The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

and comprises, among other information, a Street Directory, a '
Commercial Directory, a Directory for Law, Trades, and the
Court (including the nobility, gentry, and others not engaged
in trade. or commerce), for Members of Parliament, the City
(including the public ftmctionaries, Common Councilmen,
&c.); and gives, as might be expected, the most ample infor-
mation relative to the Post-Office. It cannot be necessary to
state in detail,' says the compiler, all the improvements effected
in the present edition. Every division of the book, and every
page, contains much that cannot be found in any other book
for the year 1541. Every particle of the immense amount of
information contained in the following pages has ueen collected
during the latter part of the month of November, and very
much even in the present month. In the City Directory the
list of Common Council is that of the members elected on the
21st of the present month. In any other Directory for 1841,
the list published will, on examination, be found to be the list
of those elected on December 21st, 1839, for the year ending
on the 21st of December, 1840. And so it is in every other
division of the book. Did space admit, thousands of instances
could be adduced in which the information is furnished a year
earlier than in any other Annual Work.' We have looked
over this Directory with some care ; and, as far as we can
judge, it appears to be the most copious and correct work of
the kind hitherto published. Altogether, we can safely recom-
mend it as a Directory eecially adapted for all classes, and
country as well es town."—Sun, Jan. 8.
" This handsome volume reflects the highest credit on the
enterprise and activity of the Proprietors. Each year some
improvement is effected which tends to add considerably to its
usefulness and value. In addition to its former contents, we
have this year a Directory for the Court, and another for each
street, so that it may now be considered as complete and as
serviceable for reference as it is possible such a work can be
rendered. It has another recommendat ion, in having been cor-
rected up to the last week in the past ysax—an instance of des-
patch almost unprecedented, and only to have been per'ormed
by the excellence of the arrangements, and the rapidity with
which copies were thrown off by the Proprietor's steam-presses.
The Work is, in every respect, superior to any " Directory"
ever yet isSued in the metropolis, and is indispensable to every
person engaged in trade in London or its vicinitT,—Britannia,
Jan. 16. ..„
" The work contains ten distinct Directories ; the first of
which, the Street Directory, may be taken as a fair sample of
the entire book, and of its immense superiority over all others.
Previous Street Guides' have excluded the nobility and gen-
try or the tradespeople—curious Street Guides ! This includes
all, and is, therefore, a Street Directory'—the only one yet
in existence—of the Metropolis; it, besides, exhibits the inter-
section of the streets by each other—valuable information in
long thoroughfares. Then follows the Commercial Direc-
tory.' Next the ' Trades Directory'—a most elaborate com-
pilation, occu:"ing 248 pages of small print, in treble columns.
The Court I,rectory' appears much the same as other works
on the subjec', unless that it is, perhaps, fuller. The ' Parlia-
mentary Dire. tory' gives the idea of having been compiled
expressly with the view of distancing competition. The City
Directory' comes next, and is followed by the Post Office in-
formation, so given that any one requiring accurate and precise
information on the subject must refer to it. The Con-
veyance Directory' in which is the railway matter, some of
which is as recent as any that has yet appeared in our columns.
The Banking Directory' :concludes a volume which
may be fairly considered a model of compilation, and is a
high credit to the establishment from which it emanates. We
find one fault with this work—its title—which is, indeed, no
index to its voluminous contents, but rather gives an idea of a
common Londr n Directory, than which nothing can be more
different. The Post-office Directory in its Parliamentary in-
formation, in that relating to Government Offices, Ambassa-
dors and Consuls in the Country Towns, in its Provincial News-
paper table, in its Post-office Regulations, Routes of Mails,
Railway Mails, and Cross-road Mails, Railway and Steam-
packet intelligence, and the Conveyance Directory generally,
in its Banking Intelligence, and copious details on the subject
of Fire and Lite Assurance, contains information nearly as de-
sirable to Provincial as to Metropolitan residents, and should
certainly bear a title more indicative of its contents than that of
Post-office London Directory for 1841.—Railway Magazine,
Jan. 16.
This is a most comprehensive and extremely useful volume,
and the best of its kind that has yet been published. It con-
tains not only the addresses of the merchants and traders
throughout the metropolis, but those also of the resident house-
holders unconnected with trade or commerce, and is corrected
up to the latest possible date, consistent with its publication at
the opening of the year. Many variations from the plans of
previous Street Guides have been a !opted ; one of which, and
a most useul one, is the strictly alphabetical arrangement of
the names of persons having offices in one house, which we
have ourselves tested, and found quite accurate. The method
of showing where streets are intersected by others has also
been adopted, and the result adds much to the clearness and
perspicuity of arrangement of the work. In conclusion we may
observe, that the exertions which have been made to render
this Directory worthy of its circulation—upwards of nine thou-
sand in the course of the present year—deserve the support it
has met with, and we can safely recommend it to the public."—
Morning Herald, Jan. 12.
This useful and laborious work is now before us; it is a
Street, Commercial, Trade, Law, Parliamentary, Court, City,
Banking, and Conveyance Directory. This Directory differs
from its precursors, inasmuch as Gentry as well as Traders are
included. The Marquis of Waterford's domicile is set down as
plainly as John Smith's, the tinman's. The information under
the head of " Post Office" is of great utility, 'including the
latest regulations ; the postage of letters to and from France,
Central Germany, Sardinia, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, lac.,
is accurately stated. The Conveyance Directory gives accurate
information as to Railways, Coaches, Waggons, Vessels, &c.
Respecting town and country banking-houses, Assurance-
offices, aid Public Companies, there is full and valuable in-
formations --The arrangement of the Peerege la-excellent. In
the Parliamentary list the recent changes are carefully noted.
The list of the Law and Public Offices, with the hours of busi-
ness at each, is, we think, a novel feature. 't be list of places
for registration of births, deaths, and marriages ; of law, parlia-
mentary, and patent agents ; of translators and short-hand
writer's, are, obviously, of high utility. Into a work like the
Post Office Directory errors will creep ; but, as far as we have
been enabled to glance through it, they appear to be few, and
we may safely pronounce the present production as far surpass-
ing anything of the sort that has hitherto been attempted.—
Sunday Times, Jan. 17.
Ws,* It has been by interested parties falsely stated that the
Post Office Directory is out of print ; such is not the case ; it is
still to bo had at 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, and of all
Booksellers.

NEW TRANSLATION OF TILL
BIBLE.
Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir B.
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to
grant any further sums of public money towards Church Ex-
tension, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into
consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al-
ready possessed by the Established Church of England and
Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have
been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809.
" That her Alajesty will be graciously pleased to consider
that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England.
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are
amply sufficient to provide religious worship and instruction
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the
Established Church of this kingdom."—The Sun, No. 14,833,
Friday, May 22, 1840.
" We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' published by
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii., v. 22, is a gross mistransla-
tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis-
translated passages, which give meanings in dii ect opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
To CORREIYONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of
the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,

1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; or
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is po,sible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."—.
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837.
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, as Regent.
" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the
three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions."
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
By John Bellamy.
SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 Thou
shalt truly titke all the increase of thy seed."
" It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, 1 o
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of ex-
istence of such conveyance." On Tithes.—Quarterly Review,

No. 53.
New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at the period when the Hebrew Has a
national language, thus translates the clause—Cnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the
Hebrew. The Septuagint 6EstanY aIIIoEX.CCM.:TEI (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) "a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned Selden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on
tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number
of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the seed ; as it is truly said
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have
been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross
produce; otherwise it could not have been said it was the "in-
crease of the seed."
.6 When the harvest bad been ended, and all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themma, otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floore, of which it hath beene
spoken in chapter on first fruits; which, though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received,
yet it was but one of a hundred in respect of the husbandman's
stocke, who payed the Levites ; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests ; this they termed Magnasher min-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x. 38. The Pharisees
would pay a tenth, Mat. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they
boasted, They gave tithes of all that they possessed, Luke
or,
into ac-
cording
xviii. I2."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient
Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, B. D. 1634.
ThetCo oouonferisl,ofinC7aBl7c,uiotnh,acocrouCnat of e
lchiter,eheetling din 785,Lichfield
an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been
corvened ju t before in Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in th it letter to the Pope, that they were the first that
had been ser.t into England wi'h that character. The follow-
ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuith:-Bth. The ancient
privileies of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The