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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The Hon. and Rev. John Gifford, M.A., to the Rectory of Wed
worthy, near Honiton, Devonshire.
The Rev. John Symonds, 8.A., to the Incumbency of. Baldin,
near Truro.

The Rev. Maurice Farrell, M.A., to the Rectory of Woughton.
on•the-Green, near Fenny Stratford.
The Rev. John Atkyna, M.A., to the Vicarage of Omberaley,
near Droitwich. _

The Rev. John Mazon Luken, MA., /to the Rectory of Guest-
ling. Sussex.
The Rev John Morley Lee, M.A., to the Rectory of Botley,
near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.
The Rev. T. Sheard, M.A., to be a Chaplain at Mossel Bay,
Cape Town.
The Rev. Matthew A. Pierpoint, M.A., to the Curacy of
Trinity Church, Chelsea.
The Rev. T. Rawlinson, BA., to the Curacy of St. Matthias
Church, Stoke Newington.
The Rev. J. M. Glubb, M.A., to be a Rural Dean for the
diocese of Chichester.

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WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 10.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Regimental-Corporal
Major Edwin Hayward to be Cornet, without purchase.
2nd Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant J. H. King to be
Paymaster.
4th Dragoon Guards—Thomas Clark Gillespie, Gent., to
be Cornet, without purchase.
13th Light Dragoons—Cornet T. P. Gratrex to be
Cornet, without purchase.
17th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. 1). N. Lowe to be
Lieutenant.

Ist Regiment of Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase
—James William Bowen Thomas, Gent.; Thomas Henry
Townahend, Gent.

3rd Foot—Richard Evans Sleeman, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
4th Foot—William Fagan, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase.
6th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—John
Segrave, Gent. ; George Hunt, Gent.
11th Foot—Lieutenant M. L. M'Causland, to be Lieu-
tenant.

12th Foot—David Garrick Protheroe, Gent, to ;he En-
sign, without purchase.
16th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Richard
Calvert Healy, Gent.; William Charles Wulseley, Gent.
20th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Waugh to
be Captain.
245th Foot—Captain A. C. Pretyman to be Captain.
30th Foot—Lieutenant F. J. Connell to be Lieutenant,
without purchase.
36th Foot—William C. Hill, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
39th Foot—Major R. Newport Tinley to be Lieutenant.
Colonel, without purchase ; Ensign E. V. Arbuckle to be
Lieutenant, without purchase.
40th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Richard
Armstrong, Gent.; George Hobbs, Gent.; Francis W.
Osborne, Gent.
43rd Foot—Captain Edmund Hayter Bingham to be
Captain; Lieutenant Hon. L. W. Mlles to be Captain.
48th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—John
Rawlins, Gent. ; George Granado Graham Foster Pigott,
Gent.

51st Foot—Captain Hon. D. Erskine to be Major,
without purchase ; Lieutenant W. L. F. Sheaffe to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Ensigns without purchase
—Charles Leslie Hamilton, Gent.; William Charles Edward
Scott, Gent.
68th Foot— John Augustus Tighe, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
60th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Charles
James Philippe, Gent. ; George Ffrench Stehelin, Gent. ;
Edward Cockburn Allen, Gent. ; James Farrell Hogg,
Gent. ; Burnett Bell Forsyth, Gent
63rd Foot—To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
signs C. C. Pye and A. Grey. William Gordon, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase.
71st Foot—Ensign Le Marchant James Carey to be En-
sign, without purchase.
74th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant• Colonel John Irnpett to
be Captain ; Lieutenant J. T. Evans to be Lieutenant.
79th Foot—James Dixon Mackenzie, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase.
92nd Font—Lieutenant W. A. Swift to be Lieutenant.

93rd Foot—Ensign G. C. Gooch to be Ensign, without
purchase.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Anthony Taintsll
to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants,
without purchase—Ensigns C. G. Anderson, G. A. Robert-
son, and J. K. S. Henderson. •

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48th Foot—Ensign Henry James William Wilkinson
to be Ensign, without purchase.
57th Foot—Ensign Thomas H. Traggett, to be Ensign
without purchase.
68th Foot—Lieut. H. L. Edwards to be Captain.
77th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase.—En.
signs W. S. Lefeuver and J. G. Skene.

Stith Foot—Robert Freke to be Ensign,
without purchase.
90th Foot—Henry Carver Treacher, Gent., to be
En sign.
97th Foot—Ensign R. T. F. Hamilton to be Lieutenant,
without purchase.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant T. Clark to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensigns H. R. Sykes and W. W. W.
Johnston.

&It:VET.

Major-General Henry John William Bentinck to have
the local rank of Lieut.-General in Turkey.
To be Majors in the East Indies—Captains Edw. John
Lake and Charles Herbert.

STAFF.

To be Paymasters of Provisional Depot Battalions—
Paymaster Edward George Cubitt, and Julius Henry
Stirke, Esq.

UNArfACIIED.

Lieutenant W. G. Sutton to be Captain, without
purchase.
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110 SPIT AL STAFF.
Surgeon Duncan M`Pherson, M.D., about to ho em•
ployed with the Turkish Contingent Force, to have the
local rank in Turkey of Inspector•Gencral of Hospitals
while so employed.
To be Acting Assistant•Surgeons—Christopher Thomp-
son, M. 8., Thomas Henry Burton Crosse, Gent., and
David Bridges, Gent.

Re gals

ADMIRALTY, Aran. 7-11.
♦PPOINTMENTB.

Commander—V. G. Hinkley to the Childers.
Lieutenants—W. F. Johnson to the Orion ; Mark 12.
Pechell to the Exmouth.

Masters--J. R. Fittock to the Fisgard; James Milton
to the Childers.
Acting Second Masters—J. Reeves to the Ajax ; E. Col-
burne to the Hawke ; H. J. R. Pearch to the Russell.

Chaplain—Rev. J. Caweton to the Centaur.
Surgeons—J. Jeffcott to the Childers, and W. M'Dermott
to the Waterloo.

Assistant•Surgeons—Randall M`Donnell to the Light-
ning ; Alexander Fisher, M.D., to the Neptune.
Paymaster—J. H. Jackson to the Childers,and S. Fisher
to the Duke of Wellington.
Assistant-Paymaster—G. W. Welch to the Wellesley.
Clerk—C. K. Foulkes to the Chillers.
Clerks' Assistants—J.R.Horniman to the Impregnable,
and N. B. Denny. to the Lightning.
Temporary Clerks—W. E. Gardner and F. Fesenmoyer
to the Duke of Wellington.

PROMOTIONS.

Commander—John liurlase to be Captain, and appointed
to the Melampus.
Second Masters—G. A. Stabb, J. P. C. Clements, H. W.
Inglis, and H. P. Ward, to the rank of Masters.
Assistant•Surgeons—H. M. Speer, A. Brown, and
C. L. Lester to be Surgeons.
Second Master—G. S. Aldrieks to be Master.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, April 10.

THE PRESS.

much or any affinity to intellectual belief.
Faith, in the scriptural sense, is surely not
what it is here represented, the result of a
sifting of evidence and weighing of authorities,
but of a sudden illumination which neither
reasons nor doubts, but without a moment's
pause or any kind of question—accepts. And
though we readily admit that the days of
miracle are past, and that we are not entitled
to expect the same instant obedience which,
as in the case of Peter and Andrew, succeeded
the command, " Follow me ; " that we are
not entitled to reason of the present age by
the facts of that time when our Lord trod the
earth, when miracles followed his words, and
his disciples, sustained by supernatural suc-
cour, took no thought of what they should say
or what they should do, but acted under the
immediate influence of inspiration ; yet we
still think that the highest, the purest, the
most favoured faith is that which does not
know what doubt is, which trusts absolutely
and implicitly in the promises revealed with-
out scrutiny of their evidences, and which is
eminently confiding and trustful, reposing on
God as a pillow by night, and in his presence
as a guardian spirit by day. The Laureate,
Mr. Tennyson, has doubtless expressed the
conviction of many minds in his maxim :

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, that in half the creeds.
But this can only be true when creeds are
accepted as mere formulie, not when heart and
mind, through obedience and love which have
never faltered, are brought into complete sub-
jection to God's will. We are satisfied that
faith, in the scriptural meaning, does not re-
quire that " prior intellectual process, the con-
" viction of the understanding by force of
" proof " (p. 92), on which Dr. Jackson lays so
much stress, nor do we think it wise to attempt
to define at what stage of thought, or on what
faculties of the mind, the agency of the Spirit
may be expected to operate. That " faith is the
" evidence of things not seen " we take to be as
true of the perceptions of the intellect as of
visual sight.
A similar tone, or one more inclining to
utilitarianism, pervades the sermon on " The
Character and Blessing of the Predestinate."
Dr. Jackson hardly appears to be aware of the
difficult ground he is treading here, and he
seems to place too much confidence in his in-
tellectual power to fathom mysteries which to
man on earth must for ever remain unfathom-
able. " Your final destiny," he says, "inscribed
" in the page of God's foreknowledge is visible
"to him alone " (75). But he essays to show
that predestination is, on either alternative
which may be taken, a profitable doctrine.
He reasons :

The called according to His purpose are they who love
Him. Do you then love Him ? . . . If so, what mat-
ters it whether you can reconcile metaphysically the pre-
destination of God with the free will of man? You have
chosen the good part ; and He has predestinated, called,
justified, sanctified you. You have His seal and are His,
and what shall separate you from Him? . . .
But if not—if the heart, interrogated sincerely, gives
an unwilling and unwelcome reply—what . . shall we
say ? Certainly, that you have no evidence that you are
" the called according to God's purpose ;" that you are
under God's condemnation, and in a state of extreme danger.
But as certainly that the present is yours to repent and
seek salvation; that the offers and promises of God are
made to you; that now He is waiting to be gracious.
This is one mode of stating the case, though
the logic of the latter part of this extract
seems to contradict that of the former part,
for there would seem as much reason for
despair in one case as for security in the other.
But there is obviously another way of looking
at the effects of the doctrine.
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If you are truly Christian, of what service
can the doctrine of predestination be to you,
except to inflate you with spiritual pride, and
to assure you that your salvation is secure, no
matter what errors you may fall into? if you
have no such assurance, yet receive the doc-
trine, the motive to repentance and amend-
ment is lost through the sense of the un•
changeableness of the decree. In the one
case the mind is likely to be filled with the
frenzy of exaltation—in the other with the
frenzy of despair. And we believe that no
concessions which Dr. Jackson can make to
the rationalism of the age—to gifts of grace
and assurances of faith through " prior intel-
" lectual processes"—will materially alter this
view.

SATURDAY,

We have touched on this subject with reluc•
tance, but it is from a sincere conviction that
there are scriptural subjects and doctrines
which are wholly beyond the province of
reason, and can be received by faith—humble,
confiding, childlike faith—alone, the faith
which Tertullian indicated by his celebrated
Credo, quid impossibue est. Dr. Jackson can
scarcely be ignorant of what the great masters
of thought have written on this subject. But
the following weighty sentences of Locke,
from one of his letters to Molyneux, might
well operate to prevent speculations on a
point which never can be satisfactorily
settled :

I own freely to yon the weakness of my understanding
that though it be unquestionable that there is omnipotence
and omniscience in God our maker, yet I cannot make
freedom in man consistent with omnipotence and om-
niscience in God, though 1 am as fully persuaded of both
as of any truths I most firmly assent to ; and therefore
I have lung left off the consideration of that question, resolv-
ing all into this short conclusion—that if it be possible
for God to make a free agent, then man is free, though I
see not the way of it.

With all respect for Dr. Jackson's attain-
ments, we think he need not feel ashamed to
cease at that point of reasoning which
Locke declared himself unable to carry
further.

Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy,
the Unity of Worlds, and the Philosophy of
Creation. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A.
London : Longmans.
SINCE writing the above notice of Bishop
Jackson's sermons, a volume of essays by
Professor Powell has reached us, which tend
to the illustration of Bishop Jackson's views,
and indicate probably to somo extent the
school of theology now coming into vogue.
Professor Powell in these three essays en-
deavours to establish a distinction between
physical and spiritual truth. The Bible is to be
taken as a guide upon the latter only. In the
mind of man we may look for direct manifes-
tations of God's will and power, but in the
physical universe we must expect to see only
a chain of effects reaching back into "the un-
fathomable depths of time," and proceeding
from recondite causes. The following passages
fairly exhibit the Professor's views on what are
termed the "physical difficulties " of Scrip-
ture :
Even at the present day there are not wanting occasional
attempts to keep up the hopeless chimera of erecting
theories of geology on the Mosaic narrative. It is need-
less to observe that, as all notion of an accommodation of
the facts of the text has long since been given up by all
sane inquirers, these attempts are now merely directed to
explaining away the sense of the text; in which they no
doubt succeed by such principles of verbal interpretation
as, if fairly applied to other parts, would readily enable us to
put on any given passage any required construction.
AU inquirers, possessing at once a sound knowledge of
geology, and capable of perceiving the undeniable sense of
a plain circumstantial narrative, now acknowledge that the
whole tenor of geology is in entire contradiction to the
cosmogony delivered from Sinai ; a contradiction which no
philological refinements can remove or diminish; a case
which no detailed interpretations can meet, and which can
only be dealt with as a whole.
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Whenever the sacred writers introduce physical state-
ments, they may fairly be understood as speaking conform-
ably to the existing state of knowledge, or adapting
themselves to the ideas, belief, and capacities of those they
addressed. In any such cases it would be irrational for
us at the present day to insist too literally on such repre-
sentations, and especially to reason on them in cases
where we are precluded from examining into all the cir-
cumstances, or canvassing the evidence. But if, after all,
in any instance the letter of the narrative or form of ex-
pression may he found irreconcileably at variance with
physical truth—without trenching on the integrity of the
text, or of the testimony—we may allow the alternative of
understanding them in a figurative or poetical sense.
The idea in the latter passage is not new.
It has been put forward in various shapes by
the greatest divines. Thus Bossuet, in
speaking of the creation of man, and of God's
breathing into his nostrils the breath of life,
says :
The soul of man, created in the image of God, and
capable of happiness in possessing it, had to be produced
by a new creation—it was to come from on high, and this
is what we are to understand by the breath of life which
came from the mouth of God. We must remember that
Moses set forth to carnal men pure and spiritual truths by
physical images.
We do not think, however, that any divine
has ever stated so broadly as Professor
Powell has done in the following passage what
is termed the " palpable contradiction " be-

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