A WRITER in the last "Edinburgh Review," from whom truth occasionally drops with the air of an indiscretion, laments that no respectable class in society is favourable to the party now in power. "The church, too," he adds, "is against them, and regards them, most absurdly, and most wildly, as the source of all its perils."

Without inquiring into a point,-not desirable to discuss here, and certainly with the earnest wish to believe that whoever is minister of this great country, is not hostile to its church,-it may still be permitted to observe, that it is much to be lamented that ministers allow the church to be spoken of as it is, in quarters which they publicly countenance. Let us look at a publication of the most elaborate and imposing pretensions, entitled "The Quarterly Journal of Education," issued under the sanction of a committee, including the names of Lord Brougham, Lord John Russell, Lord Denman, Lord Spencer, Lord Ebrington, Lord Nugent, Right Hon. J. C. Hobhouse, &c.

It is, perhaps, one of the few favourable symptoms of the time, that this farrago has failed to attract sufficient attention to make it pay its way; for this is the plain English of the concluding article of the last Number, and is probably also the existing cause of the concentrated malice in its final volley. But can the committee just named be in the slightest degree aware that the Church is arraigned in such terms as the following, in a work which they countenance ?—

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A WRITER in the last " Edinburgh Review," from whom truth occasionally drops with the air of an indiscretion, laments that no respectable class in society is favourable to the party now in power. "The church, too," he adds, "is against them, and regards them, most absurdly, and most wildly, as the source of all its perils."

Without inquiring into a point, not desirable to discuss here, and certainly with the earnest wish to believe that whoever is minister of this great country, is not hostile to its church,-it may still be permitted to observe, that it is much to be lamented that ministers allow the church to be spoken of as it is, in quarters which they publicly countenance. Let us look at a publication of the most elaborate and imposing pretensions, entitled "The Quarterly Journal of Education," issued under the sanction of a committee, including the names of Lord Brougham, Lord John Russell, Lord Denman, Lord Spencer, Lord Ebrington, Lord Nugent, Right Hon. J. C. Hobhouse, &c.

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It is, perhaps, one of the few favourable symptoms of the time, that this farrago has failed to attract sufficient attention to make pay its way; for this is the plain English of the concluding article of the last Number, and is probably also the existing cause of the concentrated malice in its final volley. But can the committee just named be in the slightest degree aware that the Church is arraigned in such terms as the following, in a work which they countenance ?—

"The early friends of general education-(mark, not religious education)-wer the seceders from the orthodox mother-church; probably they had in view the ulti

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