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THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. I
London. Jackson and Watford.
The principles of this new publication, religious as
well as political, are liberal ; and while evidently-
leaning to the side of Dissenters, are sufficiently im-
partial to merit the attention of other denominations.
A work of the kind was wanted, for though there are
plenty of Reviews opposed to Toryism and the de-
fects, nay, grievances, of the Established Church,
they only occasionally, and that rarely, advocate the
interests of a very large and unprotected portion of
the community. Those Without the pale of the
Church are probably as numerous as those w ithin the
fold, for we will not class under the Establishment,
as is generally done, those who allow themselves to
be called churchmen, while they neither attend public
worship nor care anything for religion. Taking into
account, therefore, all those who are Christians, the
Dissenters are in the majority ; yet if we look to
worldly power, and wealth, and interest, they may be
regarded as comparatively helpless. They have no
church lands nor tithes; they have no prelates to
advocate their cause in Parliament, nor Peers who
take an interest in their religious establishments for
the sake of patronage or fat livings and bishoprics.
But, I nevertheless, without these they have gone
on and prospered, and like the primitive
Christians, their religious zeal has prevailed,
and they have bnome a great multitude.
The Editor of the British Quarterly states very
briefly the plan and spirit of the work. Like other
similar publications it will occasionally take a view of
the progress of literature,' science, and art, and on po-
litical questions its sentiments will be thoroughly
liberal. With regard to religion, the principles witl
be those associated with the names of Watts and
Doddridge, but its pages will be enriched by contri-
butions from able men of different religious con-
nexions, with a view to render it an efficient organ of
revealed truth and of enlightened public opinion.
This Number contains several articles of fresh interest
—among others one on the Life and Discoveries of
Dr. Dalton, and another on the Factory Systeha and
Factory Legislation, which may be usefully studied
in reference to the motion on the subject of which
Lord Ashley has given notice in Parliament. In a
review of Lord John Russell's works, including his
Essay on the History of the English Government and
Constitution, some hints are given to his Lordship on
the part not of Dissenters only, but of all the friends
of liberty, which merit his attention. The subjoined
extracts will show the spirit of the article, and we
grieve to say they contain too much truth :
" In the Church, which his Lordship so much de-
lighteth to honour, he has found his great antagonist.
Whatever he most values as a statesman has been op-
, posed, in the greatest degree, by the ministers of the
church which he upholds in that capacity. In his Lord-
ship's view, no tree of its kind is so good as that tree.
Did it never occur to him to inquire hew it has
come to pass that a tree so good has borne fruit, to the
experience of his Lordship, so much the reverse of good ?
Whoever also may have failed to cross his path, the
clergy of the Established Church have not so failed ;
and the measures which his Lcrdship has prosecuted
with the greatest solicitude, are those which have been
always resisted with the greatest determination from
that quarter. *
"It may be much to the credit of his Lordship's
Christian forbearance thus to repay good for eviL We
know not that we have any right to
-indulge in censure,
if it should be his pleasure to show so much affection in
a quarter from which he must know it will be utterly
vain to expect any grateful return. But such displays
of generous feeling in one relation, naturally dispose
men to look for indications of similar magnanimity in
other relations. In so looking, however, many noncon-
formists have been disappointed, and have sometimes de-
claimed with much warmth on this unreasonable and
inconsistent favouritism. Even Toryism in a church-
man, it is alleged, is manifestly more acceptable to his
Lordship than Liberalism in a Dissenter. The clergy-
man, notwithstanding all his repugnance to large and
generous political principles, is preferred to the noncon-
formist minister, notwithstanding his adhesion to such
principles. Thus, even in the case of Lord John
Russell, the ecclesiastical is placed before the civil, and
the sympathies of his Lordship with an established
priesthood, are manifestly stronger than his sympathies
with general freedom. Civil liberty is good, but the
civil establishment of religion is a greater good. Pro-
mote the former so far as you have the power, but, at
all costs, preclude every kind of danger from the latter.
" We regret that there should have been anything in
the conduct or language of Lord John Russell, that may
seem to warrant such imputations. But it is unques-
tionable that his Lordship has often acted inconsistently,
that he might do favour to churchmen ; and that there
have been occasions on which he has so acted, much to
the injury, rather than to the advantage, of Protestant
Dissenters. When men become inconsistent that they
may conceal the faults of their enemies, we can place an
honourable construction on their conduct ; but when
they forego consistency, apparently that they may mag-
nify the real or supposed errors of their friends, the
moral conclusion is of another complexion. Lord John
Russell once volunteered: a defence of the princip'e
of compulsory support for the ministers of religion,
alleging, from his place in the House of Commons, that
where no such provision is made, it must be true of re-
ligious teachers, as of all other servants of the public,
that—
' Those who live to please must please to live,'
" His Lordship was not left in ignorance of the pain
which this allusion had given to the mind of noncon-
formist ministers through the kingdom, but he never
deigned, so far as we remember, to teat), or in any way
to soften, his expressions."

THE LONDON JOURNAL, 6.c.
The present number contains a list of all the recE•nt
English, Scottish, and Irish patents, and reports of
the judgments of the Courts of Law in all recent.
cases of disputed patents. From the scientific notices
we extract the following, on the preservation of
statues and monuments by means of oxide of copper.
The subject is one well worthy the attention of the
public authorities :

" There is on the Place Caroline, at Munich, an obelisk
made of bronze, ex ere calto, erected by the king to the
memory of the 30,000 Bavarians who fell in the Rus-
sian campaign. This obelisk is surrounded by several
steps of stone, which are washed by the rain running
down the obelisk. Baron de Bourgouin has observed,
that this water preserved the stone from the species of
greyish rust which generallyaccumulatesupon old monu-
ments, and which appears to be produced by moss or
very minute insects lodging in the pores of the stone.
The four angles of the pedestal, which do not receive
any water from the obelisk, present a great contrast, by
reason of their blackish colour, to those parts washed by
the water which has passed over the bronze. May we
not conclude from this observation, that water, impreg-
nated with the least portion of oxide of copper, will de-
stroy seeds of moss, &c., as well as the eggs of animal-
cube, which adhere to all unpolished stones. It is from
this cause that the marble statues at Versailles, and
those in London more particularly, are so much dis-
figured with black and grey mould. In order to
preserve the beauty of statues, ornaments, and monu-
ments, it may be sufficient to wash them periodically
with water, containing oxide of copper in solution.
Re-cutting, or scraping is not only very expensive, but
does not last : as witness the facades of the Louvre,
which are now of the same colour as those which have
not been touched. Advantage should be taken of the lesson
afforded by the obelisk at Munich. The discovery of a
process for preserving chef-d'oeuvres of architecture and
sculpture, should be proposed amongst the prizes offered
by the learned Societies, and even by Government."

A CONSCIENTIOUS BOOKSELLER. A bookseller
who exposes books for sale in his open shop-window in
the City, having recently observed that he lost a number
of books, notwithstanding he always found the exact
quantity, abating those that were sold on taking them
in at night, and besides this, finding several books
among his own, of which he had not the slightest
knowledge, was the other day induced to watch a
demure-looking young man rather closely, whom he
had constantly seen looking at his books, but scarcely
ever making a purchase. In this employment his sur-
priie was very soon increased by observing his customer
put a book in his pocket, and pull another from
under his coat, which he placed amongst the rest on
the board, and then deliberately walked away. Being,
however, desired to walk back again, and account for
his conduct, the trembling culprit at length acknow-
ledged that he had been in the constant
habit of exchanging good carnal for what he
called indifferent spiritual books, which he consi-
dered advantageous to the bookseller ; and as a proof of
his assertion pulled out of his pocket a volume of old
puritanic divinity, for which he averred, and the fact
proved it, he had deposited a well-bound volume of the
work.; of Pope, by way of a conscientious exchange !
His youth and simplicity had such an effect upon the
bookseller, that after making him sensible that even
these exchanges would expose him to a prosecution for
theft, he let him go. with advice in future always to con-
sult the owner of property before he attempted to trans-
fer or exchange it under any pretext whatever.
EXTRAORDINARY PROGENY.—Widow Rutherford
died at Aberfeldy on the 20th ult., aged 92 years. She
was the mother of five children--three sons and two
daughters. By her eldest daughter, she had 13 grand-
children and 57 great grandchildren. By her second
daughter, she had 15 grandchildren, and 17 great-grand-
children. By her eldest son, she bad eight grandchildren,
and five great-grandchildren. Her second son had no
children, and the third son had three children. In all,
she had five children, 39 grandchildren, and 79 great-
grandchildren—being 123 of a progeny ! Her eldest
great-grandchild is rising 21 years of age, and several of
her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren,
were at her bedside when she breathed her last.—.4dfn-
burgh paper.
A LEVELLER.—A Correspondent informs us that
a clergyman, not twenty miles from Truro, caused a new
road to be made through the church-yard, which passed
over the grave of a widow, whose remains had ogly beau
x.,. weeks ; and also over
placed "in the narrow house" si
several more graves belonging to her family. Not con-
tented with this, his reverence gave orders to the sexton
to level all the graves on each side of the path, because of
their unsightly appearance. This the sexton ref
do; but the lady of his revere7ice,4-4iglit4n at"th.9 i,6f641
of the subordinate and' defdirnined not to be
fo4hl, 'direbte'd her gardener to level the graves, and
traattiboyni.n. literi4canrrLadgievsssuptectri4edntdhinagt
tthheisfewe'olir:g,,?f:di,ets,uee-
li jr;g arc severeiy wo.Anti(d by these proceedings.--
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