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of manufacture is very minute, and contains many
particulars which are new to us. "The Mofussil
and the Ditch" is an agreeable sketch of Indian man•
nerq. The review of " Conolly's Journey to the North
of India" throws some additional light upon the state
of affairs in that part of the East. "The Moving
Sand of Cabul"—" The Spectre Son"—" British In-
terests in Persia"—and "The Kingdom of the Sikhs,"
will each he perused with interest. The miscellaneous
intelligence is exceedingly copious, and judiciously se-
lected.

The Monthly Law Magazine. Jan. 1839.
Of the plan and execution of this publication it is
impossible to speak in any other terms than those of
unqualified approbation. Though the subjects which
it embraces are, generally speaking, of a strictly pro-
fessional character, still it is a work which cannot fail
to interest the general reader. It presents a monthly
digest of the most important decisions in the House of
Lords, the Privy Council, the Equity, Bankruptcy,
Common Law, Ecclesiastical, and Maritime Courts,
which must be of incalculable service to the student
and the young practitioner. It also contains careful
abstracts of Bills of Parliament, which must be of
great advantage to all who may have occasion to refer
to such documehts. The contents of the present num-
ber are extremely varied. The principal articles are,
"The Church Discipline Bill"—"The House of Com-
mons"—" On the Extinction of Copyholds"—" Bio-
graphical Sketch of Lord Stowell"—" The Office of
Judge promoted by Breeks versus Woolfrey"—and
" On the Changes in the Law of Evidence ;" together
with a large mass of useful reports, reviews, &c. We
We must add that this very able periodical is truly
conservative in its character, and has nobly stood for-
ward in defence of our glorious constitution in church
and state.

General Outline of the Animal Kingdom. By Thomas
Rymer Jones, F.Z.S., Part 3. London : Van Voorst,
Jan. 1839.

We have previously noticed with approbation the
two former parts of this work. We are glad to find
that it continues to sustain the very high character be-
stowed upon it. Its plan and object we have already
detailed. The present part contains a full and accurate
description of the structure and internal economy of
Ccelelmintha, Bryozoa, Roll fera, Epizoa, and E chino-
dermata. The desertations are truly scientific, and at the
same time plairi and popular. Tlie wood engravings
are extremely numerous and beautifully executed.
We may safely promise that this work will prove one
of the most valuable contributions to the library of the
naturalist, and materially augment the fame of its in-
defatigable author.

The Naturalist ; illustrative of the Animal, Vege-
table, and Mineral Kingdoms. Edited by Neville
Wood, Esq. Jan. 1839.
We have already borne our testimony to the zeal,
energy, talent, and discrimination which have hitherto
characterised this periodical. The editor has been
long distinguished as a writer on natural history. His
welt-known ability is a sufficient guarantee for the
scientific accuracy of the work. The present number
is particularly interesting. The first article is an ac-
count of a new parasite plant found growing on the
fruit of the doum or Thebaic palth in Upper Egypt,
accompanied by a beautiful engraving of the same.
This is followed .by an essay on "The Comparative
Structure of the Skeletons of Zoophytes." The remain-
ing papers are "On a gigantic fossil Fucusdiscovered
in the new red sandstone at Woodside"—" On the
Herbarium of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens"—
" Sketches on European Ornithology"—" On the
Habits and Peculiarities of British Plants"—" Corres-
pondence"—" Criticisms"—" Reports"—and Miscel-
lanies." This work, as at present conducted, must be-
come increasingly popular.

Observations on the Oriental Plague and on Quaran-
tines, as a Means of Arresting its Progress. By
John Bowring. Edinburgh : Tait, 1838.
This pamphlet was originally addressed to the
members of the British Association, at the last meeting
of that body. It contains a large collection of facts
bearing upon the subject of the plague, and of details
respecting the quarantine regulations in the Levant.
Dr. Bowring is an anti-contagionist, in opposition to
a host of medical authorities. We have no space to
enter into any discussion on the subject, and must re-
fer our readers to the pamphlet before us for all the
arguments that can be offered on one side of the
question.

Phe Coronation: a Poem, by Robert Rose, "the Bard
of Colour." Fifth Edition. London : Longman
and Co. 1838.

We have previously, on two occasions, noticed this
poem. We are glad to find that it has reached a fifth
edition—a very rare case with a poem on such a sub.
ject. We understand that it is the intention of Mr.
Rose to present a copy of the poem, neatly bound in
vellum and gold, to Her Majesty.

National Education on a Christian Basis. A Letter
addressed to the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
Dy the Rev. Ct. A. Jacob, M.A. London :
Rivingtons. 18.38.
This is an extremely well-written and temperate
pamphlet, on a subject of paramount importance—a
subject which has of late engaged a large share of
public attention. The author is friendly to a scheme
of national education, if it should be found practica-
ble.. He also maintains that it is "expedient that the
legislature should interfere, and in some degree fall
in with the popular cry, give sound principles—a right
direction—and a healthy tone, to the rotten founda-
tions, dangerous tendencies, and morbid excitement,
which will otherwise predominate and prevail." He
then proceeds to detail his plans and principles, for
which we must refer our readers for the ptesent to the
pamphlet itself, We shall take the earliest opportu-
nity for noticing them in a separate article.

The Scriptural Basis of the Reformed Church of
England. A Sermon preached in St. Michael's
Church, Liverpool, on Friday evening, Nov. 30,
1838. By the Rev. John Jones, A.M., Minister of
St. Andrew's Church. Liverpool: Newling.

This is the fourth of a series of sermons now in the
course of delivery at St. Michael's Church, by seve-
ral clergymen of the town and neighbourhood, on the
errors of the Church of Rome. We have been highly
delighted with the tone and spirit of the present ad-
mirable discourse. It contains a triumphant vindica-
tion of the Church of England, proving that she is based
upon upon the imperishable rock of God's Holy Word.
This sermon is calculated both to remove prejudice and
to strengthen attachment towards the Church.

PROGRESS AND PLANS OF POPERY.

( From the Quarterly Review

In the latter part of the year ISI4, two Protestant diploma
tists were conversing with the prime minister of a Roman
Catholic country, himself a Roman Catholic, when this dis-
tinguished individual asked one of them, then on his way to
take part in the approaching congress, what was likely to be
done there respecting the Jesuits ? " The Jesuits !" replied
the Protestant, evidently as much astonished as if he had
been asked the question respecting the priests of the Dalai
Lama. " The Jesuits!" "Ay, the Jesuits," replied the Ro-
manist, who, during a long official life, had closely watched
their manceuvers when they were supposed to be extinct : I
give you full assurance, that if due measures of precaution
are not taken at Vienna respecting them within twenty years
they will convulse Europe." Within sixteen years after the
utterance of this prediction (to say nothing of what they have
done in Ireland, Canada, Newfoundland), they had by their
evil counsels convulsed France, driven Charles X. frCnn the
throne, and dismembered the kingdom of the Netherlands ;
and almost within the given period sown in Prussia the seeds
of rebellion, which is intended to bring on a general war for
the recovery of Papal ascendancy. This it is that gives so
deep acd general an interest to the otherwise local and in-
significant affar of the Archbishop of Cologne, and so amply
justifies the measures of the Prussian Government. The
conflict is not between a fanatical prelate on the Rhine and
a Secretary of State in Berlin, but between the Pope and all
the Protestant princes of Europe. The question to be de-
cided is not whether a few children in Prussia are to be edu-
cated Romanists or Protestants ; but whether Protestant
princes and senates, or the Pope and cardinals at Rome, are
to legislate for Protestant nations; whether the free exercise
of the Reformed faith, purchased with the blood of so many
martyrs, and secured by the hard struggles of a century, is to
be continued, or to be put down by Popish intrigue and vio-
lence. The King of Prussia is not merely asserting the
prerogatives of his crown, but defending the rights of every
Protestant in Europe against Papal aggression; and, there-
fore, every Protestant in the remotest corner of the world
is interested in his movements, and must wish him God's
bless ng.
It is well known that Rome never formally renounced her
ancient scheme of universal empire, nor ever whispered the
slightest disapprobation of those who presumed to bestow the
crown of a British Sovereign on a King of the French, or to
make a present of the kingdom of Ireland as a feof of Rome.
Every lawyer is aware that such pretensions are still asserted,
as unquestionable Papal rights, in the code of cannon law ;*
but many thought that, though shame or an affectation of
consistency might prevent her from condemning any of her
infallible pontiff's, she had practically and for ever abdicated
every hope of recovering her lost dominion. The events of
the last fifty years seemed to annihilate the possibility of
Popish ascendancy. The demands, however, of Pius VII.
at the congress of Vienna, and his protest against its definitive
arrangements, were calculated to excite mote than a suspi-
cion, that the last 700 years had neither enlarged nor dimi-
nished the field of Papal vision ; —the elevatio❑ of such men
as Leo XII. and Gregory XVI. indicated that the college
of cardinals had something else in view besides the promo-
tion of religion and nvarality. The boldness which was mani-
fested in the choice of characters and principles well worthy
of the dark ages, betokened the existence of dark designs—
and the insult offered in the one case to remonstrating Rotnan
Catholic princes, as well as the portentous name of Gregory
assumed in the other, might well have opened the eyes of
Protestant Europe. The 'conduct of the Vatican in this
recent affair of Cologne fully developer the system of opera-
tions. The conduct of the Archbishop himself might perhaps
be interesting to illustrate the general truth that Popery is
founded on a lie, and supported by a system of lies. The
connection with Rome, the interference of the Pope, the ulti-
mate object of the Archbishop's movements, and the combi-
nation of fraud, falsehood, and treachery, whereby it was to
be attained, render it a most instructive lesson to all Pro-
testant kings and nations.

* Papa coronat lieges de novo et creat. Innocent 111.
const. 5. Rex Regum. et const. 6 Licet ante. Papa ju-
bet Regi, et Imperatori, ut sumant arena contra inimicos
Ecelesiaa, 23 q. 2. cap. liortatur. cap. Ut pridein. et c. Sup.
pliciter. Papa condemnor, excommunicat, et deponit lieges
et Imperatores iniquos. Et hoc habet ex divina institutione.
Alium jubet elegi, in locum depositi. Vide Coordinationes
Sacroruin Canunum, torn. iii. in Papa.

One day last week there was a tretneudously heavy swell
and ground sea off Portland beach, which brought up a large
quantity of various articles, including money, clothes, &c.,
no doubt part of'the remains of the late shipwreck's. .