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rest." Many details of the geographical results of
the expedition are also given, which will greatly
interest the scientific. Captain Burton's style is
somewhat elaborate, and, like many another
-writer, he is most effective when most simple.
We would suggest to him to avoid the use of
eccentric and unfamiliar words, and long in-
volved sentences, which do injustice to the valuable
information he has to give. The coloured plates
and woodcuts are numerous and carefully done ;
a map of the locality is added, though this might
have been larger with advantage. The official cor-
respondence is given in the appendix, so that the
reader may form his own opinion of the dispute
referred to. The work forms a valuable addition
to our store of knowledge respecting these rude
and unfamiliar regions and their wild and wayward
inhabitants, and we commend it to the attention of
all who wish to extend their sphere of geographical
and ethnological information.

LORD CHELMSFORD'S BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Will you afford me space just to allow the
Islington clergy, who have shown so much zeal for
the law of Moses, to know that I am willing to
meet any one of them in London for a public dis-
cussion of " the Sabbath question." I undertake
to prove that, in their insisting upon the observance
by believing Gentiles of the Mosaic Sabbath, they
are, as St. Paul affirms, "teachers of the law, un-
derstanding neither what they say, nor whereof
they affirm."—l am, Sir, faithfully yours,
. _

RICHARD HIBBS,
Incumbent of the United Church of England
and Ireland Chapel, St. Vincent-street,
Edinburgh.
1, Great Stuart-street, Edinburgh,
June 20, 1860.

REVISION OF THE LITURGY—LORD CHELMS-
FORD'S BILL.
The secretary of the Lord's-Day Observance Society, the
Rev. Henry Bayley, as well as the Rev. Canon Miller,
has been recently invited by the Rev. Richard Hibbs, an
English clergyman at Edinburgh, to a public discussion of
" the Sabbath question" in London. To the former, who,
in reply, declined to meet his challenger, a rejoinder was
sent by the latter, of which the following is an excerpt :
" But, sir, there is one point touching this reading of the
Decalogue in our Liturgy which may have escaped you, as
I confess it did roe for years. When in the Communion
Service you read—' God spake these words and said, I am
the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have none other gods but
' ine'—are you aware that you seriously mutilate the words
of Jehovah ? In Exodus xx., from which we profess to
quote, the passage runs thus And God spake all these
words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' Having dis-
covered, during the recent discussion of ' the Sabbath
question' in this city, the effect which this suppression
produces in some rainds, I have formed, I trust, the unal-
terable resolution never again, whether in England or
Scotland, to read that portion of the Divine Word except
in its entirety. There is also found in this prayer-book
version the substitution of the word seventh' for 'Sab-
bath.' In my present ministrations I read the whole, as
found in our Bibles. Let me hope, sir, that you, as a con-
scientious minister of the Word, will do the same, without
fear of the consequences. Better to suffer ourselves to be

put out of the Church' than to ' diminish aught' from
that Word ' which liveth and abideth for ever. I trust
we both consider all such pious frauds' as nothing less
than impious perversions of immutable truth."