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LITERARY NOTICES.

The Protestant Preacher. Containing Sermons sup.
plied by their Authors only. Vol. 5. London
1838.

This work is published under the immediate sanc-
tion and patronage of clergymen of the established
church of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and the
sermons which it contains are supplied directly by
the authors. We have thus an ample guarantee both
for the respectability and the accuracy of this very
useful periodical. We are sorry to find that the pre-
vious circulation of the Protestant Preacher has been
so very incommensurate with its merits, which are of
the highest order. We feel assured that it only wants
to be more generally known in order to obtain a very
extensive patronage, especially when it is considered
that the profits which may accrue irGro its publication
are devoted to the praiseworthy object. of promoting
the cause of scriptural education in Ireland. The
present volume contains sermons by the Rev. Josiah.
Aliport, (Birmingham,) the Rev. H. H. Beamish,
(London,) the Rev. R. Burgess, (London,) the Rev.
J. B. Cartwright, (London,) the Rev. James Cooper,
(Stonehouse,) the Rev. J. Cumming, (London,) the
Rev. J. Davies, (Leicester.) the Rev. J. Davis, (Cerne
Abbas, Dorset,) the Rev. W. M. Dudley, (Poole,) the
Rev. R. Eden, (Kennington,) the Rev. A. Forman,
(Innerwick,) the Rev. Peter Hall, (London,) the Rev.
W. Hancock, (Kilbuin,) the Rev. A. Macpherson,
(Rothwell,) the Rev. A. Wean], (London,) the Rev.
J. W. Niblock, (London,) the Rev. J. R. Page, (Lon-
don,) the Rev. W- F. Radcliffe, (More Critchell,
Dorset,) the Rev. S. Ramsey, (London,) the Rev. J.
E. Sabin, (London,) the 1111.1.1. H. Seymour, (Lon•
don,) the Rev. R. Shittler, (Melcombe Horsey,) and
the Rev. J. F. Witty, (Fifield, Wilts.) Of several of
these ministers it may be truly observed that " their
praise is in all the churches." We sincerely hope
that the Protestant Preacher may be long continued,
and that it may be rendered eminently subservient to
the religious improvement of thousands of our coun-
trymen.

National Religion; or, the Voice of God to the Bri-
tish Church and Nation. By the Rev. R. Shatter,
Curate of Melcombe Horsey. London : Baisler.

This forms the first volume of a series of sermons
on the important subject of national religion, in which
the gifted author proposes to handle this subject ilx all
its bearings. The present volume contains fourteen
sermons on the following leading principles :—" God's
supreme dominion and universal authority"—" the
universal responsibility of man"—" God's revealed
will the only safe rule for all individual guidance, and
the only legitimate foundation for all national law"--
" the positive obligation of all who have received the
revealed will of God to conform to it, as the only sure
directory for all personal action, and the only solid ba-
sis for all policy and law"—and " princes and rulers,
as the positive servants of God, are bound to promote
the interests of his revealed will, and the honour of
his name." The style of these sermons is clear and
forcible, and the arguments are supplied from the store-
house of the sacred scriptures. We wish the work an
extended circulation.

The Marriage Ring. By Jeremy Taylor, D. D.
With Preface and Prayers, by the Rev. J. Cum
ming, A. M. London : Baisler. 1838.
The title of this little work carries with it its own
recommendation. Every thing which emanated from
the pen of Jeremy Taylor is well worth a careful pe-
rusal, and not one of his voluminous works is more so
than this eloquent and beautiful tract on the obliga-
tions of the marriage vow. The preface is also ex-
tremely well written. This little volume will form a
►ery suitable wedding gift.

The Cormiation : A Poem. With Reflections on the
Occasion. By Robert Rose. London : Longman.
Mr. Rose, the author of this poem, is well known
in Liverpool as the writer of several other productions
which are highly creditable to his feelings and his at-
tainments. The versification in this poem is smooth
and correct; whilst the language and imagery are
chaste and beautiful. We need scarcely add that the
sentiments &readied throughout are devotedly loyal.
Wilson's Border Tales. Part 47.
We always feel a .high degree of pleasure in re-
ceiving out- monthly part of this exquisite series.of
historical) traditional, and imaginative tales. They
Continue to be as interesting as ever. W e hope to be
able 'tic-00611qt to transfer sortie of the tales to our
avid ocdutnit& .-„.
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CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE FACTORY QUESTION.
. : _ (From the Times.)

Lord Ashley's motion on the state of factory legis•
lation, which, in our judgment, and we believe in that
of the country, would have thoroughly tested the pre-
sent House of Commons, has passed off again without
a debate, and we must rest contented for a few days
longer. Trickery there has been of the grossest kind,
but it is so clearly traceable to the pigmies in office,
that we shall say nothing of the House of Commons
on this occasion, aware that it has been put to no fair
trial, in consequence of the unexpected and extraordi-
nary course which things have taken. We have only
now to narrate, as briefly as we can, the circumstances
of the case; it will be a plain unvarnished tale, and,
unless we greatly deceive ourselves, the parties who
have been playing at their old game of "thimble-rig" ,
on this occasion will not find their account in it.
There will come a day of reckoning, they may rely
upon it. They will be caught at last.
The factory question, in the ordinary sense of the
term, is not a party question ; it never has been such,
and never ought to be. But if Lord Melbourne and
his colleagues are determined to make common cause
with a faction of millowners—men who " care not a
straw for the children," and who act upon the principle
laid down in the adage, " Get money, honestly if you
can—but get money," they will soon find a party op-
posed to them, which, merging all distinctions con-
nected with the old party names, will number in its
ranks every honest man in the kingdom, whatever be
the colour of his coat, the difference of his creed, or
his abstract notions of politics.
The first indication of the plot, which has thus far
been successful, is discoverable in the proceedings of
the House in the morning sittings. On the re-assem-
bling of the members at six o'clock, the mace during
the interval not having been removed, and it not being
necessary, therefore, to make a new house, the plot
concerted in the early part of the day was instantly
developed. The actors had settled their parts before-
hand, and the whole performance, the entire trick,
was over in two minutes. The clock struck six. A
considerable number of members were in attendance,
and many of those in the Government interest, as by
some sudden impulse, hurried into the new lobby. No
Cabinet Minister had arrived; the only ollicial men
who had taken their places were Mr. Labouchere, Mr.
Fox Maule, and Mr. Robert Steuart, a Lord of the
Treasury, and who, it is 'understood, might have a
better appointment, if he could calculate upon being
returned again to Parliament in case he vacated his
seat for the Haddington boroughs. " Kilkenny Jo-
seph," strongly suspected to be a millowner (such, at
least, is the opinion in Scotland), was one of the cats'-
paws upon this occasion. Mr. W. D. Gillon, the
member for the Falkirk districts (notoriously an ex-
pectant Lord of the Treasury), was another.
At six o'clock precisely, as we have already stated,
business commenced. Cunning Joseph, always ready
at a pinch, rose to moot a question of privilege. On
this point it was intended to occupy the time of the
House, if there had been an ample attendance of
members just then on the Opposition benches. In
justice to many who were absent at this moment, it is
here right to mention that a considerable number
(some thirty, we believe), alive to the importance of
the question, and most of them friendly to it, had been
down at the house in good time, and were actually
waiting close at hand, listening to a debate of some
interest in the Lords. On Lord Ashley's rising to
speak to order, Mr. Hume instantly sat down. At
two minutes past six Mr. Gillon, the other actor, rose
and moved that the house should be counted. Mr.
Steuart, the Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Pease, the
crocodile Quaker and great worsted manufactui er, who
appeared in Cambyses' vein the other evening, when
dilating upon the wrongs of the poor black children,
but who has no tears to spare for the poor little white
children here at home, many of whom are suffering
under a driving system (Mr. Pease will understand
what we mean) far more fatal than any practised upon
juvenile labourers in the West Indies—these two gen-
tlemen bolted, as it is called.
In the meantime the Speaker, with apparently as
hearty good will as he had ever shown in the perfor-
mance of any official duty, rapidly counted the house,
and could find but 36 members, there having been 39,
including himself, when he commenced counting. The
whole was done in a twinkling. An additional pause
(one he made, and only one) would have made all the
difference. As soon as all was perfectly safe, the
Home Secretary made his appearance, innocent, of
course, of all participation in the plot.
For our own part, we confess that we do not at all
regret what has occurred. It will, we feel assured, not
merely assist in thoroughly disabusing the minds of
the people, but, if anything be wanting to stimulate
and rouse the lagging energies of those in the manu-
facturing districts who have known what it is to feel
the sickening effect of hope deferred, it will be fur-
nished to a certainty by this despicable conduct.

A MINISTRY ON SUFFERANCE.
(From the Preston Pilot.)

The behaviour of the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel, in never failing to come to the rescue of
the incapable and mistrusted ministers in all their
greatest emergencies, has for some time past excited
very unpleasant feelings in the minds of the admirers
of the general conduct of those two eminent statts-
men • and tlatdp r
wa44, kit% these volunteer displays of ill-
timed assistance, may be well inferred from the cir--
cumstance that these opportune actions of support to
ministers in their need, are made the subjects of the
grossest flattery to his grace and the right hon. bar.
in all the chief organs of goverment. During the
present week, the administration has been actually
shielded from derision and contempt on two occasions,
solely by the ill-judged friendly interference of the
Duke of Wellirigton and Sir Robert Peel, the former
by the intrusion of his good services to Lord Mel-
bourne, whom Lord Brougham had pressed for the
production of those unknown instructions on which
the English naval force in the north of Spain is com-
manded to act, which authorize the commanders to in-
tercept all supplies to Don Carlos, although they may
be conveyed in the vessels of neartral powers: and
Sir Robert Peel, in suggesting, when ministers were
in their last extremity of hopelessness, to get the Irish
tithe bill passed in opposition to the wishes of O'Con
nell, a plan by which the clergy of Ireland will not be
better insured of their own inalienable rights, but by
which the landlords of Ireland will be partly relieved
from bearing a burden that they ought to support;
and it is a plan, moreover, so delightfully acceptable
to the tottering administration, whom it has saved
from an overthrow, that they will again readily sub-
mit, for the sweets of quarter-day, to deserve the con-
tempt of holding office by this sufrerance of their great
political opponents. We do therefore most sincerely
hope, that those who call themselves the leaders of the
conservatives, (and they have had the unlimited confi-
dence of that noble party) will not thus give occasion
to their friends entertaining a doubt that the welfare
of the good cause is promoted by such actions.