttiladdony Northamptonshire; £lBO a-year. The Vicarage.. of Berwick-upon-Tweed ; value, £350 a•year ; patrons the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The Incumbency of Great St. Mary's, Cam bridge ; £l2O a-year patrons, Masters andTellows of Trinity Cellege: IJNivansimr,REFOßAL—Sletter has been reeeived, by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, front Lord Derby, as Chancellor of the University, enclosing:a com munication addressed to hiraiby Lord Palmerston, in his official capaeity, wherein is stated that hen- Majesty's GovAutiment , have determined to bring forwardia - measure oftniversity.reform in the ensuing session, and, that an intimation to that effect will appear in the speech. from the throne, Most colleges have been occupied during some portions .of the term,in preparing schemes-. for inter nal improvement. At Brasenose a scheme: of a most liberal character .had been.framed, with the full, sanction of the late lamented principal, which was tn. have been submitted to the • visitor- (the Bishop of Liheolu), for his approbation, during the coming term. At- Exeter a general revision of the statutes has taken nlsce i , and the changesare to be laid., before the visitor (the Bishop of Exeter), by a„deputatien of the fellows in ttlao:week before Christanas.. At Pembroke, even before thel.ong vacation, a plan had been formed, which was submitted, to Lord Derby as visitor,, but did not meet with; his. approval. The eases of Trinity-and New College are-still. before the Bishop of Winchester. Ralliol, thoughaseareely requiring any. change, has .hceji making fresh anatugements iu eon- Iletaoh with the Blundell foundation, St. john's has just entered: upon the consideration of what ohanes are needed ; and. Merton is said to have. framed a very excel lent scheme. The colleges which have made no move ment are -comparatively few,—perhaps not above two or three- Tng ANCIIENT BUILDINGS OF GREECU AND BONE we. may class with great propriety in three successive orders. First, we have those ancient structures denomi nated Cyclopean, from the mythus of Homer, who attri butes theil foundation to the sons of Neptune. These structures consist of vast and irregular masses of unhewn 'stoma,. put together without cement or mortar of any kind. The ruins of the citadels of. Tyrus and Myceme, which, are of this description, have remained in their pre- I sent condition for 3,000 yeark and present the most per fect specimens yet existing of the military architecture of the heroic ages. The next improvement on this method has been termed the Irregular Polygonal structure, from, the circumstance that the stones are no longer unhewa, although no attempt is made. to reduce them to the square. These lateral plain sides are sufficiently smooth to form a close joint, and the angular proportions of the one steno fitted the angular recesses of the other; and their faces are cut so as to give the whole wall a tolerably smooth surface. Examples of this second class are common in the Etruscan tombs, where, says Mr. Dennis, these blocks are arranged so as to present their ends and sides in alter nate corners, in that style which builders denominate Old English Bond, or more vulgarly, "headers and stretchers." The same description of masonry was used extensively by the Romans, and seemed to have reached its perfection in the forum of Augustus. In the third species of mural building the blocks are laid in horizontal courses, but sometimes so irregular that none of the hori zontal joints are continuous, but all the joints are accu rately squared and fitted. Example of this kind of masonry is to be found in the celebrated Lion Gate of the ancient fortress of Mycenx.--The Builder. A COAST SCENE.—A footpath leading over the hill led them to the top of the promontory, covered with the finest green sward, and giving a view of' the open ocean. To the right, lay distant Flambro' Head; to the left, Scarborough, with its castle and its bold lofty headland, and the mass of red-tiled houses lying clear, as if only some half-mile dia.. tant. But on the sunny sea vast numbers of vessels stretched from horizon to horizon ; all, in fact, traversing that great marine highway from Scotland to London which is perpetually crowded with a nation's traffic; mer chant vessels; whole fleets of colliers bearing coals from Newcastle to the metropolis, or returning fbr more; steamers bravely bearing onwards, and leaving their long lines of smoke behind them; with the white sails of almost myriads of those butterflies of the ocean, fishing cobles, gleaming bright and sunny on all parts, near and remote, of the ocean plain. But great as was this view, the one directly under them was not less impressive. There the sea was raging against the rock % which rose to a consider able altitude. North and soutOttended the jagged and indented line of' precipitous cliff, rent and ravaged by the storms of ages. A narrow neck of land ran out just before them, to which they advanced, and stood aloft, as it were, in the centre of this really sublime scene. On one hand the sea was boiling and sweeping in milky whiteness through a great cavern ; on the other hand rushing like an assailing army into a circular abyss, which it had worn in the precipitous cliff, and leaping all foam on the huge ledges of projecting rocks, and plunging back in fury into the boiling deep. The whole' mass of waters was in a y motion, like some vast and restless living thing , swellin g, eddying, and moaning with• ing as with a thousand ca of cavernous rock.—Howi(eB Sores of Englifli and Foreign Life. nanwoilnclO'netlahencdhLikY' or eu t o h w u n wallsd e r REV. F. CLOSE ON TABLE-TUR.YIIO -•-_ the UNDER the title of " Table-turning not diahw blis h e d a Rev. F. Close, incumbent of Cheltenham, pamphlet, on the subject of the recent mhassnifPe:lte. spontaneous rotatory motion by tables. lie sg s d;il tha t "Truth, candour, and honesty, oblige u s to a ,_, lis h e a for some time past there have been certain well-eenwnturaj, ril atter. developments of powers, whether natural or snee which to us are inexplicable, for which we are, Los, unable to account by any known or ascertathee dechl e• either of matter or of spirit. Beyond a doubt large edalit y jl tion must be made for imperfect experiraents, done of cr,„ in some witnesses, and hypocrisy in others. But after in reasonable deductions are made, enough of sarPr is 7 e the remains to perplex the wisest heads, and to P,. 31 0 c oo. most scientific. There are well substantiated facts Tole nected with Mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, en' an ted turning, which yet remain to be explained and ac„,t i ac for. It is true that some philosophical' and so; „,,d persons have attempted to sneer at the whole mattee, with a scepticism to which they are specially Pr° r/ o peri' are deeply read in the well-ascertained facts o. so b mental and practical philosophy, affect to treat ah getting exhibitions as delusi v e. This is an easy way .of of self' rid of a difficulty ; b u t w hil e it adds to the feewg?,,ged complacency and contempt with which they are tmr p ily to look down upon believers in such facts , it 'OWOIO proves nothing, and is far from satisfying tiwse hiv e either are eye and ear witnesses of such things, erdouht received them on testimony of such a character that to tes ti. it would tend to destroy the grounds of credit e d to mony. Another division of this party appear dit-crart attach a certain degree of credit to the facts, bu t 3 ,,tory. to account for them in a manner still more unsa tis Tdoced It is unquestionable that many instances may be e"" e a where tables have been turned by designed or usa es raot muscular movements of the thumb and finger,e, and the by any new or subtle power unknown before ; r 0 13 same time, cases can be cited where such collusion' unconscious muscular motion could not by possibibeble le produced the result. Thus, when a large heavY, delicate moved about, at will, by two or three feeble an eeise women, who could scarcely move it at all by the el . ea l; to of their natural powers, it is simply feeble and ~laden, talk about unconscious manipulation. Manir this at whether conscious, or unconscious, could mat d 0" di Of all. Surely it would compost more with the sisdoi7 e a science if a fact is admitted which cannot be l3l/1 ,4, upon any of the known and as gertained la ws of mat. to wait further results of experiment and of time to rattee; or to refute the facts, or to discover the hidden !ol d by which they are performed. It is really stir that in the present day, when discoveries are contin made in the world of matter, and new and strange ... e1;, binations traced, that honest, honourable and senor minds should yield to such vulgar . is pitiable—hut scepticism is mischievous ; and t here ber is occasion for the exercise of either the onW or the of the case under consideration. rea " But how are these circumstances viewed bY scepticism. Cr ligious mind or the country P For in this- questio jeo, are more deeply interested. Mistakes in phYsie al p S ifgiee s correct themselves, but speculative opinions olion al cov e ' and moral subjects , involve spiritual and sn fee t i air quences of good or evil. Superstition is the Piou s , r err misdirected or in mess ; and to superstition ti erel° ligious people are more especially at all times prol le 'r e diag will be more or less the case in proportion as the ' f the of religion is or is net under the sober guidancet! bifie written Word. Now, those who have watched t e e he and tendency of the minds of spiritual people di-',..„,t0 Zest twenty years, will bsprepared to expect that of the wonderful, or mysterious, will be readily re }ate supernatural and miracuibni. The character of t he' portion of our popular religious literature during ",,,el,O riod referred to, whether issuing from the Iligh - da ei Church press, has had a tendency to create a re °rv a laii °l3 - pectation of wonders : undefined and ardent sP ec tr illi , l hafsbeen created; a disposition- to catch at eve, r .l o . to event as the fulfilment of someprophecy, accorw e " flee' of private interpretation of some' popular Savni , 3 ase „ Table. Turning, or anything epee; the natar 3- ` te d - to a l"; which:remains unexplained, is iimmediately pernatural causes; miracles just now would vs' a ta welcomed and greedily swallowed,because they so fay in with the bold prophetic speculations which ar,er„deoe/4„ tar. There is, therefore, not only the old natur 3 .; - ;ith, b. of the layman mind to superstition% to contend theories, that principle cherished and fostered by popula r n - f 0 0 ' and the unprofitable, becanse speculative, studi es - religious people. „; ofe e r " But worse than this; not only arestteh discove.-e4oitt-e and hidden= principles of nature heedlessly and, w rthe,,, re ' consideration' pronounced to be miraculous, 01 ",,, i ci ligious logic'of too many carries them' further' cause, according to their opinion nog go od object' e obtained by these experiments, and ;use soln reftba 01 , persons may have made an evil use of them , ° le d they jump to. the next conclusion that theY ar e w e!, Devil—that they are miracles wrought' by the 1 / 4 . ° 1 ,0 O h. " the wicked one, to beguile, and deceive, and WA- tract? unhappy children of men. And paraphrets an . ,,,`" ai tolfll appear warning%us against witchcraft, and ne e '' - or-n and unclean spirits, until we seem at once tr, t how into the midst of the dismal temptations-of St• -1 ";; i to —and we expect the civil power to be called 11 4 - a th e " terfere, and the -Mosaic penalty to be enforce" , or shalt not suffer wwitch to live !" rs , " God has never pbe ut -forth miraculous, Por e BO enabled his people to exercise them, except taant 0014 a message or a messenger from IlimselK such No Y se s were more or less-displayed from the calling . ''',_ the Captivity in Babylon. They ceased w ith ' for for t y of the canon of tlie Old Testament Scriptdree 400 years, were renewed at the commencement 0140,03 crave'. UlBpenagartdOtr . triaGy were- e0utd...„,..-44.-10.' • toe of one hundred ye ars and again ceased about tneiatel when the canon of the New Testament was. cola and they have notheen renewed since. via " Diabolical interference in the shape of mata, des, commenced with the first miracle of'3lese the were permitted at intervals, until the first cesaatit:oe d ' Old Covenant miracles. When the latter were' sli s r t - i nef Satan's miracles ceased :--when the New Testanl ell ea se, ° des commenced, Satan's revived ; and as iikan e -or w " those of Moses, were swallowed up by the of Christ. When Christian miracles ceased, Satal l f also—and have never been revived. At no pool cr y, 1, " world has Satan been permitted to work wo when the power &God wrought them too. ; el fi; " No miracles being allowed in this dispensate ottfloi the apostolic timesyinatural wonders should ont,, di ver, buted to miraculous , interference ; and since thVt e s, the Devil was overthrown by Christ and his ar't a bleAhl on many accounts as dangerous, as it is unwarra,?n, " - t1 attribute the power of working miracles to . foie' fore';', present extraordinary - exhibitions should not, tn t • • ;l,, any account, be admitted to be properly 01 1 . :jor they may be wottlerfal, and governed by vi r "" -° -. "or undiscovered physical laws, but there is f e d, they should not, one day be satisfactorily disp lo o. greater',rsi the upon principles of 'natural philosophy yet to - 0 1 ag, ;t i e Least of all should they be attributed to d and Fo r cies, for which there is no solid ground in rees°-;it whole analogy of our Scripture guide is age pert' these sufficient considerations, we confidentit "THAT TABLE-TURNING IS NOT ' „ 0 01 THE "THEOLOGY Or TABLE TIIHNINGb fsiror day night the Rev. N. T. Godfrey, Incumbea t ° se 0' Leeds, delivered a lecture on this subject at t _be t o ff o r square Roomsi,liondon. The rev. gentlemso ° a ° cl tended that table turning, spirit rapping , a° „ A tiol l ' te`` ante were nothing less than a direct comalo" - s el es is 0 the Evil One. The chairman, Mr. J. Batxs ll3ll ',d s ge elie that the meeting should conclude by prayer , was sung amiiist great confusion. An extraoru l. , pu i ,T,oto then took place. The chairman, lecturer, and ,, r e ' s eil t ; of clergymen on the platfcrm ade a preciP" - amidst loud: cries for the chairman to IteePetillg' the Several gentlemen attempted t o a ddress- the nle r, for to r a Mr. E. Connor w as called to take• the ettleral ~e 5t V purpose of making experiments. He• made i citP pre' ordinary statements. The officials connected w ere ilo iv hall attempted to extinguish the lights but .iog• the vented doing so by main force. Tha. table 113;005, ever, been at last turned over by the saln e meeting:separated amidst great confilsio the P. I!: THEUEV.DR.CummINGis not convinceu; -, 0 0:015 test applied to table-turning. Last - l e ue st l a cullir delivered. a lecture at Exeter Hag to the I the Ti t ji t i li c l. Christian Association," upon the Signs °f eugs ( is)" Table-turning and table-talking-he ranked aol r fora_ipo signs, and he said he differed from Profes s° 1, eo P ise • explanation, inasmuch as from his own Pers, ° r l c ' ' tion, he had found tables perform very ecee tt !' w esse u w aio' countable gyrations. In one ease he had ' ci ta ble, v 0c .p , 1 ‘ ,.. might be termed a conversation in t ' de ...,, a becai tu r. o answered certain questions by the usual ion to ing. The table in this case•refused to ans" P% e ‘ t ll' ler ot the, ho laughed. (A laugh.) But he was nothe the length of some writers,. who alleged teat pi 14 t l jg t igely tial operation was that of demons, or tb e c:2o o l„94: t_l wicked. In the course of his lecture , P r ' o , l id ''aere7 . l ad 1 . 01 ,11 at length upon the subject of prophe e Potodt i s• years 1793 and 1820 aa,those in whi, e ,,,"oneu' - that the downfall of Papery and JO" - be commenced. _ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1853• HORTICUIT CJ for E or fes ch tle tions of the ariaseli„„ ci a tial i t f ` p ,ii c i s i :II test .'' - or- - season, close at hand, w.- A w ill , gardener. A great enian'A a dining, tile ---0 flowers for the ballsoom an f o lioW e 't 0 and, if supply our , Previous directions have been 33 4 l AOI y conga to be equalthe d raand. . 0 ..1 to e uttine. , Is , having a good supply of flowers, is the art of c c ia b to the best '-`4. to the ~.„Lt they advantage, both with repents f t he pi'', l 4l l are, to make, and also the requirements 0 iiiiats 0 It is easy enough to gather flowers from P at i ll of covered with them, but if this be done withni o f o 0 , moat, the plant may be utterly spoiled. M ai t l he 0 1° 01 4 choicest plants, especially camelliaa and azaleas, r i $ 1) 0 rite winter flowers, produce the flowers on l e i,. 011 e ..e. stalks, and very close together,. so that where en' r och o f wanted, it is often difficult to avoid cutting two:,,/ A To avoid this, and also the unnecessary entail, i l' is I s wood, which should be left to furnish blooms for . b ie,. season, the gardener should not spare a little troula of should cut the flowers with very short stalks. e l tic ts , 0 them with fine wire to short and neatly cut $ ,1, which he should always have a supply at hand :lop means the stock of blooms may be very much CO ts ° and the plants saved from much injury. JOA O tlie SINGLE CHINESE Pux-muLA.—Fine blooming.P,,,.ll s • this primrose, that will continue in flower thre'iroliosc whole of the winter months,_ may be produced ?I be store In order to obtain strong plants, the seed shoinu ie j 5 0 5 .,4 not later than the first of May, in a well draicifoe, c pan, in a light sandy soil, and put into a cue' ''i l t°, 1 ) ::3 near the glass as possible. When large ahoyenougt!„,it pricked off into store pans the young seedling 6 ae i ..,vl;ji allowed a square inch between each plant ; ,vv,,f7013,14, space has been filled, let them be potted singY i'" - ,ift w i . „4 1 pots, and as the pots become filled with r ts $,..` 0 0 0 a size larger pot, giving them their final shift int . po st i • pots in the early part of September. Th e l l ia s /lee which I have found these plants to thrive b e st le s y equal parts turf loam and leaf-mould, and a tittle sand. While growing, a cool pit or frame S t° best; give plenty of air, and be careful not tc 0 ~ in them. Treated in this way the plants will be in j)lottg the middle of November , an d will c ontinue te 3 doily"' through the whole of winter , a nd to be seen they should be moved to the greenh —Gardener's Chronicle. 1,9 ov-a .pe r r kL gh uair tel uo. t ktid tnr, • ~~ h.. `~