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merous, important, and consequential ; but they are sup-
ported by a mass of erudition, authority, and argument,
that does indeed demand our most serious attention, and
many, in common with myself, will lament that they have
drank at the stream more freely than at the fountain."—
Lacon, C. C. Colton.
" I content myself with submitting the grand point on
which any difference of opinion on Joshua x. 12, 13, can
exist to the generality of your readers, and leave them to
determine for themselves whether it be easier to understand
a verse which states, that when Joshua commanded, in
the sight of Israel, the sun was setting on Gibeon, whilst
the moon was rising on the valley of Ajalon,' or a transla-
tion which asserts, that the same chieftain said, in the
sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou
Moon in the valley of Ajalon.' "—Yarchi.
No. 220, 230, and No. 12, New Series of " The Monthly
Repository and Review of Theology and General Litera-
ture," December, 1827.
Joshua x. 12, 13, was previously given in No. 60 of the
" Classical Journal," and promulgated in the " Liverpool
Advertiser," " Durham Chronicle," and " Norwich Mer-
cury, in 1825.
To the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Your Lordship,
In a paragraph you penned, having promulgated an ar-
dent hope that our country should be
the halcyon ground
On which holy peace be found,"

prompts us to become your auxiliaries, to give it effect and
perpetuity.
If, on the slight premises set forth, one Sovereign should
deem it expedient, for a people's welfare, here and here-
after, to act to that extent, it may now be maintained,
without fear of contradiction, that a similar proceeding is
imperative., In this our day, " our translation" is not im-
pugned (taking the various denominations from Sir Robert
Peel's eulogy of his friends) by " Unitarians," " Indepen-
dents," the " Wesleyan Methodists," or " the Roman
Catholies"*—either who sink the honour of God amidst the
offal of their hue.and-cry of " Church Service," " Church
Ministers," " Church Maintenance," " Church Rates," &c.,
or by those " whose object is no longer confined to insidious
and disguised attacks on the Church of Christ, but has
manifested itself in that open and determined hostility to it
which, in the paroxysms of their enthusiasm, they have
promised themselves will terminate in its total destruction.
* * # I feel myself justified in guar-
ding against what appears to me to be the conse-
quences, naturally, and evidently resulting from
that heterogeneous association of religious professors, for
the advancement of an object of at least questionable ex-
pediency, in the Bible being regarded as the general test-
book of authority for all opinions, as containing, if we may
so say, a sort of raw material, which every professor, in the
liberal spirit of the day, is left to work up and fashion to
his own peculiar taste ; as if by a strange transposition of
the sacred language, diversity of opinion, not " unity of
spirit," was to become "Mc bond rf pence"(a.)
" Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good
book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed
and treasured up on purposes of a life beyond life. It is
true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no
great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the
loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which who's nations
lase the worse. We should he wary therefote what perse-
cution we raise against the labours of men stored up in
h'mLs, since we see a kind of homicide may he fiats com-
roitted—sotnethnes a 111fItt:, niorn—and if it ex!end to ill,:

vhole impression, a kind of mas;aere, whereof• the exc,-,u-
tim ends not in the slayii.g of elemental life, kit strikes at
the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself ;
sh.vs an immorta4ity rather than a life. (b)
The " translation" is impugned by an erudite linguist,
ho,

" Diving out of sight,
Has brought many a precious pearl of truth to light."
4 w 11 W * W i *

" The sacred book no longer suffers wrong,
Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue."
Vide the Examiner. Sunday, Nov. 3, 1822; Aug.
23, and Sept. 2. 1827.

The priest and prince were contemporaneous. The
priest well knew that " the fiat of the Almighty" had gone
forth, that " the hnovdedgo of Him should cover the earth
tlnt waters the sea ;" and yet impiously promulgated his
nioing blast ; and without the rcoorling angel as it wrote
it, down dropt a tear upon the deed, in his verbiage upon
poor Protestants' opacity—" in hell l:e lifts his eyes."
Tho prince magnanimously gave " his countenance" and
hi, purse—he " hailed the intellectual sun before its beams
bad reached c horizon of common minds ;" neither on his
head, heart, or ;lands lay the damning sin of " a kind of
massacre, where in the execution ends not in the slaying of
an elemental I;fe, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence,
the breath of reason itself ; slays an immortality rather
than a life."

• The aspirations of her people are—that the dawning
(jubilee) and close of the reign of our youthful Queen may
be like the illustrious Elizabeth, and that she may be the
polar-star and beacon by which the " pride of our isles"
may glide safely amidst the shoals and quicksands of
Government.'

" Not only do we owe to the happy Reformation all the
domestic advantages by which we are distinguished above
other States, but it is also to the Reformation we are in-
debted for our present political consequence and territorial
grandeur," * * " Then sprung up the mighty
Elizabeth, and mingling her existence as a Sovereign with
the preservation of the true faith, lashing herself to the
mainmast of Reformation ; on that vessel she securely
rode the storm, and established the independence of her
kingdom."

There were several reviews on the new Translators' pro-
duction of the Pentateuch. Here again the munificence of
our Sovereign's truly august uncle was so conspicuous—his
gracious command for 50 copies ! and so stifled all further
opposition, that the subsequent parts published in 1825,
1831, 1834, and 1835—t0 these there has been that tacit
concurrence, that we arc justified in saying "the silence of
the Clergy has given consent."
Into your hands we commit the "talents," Matt. xxv. 20.
It will add repute to the honourable name you bear ; it may
ensure your salvation hereafter, for it is written, " No man
having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit
for:the kingdom of heaven." Luke ix. 62.
Two disputants against your administration have seve-
rally advocated the cause we have so cogently urged, and
so respectfully submitted to you. The Times, in its bril-
liant panegyric of the renowned Elizabeth, in her " preser-
vation of the true faith"—again "we call upon our consti-
tutional countrymen * * * * to bestir themselves.
We assure them that an empire is at stake :" (c) stimu-
lating your Lordship to the glorious reform of" reformation
itself." The Herald—" There are indeed among different
classes of Conservatives various shades of opinions as to
particular measures of legislation, but all agree that or-
ganic changes' ought to be resisted, and every measure of
improvement and reform framed,- with a careful view
to the preservation of the essential principles of our ancient
and unrivalled Constitution"(d). Our object is the strictest
adherence, in letter and line, to its landmarks.
We have the pleasure of bringing under your perusal a
paragraph which might mingle with the most splendid ora-
tions of antiquity, and which we hope will be recognised
with satisfaction :—" May the diffusion of knowledge, the
increase of religion and morality, and the augmented hap-
piness of the people, make the present reign more glorious
than triumphs in the field have rendered those that preceded
it, and peace have her victories no less renowned than
war "t
We have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's
Most obedient humble servants,
CONSTITUTIONALISTS.

(a) The late Archdeacon Daubeny's Discourses.
(b) Areopagitica ; Milton.
(c) The Times, October, 25, and Wednesday, Sep.
tember 27, 1837.
(d) The Morning Herald, Monday, Sept. 18, 1837.
" Or Seceders, Lollards, Lutherans, Mountainists, Cal-
vinists, Baptists, Re-Baptists, General Baptists, Particular
Baptists, Anabaptists, Revivalist Baptists, Methodists, Wes-
leyan Methodists, Calvinistic Methodists, Arminian Metho-
dists, Primitive Methodists, Pilgrim Methodists, Shouting
New
Connection Moderate Methodists, Revival Methodists,
Connection Methodists." As their acute consciences kept
them Dissenters from our Church, either from " Church Ser-
vice," or " Church Maintenance," it was reasonably to be
expected from them that they would have gladly embraced
what tended to " remove from their eyes the film of earthly
dross." and not have given from their desks what was regu-
lated by the niceties of grammatical construction, and the real
vernacular accent, to enlighten their hearers in Hebrew
verity, and not to be found among Southcotians, Ranters,
Seekers, Sliders, Swadlers, Tumblers, Jerkers, Jumpers,
Dunkers, Sunkers, Shouters, and Shakers.
The addresses presented by the various religious denomina-
tions to whom a youthful Queen are specially confronted in
their decency, decorum, and sincerity, by that inestimable le-
gacy left her family; an act such " as never shall be for-
gotten by any revolution of time that this world bath to
finish"—it was his own ; those who follow in the track it is but
their deep indelible gratitude :-
--" It stands eternized till the fire
To come in which all empires shall expire."
We feel ourselves so ennobled by having imbibed one spark
of kindred fire with immortal mind, we cannot reconcile our-
selves, like an Irish itinerant orator, with wordy feuds to cater
to mobs and democracy.
t Lord John Russell's Address to the Electors of the Bo-
rough of Stroud.

Longman, Sherwood, Neely, and Co., London.

-Lord Robert Grosvenor, who is still travci!ing in
G.armany fur the improvement of his health, which is still
in a delicate state, will take possession of his new mansion
in Park-lane on his return to England.