with attention, and it certainly did raise such a doubt in his mind. It might probably be expected, that after the able and learned argument which had gone forth to the world upon a subject so materially affecting the happiness of mankind, he should state his answer to that argu. ment; but if he left these parties to a court of law-and he should leave them to a court of law-his opinion might have the effect of prejudicing the question to be there determined. All he would say, therefore, was, that, entertaining a rational doubt upon some parts of the work, as to their being directed against the truth of Scripture, he would not continue this injunction; but the plaintiff might apply for another after he had cleared away that doubt in a court of law. Further than chis, his Lordship would not interfere. Injunction dissolved. OUR readers will sincerely participate with us in the victory of liberal feelings over a vulgar spirit of bigotry, in the question about the continuance of Mr. LAWRENCE in his honorary appointment of Surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. In the Annual election of the present year a most extraordinary attempt was made to declare Mr. Lawrence ineligible; but Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN, in a most able speech, referred to the histories of philosophy and of religious intolerance, and demonstrated the disgrace that would attach to the body of Governors, if so narrow a spirit triumphed. On a division there were fifty-two against the motion, and only twenty-six in its favour, among whom we are deeply concerned at having to name the Duke of Sussex. To the honour of the profession no man of character could be prevailed on to place himself in the ignominious situation of being a candidate in opposition to Mr. Law rence. At the election, on the following day, he was returned by a majority of seven to one, over two obscure persons who permitted their names to stand as candidates.-Monthly Mag. Preparing for publication, Bibliotheca Biblica,-A Select, Descriptive Catalogue of the most important British and Foreign Works in the Department of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation; with brief Notices of their Authors, and Remarks on their Theological and Critical Merits. By William Orme, Author of Memoirs of the Life, Writings, &c. of John Owen, D. D. Ecclesiastical Preferments. BERESFORD, Archbishop of Dublin, advanced to the Primacy (Armagh). The Right Rev. WILLIAM MAGEE, Bishop of Raphoe, to the Archbishopric of Dublin. The Right Rev. NATHANIEL AlexanDER, Bishop of Down and Connor, Archbishop of Cashel. The Rev. Wм. BISSETT, Archdeacon of Ross, to be Bishop of Down and Connor. Hon. and Rev. HUGH PERCY (one of the Prebendaries of Canterbury) to be Archdeacon of that Diocese. The Rev. ASHHurst Turner GILBERT, B. D., Vice-Principal of Brazennose College, has been elected Principal of that Society, vice Rev. Dr. Hodson, deceased. Rev. ALEXANder Webster, to be second minister of the Scottish Church at Madras. Dr. WILLIAM MUIR, of St. George's Church, Glasgow, appointed minister of the New Gray-Friars Church in Edinburgh. Milbank Penitentiary, From the Report of the Committee of the General Penitentiary at Milbank, just printed, it appears that "the number of prisoners for whom provision has been made in the Penitentiary, rather exceeds the intended number of 1000 (600 males and 400 females) than falls short of it. There were, within its walls, on the 31st of December last, 708 convicts. The present number is 723: viz. 399 males, and 324 females." It appears further, that the total earnings for the year ending the 31st of December, amounted to £6031. 8s. 6d., of which three-fourths, or £4538. 11s. 4d. remained to the establishment; that the expense amounted to £27,279. 12s. 2d., and, after deducting stores on hand, to £20,679. 3s. 1d., and the net expense, after deducting the prisoners' earnings, to £16,140. 188. 9d. PARLIAMENTARY. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 30. Catholic Peers Bill. THE Duke of PORTLAND wished to postpone the order for the second reading of this Bill, alleging the absence from indisposition and from a domestic calamity of the noble Earl (GREY) who was to have moved it; and other circumstances. As the postponement was indefinite, it is supposed that this was a virtual abandonment of the measure. The enemies of the measure (Lord ROLLE, the Duke of ATHOL and the Lord CHANCELLOR) insisted upon a day being fixed for the 2nd reading, and threatened that if the Bill were not brought forward by its friends, they themselves would take the sense of the Lords upon it. In the end, the 21st inst. was appointed for the second reading. June 21st, the Bill was lost (on the motion for second reading) by a majority of 42. (Particulars hereafter.) Peterborough Questions. THESE new tests of Church-of-England orthodoxy were again brought before the House of Lords, by petition, on June 7, when Lord DACRE and Lord HOLLAND made each an admirable speech in favour of liberty of conscience. (This matter is not likely to rest, and therefore we hope to be able hereafter to register the entire debate.) HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 31. of his Bill. Poor-Laws. NUMEROUS petitions were on this and preceding days presented against Mr. SCARLETT'S projected measure. That gentleman now moved the 2nd reading His measure embraced three great principles (see Mon. Repos. XVI. 319, 499-501) referring to the three great causes to which the evil of the Poor Laws might be traced, viz., 1st, the restraint on the circulation of labour; 2nd, the unlimited provision for the poor; and 3rd, the indiscriminate application of that provision, which led to profligacy, idleness and vice. The present Bill was designed to remove the first of these, and to prevent the removal of the poor from parish to parish. The poor man's labour was his property, and he ought to have the free use of it, and security from restraint and encroach ment. After some debate, the House divided and the numbers were, for the second reading 66, against it 82; conseSome of the quently the Bill is lost. members that voted against the Bill seemed to admit the principle of it, and to object only to the details. The proposer, who laid great stress upon the rendering of his measure to put down litigation, intimated that the petitions against it were promoted by legal practitioners. It was urged on the other side that litigation would be much increased if the proposed Bill were to pass into a law. For this Sessiou, nothing further will evidently be attempted in this momentous concern; but it is scarcely possible that the public interest cau long allow the matter to rest, with all its weight of evil upon it. JUNE 4. Criminal Code. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH brought forward his promised motion, pledging the House "to take into its serious consideration, at an early period of the next Session, the means of increasing the efficacy of the Criminal Law, by abating its undue rigour in certain cases." Numberless petitions had been presented to this effect from all parts of the country. The learned gentleman urged the motion with a great weight of argument and with his usual force of eloquence. Hereafter, we hope to be able to record his speech on our pages. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion in a feeble speech, and concluded with moving the Previous Question. The motion was vigorously supported by Mr. FoWELL BUXTON. Mr. PEEL argued for leaving the subject in the hands of the government. The impaticuce of the House prevented other gentlemen from being heard, and a division took place, the result of which (announced with great cheering) was, that there was a majority of 16 for the motion, there being for it, 117-against it, 101. JUNE 10. Unitarian Marriage-Bill. MR. W. SMITH moved that the second reading of the Marriage-Service Bill be postponed to that day six months. When he had before brought this subject forward, he thought that the principle of the measure he proposed was as fair and free from objection as any that could be devised. Since that period, however, the new lights which he had received on this subject, and the conscientious objection of several clergymen of the Church of England, had induced him to think differently; and at present he should move the second reading this day six months, rather than press the House to a division. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought nothing could be more honourable or handsome than the way in which the hon. gent. declined to press a Bill with which he was not altogether satisfied. After a few words from Dr. PHILLI MORE, Dr. LUSHINGTON, Dr. DODSON and Mr. HUDSON GURNEY, the motion was carried; and the Bill consequently in its present shape was lost. After which, Mr. W. SMITH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the said service. JUNE 13. Irish Tithes. MR. GOULBURN, the Irish Secretary, obtained leave to bring in a Bill "to enable ecclesiastical and other persons in Ireland to grant leases of Tithes binding on their successors." This Bill is to empower incumbents to lease Tithes for 21 years certain to the proprietor (not the occupier) of the soil. To prevent abuses, the Tithe is to be given at a fair valuation, and subject to the inspection and approbation of the ordinary. The mover and other ministerial speakers were anx. ious to support the right of Tithes as private property, better defined and guarded than any other species of property, and to guard against the supposition of the intention or the power of government to interfere with this ecclesiastical property, as if it were in any sense national. The measure was opposed by several Irish members as wholly ineffec tual: they declared their perfect conviction that nothing would give relief to Ireland but the removal of the Tithe system altogether by a commutation. It was urged by the members of administration, that the proposed Bill would not stand in the way of a plan of commutation, but would facilitate such a step, if it should seem fit to be taken; and that the expediency of a commutation was now under the consideration of governOn the other side, it was objected that the present Bill manifested an intention to abandon every larger and more effectual measure of relief. The Opposition no less than the Ministry maintained in their fullest extent the rights of the clergy. meut. JUNE 20, Mr. DALY, a respectable Irish member, was about to bring forward a motion of which he had given notice, on the subject of Irish Tithes, when, at the request of ministers, he withdrew it, to the evident disappoint. ment of the Irish members. Hereupon Mr HUME moved a resolution pledging the House, early in the next Session, to take into consideration not only the Tithe system, but also the state of the Established Church in Ireland. The motion was seconded by Mr. ELLICE, the Member for Coventry. Fearing that the wide scope of the motion would occasion its loss, Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved an amendment, restricting the pledge to the subject of Tithes. Several speakers expressed alarm and abhorrence at the revolutionary aspect of the original motion. This was negatived without a division, but the House divided upon the amend ment, which was lost by only the small majority of 72 to 65. (We shall probably hereafter return to this interesting debate.) FOREIGN. FRANCE. A VERY curious document has been just addressed to the Courts of France, by Bellart, the King's Attorney-General. It is a profession of the faith of the Ultra Royalists, and it would be hard to say, whether it breathes most of folly or of ferocity. He accuses the Liberals of revolu tionary projects. If he mean the projects of 1789, he is right. France is in the situation it was then, and must be saved by a re-creation or a re-exertion of the spirit that then saved her. If he mean that the Liberals would bring about the events of 1793, he is a calumniator, and he knows it. Danton, Marat and Robespierre are the very anti-types of the spirit that is now unfortunately dominant in France-a victorious minority too mad to use victory with moderation. There are not so many scaffolds raised, but there are as many victims marked out for destruction. This state of things cannot last. We may take M. Bellart's assurance. He has been well called the Jefferies of France,-1793 may yet be repeated in 1822. The folly of the French Attorney-General's address is so great, we should not have noticed it but for its atrocity. It is intended to bring to the scaffold a number of noble spirits who have struggled for liberty--and failed Spirits born to bless, Now crush'd beneath a withering name, Whom but a day's-an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame!" It is intended to bring them to the scaffold by poisoning the public mind before their trial, by attacking them when they can find no defenders, and that in a series of most slanderously mendacious accusations. It is a document surpassed by nothing issued during the Reign of Terror. Its hypocrisy is as hateful as its malignity is unveiled. It confesses, however, that a permanent conspiracy exists against the Bourbon government: an important confession-and he might have added, against that mass of aristocratical oppression and of ecclesiastical bigotry which forms a part of it. He goes farther-he says this conspiracy is universal. An universal conpsiracy-a conspiracy of the many against the few-what an avowal ! Have words any meaning? If so, this Attorney-General and the faction to which he belongs, are the true conspirators. That is conspiracy, when a minority oppress and dethrone the majority; and not the less a conspiracy because it is successful. It was a conspiracy which would re-establish the Tarquins in Rome-it was a conspiracy which re-introduced the Bourbons into France; and the conspiracy is permanent which opposes by force and fraud the declaration of the national will. This M. Bellart talks of the French Carbonari. He says their law is assassination. What is his law? Let the memory of Ney, and the other victims of his horrible ministry, answer! Assassination! What assassination is so dreadful as that which is committed in the name of justice, when folly and fury direct the administration of cruel laws? In France, with the age of civil persecution that of religious superstition is returning. The Jesuits are spread over the country-the convents are being rebuilt-one foolery of the worst period of Popery is added to another. Spain and Italy will soon cease to be words of mockery in this respect. France has put in her claim to the inheritance of persecution, which we trusted might have been permitted to die away. A new society of men of letters, under the title of the Asiatic Society, held its first meeting at Paris on the 1st of April, under the presidency of M. Le Baron Sylvester de Sacy, well known for his extensive and profound acquaintance with the languages of the East. The object of this society, which counts among its members some of the most illustrious names in French literature and in the state, is the propagation of the study of the languages of Asia. They began on this occasion, by adopting the rules and regulations which are to conduct them in their future labours, and by the preliminary operations indispensable for the constitution of the society. M. de Sacy pronounced a discourse, distinguished by the most profound views and most ingenious observations, on Oriental studies, and on the advantages which must result from their progress to religion, history, the useful arts and diplomacy. M. Remusat after wards read the first chapter of his translation of a Chinese novel, entitled The Two Cousins. This novel, which appears to give a faithful picture of Chinese manners, will probably be admired by those who seek in works of this kind for something else than incredible adventures, extravagant sentiments, and other abuses of the imagination, too prevalent in the romantic productions of these times. The Duke of Orleans has declared himself the protector of this society. INDIA. A College has been instituted at Poonah, under the sanction of Government, for the preservation and advancement of Hindoo literature, and the education of young men of the caste of Brahmans, in the several branches of science and knowledge which usually constitute the objects of study of the learned of India. Ten native professors have been appointed. All young men of respectability are admitted to attend the College gratis; but with the view of encouraging useful learning, Government has allowed five rupees each per month, for the maintenance of one hundred scholars, ten in each branch of study. The books at present in the possession of Government are appropriated to the use of the College, and others are to be procured from Calcutta. The Visram palace is devoted to the institution. Amongst various points of miscellaneous information contained in the Fourth Report of the Calcutta School-Book Society, the recent establishment of a similar society at Penang is mentioned, and also the successful progress of the institutions at Madras and Bombay; and the endowment by Government of the Hindoo Col lege at Calcutta, for the encouragement of the study of Shanskreet, and through the medium of that language of general literature. Mr. H. Wilson has consented to superintend the publication of the first six books of Euclid in the Shanskreet language. The re-publication of extensive editions of many of the Society's most useful elementary works has been determined on. Government has presented the sum of 7000 rupees to the Society, and ordered a monthly contribution of 5000 more. ERRATUM. P. 372, verse 2, line 4 of the Hymn, for God read "One." India, and since his return has distinguished himself by his attachment to the freedom of the Asiatic press, as conducive to the moral and intellectual improvement of the country, has very obligingly communicated to me a publication which he has just received from Calcutta. It is entitled "The Asiatic Department of the Calcutta Journal of Politics and General Literature." No. VIII. for August 1821, contains what may, perhaps, be justly considered as the first discussion on Christian Unitarianism which ever appeared in the public prints of British India. That it has thus appeared, can be attributed only to the absence, in the metropolis of our Eastern Empire, of that base censorship" which, at Madras, forbad the pious and blameless Christian Unitarian, William Roberts, to print his Tamul Liturgy. Of this discussion I shall now, by your indulgence, offer to your readers all the different articles, verbatim, in their order; presuming that they have in recollection, or can easily refer to, the earlier notices of Ram Mohun Roy and his interesting pursuits, as they have appeared in your former volumes. (XIII. 299-301, 512; XIV. 561-569; XV. 1–7; XVI. 477 484, 515-517, 527, 528.) The first article, in the Journal of August 1, 1821, thus occurs at PP. 405, 406: "To the Editor of the Calcutta «SIR, Ram Mohun Roy may be known by name to most of your readers, and it is probable, that many of them have heard he has forsaken the idolatry and all the superstitions of the Hindoos; but excepting those who are personally acquainted with him, few are likely to be duly informed of his acquirements, his conduct, and his present religious belief. VOL. XVII. 3 E [Vol. XVII. The Second Appeal to the CHRISTIAN make us idea of his acquirements, and cannot fail ous belief, will enable us to form some gard for the author, and a strong interof producing in every Christian, great redual; and the more we learn of his conest concerning so illustrious an individuct the more will he be raised in our estimation. "The worthy motives by which Ram Mohun Roy is actuated, have caused him to print the work in question, and several previous works, at his own expense, to distribute them among his acquaint ance and such other persons as are likely jects on which he has written. His last to take an interest in the important subpublication, that above mentioned, is too large to be reprinted in a newspaper; but its contents are so important, and do the author so much credit, that I hope some competent person will prepare a compendium thereof, and have the same published in the Calcutta Journal. In the mean time, you will oblige me by printing the two portions which accompany this Letter: the first portion comthe other commences in p. 172, and exmences in p. 159, and ends in p. 164; tends to the end of the work. If such persons as on reading these extracts feel a sufficient interest to desire to peruse the work with attention, apply to the author for copies, it is probable he will readily comply with their request, as far as the number of copies printed will admit. "Here we observe an individual, born the most gross idolatry and superstition, and bred in a country benighted under who, by a just use of that understanding which our gracious CREATOR has given to mankind to guide them to all truths, having discovered the falsehood of that system of idolatry and the absurdity of those superstitions, conscientiously abandoned both, and thereby subjected himself to inconveniences and dangers of which persons living in more enlightened societies can hardly form an idea. Next, he directed his attention to the Christian religion; and that same just and honest use of his understanding, which discover |