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ice see pleased to find the Berrien Carrie edam] to
the list of Quarterly/ Reviews. The motives which have
hd the conductors to adopt this plan of publiadion
issnotc fail to be warranted by the result. It was to he
wetted that a work which has for its oldect so Inspire
the popular mind with an attachment to the true Protestant
astsied religion, the priciples of which uphold at once
the !lurch and the State, should not long ere this have
changed the plan of monthly publication, atteaded—as it
could not faille have beet —by evils inseparable from it.
It is not poss but that the most valuable works would
be those to which it was least in then power to do justice.
Those who arc accustomed td the ink of reviewing, well
know that the conseqnences which lurk within even a sin-
gle fibs principle cannot be effectively developed without
considerable pains ;
it ii_utair towards au author to pan
sentence upon a work which has cost him years of labour, '
with such a slight and hasty examination of the evidence
as to a monthly critic is Unavoidable,. Tie cannot, if he
would, discharge his duty comscientiously. He can neither
do justice to his own talents, Nos to those of his author.
Ile must pass rapidly over topics which require to be
gravely handled, and must dismiss, with slight- notice,
works to which his attention is sharpened, not by the mag-
nitude of the subject, but by the necessity of being pre-
pared for the first of the intend) ; a necessity which leaves
Ito time for intelleetnal efforts, anti to which all the
dims of critical justice must be subordinate. It is---
"to remedy these evils, to 'bestow upon the works
smiler review greater space, where it is required, Anil in all
cases more time for mature deliberation and inquiry ; to
meet the growth of literary taste in the public mind with
increasing meats and exertiosts ; in Klein, to render their
Iteriew more efficacions, interesting, and comprehensive ;
and thus give to the principles they advocate, that place
sad prominence in public opinion, which they so eminently
merit:-much is the end which the Editore .of the Bei GA
(*Mir contemplate in the alteratien they are about to
make."
The Editors hate dose tritely. The progresi of know-
le Ise in society must be met by adequate exertion ; the ro-
bust state of intelleet mint be fed with aliment suited to
is condition. They hose given sufficient proof of their
ability to supply this dernenil in the articles which one.
hellis what may be considered the specimen number of
their new series.
It is refreshing to observe the Improved tone of liberality
in which theological controvessy is conducted of late years.
We regard this as among the strongest proofs of our ad-
toncement in moral as well as mental science. In the
article, for instance, in the present number, which has
maidenly been drawn up at a great expense of thought
and investigation—we allude to the " View of the Roman
Catholic Doctrinee—a restful 'subject to totrch upon—
the writer, t .I.b he is never deficient in earnestness,
betrays no unusoing zeal. Ile conducts his arguments
with great skill, but without the least asperity ; he reasons
ably, and with a conclusiveness that arises entitely from
his being master of the gubject. His refutation or Dr.
Dot La is complele; and the.thne of clissimal and gentle-
manly feeling in which it is conveyed makes it doubly im-
prenive. In proof of this, we will extract what is said
nyder the head of " Faith with Heretics.-
" It is so Ni' from our intention to write any thing
which may tend to irritate, that we would willingly
hare avoided the present topic, and have admitted with-
oat reluctance that the French and English Romanists
of the present day do not hold the principle that 'faith
t' sot Cu be kert with heretics.' But when we are
rid:en:red to produce .ray authentic documents of the
church of Rome, in proof of tit.' opieion ewer having been
maintained ; when Dr. Doi is, with unparalleled boldness,
tejies the idea with indignation, and dictum that it is a 1
tenet ' too blasphemous to be contemplated,' it becomes
necesaty to say something, lest we should seem to submit
too humbly, and too consciously, to this twofold imputa-
tion of ignorance and calumny.
" Of the light, then, in which heretics arc to be regard-
ed, we may form a nigicient judgment from the following
your, which Dr. Pllll.l.Porrs has qUotisl frt m the
Ca-
tecaun or Taman., translated (as he observes in a note)
int) English, by permission, Dublin, 1916. • Heretics
and schismatics do not belong to the Church, any move
than vagabonds or renegadoes belong to an army from
which they ran away. Yet it is not to be denied, but that
they are in the power if the church, as those who tray be
judged by her, and condemned with an anathema.' There
ran be no question, then, that the ancient principle of the
Romish Church, ' (Insole herelicms cat rxrontrunniculits,'
is rill retained by the Roman Catholics of !Retests."
After proceeding to show most fully that the principle
that " faith is not to be kept with heretics" was among the
known and received doctrines of the Church of Rome, and
after instancing its practical application in the ease of
Jolts Huss, having done all that wag necessary in support
of the assertion which Dr. Doyle so sweepingly repels, the
artiole thus concludes:—

" In what Wecaresaid on this part of our subject, we
Five not the most remote intention of bringing any insinu-
ation against the Roman Catholics of France, England, or
Ireland. %Vc acquit them of all such principleswe re-
peat that every word that we have written, has been written
in oar own defence--aoti for the purpose of showing, that
charges of this kind are nut to be whistled away as horrible
imputations, as Prot,stagt calumnies, or to he treated as
doctrines which see, r prevailed in the court of Rome. We
do not assert that they were cyst, Articles of Faith: nor,
is say the truth, do we tare whether they were or not : it
Tpent to us to signify very little, if a person be committed
the flames, whether he is burned on an article of faith or
a priicipic of 1 iw.
" There are many other topics on which we should have
wished to speak; but, for the present, we must be silent ;
and we hope that we have kept the pledge which we gave
at the beginning of this article, of refraining from all die-
courteous expressions, anti from every thing that might
tend to czcite any feeling of irritation. We have explained,
with what clearness we could, some of the leadmg tenets of
the Roman Catholics, anti have assigned our reasons fur
rejecting th.ts.—r...it we have brought no charge against
throe individuals ot this empire, who adhere to their an-
cient faith ; we have not willingly imputed to them any
tenets they disclaim, or accused them, in arty way, of insin-
cerity, diihonesty, or disguise. Our full belief is, that the
Raritan Catholics sf the United Kingt.om, from their long
resirleace among Protestants, their ittsuse of processions
and other Rornish ceremonies, have been brought gradual-
ly, anti almost unknowingly, to a more spiritual religion
lad a parer faith—that they themselves see with sorrow
the disgraceful tenets and principles that were professisi
and carried into practice by their forefathers—anti are too
hod of removing this disgrat from them by denying the
former existence of these tenets, and ascribing the impute--
non of them to the calumnies of the Protestants. This We
count allow; and while we cherish the hope that they are
flaw gone for ever, we still amert boldly anti fearlessly that
they did once exist.

lint, while we allow a great degree of impnivemeni. to
lire taken place both in the principles and practices of the
ltotnanists, there is still enough, and more than enough,
l ft in the doctrines of that religion as they are acknow-
Ilged and professed to contirm every Acclaratio.. ,t
than which is contained in the Articlt s of the Church of
Znflimil—and to those declarations wa ndhcre firmly and
without restriction, iialificitictl: cr

PEACE BETWEEN SARDINIA AND TRIPOLI.

The following important lettet was reeeived ytisterday.at
Lloyd's from their agent at Genoa, dated October 10 :
His Sanlinian 1110esty't ship, the Commerce of Genoa, torn-
' mended by Commodore Sevori, arrived in this port yesterday ramm-
ing, from Tripoli in the 11-cat, with news that the differences exist-
ing bettreen the King of Sardinia and that Regency had been
settled ins satiafaciory manner fm theforiner, although not with-
out hoof ng been obliged in have reomirse
The following is a statement of what is currently re-
ported to have taken place on thisoccasiuk Without answer-
ing, however for its correctness, se nothing official bag yet
been published on the **fleet :
' it is said the Sardinian squadron, consisting of the ships
as per note at foot, on arrival off Tripoli, sent a message to
the Bashal, informing him they had come to land the
Consul ; that the Bashaw returned an answer, refusing to
receive hint, unless certain sumo he claimed under various
pretences were paid to him: on which it seems the Sardi-
nian Commodore sent on shore his ultimatum, intimating
that unless the Consul was accepted without any payment,
he must proceed to hostilities, and gave the Bashaw three
days time to reflect on the matter ; that on the third day
an answer came train the Bashaw, saying that he persisted
in his resolution, on which Commodore Sevori made a
signal to attack the place, which, owing to the abash; and
shallow water,. was chiefly performed by the brig Nerelie
and the armed launches, skiff's, and boats of the fleet,
which kept a brisk fire on the castle and forts of the place.
It is added the boats boarded, took and burnt three of the
liashaw's et o'sers, which were laying in the port ready
for sea, landed a body of men in the dock, and set fire to
a Prig on the stocks, which was partly burnt ; that after
this :le Bashes, sent the British Consul off to the Commo-
dore with a curie blaz4e to make up matters on the beat
conditions he could ; in consequence of which hostilities
ceased, the Consul was received, and the former treaties
were solemnly ratified. It is farther reported, the said
ship lost one man killed and hid several wounded en board
in the action. lVe have not been able to learn what losses
in men the other ships have sustained.
NOTE—Ships Coramirace, of Genoa. GO guns ; Christina, 44
guns.; Triton, 28 guns ; brig Nereide, 14 guns ; and three trans-
port-origs.

THE CHURCH.

On Monday die 17th inst. the Rev. Robert Jeffe►son,
P.D. Fellow of Sian.), Susses College, Cambridge, was
instituted, by the Archbishop of York, to the. rectory of
South Kilvington-cum-Cpsal and Thornborough, in the
North Riding of that county, on the presentation of the
Master and Fr!lows of the abovementioned Society.
The Rev. W. Moore, M.A. of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, perpetual curate of Spalding, Lincolnshire, has
been appointed a surrogate for the diocese of Lincoln.
The King has granted permission to the Rev. Charles
Barnwell Herring, eldest son of John Herring, Esq. to
take the surname of Barnwell only, and to bear the arms
of Barnwell, agreeably -to the will of his maternal great
uncle, the late Rev. \V. Barnwell.

The Bev. Charles Barnwell Barnwell was last week in-
stituted to the rectory of Mileharn, Norfolk, on his own
pr. e.,ta•iou.

UNIVERSITY INTRI.LIGENCE.

CAMBRIDOZ, FRIDAY, OCT. 28.
The King's Professor of Civil Law will begin his Course
of Lectures in Civil Law on Tuesday the Sth day of No-
vember.

The Rev. James Scholarld, M.A. Fellow of Trinity
College, was on Saturday lest elected Regius Profennor of
Greek in this University, in the room of the late Rev. P.
P. Dobree, M.A.
At a congregation on Wednesday last the following de-
grees were conferred :-
11Inveras or ARTS—ReT. John We,. Oleodal), Fellow of
Catharine 11511; Rev. Thorns. Grills, Trinity College (Com-
pounder); Rev. B.ejamin Guest, Trinity College; Rev. nacos
Beaumont, Jestrt College (Compounder).
BACHELOR IN PHYSlC—Clerlea Poole, Caen College
BACHELORS Or ARTS—Richard Osseoyne, Queen Collage
(CarepOWHICT): Jolts Aisne', Queen's College.
The Vice-Chaticellot has issued the following notice:—
" All persons in slat IL popillari are hereby required to take
notice, that, according to an e:sisting reWation of the
University, they are at 01 times ie rupee ih the proper
academical dent. And the Via-Chancellor desires that
this regulation be strictly attended to."
LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INVELLIGEVCE.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. OCT.
There has been a very good demand for Cotton this
week, at steady prices, and principally by the trade.
The sales of China and Persia silk this day have only
been partly got through, at from Pei. 6d. to 17s. 6d. The
remainder ar> to be sold to-morrow.