WORCESTERSHIRE.

Musgrave, esq. of Hammett-street, Taun

ton.

Died. In his 69th year, the rev. Row

STAFFORDSHIRE.

Died.-At Bridgend, in the parish of Sheen, the rev. Henry Lomas, B.A. aged 76, formerly vicar of Hathersage.

SUFFOLK.

Died. Suddenly, at Barrow Parsonage, in the 28th year of his age, the rev. Mr. Raworth, officiating minister of that parish. He had delivered an excellent discourse from the pulpit the afternoon he died, but from his appearance was supposed to be ill before he concluded, and he found it necessary to stop at the house of the rector, the rev. A. Mainwaring, where he expired, notwithstanding every assistance was given to him.

SURREY.

Married. At Guildford, on the 19th of February, the rev. Henry Parr Beloe, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Elkins, Esq. of that place.

WARWICKSHIRE.

Died. The Rev. John Dyer Hewitt, M.A. vicar of Fillongley and Martock, and grandson of the rev. John Dyer, the Poet.

WILTSHIRE.

Married. At Grittleton, Wilts, the rev. H. T. Burne, B.A. to Miss K. G. Marriott, of Grittleton rectory.

school, Martley.

At Bockleton, aged 88, the rev. P. Miller, incumbent of the above parish, and of Leysters, Herefordshire.

YORKSHIRE.

Married. The rev. Samuel Payne, curate of Wiston and Cawood, to Eliza, third daughter of the late rev. David Bruce, of Liverpool.

WALES.

Married. The rev. J. M. Edwards, both of Towyn, Merionethshire. Died.-At Haverfordwest, the rev. T. R. Jones.

SCOTLAND.

Married.-In Edinburgh, the rev. G. P. B. Pollen, domestic chaplain to the right hon. lord Northwick, and rector of Little Bookham, Surrey, to Elizabeth, eldest surviving daughter of Sir James and Lady Ellen Hall, of Dunglass, Haddington, North Britain.

IRELAND.

Married. At Prestbury, the rev. Samuel Thomas Roberts, of Ravindon, rector and vicar of the Union of Mothel, Kilkenny, to Sarah, daughter of the late Sir Wm. Forbes, bart. of Craigievor, Aberdeenshire.

FRANCE.

Died. In Paris, the rev. Richard Hayes.

The Universal Diffusion of the Christian Faith, considered in a Sermon, preached at St. Martin's, Leicester, Nov. 24, 1823; being_the Third Anniversary of the District Committee of the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for the

Propagation of the Gospel in Forein Parts, established in the County of Leicester. By the Rev. G. Beresford, M.A., Rector of St. Andrew's Holborn. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

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A Catechism on the Nature, Constitution, Government, and Authority of the Christian Church. By L. Matthias, Curate of Megavissey, Cornwall. 3d.

A Village Sermon, on the Usefulness and Delight of Psalm Singing, preached in the Parish Church of St. Stephen, Herts. By the Rev. T. Clarke, A.B. Curate. 8vo. 18.

Cain and Lamech; or, the Comparative Numbers of Seven and Seventy times Seven, illustrative of the 15th, 23d, and 24th Verses of the 4th Chapter of Genesis: a Dissertation, by the Rev. Wm. Vansittart, Vicar of White Waltham, and Master of Wigston's Hospital, Leicester. 8vo. 2s.

Three Letters addressed to Mr. C. Wellbeloved, Tutor of the Unitarian College, York; occasioned by his Epistolary Attack on a late Visitation Charge of the Ven. and Rev. F. Wrangham, M.A. Archdeacon of Cleveland. By the Rev. J. Oxlee, Rector of Scawton, and Curate of Stonegrave. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Translation and Critical Notes. By the Rev. J. Stonard, D.D. Rector of Aldingham, Lancashire. 8vo. 143.

Practical Sermons, selected from the Manuscripts of the Rev. J. Skinner, D.D. late Rector of Poulshot, &c. In 2 Vols. 8vo. 11. 18.

A Plain and Popular Defence of the Worship of Jesus Christ by the Christian Church. By A. Crichton, M.A. Curate of Badlesmere, Kent. 12mo. 28.

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A Sermon on the Lord's Supper.

the Rev. E. Berens, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 3d.

The Evidence of Christianity, derived from its Nature and Reception. By J. B. Sumner, M.A. Prebendary of Durham, Vicar of Maple Durham, Oxon, and late Fellow of Eton College. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

A Commentary on the Vision of Zechariah the Prophet; with a corrected

Lord Bishop of Winchester. 8vo. Ss.

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WORKS IN THE PRESS.

The Rev. W. S. Gilly will shortly publish a Narrative of an Excursion to the

Mountains of Piemont, in the Year 1823, and Researches among the Vaudois; with Illustrations of the very Interesting History of these Protestant Inhabitants of the

Cottian Alps, with an Appendix, containing Important Documents from Ancient MSS. In One Volume, Quarto; with a Map and other Engravings.

Captain Brooke has nearly ready for the Press, A Narrative of a Short Residence in Norwegian Lapland; with an Account of a Winter's Journey, performed with Rein Deer, throngh Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, interspersed with numerous Plates, and various Particnlars relating to the Laplanders.

A Work is in the Press, entitled Olympia. Topography, illustrative of the actual State of Olympia, and the Ruins of the City of Elis. By John Spencer Stanhope, Esq. F.R.S. Correspondent of the Institute of France. In Imperial Folio; with numerous Plates engraved by G.

Cooke, John Pye, E. Finden, &c. &c. from Drawings by Mr. Dewint.

A Society, under the Patronage of His Majesty, has been long established, for abolishing the Practice of employing Children to Sweep Chimnies. A Volume, in Prose and Verse, to be entitled The Climbing Boy's Album; containing Contributions from some of the most Eminent Writers of the Day, illustrated with Engravings from Designs by Mr. Cruikshank, will be published in the course of the present Season.

Mr. Charles Westmacott will publish, early in April, British Galleries of Art, arranged in One Volume, illustrated with Portraits and Views of the Principal Galleries. It will be dedicated to His Majesty.

THE foreign and domestic events of this month have been most important and gratifying the opening of Parliament, the King's speech, the financial measures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Irish Clergy Bill, the consolidation of several great heads of the Statute Law, the breaking out of an Algerine war, the new Brazilian Constitution, and the appointment of an Ecclesiastical establishment for the West Indian Islands-Of all these things we have been neither ungrateful, nor uninterested observers, and were prepared to have said more upon them, than our limits will admit. We think it more useful to select one or two, than to run too cursorily through the whole; the long list, however, must not be dismissed without a request from us to our readers, often repeated, but which we cannot urge too often, We intreat them to look back only seven or eight years, and mark the change for apprehended bankruptcy, wealth, and the firmest cre

dit; for exhaustion, renovated vigour; for division and discontent, union, content, and loyalty; for general distress, almost universal comfort. These things are so, and that they are so, let us not attribute to ourselves, but to the blessing of God, upon wise institutions; and in that feeling, let us thankfully cherish those institutions in Church and State.

The measures of the Home Secretary, and of those who act in concert with him, for the consolidation of the Statute Law, are, we believe, at present but partially developed; if we are not mistaken, they form the beginning only of a great system for the introduction of simplicity and order into the Statute Law. No one can more feelingly appreciate the benefit of such a measure wisely performed, than those whose duty it is, at times, to explore the will of the Legislature through many statutes, passed at wide intervals, some half expired, half superseded, half repealed, of

Indeed the advantages of such a reform in the Statute Book, are too obvious to be dwelt upon; our present object is, rather to guard against two errors, which, if the work be accomplished, may hereafter lead to disappointment. In the first place, let no man expect that hereby the law will be made easy to those who do not profess it-it would be most unfortunate for it as a science, and for the people if it were-it will still remain, and in the nature of things must remain, a science requiring all the skill and industry of the regular practitioner, and the intense study of the disciple for many years. People who complain of the difficulty or intricacy of the law, forget a plain distinction between the rule, and the thing to be measured-the rule may be straight, while the thing to be measured may be crooked, and the application of the one to the other may be therefore very difficult-the law is only known to the world in its application to individual cases, and people forget how much of its supposed difficulty and uncertainty, depends upon the complexity and obscurity of facts. Our second observation is this, that the good to be produced by a consoli. dation of the present Statute Law can be but imperfect, if future statutes are made upon the same principle which has hitherto prevailed. A very few years will again produce

coacervatarum cumulum, which we now labour under. In our opinion the conception, and framing of statutes, can only be left where it is; but the reducing them to shape, and the wording and arrangement of them, should be left to a standing commission of lawyers, men of high rank in their profession, who should be con. sidered responsible for the working of the law. Lawyers best know what is already enacted, and what therefore, to avoid inconsistency, must be repealed; they know the legal operation of words, and the legal effects likely to be produced by this or that enactment.

On the West Indian establishment, personal considerations restrain us from saying all we feelthis we may say, that a task of greater interest or delicacy can be confided to no men,than to those who are to fill the appointments there. The West Indian Islands have not the vastness, the antiquity, or splendour, which fill the mind when we think of Hindostan: but when we look to the practicability at present, and the future views which may be rationally entertained, under the blessing of God, for the benefit of Africa, views open upon us of the most cheering, yet awfully responsible nature. We shall not close this article too seriously if we intreat the hearty prayers of all good people for a blessing upon this undertaking.

ON TEMPTATION.

GENESIS iii. 6.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise-she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,

"THE thing that hath been," saith the preacher," it is that which shall be," "and there is no new thing under the sun." And to what can this declaration be more justly applied than to the temptations by which human beings are assailed! In all the trials to which we are exposed, what new thing does the enemy whisper in our ear? what suggestion does he insinuate into our hearts? with what specious argument does he mislead our understanding? Even those old and hackneyed pretences, by which our first parents were originally beguiled, and guilt and death brought into the world. That forbidden fruit is good and pleasant, and to be desired, was the false persuasion of Adam and Eve, when they broke God's commandment and forfeited his favour. And what. ever artful or gaudy dress may be contrived for its concealment, it is the same persuasion which finds its way to your bosom, as often as you sin. The tempter is still able to gain attention, and confidence and lulled into security by his specious

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representations, we believe that viceis good and pleasant; we believe that it can increase our gratification and our wisdom, and we imitate her, who took of the fruit thereof, and did eat. As the deception is general, extending to all classes, and all ages-as the deception is fatal, ruining the body and the soul-as the danger is greatest among the inexperienced and the innocent, it cannot be wholly unprofitable to devote some time to the examination of it; and ask you to beware of one who is more subtil than any beast of the field—and who still goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Let those who submit reluctantly to restraints and prohibitions, inquire what benefits Adam reaped from freedom. Let him who pants eagerly for enjoyment and pleasure, persuade himself to remember their bitter fruits. Let all who are disposed to exchange innocence for knowledge, recollect that the opening of our first parents' eyes, though it taught them to know good and evil, taught also that the latter was their portion and punishment, and that the former was forfeited and gone. Such meditations are well suited to the cir cumstances of the present season; and calculated to bring down blessings upon every one by whom they are entertained.

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