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g c ', ' kelliTaliii in those days there was a great nation, yea, a
ii:;,-1141:4311mightv in battle.
2. And the people thereof were skilful in the working
of wool, and of cotton, and of silk, and moreover cunning
atificcrs in brass and in iron.

3. And the land was as the Garden of Eden for fruit-
fuluess, and the numbers of the people were as the sands
upon the sea shore.

4. And they had a king to rule over them, and lie was
called the Father of the People.
.5. And besides the king there was a great conucil, like
unto the council of Babel, and it did rule over the king
and the people.
C. And the men of the council did call themselves the
of the people.
Yet the people choose them not, neither did they
rare for the people.
. And they made a spoil of the people, and laid upon
them burthens too grievous to be borne.
And they likened not to the cry of the needy,
ndther did the prayer of the wretched find favour in
their sight.
O. But they made light of their sufferings, and would
net stretch forth tne hand to help them.
I I. Therefore the people of that country came to the
king of the country, and said unto him, " Art not thou
our father ? •

12. " How long wilt thou suffer those men to spoil
and to oppress us ? Come thou up to our help, that we
mayridourselves of them."

13. And the king of the country was wroth because
of the oppression of the people, and he rose up hastily to
sweep the evil doers from the face of the land.
14. And all the people followed him, crying out with•

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,D save the king!"
CONVERSION OF THE HON. AND REY.
G. SPENCER.

The Wexford Evening Post states that, in conse-
quence of " many persons affecting to discredit the
truth of this Clergyman's conversion to the Roman Ca-
tholic Religion, a gentleman of that county wrote to the
Rev. Mr. Caestryck, Leicester, and a letter, containing
the particulars, received in answer, has been kindly
handed to us." The same Journal publishes the letter,
from which we make the following extract :
" The lion. and Reverend G. Spencer, sun of Lord Spencer
and brother to Lord Althorpe, was a Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, Rector of Brington, in Northamptonshire,
and Chaplain to the Bishop of London, a gentleman of good
abilities and universally esteemed for his affability and benevo.
knee. About twelve months before the death of the late Reverend
Mr. Vaughan, (who was a rigid Calvinist, and vicar of SL
Martin'., in Leicester,) the Honourable and Reverend Gen-
tleman expressed to the Reverend 31r. Vaughan some doubts
or dissatisfaction respecting the ceremonies used by the Church of
England, at the same time observing, that he could not find suffi-
cient authority for them in scripture to satisfy his mind, to which
the Rev. Mr. Vaughan frankly replied," Ceremonies are not to be
defended by sciiptures, but the discipline of the Church, which, by
tradition, Is the expositor of the scriptures; and, indeed, if you do
not admit tradition, the scriptures will be of very little use to you."
The hon. and rev. gentleman, satisfied with the necessity of a living
and infallible expositor to determine the true sense of scripture,
sought on all sides with earnestness to discover which was this ex-
positor, but ignorant of the Catholic Church, except the character
given by its enemies, he did not think of examining her claims to
that office ; but happening, at the house of a friend, to meet with a
young gentleman, a convert to the Catholic Church, about twenty
years of age, and nephew to the Protestant Bishop of Litchfield, the
object of his inquiry became the subject of conversation, and this
young gentleman, a minor, and only a few years a Catholic, under.
took to defend the infallibility of the Catholic Church against the
Bishop of Litchfield, in the of the Hon. and Rev. CI.
Spencer, the Hon. and Rev. .D. Erskine, (Mr. Vaughan's suc-
cessor) and another Minister of the Established Church. The time
ap-
puinted being Monday, the 24th of January—most of that week
was spent at the house of the young gentleman's father (who is still
a Protestant) where the controversy was held. The Hon. and Rev.
C. Spencer saw the weakness of the Bishop's arguments compared
with his young friend, and the Bishop made this acknowledgment,
" You, by following your religion, are sure of salvation ; but I
also hope to be saved by following mine"—which made th Hon.
and Rev. G. Spencer observe, that in giving the preference to the Ca-
tholic be is sure of salvation, while you have but an uncertain
hope of it ; and after the conversation was over the Bishop tacitly
acknowledged the evidence of truth, byCalling his nephew aside, and
begging him not to press the Hon. and Rev. O. Spencer to become
a Catholic, saying, what will his father say, and his friends say, and
what will become of his don ? To which the Hon. and
Rev. Gentleman, when info of it, nobly replied, " that is all
flesh and blood, I have nothing to do with it;" and coming to Lei.
cater with the young champion of truth, he accepted an invitation
to dine with the Rev. B. Caatryck, when his few remaining objet.
eons being removed, and his doubts resolved, he declared his determi-
nation to become a Catholic, since that Church was proved to be the
one established by Christ, and consequently the only true, spotless,
and infallible spouse of Christ. He immediately informed
his father, and the Bishops of Peterborough and London, of his deter.
Initiation, and resigned his livings in the Church of England. I
was present and edified by his profession of the Catholic Faith in
Holy Cross Chapel, on January the 21st, and shall long remember
the joyful solemnity of his first communion and confirmation, on
February 14th, by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, assisted by the Rev.
Dr. Weald, the Rev. Mr. Morgan. of St. May's College, Oscort,
and the Rev. B. Caestryck, at which time upwards of twenty other
converts were also confirmed. Two days after this confirmatioo,
the honourable convert went to visit his father, who, as well as his
ether relations, received him most kindly. His father has allowed
him a very handsome maintenance, though, no doubt, nominally
much less than the livings he resigned, which are said to be worth
three thousand pounds per annum. . ..The Hon. Gentle-
man is now on a visit to the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, at Wolver-
hampton ; he intends to be a priest—his father and the Bishop wish
him to go to ROME for a coupe of Divinity. Mr. Spencer has now
twenty-seven under instruction, who all have commenced since the
lit At. and at Hinkly, a small town in this county, tea converts
made their first communion on the 21st ult.,

Yesterday a bill-sticker, when opposite the stonema-
son's yard near the Canal bridge, Islington, observed through the
paling, a boy drowning in the canal, into which it is supposed, in
Aging upon some planks put across it, he had accidentally falen.
Nobody, at the time, was near the spot, but fortunately some men
were at work in the yard, though totally unconscious of the acci-
dent. The man, who could not get to the yard himself, instantly
. called to them, and they happily rescued the boy ; in whom shortly
life would have been extinct. He could not speak when taken out
of the water, but began to cry as soon as the convulsions bad some.
what subsided.
A GOOD SERVANT'S CHARACTER: " To all whom
it may concern. A.B. having lived in my service since the
result of my observations on her qualifications as a servant is as fol-
lows :—She is sober, honest, dean, industrious, careful, punctual,
and (mark I) good tempered. She Is a good cook, a good house.
toaid, a good baker, a good confectioner, &c. and (mark 0 she tells
the truth. She attends divine service at church twice every Sunday,
and carefully reads the bible. She is little of stature, but far su.
parlor at all kinds of work to almost every large woman In the
kingdom. If bee master has any scheme in hand for the benefit of
"the poor, be is sure of her ready and cordial co-operation in cooking,
dm." This character, really given to a servant not long ago, has
fallen into our bands, and we think there is something so extraOrdi-
aary in it, that we give it to our readers as a hint as well to masters
and mistresses as to savants.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. .
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—On
Wednaday afternoon, as Mr. Truman of Vauxhall, his son, and
a young lady, were walking within the enclosure of St. James's
Park, a fashlonsbly-stdred female ran swiftly past tbenti and darted
towards the canal In a moment, she was struggling in the water.
An elderly podium followed, apparently In a state of extreme agi.
cation, And immediately rushed in to save her. The lady, who ap.
peered hest ea her purpose, resisted with all her force the endea.
vain of the gentleman to preserve her life ; till at length the gentle.;
man basins completely exhausted In the struggle, and both seemed'
abut to sink, the gentleman, however, still retained his bold of the
lid]], and crying deed ter help. Fortunately, by this time the eon
el Mr. Triton= (17 yeses of age) had come up, and intently pro-
eroded to render ell the assistance In his power. His father she
seen arrived upon the apt, iced by their combined exertions the
were drawl. le the-UM The lady continued for some time
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abate el•snieesdeneasss. was learnt from the gentle.
aserils to the isme of the bey tie tbemase of her rash situnpt,
wstespettist tried itten questions were put to Mini pointed
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