ful and eager animals that attend them (some of them too with a cross of the fox, or even the wolf, in their breed)can it be wondered at, if the poor creatures thus fleeced, and hunted, and bark ed at, and snapped at, and from time to time worried, should now and then bleat, dream of preferring the rot to the shears, and draw invidious, possibly disadvanta geous comparisons between the wolf without and the shepherd within the fold? It cannot be helped; it is in the nature of things that suffering should beget complaint; but for those who have caused the pain to complain of the outcry and seek to punish it for those who have goaded, to scourge and to gag, is the -meanest of all injustice. It is, moreover, the most pitiful folly for the Clergy to think of retaining their power, privileges and enormous wealth, without allowing free vent for complaints against abuses in the Establishment and delinquency in its members; and in this prosecution they have displayed that folly in its supreme degree."-Pp. 42-45. Mr. BROUGHAM quoted several striking passages from Milton, Hartley and Bishop Burnet to shew the licence that had always been taken in animadverting upon the character and conduct of the clergy; and exposed in such strong colours the behaviour of that reverend body towards the late persecuted Queen, that the auditors in the court were again thrown into convulsive acclamations. He concluded thus: "Gentlemen, you have to-day a great task committed to your hands. This is not the age, the spirit of the times is not such, as to make it safe either for the country, or for the government, or for the Church itself, to veil its mysteries in secrecy; to plant in the porch of the temple a prosecutor brandishing his flaming sword, the process of the law, to prevent the prying eyes of mankind from wandering over the structure. These are times when men will inquire, and the day most fatal to the Established Church, the blackest that ever dawned upon its ministers, will be that which consigns this defendant, for these remarks, to the horrors of a gaol, which its false friends, the chosen objects of such lavish favour, have far more richly deserved. I agree with my learned friend, that the Church of England has nothing to dread from external violence. Built upon a rock, and lifting its head towards another world, it aspires to an imperishable existence, and defies any force that may rage from without, But let it beware of the corruption engendered within and be neath its massive walls; and let all its well-wishers, all who, whether for reli gious or political interests, desire its lasting stability, beware how they give encouragement, by giving shelter, to the vermin bred in that corruption, who stink and sting' against the hand that would brush the rottenness away. My learned friend has sympathised with the priesthood, and innocently enough lamented that they possess not the power of defending themselves through the public press. Let him be consoled; they are not so very defenceless; they are not so entirely destitute of the aid of the press as through him they have represented themselves to be. They have largely used that press (I wish I could say as not abusing it'), and against some persons very near me; I mean especially against the defendant, whom they have scurrilously and foully libelled through that great vehicle of public in struction, over which, for the first time, among the other novelties of the day, I now hear they have no controul. that they wound deeply or injure much; but that is no fault of theirs; without Not hurting, they give trouble and discomfort. The insect brought into life by corruption, and nestled in filth-I mean the dirt-fly-though its flight be lowly and its sting puny, can swarm and buz, and irritate the skin, and offend the nos tril, and altogether give nearly as much annoyance as the wasp, whose nobler nature it aspires to emulate. These reverend slanderers these pious back-biters -devoid of force to wield the sword, snatch the dagger; and, destitute of wit to point or to barb it, and make it rankle in the wound, steep it in venom to make it fester in the scratch. The much venerated personages whose harinless and unprotected state is now deplored, have been the wholesale dealers in calumny, as well as largest consumers of the base article, the especial promoters of that vile traffic of late the disgrace of the country-both furnishing a constant demand for the slanders by which the press is polluted, and prostituting themselves to pander for the appetites of others: and now they come to demand protection from retaliation, and shelter from just exposure; and, to screen themselves, would have you prohibit all scrutiny of the abuses by which they exist, and the mal-practices by which they disgrace their calling. After abusing and well-nigh dismantling for their own despicable purposes the great engine of instruction, they would have you annihilate all that they have left of it, to secure their escape. They have the incredible assurance to expect that an English Jury will conspire with them in this wicked design. They expect in vain! If all existing institu- The King's Bench has been moved in arrest of judgment, and we await with impatience the result. ART. III.-The Necessity and Advantages of Lay-Preaching among Unitarians demonstrated, and the Objections generally urged against it, invalidated. Two Sermons, &c. By John Mc. Millan. 12mo. pp. 60. Hunter and Eaton. 1821. T HESE Sermons were preached to a congregation at Stratford, Essex, and also to one in Charles Street, Commercial Road, by the author, one of several persons connected with bu siness who most commendably devote their time and talents to the cause of religion. The terms clergy and laity origi nated in a gross corruption of Christianity, and served to strengthen the corruption which gave them birth. It is pleaded for them, however, that, like many other words of bad parentage, they have become innocent in the course of time. We confess, we look at them with some suspicion, and as often as we see them, think of the period when Christian teachers were masters and the great body of the peoWe grant, at the same ple slaves. time, that there may be a convenience in them, for the mere purposes of language, if it be explained that by clergy is meant only those persons that devote themselves wholly to Christian teaching, and by laity those that are hearers of their teaching. Still a word is wanted to designate those useful men that like our author unite the. characters, and without accounting themselves of a profession, are prepared to instruct their fellow-christians whenever an opportunity of being useful in this way is presented. Of the value of learning to the Christian ministry there can be no doubt, but a minister who has learning is not on that account a learned minister. He only is learned as a minister who fully understands Christianity, and is prepared to teach it; and it may certainly happen that a layman without a learned education shall surpass in these respects one brought up in the schools of the prophets. All The right to teach is created by the opportunity. Any "two or three" that agree to hear a teacher, give him by that agreement ordination. authority in Christian ministers beyond this appears to us to be founded on tyranny or fraud. For these reasons, we coincide in Mr. Mc. Millan's views, and object as strongly as he to the terms in which our correspondent, M. S. (Vol. XVI. p. 446) speaks of lay-preachers; though we think that a less contemptuous style of remark upon the paper of M. S. (Mr. Me, Millan has devoted an Appendix of several pages to it) would have been more worthy of a cause which rests upon reason and the New Testament for its support. We agree too with this writer that Unitarianism needs the aid of the people for its diffusion amongst the people; and we confidently hope that a doctrine which has been expounded and defended by so many learned pens, will be at length asserted and recommended by voices with which the multitude are familiar. ART. IV-A Sermon preached at the Wtions as instructive signs of VE hail these provincial publica " the times." Unitarianism, which two centuries ago was considered in England as the doctrine of certain foreigners, and which until within this half-century was scarcely known by name out of our larger towns, is now become the faith of a considerable proportion of the people in all ranks, and structures are rising up in all parts of the kingdom for the accommodation of its professors in their social worship. The fact is abundantly verified by our own pages; yet Bishops and Dissenting Ministers, with a marvellous but comfortable ignorance on this subject, are accustomed to cheer their flocks with the assurance that "the Unitarian heresy" is every where on the decline! We are not informed of the circumstances which led to the establishment of Unitarianism at Harleston; but presume that the event was brought about by the exertions of Mr. Valentine. His sermon is creditable to his talents and his spirit. One short passage comprises the substance of it, and the substance of the doctrines, feelings and expectations of Unitarian Chris tians: "The Bible is our religion, our reason and conscience is our guide, and God is our Judge. These are at once our professions and our principles-here we rest the issue of every controversy-here we justify our conduct and ground our hopes of the Divine favour."-P. 12. ART. V.-Thomas Johnson's Reasons for Dissenting from the Church of England. 7th ed. 18mo. 2d. ART. VI.-Thomas Johnson's Further THE what to the point: the worth. 1822. former of these Tracts is "Dissent" with latter confounds pointed by the King. they are not; nor were the New Testa"Thomas. Appointed by the _King ment bishops appointed by the King. But if it will give you any satisfaction, John, our ministers are as lawfully ministers as yours. Yours are licensed by the bishop: ours are licensed by the magistrate. rive their authority from the King. So Both the bishop and the magistrate dethat the chief difference, after all, comes to this, that the clergy are paid by the state, our ministers by the people. "John. Now, Mr. Johnson, now; you have such a way of putting things.' P. 33. ART. VII.-Observations on some Recent Proceedings amongst the Dissenters of Saffron Walden, and on a Letter, by a Member of the Church of England, relating to the same Subject. By a Friend to Religious Liberty. 8vo. pp. 16. Bishop Stortford, printed and sold by Thorogood: sold also by Kirby, Warwick Lane. 1822. 6d. HE remark of a cool friend of Tours, an ancient Nonconformist, was, "Well! on reading Mr. W. Clayton's Letter, Phlegmatic as he appeared, there was This will do good." sagacity in his remark. The ebullition of priestcraft and bigotry to which it referred, has been serviceable in drawing the attention of the Dissenbourhood, to the principles of religiters in Saffron Walden and the neighous liberty. Of this, the pamphlet before us is a proof, the author of which seems to be imbued with the genuine sentiments of freedom, which he has asserted seasonably and with no little spirit. NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. 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