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They also waste

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titout a foundation, falls

When these enormous

ocky masses

at some distance

I clap of thunder

After the

, its character, observes Capt.
...fa completely changed. It then runs
bottom of a deep wall-sided valley, or
„e trench, which has been cut into the horizontal strata by
the continued action of the stream during the lapse of ages.
The bed of the 'river here is strewed over with huge frag-
ments of rock ; the cliffs on 1-

passed over the Falls

furiously along tlx

~ are in most places

perm

e raw

only perceived on approach-
The waters, which expand at

of the r

Falls, where they are divided by the- island, are con-
tracted again, after their union, into a stream not more than
160 yards broad. It is remarkable that the water of the pool
into which the cataract is precipitated, and that of the nar-
row channel immediately below, instead of being in a
state of tremendous agitation, is so tranquil as to allow a

ferry-boat to cross with ease; and even to approach within
the reach of the spray, without experiencing any un-
usual motion. Various explanations have been offered of
this phenomenon. According to Mr. Gibson, the vast body
of sea-green water, instead of plunging deep as a solid column
would do into the sheet below, is drawn out in its descent of
160 feet into white rolls of attenuated foam. He conceives,
therefore, that most of the water falls lightly in the form of
spray, and the force of the rest is broken by the debris which
lie immediately at the foot of the fall. When the Falls were
visited in 1829 by Mr. R. Bakewell, jun., he ascertained
from a person who had lived 40 years in that part of the
country, and had been the first settler there, that during that
period the Falls on the Canada side had receded 40 or 50
yards, in consequence of the continued removal of the shale,
and undermining of the limestone, above described. It

seems difficult to speculate on the future rate of recession of
the Falls, for as they retreat the height of the precipice
may be reduced or augmented by the varying hardness of
the rocks, the division of the stream by islands, and other
modifying circumstances. If in the course of many thou-
sand years the Falls should reach , Lake Erie, 23 miles dis-
tant, that lake might be effectually drained, inasmuch as the
present height of the Falls far exceeds the greatest depth
of the lake. It has been supposed that in this case the
sudden escape of the water might occasion a deluge on the
low lands bordering Ontario ; but in reply, M. De la Beche
has objected, that as the bottom of Lake Erie shelves very
gently from the shore, the discharge, even after the cataract
had receded to the lake, would take place gradually, and it
would require time before the river channel was cut back to
where the water is deepest. It may also be questioned whe-
ther the entire area of Lake Erie may not be,converted into
dry land before the Falls recede to its shores, so shallow is
this lake, its average depth being only 10 or 12 fathoms, and
and so fast is it filling up with sediment.

?.CCLESIASTIC
NTELLI AL AND UNIVERSITY
IGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
In consequence of the lamented death of Mrs. Wilberforce,
we believe that no Bampton Lectures will be delivered in the
University Pulpit this year.

PROMOTIONS.
Rev. J. Symons, 8.D., Rector of Radnage, Bucks, and
Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire, to be Chaplain to R.
Lane, Esq., High Sheriff for the county of Bucks.
Joseph Harris, 8.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to
the Second Mathematical Mastership in the city of London
School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Cock, M.A.
Rev. Aaron Rogers, M.A., is licensed by the Lord Bishop
of the Diocese, to the Perpetual Curacy of the church of the
district parish of the Holy Trinity, Bristol, vacant by the
cession of the Rev. Thomas Fryer Jennings, on the nomina-
tion of John Scandrett Harford, Esq., A. G. H. Battersby,
Esq., and others,
Rev. C. Carpenter, 8.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord

BeaUmont.
Rev. W. H. Brookfield, Curate of St. James's Piccadilly
to be Morning Preacher at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel
Regent-street, London.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M. A., late scholar of Tri-
nity college, in this university, and late university theological
erOsse scholar, has been instituted by the right rev. the Lord
Bishop of Exeter to the rectory of Columb Major, in the
county of Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. John Tre-
fusis, M.A. Patron Edmund Walker, Esq;
Alfred Wrigley, Esq., 8.A., of StJohn s college, in this
university, has been appointed by the directors of the East
India Company, mathematical master of the Artillery and
Engineers' Seminary, at Addiscombe, Surrey.
Thomas Evans, Esq., 8.A., of St. John's college, in this
university, has been appointed classical master of Shrews-

bury GrtiMmar School.
The Rev. G. Newnham, of Trinity college, in this univer-
sity, has been appointed curate of Shaw Melksham, in the
county of Wilts.
The Rev. T. Reynolds, of Pembroke College, in this uni-
versity, has been appointed curate of Stanford, in Essex.
The Rev. J. Kitton, of Queen's College, in this university,
has been appointed to the incumbency of the District Church
of Houghton, near Carlisle.
The Rev. T. Holdieh, M.A., of Clare Hall, in this univer-
sity, and rector of IVlaidvvell, Northamptonshire, has been
preferred to the rectory of Draughton, in the same county,
vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Griffin. Patron, H. H.
Hungerford, Esq.—Value, £343.
The Rev. C. H. Bromley,'of St. John's College, in this
university, has been appointed to the head mastership of the
Ltannnv Prnnrietary School.

DOCTOR COOKE AND REV. T. D. GREG(

The following document has been published by the deputa-
tion which waited on these reverend gentlemen. Three of
the members are Presbyterians, four Episcopalians, and one

a Methodist :
" We, the undersigned, having been appointed a deputation
to communicate to the Rev. Dr. Cooke and the Rev. T. D.
Gregg, the resolution unanimously adopted by a most influ-
ential public meeting, held here on the Ist instant, strongly
disapproving of the proposed discussion between those gen-
tlemen, earnestly desiring that it should be abandoned, can
not but deeply regret, that Mr. Gregg should have declined
yielding to the wishes of that meeting. And, at the same
time, we feel called on to express the satisfaction we expe-
rienced from the manner in which Dr. Cooke received the
Deputation, and the desire he manifested to sacrifice his
own feelings in deference to them. And he having placdd
the matter entirely in our hands, we beg to state it as our
decided opinion, that (notwithstanding the steps since taken
by Mr. Gregg), for the sakd of Protestant peace and union,
Dr. Cooke should not enter on this discussion.
"JOHN CHkINE, Deane of Connor.
"A. C. MAcArcrNEY, Vicar of Belfast.
" DANIEL WAFEE, Wesleyan Minister.
" DAVID HAMILTON, Presbyterian Minister.

"'JOHN M

iNVMULVOLLAND

" JAMES BLAIR
Belfast, March 3, 1841."

MAYNOOTH COLLEGI

Mr. Daniel O'Connell denies that the teaching at May-
nooth goes to impugn the sanctity of an oath, and with that
Jesuitical denial of cherished opinions, which even Maho-
medanism would repudiate, he proceeds to apostrophize upon
the misrepresentation of the meek Abbes, perpetrated by
Sergeant Jackson. Now, what is the testimony of one of
the. class books of Maynooth ? By the Priests Directory of
1835, Den's Theology is declared to be " the best book ever
published on that subject," and this work is proved, beyond
a question, to be a class book of the Irish Popish college.
What will our readers say, then, to find, that so daring in in-
iquity was Peter Dens that he has devoted a whole chapter
of his work to illustrations " De Juramento simulato " ."
of
pretended swearing." (Dens, vol. IV., p. 190, eoyne,
Dublin.) In this portion of what the Roman Catholic
bishops declared in council to be " the best theological work
ever PUBLISHED," we have the following i--
"Q. An juramentum si- " Question. Whether an
mulatum faetum per verba oath, apparently made by
exterius serio probato, sed words seriously spoken, but
cum intentione interiors non with the inward intention of
jurandi est verum jurarnen- not swearing, is a true and
mentum et obligatiorum ? binding obligation ?
"R. Negative, eo quad ju- "Answer. We answer ne-
ramentum movet testimo-
gatively, because as to that
nium Dei, qui internam in- the oath invokes the testi-
tentione aspicit et ita sine many of God, who beholds
intentione jurandi nunquara the inward intention, so with-
juratur." out the intention of swearing
it is never sworn."
Now, here is an open advocacy of mental reservation and
perjury, and that inculcated in a class book of Maynooth.
But this is, not, by any means, the worst portion of the work.
There are laid clown in it THIRTY-THREE DIFFERENT PROMISES, AND
MODES OF VOIDING LAWS,
OATHS !
By the rules propounded laws may be made void
in eleven modes, (Vol. 11., Ip. 3630 promises in five modes,
(Vol. 111., p. 297,) vows in seven modes, (Vol. IV., p. 129,)
and OATHS IN TEN MODES, (Vol. IV., p. 214.)
So much for the morality of Maynooth, and the veracity
of Mr. Daniel O'Connell.

Romances are a dangerous recreation. 'Tis like dining
every day on sweetmeats ; it palls your appetite for whole,
some food, and at length makes you hate the sweetmeats too.