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London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

it may concern, what it is that is going on, anl they
must shape their course upon the knowledge.
On Friday various Clauses tending to make more
stringent the provibions of the Ecclesiastic:,) Titles A--
sumption Bill were negatived by large Insierities. On
the Memher for Abit7gdon proposing his idtuouchnult,
steed of the words " by h, certain Brit f, RAmeript," to
insert the warcls "by certain Briefs, Reseripts," the
Irish Cat
holic Members rose in a body and left the
House. When the Prime Minister came to reply, he
with excellent generalship
declared, that since the re-
presentatives who might be suppoed mosi: interested had
ostentatiously si3.aiiied their refusal to oppose, he
would without further comment leave the question to
the docision of the Hesse; whereupon the House decided
for the alterations by majorities of 135 to 100, and 165
to 109.

It is to be regretted that the proceedings of the House
are not given with more of precision in what are called
the " Votes." The words there found are only " Other
Amendments made; Bill to be read 3° oo Friday next;
to bo printed, as amended." {No. 451.]
Now is it to be unceremoniously gathered from this,
or from the hasty and imperfect impression on a hearer
either on the benches or in the gallery, that Mr. Thesi-
ger's " Other amendments" wero made without debate,
and inserted in the Bit(? Because if they were, then on
reference to the Notices of Motion they will be fcand
to contain more matter than any other alteration made
on the Bill, and were as follows:

Clause 2, page 2, line 25, after the word "Act," in-
sert the woros "any person shall obtain or cause to be
procured from the Bishop or See of Rome, or shall pub-
lish or put in use within any part of the United King-
dom, any such Ball, Brief, Rescript, or Letters Apos-
tolical, or any other instrument or writing for the pur-
pose of constituting such Archbishops or Bishops of
such pretended Provinces, Sees, or Dioceses, within the
United Kingdom; or if."
Clause 2, page 2, line 39, after the word " thereof,"
to add the words "or by action of debt at the suit of
any person in one of her Majesty's superior courts of
law, with the consent of her Majesty's Attorney-General
in England and Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate in
Scotland, as the case may be."
If, as is believed to be the fact, these clauses were in-
serted in the Bill with the scant notice of " Other
Amendments made," it is clear they are of the nature of
what is proverbially assigned as a lady's postscript, and
should be viewed accordingly. One important inference,
as formerly, to b 3 derived from the whole, is that if the
Government has dealt gently with the Papal Bull and
its supporters, it has not been for lack of strength to
carry more stringent measures.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, June 30, 1851.

LITERATURE.
THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.
Among several excellent contributions contained iu
the current number of the Eclectic, should be parti-
cularly noticed a masterly paper on " The Bards of
the Bible," the latest of the literary works of Gil-
allan. In this remarkable essay, which is more of a
prelection than a review, more of a thesis than a
criticism, there are indications of very noble powers,
both of metaphysical analysis and poetic intuition.
Many of those solemn problems, the solution of which
has been the dream of various generations of philan-
thropists, are in it discussed with a daring but reve-
rential earnestness. The theme has proved congenial
to the critic, for it comprises in its comprehensive em-
brace the whole range of poetic literature. Seated at
the f,,et of the Panegyrist of the Biblical Bards
and Prophets, the writer has himself raised his
voice in exultation, and in its eloquent resonance we
cannot but trace the fervour of a nature more than
common in its contrasting, but still harmonious cha-
racteristics of subtlety and elevation. Doomed as the
journalist is by necessity to the drudgery of glancing
through so much that is frivolous, it is something
more than merely refreshing for him to encounter
evidences like these of very rare sensibility and of
most invigorating and unquestionable power. Some-
times we are tempted away into thsc.rt places by the
sparkle of some mirage of letters, but here we have
arrived at a veritable oasis in the wilderness of maga-
zine compositions, melodious with the fonntains of
faith, and blooming withthe flowers of illustration.
. _

Kinglake has told us in his admirable "Eothen" that
ou reiching the regions of vegetation he plunged un-
der the cool green of the boughs with somewhat the

smile luxurious sensation with which the diver

plunges into the waters at noonday. We eau appre-
ciate the feeling, having to traverse so many
tracks of intellectual barrenness, and this

we may observe with serious truthfulness without
Any quibble in reference to our designation. There-
fore it is that we eagerly welcome a writer like this
critic in the Eclectic, who can tree himself from the
conventionalities of bis craft, and who, thinking much,
is not afraid to utter his meditations, and entertaining
an ardent sense of admiration, shrinks not from giving
utterance to his enthusiasm. Hence it is that in the
really splendid paper before us we have discovered marks
of very noble ability and evidences of truly eclectic ap-
preciation. It matters not that the arguments ad-
renoca by the reviewer are somewhat esoteric in
their character, or that to the unreflecting they are
somewhat indefinite in their tendency, seeing that the
diction in which the article is penned is alto-
gether too recondite of its kind to secure to
it any widespread popularity. The critic has
manifestly addressed himself with predetermination
to a restricted but at the same time a select and
sympathising auditory—those who are ambitious of
penetrating beyond the superficial veil of Nature into
the arcane of her mysteries, and who are not unac-
customed to regard the poet us—above all other men
—a microcosm. With the plaudits of such hearers
he will doubtless be satisfied, and it is thence con-
sequently that we would point the dexter finger of
criticism approvingly to this brilliant and vigorous
effusion. It would only be detrimental to the in-
terest of a complete perusal to analyse either the pur-
port or the manner of the investigation. Sufficient
might be said, possibly, by pronouncing the object of
the writer to be one in accordance at once with the
vigilance of the student and the simplicity of the ca-
techumen, the humility of the Christian and the dig-
nity of the philosopher. While remarking, at
the very outset of his inquiry, on the singular
result of the division of knowledge—a circumstance
cot less striking than that much-talked-of division
of labour—few men, indeed, ascending, like Hum-
boldt, " the Pisgah of science," and tracing, as in the
" Kosmos," " the unity of his complex world"—it is
ingeniously observed that, instead of men, we find
every where "indurated callings, personified crafts,
and incarnate creeds." Nay, says he yet further—
" single faculties done in flesh and blood, palpable
ruling passions, and embodied affections." Exulting
in the exceptions occasionally witnessed in this re-
str:ction, or rather insulation, of our faculties, the
writer anticipates the prospect of the advent of the
Coming Man, the new and long-expected Avatar.
His multiformity, says he, must be the multiformity
of Nature, " incalculable complexity, but absolute
unity," not, as he grotesquely phrases it elsewhere,
surpassing his fellows, as some mere mummer or
denizen of smatterdom—" by the height of a
greasier pole or the breadth of a ghastlier
grin." Prior to these allusions, however,
the Eclectic reviewer has remarked rather wittily
upon the incongruous aspect of the world as it
is at present, with its perpetually clashing diversities
"of prejudice and predilection. Peace congresses,
he observes, " reply to physical force ; barricades
laugh sulphureously at the pacificator. Bosnia, ag-
gression is met by British intolerance, and the inter-
dict of the Protestant bigot is answered by the genial
Mussultnan With the freedom of ct. Scphia. The
statesman is rebuffed by its democracy, the de-
democrat by its onmiarchs." And so unin-
terruptedly in this epoch of confusion, or, as
the writer in the Eclectic calls it very admirably,
" this grand kaleidoscope of interminable transforma-
tions.' Arriving by consecutive preliminaries of ar-
guinent et the precise object of his disquisi-
tion, the reviewer et length grapples boldly
With its vast and massive proportions, desig-
nating the volume under his scrutiny as
a demonstration—in reference to the Holy
Bible—of its "literary superiority end po-
etic Perhaps the most masterly
portion of the
pre-em ienee:ti,;e article is that in which the
critic proves that this view of the subject is the most
logical in the way of elucidating the authenticity of
thdivino writings, namely, the demonstration of
their literary superiority and, infinitely more than
that, of their poetic pre-eminence. The delicate
subtlety and yet masculine precision with which this
portion of his arguments is unfolded is entitled to
our very warmest admiration. To this division of
the paper we, therefore, the more emphatically direct
the attention of our more meditative readers, satisfied
that they will thoroughly coincide in this particular
with ourselves. Many splendid and majestic ideas
are scattered through the article here referred to in
profusion. We are compelled from the length to
which our notice has already extended to content
ourselves with one, but that one we fsel assuredly
will be ample in truth as an illustration. It is this.
The reviewer has been suggesting very
beautifully that in our nomenclature of • the arts
we should look upon music not so much as their
sister, but "should rather consider her their mother"
—adding " perhaps (in a high sense) it may be found
that music is the one art ; and the highest form of
music is poetry, or the music of things." He con-
tieues, " In it there is such an association of the ac-
cordaut and discordant, as may produce in the soul
the consciousness and effects of harmony." " And
harmony ?" he exclaims inquiringly, "And har-
mony "We only know of it," he replies, "that
it is Me manner of God in the universe." That is a
grand thought and uttered too in words of noble sirrt-
plieity. Regretting that v. e cannot enter more mi-
nutely into the examination of this very brilliant
article, we believe that it will elicit from others, as it
has from ourselves, its just weed of eulogium.

ROYAL OSTIIOPMDIC HOSPITAL. - Yesterday
morning the Rev. George Kemp, M.A., the chaplain of the
above institution, preached a sermon in its behalf at St.
Paul's Chapel, Great Portland-street. The aggregate col•
lection amounted to 411, iCe.