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Taylor's sermons. The Editor says he has omitted some of the Greek and Latin quotations. But he does very wrong. He leaves some-and, therefore, is not looking to the mere English reader. The profusion of them is part of the writer's character. Let us have all the works unaltered by all means. Billington's Architectural Director, another very cheap work, promises to be a most valuable book for all readers, professional or not, because it gives minutiæ and exact calculations as to the proper proportions of the parts and ornaments of buildings. The Illustrations of the Bible, by Mr. Westall and Mr. Martin, are proceeding with spirit. Mr. Westall's original sketches, of great beauty, have been lately exhibited. A Scotch periodical, called The Church of Scotland Magazine, has been lately established; and, by its vigour and good sense, seems likely to benefit the cause of establishments.

Single Sermons on Public Occasions, by Messrs. Lutwyche, Snowden, Whyley, Johnson, Grant, Clarke of Chester, Tyler, Clissold, Harvey of Falmouth, and two by Dr. Holmes, before the University of Dublin, as well, especially, as one by the Poet Bowles, deserve notice, if space would allow it.

MISCELLANEA.

STATESMEN'S MORALITY.

IT has been, and will be, the decided plan of this Magazine to avoid party politics, both in order to deprive those who are unwilling to give the advocates of the church a fair hearing, of the pretence that they need not attend to what they can plausibly call mere factious attacks, and, on the higher ground, that in such a cause party politics are neither right nor requisite. But it would be cowardice, and desertion of a high and holy cause, if any man, who presumes to write at all, did not on all occasions boldly speak the truth of public men, of whatever party, when they deserve to be censured for offering injury or insult to the great cause of religion and morality. The Chancellor has always been mentioned here with such due respect as his station and talents demand. But neither the one nor the other ought to be his defence, when he speaks, as he is reported in the papers to have done lately, on matters where he has no more authority to speak at all than any other individual, and where false and mischievous maxims, from a high quarter, do irreparable mischief. The papers then report the Chancellor to have said, that it is quite idle and preposterous to affect blindness to the fact, that profligate habits, on the part of married men, are perfectly common, and matters of the most ordinary occurrence! Now, the Chancellor knows human nature too well, not to be perfectly aware that defendit numerus is a very common standard of morality-that too large a portion of mankind are quite satisfied if they are no worse than their neighbours. How, then, can any one do a worse service to public morals,-how can he forward vice more effectually, than by representing the large class of those who are received as respectable men in society, as indulging constantly in adultery? He does not defend them! No; certainly not! But he tells every married man that, if he does become an adulterer, he only becomes what most married men are already! And could he defend adultery more effectually-could he exhort the large class who have no high moral rule more effectually to the commission of this foul and destructive vice than by holding such language? But how can he justify it in point of fact? The Chancellor, as Chancellor, knows no more of such things than any other individual. Will he tell us, as a private man, that all his married friends, all with VOL. VI.-Sept. 1834. 2 s

whom he is intimate enough to know their habits, are adulterers? God forbid! But he, like every one, knows some few who are so; and then, on that knowledge, and on the low and slavish system which presumes that every man will indulge in vice in secret, he proclaims that most married men are adulterers! Let the Chancellor, who is so sure that this sin is the common sin of married men-let him say how many of his married acquaintance he knows to be guilty, how many he suspects, on such evidence as would convict them of any other crime. And when he has made the enumeration, let him blush for his own habits of mind, which make him believe that so few men love God, or God's law, or desire to abide by it. No! doubtless of this, as of every other vice, there is too much. But God forbid that we should believe that a vice which, at once and alone, blasts every hope of good in human society, should be so rife among us as the Chancellor proclaims. If indeed it be so, this would at once account for many judgments which have befallen this land, and for many which seem to impend-for low principles among the rich, misery among the poor, a desire for destruction among all, distrust, dismay, and agitation everywhere. For, be it known to the Chancellor, that whatever he may think or say, in spite of all Chancellors and all statesmen, and all their remedies for political evils, God will avenge his own cause on an evil and adulterous generation. If the Chancellor's account of this miserable kingdom be true, then there is no curse too heavy for its sin, and none which we may not justly expect to see fall upon it.

CONCILIATION.

THE friends of concession and conciliation have had a lesson this last month which might enlighten them, if any thing could do so. Last year the Irish branch of our church was crippled in no ordinary degree-its bishops were diminished in number, their revenues seized and used, as the phrase was, to create a property with the clergy (impoverished, persecuted, threatened, and often actually visited with loss of life) were taxed in the most arbitrary and unjust manner, in order to take a burthen from the land! This year, the ministry and Mr. O'Connell, having of course an understanding on the subject, coolly agree to take two-fifths of their tithes away, and give them to the landlords, contriving, very adroitly, by the arrangement as to what they leave, to make these landlords the decided enemies of the church. The very day after this monstrous deed is perpetrated in the House of Commons,* it is openly said there, that all this is merely for the moment, for that next year measures of a large and healing nature must be introduced, more bishoprics extinguished, &c. &c., and that the three-fifths left are rescued, by Act of Parliament, from the landlords, in order that the nation may apply them to proper purposes. It was Mr. Sheil who proclaimed the intentions entertained as to the plans for next year. It was a papist who thus, in the parliament of a protestant country, gloated over the fall of the reformed church. He did us service, for it is well indeed to know how unchanged popery is-how it delights to add insult to injury-how wholly impossible it is to satisfy its cruel and vindictive nature, till its opponent is not fallen-but trampled into the dust, and crushed to atoms. Mr. Sheil, too, knew well where to speak. He knew that in no assembly in Great Britain could his taunts, and his insults, and his revellings over the fall of the reformed church be uttered with so little chance of rebuke, or heard with so much indifference, as that in which he spoke.

The House of Lords did its duty nobly on this atrocious Bill. Whatever evil may happen, nothing so bad could happen as that that House should sanction such monstrous violations of justice.

CLERICAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF EDUCATION.

THE Society for the Encouragement of Parochial Schools in the diocese of Durham, under the patronage of the Bishop, has been enabled, by the generous assistance of the National Society in London, to present to some of the meritorious masters and mistresses of the large schools in union a pleasing testimony of its approbation of their exertions. By this kind aid the Committee has this year had the pleasure of awarding copies of the sacred Scriptures to the following Masters and Mistresses:-To Mr. G. Goundry, Durham Blue Coat School, 307 boys, the Family Bible of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 3 vols. 4to., very handsomely bound and lettered; to Mr. Charlton, Clerical Jubilee School, Newcastle, about 500 boys; Mr. Mason, South Shields, 270 boys; Miss Dobson, the same number of girls; Mrs. Masterton, Gateshead, upwards of 200 girls; and Miss Lowthin, Durham Blue Coat School, 157 girls, each an excellent 4to. Bible. Some notion may be formed of the duty of the masters and mistresses of these and the other large Schools, when we bear in mind that all the children are instructed and controlled by one adult person in each school. It appears that some of the National Schools in this diocese are more numerous than any other in the kingdom-if not in the world; and it would be doing them injustice not to say, that they are ably conducted, on the Madras system. The extent and excellent discipline of these institutions, and the great labour and amount of money which are expended on their management and support deserve consideration. The School Society, as stated in its last Report, has in its connexion, in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, 266 schools, comprehending 19,129 children. It has been established a little more than 22 years, and has laid out in grants for building and repairing schools, general assistance towards masters' salaries, &c., above 4,250l., besides a considerable sum in books, slates, &c. The income of the Society arises from annual subscriptions; but the late and present Bishops of Durham have kindly received the recommendation of the Society in the distribution of the rents of an estate which the late Bishop generously appropriated towards building schools within the county palatine of Durham. From this source above 1000l. have been dispensed since 1823. The object of the Society is to afford assistance both towards the building of new rooms and towards the annual maintenance of schools; and it has carried its operations into all parts of the diocese. By its aid about 140 new schools have been erected; and many are every year benefited according to their wants. Much has been lately said of the backwardness of the clergy in affording instruction to the poor. The charge, with respect to this part of the kingdom, is totally without foundation. They have established schools throughout their own parishes, and by means of the Society have liberally assisted others. We should have been glad if the laity had more cheerfully seconded their exertions. We, it must be confessed, in vain look for funds contributed towards the general education of the poor by the rich inhabitants of the great towns of this district. Whatever they may have done in their local spheres, their names, with very, very few honourable exceptions, are not on the list of that Society, which has endeavoured to communicate the means of instruction to their tenants, workmen, and dependants, for more than 20 years! The Bishop of Durham, besides giving largely to many individual schools, subscribes 30l. annually to this Society; the Archdeacons and members of the Dean and Chapter contribute about 70%.; and the parochial clergy, upon whom for the most part the permanent support of the Schools in their parishes depend, do still give more than 70%. And what is the amount contributed by the nobility, the landed proprietors, the princely merchants of this most liberal part of the world? Little more than 20 guineas a year. We shall not, therefore, be thought invidious, if we respectfully direct the attention of the benevolent to a Society, which, by the blessing of God, has been so long and so efficiently, and yet so silently, pursuing its "labour of love," in their own neighbourhood, and among their own people. The best

answer we can suggest to those who are in the habit of reproaching the clergy, is to refer them to our charities-to our domestic and unobtrusive institutions for promoting the temporal and eternal welfare of the poor-and then, when they have participated with the clergy (as is equally their duty) in their toils, and sacrifices, and difficulties, they will become more qualified than they seem now to be to appreciate their characters and engagements.

We have seen the head prize presented to Mr. Goundry, mentioned above. The volumes are very elegantly got up, and contain 8 maps of the countries mentioned in Scripture, engraved by Sidney Hall, as well as 56 plates of very superior execution, by various artists. The first volume bears the following inscription :-" Presented by the National Society in London, and by the Society for the Encouragement of Parochial Schools in the Diocese of Durham, to Mr. George Goundry, Master of the United Blue Coat School, for boys, Durham, on account of the excellent state of his school in the year 1833.— 10th July, 1834."

MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF BISHOP JEBB.

Ar a Meeting, held at the Palace, Limerick, on the 5th day of July, 1834, for the purpose of considering the best means of perpetuating the memory of the late Bishop Jebb, the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Limerick having been called to the chair, the following resolutions were agreed to:RESOLVED-That it is the wish of many persons, resident within the united diocese of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, to mark, by some public and lasting memorial, their respect for the late lamented Bishop Jebb, who, by his learning, piety, and virtues, conferred lasting benefits not merely on this portion of the realm, but on the universal church of Christ.

RESOLVED-That a committee be now appointed, with liberty to add to their number, whose duty it shall be to promote the erection of a monumental statue of the late bishop, in the cathedral of Limerick, by inviting the cooperation of all the friends of religion and literature throughout the United Kingdom.

The first of the resolutions here given contains, if it be duly reflected on, all that could be said by a much longer appeal, because every word in it is naked truth. If, in the late lamented Bishop Jebb, there was not the learning of the ancient scholars, the piety of the ancient saints, the virtues of the ancient martyrs, when have we, of these days, been allowed to see any shadow or similitude of these high gifts and graces? And, scoff and scorn at the name of bishop and priest and saint and Christian who will, a higher and more powerful voice than any which can be raised, or which can be drowned, by the outcry of statesmen and legislators, and philosophers and economists, will proclaim, that not Acts of Parliament, not Penny Magazines, not Societies for diffusing Entertaining or Useful Knowledge, but the learning of the scholar, the piety of the saint, the virtues of the martyr, are the things which confer lasting benefits on the race of man. To commemorate such benefits, well may the friends of literature and religion be called on to co-operate; and truly gratifying is it to know, that persons of the most different views on politics and religion have been alike ready and anxious to come forward and shew their reverence for learning, for piety, and virtue, as they will assuredly do, by perpetuating the memory of Bishop Jebb.

The committee in Ireland consists of sixteen persons, of whom seven are laymen. In England subscriptions are received by the Rev. C. Forster, Ash Vicarage, Wingham, Kent, and by H. S. Thornton, Esq., Messrs. Williams, bankers, Birchin-lane.*

The Subscription has already received the countenance of the Primate, the Bishop of Durham, and many other eminent prelates in both countries.

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MR. COLERIDGE's LATEST WRITING.

"To Adam Steinmetz Kinnaird.

"MY DEAR GODCHILD,-I offer up the same fervent prayer for you now as I did kneeling before the altar when you were baptized into Christ, and solemnly received as a living member of his spiritual body, the church. Years must pass before you will be able to read with an understanding heart what I now write. But I trust that the all-gracious God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, who, by his only begotten Son, (all mercies in one sovereign mercy!) has redeemed you from the evil ground, and willed you to be born out of darkness, but into light; out of death, but into life out of sin, but into righteousness; even into the "Lord our righteousness;" I trust that he will graciously hear the prayers of your dear parents, and be with you as the spirit of health and growth in body and in mind. My dear godchild! you received from Christ's minister, at the baptismal font, as your Christian name, the name of a most dear friend of your father's, and who was to me even as a son, the late Adam Steinmetz; whose fervent aspirations and ever paramount aim, even from early youth, was to be a Christian in thought, word, and deed, in will, mind, and affections.

I, too, your godfather, have known what the enjoyments and advantages of this life are, and what the more refined pleasures which learning and intellectual power can bestow, and with all the experience that more than threescore years can give: I now, on the eve of my departure, declare to you, (and earnestly pray that you may hereafter live and act on the conviction) that health is a great blessing; competence, obtained by honourable industry, a great blessing; and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives-but that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian. But I have been likewise, through a large portion of my later life, a sufferer, sorely afflicted with bodily pains, languor, and manifold infirmities; and, for the last three or four years, have, with few and brief intervals, been confined to a sick room, and at this moment, in great weakness and heaviness, write from a sick bed, hopeless of recovery, yet without prospect of a speedy removal. And I thus, on the brink of the grave, solemnly bear witness to you, that the Almighty Redeemer, most gracious in his promises to them that truly seek him, is faithful to perform what he has promised; and has reserved, under all my pains and infirmities, the inward peace that passeth all understanding, with the supporting assurance of a reconciled God, who will not withdraw his Spirit from me in the conflict, and in his own time will deliver me from the evil one. O, my dear godchild! eminently blessed are they who begin early to seek, fear, and love their God, trusting wholly in the righteousness and mediation of their Lord, Redeemer, Saviour, and everlasting High Priest, Jesus Christ. O, preserve this as a legacy and bequest from your unseen godfather and friend, S. T. COLERIDGE.

Grove, Highgate, 13th July, 1834.

DISSENTING POLITICS.

(From the "Christian Advocate," August 11.)

Ir is understood to be the intention of the Tory majority of the House of Lords this evening, to invite the collision which has so long been perceived to be inevitable, by rejecting the Irish Tithe Bill. The Archbishop of Armagh has encouraged them to take this step, by assuring them that the inhabitants of Ulster will still pay tithes. We are glad that the crisis approaches, because until it is passed no measures of extensive utility can be expected to emanate from Parliament. The consequences to the Irish clergy of the pertinacity of their superiors and their allies, will no doubt be serious; but perhaps the bishops

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