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title; Doctrinal and Practical. By the Rev. W. A.
The 44111• A• Dublin : Hodges and Smith.
leas th- or of these eloquent and scriptural addresses
Bity of Dub professor of moral philosophy in the Univer-
bY the fn,h—cut off in the prime of life and usefulness
wa.v_se,r yrl?ich, in 1847, desolated the sister country.
lertit4) brilliant ornament of Irish literature and has
°f his i eSe Pages an imperishable record of the vastness
of L. ritellectuai resources, and of the depth and fulness
his Christi
'erne an experience. Every line is pregnant with
pine
as it scriptural truth, expressed in
.lanpitage
lectilai
_it. s rarely our privilege to peruse—offering in el-
ls bcau`t.,Joyment and religious improvement. The work
taiver !I°llY printed by the publishers to the Dublin
tag and ought to be in the possession of every sin-
-4_,°llstian. The volume contains twenty-six.sermons
et„i„ anion to
ilerltlY useful
an extremely interesting memoir of the.
elife of the reverend author written by
Chu! T. Woodward. From the discourse entitled
isstru c`l'e
ar Education Oin
i Ireland" we take the following
guments
tia`' New, r NATIONAL EDUCATION.
'le. object sought by all these projects of yish ot too ueation is union on terms of absolute equality.
.It is
11,.°Wed,fliTuchlt to assume this, it is universally and explicitly
. e
.very same political governors who advocate a
Irstin 'incational grant in England, insist that a combined
trolti,„%required in Ireland where the differences are more
a dist"' and irreconcilable; and they do so on the plea that
ehearteted country union becomes the sovereign principle
veopposelunion on any terms and at any price.
.To this
the as truth as the master idea of public instruction, and
Pretn,„nincli union as • tible with the recognised su-
-I',nylis: of that truth 'in everyschool. And on this issue is
/I'Lateittnatrisginnent for union is sometimes dexterously inter-
ti is, it •"° very assertion of a national system of education ;
is assumed that education, to be universal, must be
thos,'„lbough, in point of fact, it is now well known that
Clir.rpe'in°ntinental models to which our modern educators
or" alto"allY appealing, the principle of uniformity has been
6. the pec;gether incompatible with the religious distinctions
orlePtion tVe- In this way the objection recurs.—the petulant
of ail
,the advocates of a purely secular.ealightenme
et,
i4lllglitenrnent whose appendix of religious doctrines
o';_igned at once byChristian, Mahomedap, andeHr Inndtaa
~z4tta
uunriu,nera/oldable diffretresattoo
ns9tan,ereowreetvo have no
abniNt'Pe.achinrr tyls which thee' nuaction ca. n combine? Is the
di4 BjoaitNn of peace and love to be evermore the source
And firstgle dissension?' Here it is obviously necessary to
trains of thought which are substantially different.
iVe 11) a word on the universality of national instruction.
i saglits.re for ever deceiving ourselves by words without
t'aese ; 444 perhaps it might be truly said that the most
for' itielltTn°rdsarew words mtoi-which we attach little or no de-
the `e Of the"g: For my own part I cannot acknowledge the
tta,ajere no.Foarm which, with such numbers, encompasses
4,,,P1 by i Patio of a common or national education. I undez-
tfl,by illnal education,' education by and of the nation;
oation an ideal aggregate whose sole reality is
.in
4'411 1."„'!als that comose it. Resolved, then, into its
that :""Oiects thisprinciple can amount only to the.ass.er-
b 18 right
jai ,e well brofor the nation to provide that every indivi-
quaot very noght vi
ta a veseryltoget unquestionable
idbut cer-
her undeced the
ae~aio'e to hick aree'toangetlermeinve the true character of the
"e given. To educate the nation is not in itself
tionajed ttslver ' 4 blessing ; it may be the worst of evils in virtue
bY Universality The clergy of the united Church are
EgiLn„eir ordinry slanderers as the opponents of Na-
lis'qt or-4"on • but to pause—though we stood alone in the
01 edit' enthusiasm—when we hear this cry
.of na-
-1 h'alt to-c.ahliell, and hear no more, it is not a proof.of
ti,',"toof oi'le sPread of knowledge, any more than it Irould be
lorana they I,shumanity in a board of medical commissioners,on
11. ear of a gratuitous supply of food to the nation,
iteroaurie'r approval until they
.bad examined. itsacTinaleinyt.
litt la dire eed it not disguised poison
.but genuine I
stri,ase it „„,el Proportion to the universality of the suppl‘y, just
national' food would be the propriety typos their
h t Preraat- its '
141,;12.14,1,11,e__a,Poi:s°ties of National Education, in this and the
14;ieetti,.nif`.?r,mits„uaoltlyerucclautdioeni.n their calculations a certain
Th principle of union, tbe
°f differences the sacrifice of all petty disagree- '
ills; kid be shrine shrine of science, is the idea which sheds its true
ktueld be teauty u
„ pon their project. That an entire.country
NO Of p„?., 401-Med into one vast academy, with its thiou-
sta,l
to
ardently engaged in the pursuit of knowlec ge,
11lei 0 to rough the whole vast scene no rude vm.ce should be
.;„ i'osturb the serenity with a breath of dissension, all
thell ever admitted admitted truths of science, and no other truths
Tveiv nfered to interfere with that agreement,—this. is
lktja sernvia,ion which fascinates so many, and to realize
alOorsWten has been surrendered. But here again we are
Tners of a name. Union in itself is no assured
!•
te ,ie That they
value be all one,'
.said Christ, lint it vi as
4131;4 obi
The of the union depends on its basis
eta,`"tessi,---`,- And for that union which is cemented by the
to -a et all which makes the Gospel, that God Incarnate
- Pubr
•!sii, rise above the morality of enlightened hea-
q.ation,whi,:h casts aside all in which revelation is. insdeteed_as
tn_Datc.„_astid Pretends to clothe shivering souls in
whhiedh
4't.i.of its moral sentences,—for
t41)0, in n that can really consolidate the union. of hearts and
eo4r-tl, "Joer that children may read and write at the same.
.."aion of the desk and the class-roll,—for this, I
Neltein.;ave little value and little respect. But does such_a_
itaidon it even the nominal, and temporary, and super:
INN Pro Poses ? If the parties be numerically unequ
_I,
01,0tgedevItahly lost in ascendancy ? if they be equal., in
etg:ouro,nand bitter hostility If, without authori.zintiu
ttahiteB decision you separate them from. their religious
4(14 iyl;,,'° You no't deepen the distinction in the. tiv‘a.o ti.re You profess to conciliate? if you combine them,
r,riise the distinction by erasing everything distnic-
ttie,olC'glen along with it ? If such a union could be Me-
aleal 4,11 ch terms, would it be. justifiable?
_What_tnisstel?f
eordterence between a conspiracy against (ed Hi
th bssq tiPsation, such that the first.definite aowledge.
hot, earls 'a truth must tend to break it ? Is it right to bind
tallilkils of children together on such a principle as that the
liisaZteet be shattered when they think of heaven ?—that they
810'`taii,' and love, and be one in spirit, as long as Christ and
Ille'i•tiare forgotten ; but that the, moment when that
of Qlbuld be the animating principle of our thoughts,
tai this °lir
life, is uppermost, the union vanishes? What
whiapount to, but to make the forg' that
ottkotliere:l Worketh by love' the only safeguardetfulness forol ovi n g
14, me sch • With, indeed, the whole spirit and management
t-eapyp°,°l perpetual assertion of divine truth,7the exclu-
-41;,"a of ZaeY of that truth everywhere recognised in
.the
tad Y (asschool, in its master, in its forms, we may jus-
kr; N)eaLL'le Society for which I speak proposes to do) allow.
ettir,-,"'age the dissident to enter and receive the pmethee
ea„l:ee 1.,„"„" God from our Church's hands, even though li
no more; this is, as it were, a parallel system of
tai`stlthn`° Meet the occasional difficulties, not. to supersede
apeo.
tY, of law, and is safe as
truth
as it is in safei hands ,
tr)-b,"`r!), the tmendancy of and its recogntion,
AleatiCinakce the lifeless residue a basis of Christian union, is
` essentially false, and narrow, and impracti cable,
sih/Int est.
tV.l'leti:.° beyond this I will venture to go. I doubt the de-
Niltrhtlaisi's of the ,
isunion ere it ever so complete, conusns
et riy:
ey4strTed as ours 'The peace of. God t
th the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
Grp' INv ese are priceless blessings indeed; but
.the peace o
~Dhif;l4ten be purchased too dearly. No sacrifioe seems to
°‘sll in-thropists too costly for united education ev.en
tel,4llo,„,',eould possess it, ought we earnestly to ask it 7
~4c(ltioily,`" numerical inferiority of our people ; rye know the
4,1 'liar, °f that dexterous and versatile faith which so aptly
trdlite,-,,ates itself to every aspect and position of man. We
iSi:°l.itow to be taught its spells to enchant, or its terrors
N ad 4n,...,nd even were it in our power to insure a unionto far
Illth'eady that is; or ever can be practicable, ought we be
_
'tad .lada,v) eXpose our youthful charges to the influence f
‘atlio:Nents, backed by all that numbers, and examp e,
''tY, can bring to aid them?"
e 00,
°4ial Magazine. London : John Mortimer,
-a
with Beaufort-buildings, Strand.
4. sor,e,erit number of this valuable magazine opens
• LecY
,v,valuable abstract of the prize essay, by Mr.
4itioe--( uert's
On Improvements for Growing
,and Manu-
l„lee 7,41,'111gar in the British Possessions,' to which
gold medal was awarded by his Royal
4t1444,4' at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Zit ttibieures! and Commerce, last month. Amongst
i,)eell,,,,tiadi:iliesdtilan,ganpa:aears is one on cotton-planting in Bra-
in Tenekuela • short account of the railways pro-
description of the infant settlement
8 p"tlett-all' in which the ignorance displayed by Mr.
th;'lPos ;14 his recent attack upon the Rajah of Sarawak,
efet-h in a way which ought to bring a_blush to the
e self-sufficient apostle of free-trade.
to~ierer:,b,eqfr Englandis Quarterly Review. London :
%V 311 u W. E. Painter, Strand.
more than usually full of matter inte-
leq Of the general reader, whilst it contains several
lof bla,reat merit upon those subjects which it pro-
so Prominently to discuss, which, however, are
IKOf th"Struse a character as to attract only the atten-
iCtioa theologian. One of the best of the latter de-
of 8 able review of a translation, recently pub-
(l,o4, a,4,WOrk by the Abbe Balmer, entitled " Protes-
tla,'Nie;,'u. Catholicity compared in their effects on the
• kt*iif ~(4 Europe ;" and, amongst those of the former
ljhich "e, read with great interest a sparkling review
thee„w s Memoirs of the Life of Lord Nelson, in
tl4l-"Itot rereor-.1 history of the hero of the Nile and Lady
h A t_ 1 is.
(14,,„'s ae, admirably epitomised. Another paper of this
ehe'',,"rta,icrew of Eliot Warburton's Memoirs of Prince
ktkletE, the Cavaliers, in which the reader will find the
trot,,i,eall: ;his chivalrous scion of a noble race most
E4lB' SKetched. We have marked several extracts
uarterly for insertion.

VARIETIES.

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"undividediki gA i i.—halfNewof a nOergl r oeta .n'
he
lloral)l'ing to beNT, ,to editor " dow_iialaeeasata"dsaaydsetahtah has
l auie to present a mar- ~.
p, vi, atter for his columns ; but a heavy thaw broke
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otlll4_BßV;;,,ifAlf,. erald states that the
.Rev. Dr. M'Farlane, of
rt„e‘r..da,,,t-i, livered a brilliant oration at Dunfermline, the
re,,‘'`‘ip,...'" ,sut the reporter despatches it in four lines, re-
Ttitt, The reporter
ristenintgoo,vercame the duty of
joss pee. aur pencil was idle .. . . •
C " thi IYed a letter yesterday containing sixpence, and
itfries s injunction inscribed over the addressa
.".aTkoe of 4,4 bpincis sorters—Don't steal this sixpence ja a 1
!vilY 84,da,?v., as you did last week, and so deprive me
'fh,:el -tineipaPpr.''---.Leeds Tiiris.
, I,\ he e,i,idnBAire Times, speaking of an individual
Ntth I'lll riottlY doe? not wis.h.to comliment, says-
-4 or than.
,even indicate the initial letter of his name,
it, osperpa .°Y observing, that if, as the poets says,. "it
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n for
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kp s4't Be like a ribber at low tide ?" "No,
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ki v(s ha 3 ,le,„ ;10 similarity in de two subjects, so.dai:to
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tii it Well de muse/4
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evii°Patel,,`_T juice of the nettle becomes flexible.. _ Dr.oiir
t‘;il)lantsv;Uo has made the medicinal properties of 4'4,, e itiie,elllB Peculiar study, states that lint dipped
tin()
hiLtile bleeding RI Put up the nostril, has been kfiown
qr,`„'-,; nu of the nose when all other remedies have
litip,',44 iatit sads that fourteen or fifteen of the Eels_
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A lady wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass,
" 'God did at first make man upright : but he"—
to which a gentleman added,
" Most surely had continued so, but she"
ALMS TO A BOSNIAN ROBBERY.—Another of the com-
pany had made several journeys into Bosnia some years
ago, when travelling was less secure than now, and one of
his anecdotes reminded me of a well-known adventure in
" Gil Blas." One of the polite robbers to avoid unne-
cessary strife, laid his cloak in the middle of the road on
the approach of a traveller, and, according to the custom
of the country, awaited a donation, well-armed as a sti-
mulus to liberality ; but our Dalmatian was not to be
caught so easily. Pulling up his horse, he laid his hand
on a pistol in his holster, and thus addressed him :
" Unhappy mendicant, I pity your condition ; you are
able to work and be rich, and yet prefer idleness, and the
prospect of being impaled. Charity is a duty incumbent
on Turk and Chi istian and lam most happy to give you
what you deserve." So, instead of taking a ducat out of
his purse, he took a leaden bullet from his pouch, an*
dropping it on the cloak, remarked, that, if applied by the
rogue to himself, it would save him being hanged. The
robner was so astonished that his eyes opened, and his
jaw dropped, and the Dalmatian, executing a caracol, lest
he should pay him in the coin he had given, cantered on
out of sight.—Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic.
A STRANGE SCENE OF RECONCILIATION.—Being now
of age [James the Sixth and First] and the last of his
family, he determined on matrimony, and opened a nego-
ciation with Denmark to that effect, directing his whole
energies in the meanwhile to the reduction of his king-
dom to peace and quietness, anticipative of the happy
prospect before him. His first object was to appease the
hereditary feuds which either raged or smouldered
throughout the kingdom. Crawford and Glamis, Mon-
trose and Angus, were the chief delinquents. These, and
other hereditary enemies, he invited to a sumptuous ban-
quet at Holyrood-house, and persuaded them to pledge to
him and to each other friendship and good understanding
for the future. This reconciliation was solemnised after
a singular fashion. "After supper," says Mr. Chambers.
" the whole party sallied out of the palace into the streets
of the neighbouring city, exactly in the guise in which
they had sat at table, that is without sword and doublet,
and, ranging themselves into a column, walked hand in
hand to the Market Cross, the King at their head, sup-
ported by his kinsman, Hamilton, and they themselves
each side by side with the particular individual against
whom he had lately borne the most deadly hostility. So
strange a procession attracted an immense crowd; and it
was not without feelings of the highest gratification that
the peaceable citizens beheld a scene which seemed to
betoken a conclusion to all civil war in the country. The
magistrates, according to the report of one of their fellow
citizens, went in advance of the procession, dancing for
very joy. The prisoners for debt were liberated from
gaol ; the Cross was hung with tapestry, and planted with
trumpeters and singers ; the gibbets, which had stood
there for years, to execute the numerous victims of civil
discord, were hewed down and burnt ; and, a long table
being placed upon the street, the King and the nobles sat
down and partook of a civic banquet, while every window
and outer stair in the neighbourhood displayed a similar
scene of feasting and social joy. After all the individuals
formely at feud had publicly shaken hands with each
other, and drunk to each other's health, the whole re-
turned in similar order to the palace, amidst music, the
firing of cannon, and the blessings of a people which
seemed absolutely transported:with joy.—Lord Lindsay's
Life.
STORMING OF A VILLAGE IN THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF
GOOJERAT.--Our men, who had been held down all this
time, started up with a cheer. It was the last some of
them gave, poor fellows ! A round shot took off a man's
head close to me, and spattered his brains in my face, the
bullets whizzing about like hail—and as we came nearer,
grape was poured into us, but not a man wavered for a
second. " Officers to front—Lead on your men !" shouted
the major; and we sprang forward amidst a shower of
balls, dashed across a deep nullah, gave one rattling vol-
ley, and poured into the village at every point. Many of
the Sikhs stood and fought like men, but the greater por-
tion (there must have been at least I 000) left the village
at one end as we entered the other. Those who remained
were shot or bayoneted on the spot. There was no quar-
ter given. A number of them shut themselves up in the
houses, but our men beat down the doors, and poured in
volley after volley, and sullenly and savagely they died
fighting to the last. We captured three of their standards
in the village and then, leaving the left wing to keep
possession, we defiled to the right ; and found ourselves
under a hot fire of grape and canister, totally unsupported,
as we had advanced in front of the whole line to storm
the village, and the troop of horse-artillery had been
obliged to retire. being temporarily disabled. This was
the roost deadly fire we were exposed to during the day,
the balls hissing about like winged serpents. I was talk-
ing to Sprot, and made some remark about the fire, and
he answered me with a smile, and I turned my head to
watch Fordyce's troop of horse-artillery coming up again
to our support ; when I looked round, Sprot was lying at
my feet in his blood. I tried to raise him, but he was
stone-dead. A ball had struck him on the back of the
head, and entered the brain. And there he lay—the
finest young fellow in the corps —the life and soul of the
mess, beloved by all—struck down in his prime. The
smile was on his lips as when he spoke to me last; and
but for the blood that bedabbled his hair, and the cold
blue hue about his lips and eyelids, you would have
fancied him in a peaceful sleep—so calm, so painless was
the expression of his countenance. He was one of my
chief friends ; but it was no time for lamentation ; and,
after taking ono long gaze at his pallid face, a moment
ago so full of life and manly beauty, I rejoined my com-
pany.—Fraser. --
A. TRAGIC STORY.—Should a high caste female form a
criminal intimacy with a man of lower caste, it has fre-
quently oecurred, that when the connexion is discovered
by the woman's family, the life of the paramour is taken
by the incensed relatives, who do not consider the act ei-
ther criminal or sinful under the circumstances alluded to,
and formerly the woman's life was taken by the head of
her family. It is lamentable to reflect upon the excesses
which a mistaken sense of honour will lead mankind into,
frequently causing the most powerful feelings of our na-
ture to be sacrificed ; and we do not believe that it can be
exemplified more than in the following narrative. The
daughter of a high caste Kandian became attached to a
man of lower caste than her family. The girl entreated
Tier parents to allow her to marry the man—their consent
was refused, and they forbade her to hold further commu-
nication with her lover, stating it was utterly impossible
that they could allow their family to be disgraced by an
alliance with a man of lower caste than themselves. The
maiden pleaded her devoted affection for her lover, stating
that if her parents persisted in withholding their sanction,
she should be rendered wretched, for without the society
of her lover, life would be to her a dreary desert. Neither
tears, supplications, nor entreaties could move the parents
from their stern resolve, and the girl quitted their pre-
sence in mute despair. Some months afterwards the re-
latives discovered that the unfortunate creature " had
loved not wisely, but too well," and had sacrificed her
honour. In vain the girl pleaded her lover's willingness,
and anxious desire to make all the reparation in his power,
by marrying her—the father severely reprimanded her for
proposing (in his estimation) to entail increased degrada-
tion upon the family, addine, that the only method which
remained to obliterate the dishonour which she had
brought on her family, was by giving her own life, and that
it was his fixed resolve to immolate her. An ancient su-
perstition prevails in Kandy, that when a family of high
caste has formed an intimacy with an inferior, the family
honour will remain unsullied and untarnished if the wo-
man be put to death by her relatives; and in pursuance
of this barbarous usage, the father sacrificed his child.
Immediately this revolting murder came to the knowledge
of the authorities, a warrant was issued for the apprehen-
sion of the assassin—the father did not attempt to make
his escape, and when upon his trial openly declared that
he bad taken his daughter's life, having a perfect right so
act under the circumstances, for the purpose of vindicat-
ing the family honour • and he firmly contended that the
British authorities had no jurisdiction over the domestic
government of a Kandian 's household or family. Sen-
tence of death was passed upon the man, who protested to
the last moment of his existence that he had been fully
justified in taking the life of the daughter, and that we
had no right to intermeddle with family arrangements.—
Ceylon and the Cingalese.
HAS ROMANISM PROMOTED CIVILIZATION ?—For nine
centuries that church held a dominancy of usurpation in
England ; yet no advance in civilization adequate to the
period of her dominancy—adequate to that power of civi-
lizing, which Dr. Balmez claims for her, was made. The
household book of the Duke of Northumberland, written
not long before the Reformation, shows the low estate of
agriculture and of every useful art throughout the land,
as well as the want of domestic comfort even in the family
of a powerful nobleman ; whilst the accounts of Erasmus,
Holingshed, and others, prove that at the period of the
Reformation little if any advance had been made since the
Norman Conquest in the internal economy of the pea-
sant's home. It is, after all, in the homes of the masses,
and not in the courts of princes, that we must ascertain
the nature and amount of any civilization effected. If the
Romish Church possesses inherently, and as an inseparable
attribute of her constitution, the faculty of civilizing which
is ascribed, surely she had sufficient opportunity for its
manifestation during the long period of the middle ages,
when none dared, even if they desired, to dispute her rule ;
but what was the condition of the peasantry in every land
where she was all powerful ? What is the condition of
the Italian peasant at this present hour ? Is it in any
degree better than that of his heathen ancestor ? There
arc to be found in the vicinity, and even in the very heart,
of the imperial city, hordes of men living in brute igno-
rance and brute discomfort. For centuries Rome has
been full of priests ; prince-prelates, and popes have held
undisputed sway in their own strong-hold. With all the
peculiar machinery of the Romish Church at their com-
mand—with perfect facilities for the most ample develop-
ment of every element of social civilization which the
Romish Church is said to possess—rigorously excluding
the spirit of Protestantism, and teaching the poor to re-
gard its principles as promulgated by Satan and identical
with Atheism, they have surely made of her population
an enlightened and civilized people ? They have done no
such thing ! On the contrary, she has kept them for
centuries in the same condition. Hence the obedience of
the Romans has been unintelligent—their newly-found
liberty is at this moment ferocious license. With the fear
of the savage they have been servile under restraint : with
the cruel eagerness of the savage wh-n he breaks his bonds,
they thirst for the blood of those whom they were supposed
to have regarded with veneration. Reduce them once
more, and they will cower and tremble like whipped
hounds—licking the hands of the men whom they now
hunt to death. Lately, at Rome, they murdered three
unhappy Jesuits, whose only offence was the badge of
their order. Not content with simple assassination they
cut them into pieces, and "threw (says the account) the
quivering portions into- the Tiber !" Some of these mis-
creants, a few months ago, would probably have stood in
trembling awe before these very men, believing. them to
be the arbiters of their eternal destiny. If Rome can
civilize, why has she not civilized her Italia population.
—Church of England Quarterly Review.