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ters of discipline

Corinth tl:

' and drink of that cup.' He wrote, also, concern-
-cmage to be used in the public worship of God,
' a language " understanded of the people,"
hearer might be able to say Amen
to the giving of thanks ; for that, otherwise, the speakers
and hearers would be as barbarians to one another. If,
in defiance of this, the Corinthian Church had adopted a
',le, rendered imperative by their local ecclesiastical au-
'ties, by which the use of the cup in the Lord's Sup-
always confined to the officiating ministers of the
and never extended to the congregation ; and
Another rule, by which the most solemn services of the
Church in public worship were always conducted in a fo-
reign and dead language ; it would have been palpable
'onteropt of the Apostles to have recognised that Church
any longer an apostolical Church.—The Church and
"*Q bu the Rev. H. AP.2\reile.

per WM
Chard

PAYS OF MONKEYS.—Iie (Major Rogers) had once
ted the invitation of a brother officer, in a totally
ent part of the island, to try a few day's hostilities
st the elephants of that neighbourhood, and bad
cnnrt. to within a mile or two of the

host and hostess were awaiting his
by a delightful cool-looking river,
would be the most renovating luxury
3n existence; so a plunge he determined to take, sending
on his servants with the guns, and an intimation that in
ten minutes be would be home to dinner. So stripping,
anti placing his things very carefully on a stone, he began
- "apital swimmer, and

bungalow w
arrival,
be a

;ht a plu

,ter. 'He

warn to some distance, when, to his h

rror and dis-
-4..ft his habil-

may, on

a dozen monkeys "overhauling" his
ie ! One was putting bis legs through the
is shirt ; another clamming its head into

geeyes of h

his tro7

easure was

concealed in I

a boot ;

whilst the hat formed a source of
two or three others,

vent and amusement to sorr

who were endeavouring to unravel its mystery by unrip-
and taking half-a-dozen bites out of the
as he regained his mental equilibrium (for
ng was so ridiculous that it made him laugh heartily,
thatanding his disgust at seeing his garments turned
, vile purposes"), he made with all haste to the shore;
loge of his horror when he saw these " precious ras-
each catch up what he could lay bold of, and rattle
_1 speed into the jungle, not leaving poor Rogers even
the vestige of an article of raiment to cover himself! All
he heard was a glorious chattering, as they one by one dis-
appeared, the last one lugging off his shirt, which, being
rather awkward to carry, was continually tripping it up,
by getting between its legs. Here was a pret!), pickle for
a man, under a broiling sun ! and here he staid till the in-
mates of the bungalow, beginning to suspect some acci-
dent, came out in search, ann found poor Rogers sitting
up to his neck in water. in a frame of body and mind
which may be "more easily imagined than described."—
J eminiecences # the late Major Rogers.

As soo

ORIGIN OF LYNCH LAw.—John Lynch, the terrible
judge, was a native of South Carolina, who emigrated to
Kentucky shortly after the pioneer, Daniel Boone, had
established himself there. Toe settlers on " the dark
and bloody ground," as Kentucky was then called, were
far from any seat of justice ; the nearest court-house
being at a distance of 450 miles. The appointment of
Lynch, es a judge, and the first exercise of his jurisdic-
tion, took place in the case of an Indian, who stole a horse
from Daniel Boone. The Indian was caught, almost in
the act, and Boone immediately instituted a court, and
twelve jurors, to try the offence. John Lynch was elected
chief justice. The Indian was tried, convicted, and sen-
tenced to receive 39 stripes, which were forthwith given.
The authority thus given to Lynch was retained by him,
and trials under " Lynch law" were had, whenever an
outrage was committed. Lynch was a daring dissolute
fellow, addicted to every species of vice. It had not been
alleged, 'nowever,: that his decisions were partial or un-
just. He outlived Boone, and resided during the latter
part of his life, on an island in the Mississippi. The
author of the geography of the Mississippi speaks of him
as one of those remarkable men of the " buccaneers of
the west."

TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN ITALY.—It is not un-
usual to see, lying on the edge of the tank at these times,
or on another flat stone, an unfortunate baby. tightly
swathed up, arms and legs and all, in an enormous quan-
tity of wrapper, so that it is unable to move a toe or finger.
This custom (which we often see represented in old pic-
tures) is universal anion: the common people. A child is
left any where without the possibility of crawling away,
or is accidentally knocked off a shelf, or tumbled out of
bed, or is hung up to a nook now and then, and left dang-
ling like a doll at an English rag-shop, without the least
inconvenience to anybody. I was sitting one Sundiy, soon
after my arrival, in the little country church of San Mar-
tino, a couple of miles from the city, while a baptism took
place. I saw the priest, and an attendant with a large
taper, and a man and a woman, and some others ; but I
had no more idea, until the ceremony was all over, that it
was a baptism, or that the curious little stiff instrument
that was passed from one to another in the course of the
ceremony by the handle—like a short poker—was a child,
than I bad that it was my own christening. I borrowed
the child afterwards for a minute or two, (it was lying
across the font then,) and found it very red in the face,
but perfectly quiet, and net to be bent upon any terms.

The number of cripples in the streets soon ceased to sur-
prise me.—Dicken s Pictures from Italy.
Ax APOSTOLICAL MINISTER.-1f we sec an ordained
na'nister commending the scriptures, explaining the scrip.
tures, endeavouring, by judicious patient, and persever-

ing efforts, that men, women, and children may have op-
portunity " to hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly di-
gest" the contents of the sacred volume ; here we see a
' worker together with God,' and in this particular,, at

see an or-

least, an apostolical minister, according to
scription of such. On the other hand, if w
dained minister, whether bishop or presbyter, opposing
reading of the Scriptures by the people generally, on
lea that through the ignorance of the people, and the

,re, more injury than benefit will
arise from it _de him objecting to the cbildren of
his people being taught the Scriptures in the schools; if
we know of his interference to prevent the attendance of
his people at scriptural readings ; if, as one remarkable
instance, we find him commending the zeal of a peasant
who put a Bible in the fire, and enlarging in terms of high
approbstion on the orthodox horror of a contaminating
touch, which induced that peasant to take the vile thing
in the tongs rather than his fingers. Do we here recog-
nise a " worker together with God " or:a worker against
God? Do we here recognise a successor of Peter, who
earnestly commended the Scriptures as a light to which
the people did well to take heed ; and exhorted all the
faithful, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappa-
docia, Asia, and Bithynia,' to ' desire the sincere milk of
the word, that they might grow thereby' (2 Pet. r. 19 ;
1 Pet. ii. 2); or do we not, rather, recognise here a suc-

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obscurity of the Script
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cessor of Judas, who betrayed his Master and his cause
through worldly ambition ? Peter and Judas bad the
same ordination. It is not by their mission in visible

succession that ye shell know the true ambassadors far
Christ,' from tho false, but by their fruits.—The Church
and the Churches by the Rev. H. Neile.

ULTERIOR VIEWS OF THE

LEAGUERS.—Some there

may be who think that by conceding this measure, they
will put an end to agitation, and satisfy the Anti-Corn-
Law League. There cannot be a more futile reason—
there cannot be a great►r error. (Hear, hear, and cheers)
When was organised agitation put down by concession—
extorted concession? (Hear, hear, hear.) Depend up-
on it, a body thus organised, thus banded together, will
not so easily relinquish political power, when they have
tasted the draught, and found it to be sweet. (Hear,
hear.) I agree with my noble friend, that the passing of
this measure would not suppress the Anti-Corn-Law
League—there would be that or some other similar body.
But, my lords, there is no secret made of this. I won't
say every member of the League shares in this feeling.
To my knowledge many worthy men have entered the
League, and who would desire its abolition if this measure
were passed. But what was the language used by Mr,
Lawrence Heyworth, who was chairman of a free trade
meeting held in this city ? (Cheers.) After talking of
the miracle that had been wrought in the Prime Minister,
he says, " But there is something more than corn. The
people will begin to ask why the system of levying taxes,
by which the comforts of the people are destroyed, should
be continued—they begin to ask whether it would not be
better to have one tax, a tax on property, and to abolish
the Custom-house al[oge,her." And he suggests that a
board may be hoisted, on which should be written, " Ho-
nest traders from all ports may land their stuff here. No
taxes—no customs !" (A laugh.) He further said,
" They have lived to see their cause triumph, but he
would not have the friends of free trade to relax. They
must remember the House of Lords yet lived—it was the
stronghold of the aristocracy. They were struggling now
for something more than the maintenance of commercial
liberty; commercial liberty would promote intelligence.
After the settlement of the free trade question, the people
would have more time to agitate for the great principle of
universal suffrage. If it were good for commerce to be
free, it were good for man to be free—if it were good for
cotton and corn to be free, it was good for man to be free.
Everything which weakened the aristocracy and which in-
creased the intelligence of the people, must be in favour
of that noble and Christian cause." And I would wish
to call the attention of the right rev. bench to the con-
cluding passage :—" Could they have free trade in com-
merce without free trade in religion, or could, whilst
such a system of ecclesiastical despotism prevailed as now
blinded our country, the time be far distant when the
Catholic and the Dissenter would ask why the Church of
Christ should be subject to such trammels ? Freedom of
religion, as to be obtained by the separation of Church
and State, would be one of the glorious results of free
trade "—Lord Stanley's Speech.
SHOOTING RED DEER IN GERMANY.—Our party was
posted, as before, around a thicket, which was beaten in
vain. Stretching off the❑ to the left, we reached a wood

placed in a sort of narrow mountain gorge, at the very top
of a wooded glen, to the foot of which the beaters de-
scended, and were to advance upwards. Here we lost sight
of the markgraf; but our friend, the forst-rneister, in-
formed us in a whisper that this time we had got into as
good a position as any one else. Lying down, then, flat,
behind a cairn, we cocked both barrels, and waited, rather
despondingly, on the chances of the " trieb." For about
an hour all was silence, and once or twice we had almost
fallen asleep. At last, a slight rustling sound ; and tak-
ing off our cap, we looked up. Gracious heaven ! what a
sight met our eye! About eighty yards from our am-
bush, coming quietly from the glen, pausing at intervals
to snuff the air (and lucky it was that we lay to leeward),
was a magnificent red deer.

'• It was a stag, a stag of ten,
Bearing his branches sturdily

In an instant our heart was in our mouth. We have,
since that moment, experienced a variety of excitements
stirring enough in their way—we have felt that awful si-
lence, still as death, when rising in a crowded court, with
the ermine and the inscrutable countenance of the judge
above us—a stolid and impenetrable jury before, with some
trembling wretch in the dock, whose fate and fortunes de-
we were about to utter. We have

,e word

watched, with a throbbing heart, the foreman return,
wi:h the paper in his hand which held the issue of his fate ;
we have heard the waxy-faced clerk of the crown utter, in
tones the monotony of which was worst of cli—" Gentle-
men, are you agreed ?"—" answer to your names"—what
say you ?—is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ?"—" not
guilty—and so say you all ?" and with the verdict of ac-
quittal, we have heard unmoved, comparatively, the cheer
which seemed to rend the heavens from the crowd with-
out. By the green-covered tables of Baden we have stood
the hazard of the die, among a crowd as reckless as our-
selves and having, with a quiet eye, seen ourselves
cleaned out, we have carelessly tossed our last louis d'or
on the red, and with calmness watched the result—
" Messieurs, faites votre jeu," the cross twirls, the hall
spins—calm and unmoved we hear from the inscrutable
croupier—" le rouge gegne," as he pushes over to us a
. . . .

ment, and, With the exception of a run with the " Blazers,"
have stood the test of them all ; but we do not recollect
ever having been so profoundly stirred—ever having ex-
.l the almost agonising sensations of that moment.
:t leaped—our brain wcs in a whirl—the very light

left our eyes—every pulse throbbed with such wild excite-
ment, that it was a mercy the rifle did not go off by acci-
dent. Still, however, as death we continued So lie, hold-
ing our breath hard, while on came the stately creature.
Aware that the reputation of our country was at stake, by
a desperate effort we recovered ourselves, and leaning the
rifle on a rock which projected from one side of the cairn,

came the anxious moment

He wt;s standing perfectly

motionless, with a curl of proud disdain on his nostrils as
we slowly covered him just behind the right shoulder.
Alarmed by some slight noise, he moved on. He was
within fifty yards of us. " Now or never !" we thought.

Our finger touched the trigger ; it seemed stiff—we
pulled ; " downer and blitzen !" it stirred not; we had
forgotten, it appeared, to cock our right barrel ; to do so
now was impossible; the click would have sect off the stag
like the wind. W e looked in despair at the left barrel;
the hammer of it was certainly drawn further back. Not
an instant was to he lost. We touched the trigger ; a
flash, a crash, a thud !—that sound which is always beard
when a deer is smitten ; and down went the stately ani-
mal, with an ounce of lead in the heart. With a mad
hurra that woke all the echoes, we leaped from our am-
bush, and there, with his life blood crimson on the green
sward, lay the magnificent deer—

" O'er him we beet our falcon eye,
And grimly smiled to see him die.''

There, with one of his spreading antlers fastened, by the
force of the fall, into the earth, lay the " King of the
Wilderness," pitching in the convulsion of death, and his
bright eye, as we thought, turned a melancholy look of
reproach over us, as the film of death closed over it.—
Dublin University Magazine.