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cause, in our opinion, the Prelates of that Church have not come forward as they should have done in defense of the Lord's day, but instead of heading the movement, as it was their proud privilege to do, left it to the body of Christian Clergy and Laity, or rather those among them who loved the day and duly estimated the danger.

On Feb. 21st, the House of Commons negatived Sir Joshua Walmsley in favor of opening the British Museum and the National Gallery on Sundays, by the decisive vote of 376 to 48, which is the same number precisely as composed the minority on the same member's motion last year, the majority having, however, increased from 235, which it was then, to 376. It is to be desired, but not, we fear, to be expected, that even this vote will put a stop to those assaults on the Lord's day it shows, however, that, at least for open attack, there is not much hope for the destructives.

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Parliament met on Jan. 31st, but so far nothing of great importance, except the above, has been acted on. There are questions enough of importance to religion, which may come before it at this session. The present aspect of the English religious world is indeed one to call for great wisdom and care. The principal questions of interest are thus given by the Christian Observer, in its December number: "What is the course which religious men are to pursue as to Maynooth, or Sir Benjamin Hall's new assaults on the Lord's day, or as to Education, Church-rates, the irresponsible authority of the Bishops, often so unsparingly employed in the rejection of Candidates for Orders, or as to the mode of dealing with the new forms of error developing themselves on the Oxford horizon?"

The Convocations of the Provinces of York and Canterbury met also the day after, but in the former but one member was present, and in the latter the Archbishop prorogued the body by his own authority. The refusal of Government to allow it to discuss measures of reform in its constitution was read, but nothing of importance transpired. As now managed, these meetings are, with the vigilant eye of Government on them, nearly harmless, except as pretending to speak for the Church, of which, even as regards the Clergy, it is no proper representative; and as to the Laity, it not only has no shadow of pretense to represent them, but by no manner can be so reformed as to embrace them, without a practical revolution in the connection of Church and State, and danger to the stability of both. We trust the wisdom of her statesmen, and her wise Bishops and Clergy, will save both State and Church from it.

Among the miscellaneous items of interest, the following are the principal. During the visit of the King of Sardinia, among the addresses delivered to him was one from inhabitants of Edinburgh, in which, with singular want of judgment and taste, the Pope and his recent difficulty with Rome were alluded to; this was pointedly and decidedly yet gracefully rebuked in the answer of the King. It might be considered a mere exhibition of vulgarity, were it not that such a thing would probably tend to counteract the influence which recent events are calculated to exercise over the king.

An effort has been made to raise a fund, as a memorial to Miss Nightin

gale, to be applied to the foundation of an Institution for the training of nurses: suspicion has been not unnaturally excited in reference to the use which may be made of it, as Mr. Sidney Herbert, whose Tractarian sympathies and tendencies are well known, has taken a prominent part in the affair.

A magnificent scheme for Church-building in the Diocese of London has been started, having originated, it is said, with Lord Robert Grosvenor. The sum proposed to be raised is half a million pounds sterling, in ten years, for the purpose of promoting the formation of one hundred new ecclesiastical districts. The Queen heads the list with £500, Lord R. Grosvenor himself pledges £1000, the Crown, (from land revenues,) the Duke of Bedford and the Marquis of Westminster each pledge £10,000, and the Bishop of London, £5000. The local subscribers in every case are "to determine in whom the patronage shall rest." This strikes us as a noble way of consolidating in one effort the energies for this object of those who might each engage in the work for themselves, with the advantage of probably drawing others in and otherwise increasing the amount which would be given.

Another case of dishonesty, in which frauds of a stupendous character were committed, has been brought to light-that of Mr. J. Sadlier, M.P. The discovery was preceded by his suicide.

The Rev. Robert Lovett, so well known and so much esteemed as the minister of Marbœuf Chapel, Paris, has been presented with the living of Pickwell, in the Diocese of Peterboro. May his successor equal him! A Protestant Hall at Oxford has been projected, to be open to members of all orthodox denominations, and to be under the auspices of Lord Shaftesbury.

During a recent visit of the Queen to Scotland, she attended worship in one of the churches of the Establishment, (Presbyterian.) The sermon by the Rev. Mr. Caird, of Errol, on "Religion in common life," printed by the royal order, has excited a great deal of attention, being eminently practical and full of admirable rules for the carrying of religion into the daily concerns of life, a thing which, without wishing to invade the province of the pulpit, we may wish were more " truly preached" by our clergy, and "truly received and truly followed" by both clergy and laity. It is one of the crying wants of the day, this life-evidence of a saving faith. The sermon has been reviewed in that admirable periodical, the Christian Observer, for February, where exception was taken to points in reference to which we agree with it. The sermon may, we fear, have done harm by dwelling too largely on the duties of the second table: we hope it will do good, by calling the attention of truly religious men to the subject which it enforces.

In Ireland, the Bishop of Tuam, Lord Plunket, has published a Charge, every word of which is taken from a Charge of the present Archbishop of Canterbury, when Bishop of Chester, in 1841, with the exception of two paragraphs, taken from another Charge of the same prelate in 1833.

Father Vladimir Petcherine has been acquitted of the charge of Bibleburning.

The deaths of the Rt. Rev. Hugh Percy, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, on Feb. 5th, at Rose Castle, in his 72d year; of the Rev. Robert Montgomery, known more as a poet than as a divine, and distinguished from his namesake, the poet, by a prefix derived from his poem of "Satan;" of the Rt. Hon. Henry Goulburn, M.P. for the University of Cambridge from 1826, (succeeded by Spencer H. Walpole ;) of Count Valerian Krasinski, author of a History of the Reformation in Poland, and translator of Calvin's Treatise on Relics, at Edinburgh; and of Robert Bunyan, the last male descendnt of the immortal author of "The Pilgrim's Progress," at Lincoln, aged 80, are to be mentioned.

In the place vacated by Bishop Percy, we rejoice exceedingly that the Rev. H. Montagu Villiers, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury Square, has been nominated. The decided testimony he has ever borne to evangelical truth, makes this a most valued appointment. As a general rule, divided men, known to be such, stand not the least chance for English Bishoprics. Mr. Villiers is brother to Lord Clarendon; and however this may have aided or procured his appointment, and rendered it less significant of future like acts, we do not the less rejoice over it as a present and positive good.

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The Rev. Dr. McDougall was consecrated Bishop of Labuan, in the Cathedral of Calcutta, October 18th, by the Bishops of Calcutta, Madras, and Victoria.

The new Bishop of Sierra Leone, Dr. Weeks, has arrived in his Diocese, where he was enthusiastically received, having before been an active laborer there.

The colony of Western Australia has been constituted a Bishop's See, to be called the Bishopric of Perth. Archdeacon M. B. Hale, of Adelaide, will, it is reported, be the first Bishop.

The Rev. Dr. Duff has arrived in India.

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The news from the continent is scanty. The Austrian Concordat has produced resistance in Milan, and even government there does not seem to be cordial for it, nor disposed to cordially sustain it. There are rumors of similar Concordats with other countries. One has been concluded with Portugal, by which the Vicars Apostolic in India are to be withdrawn, and other provisions are made which might be detailed, but hardly possess sufficient interest for our readers. The Pope has created three new Foreign Cardinals, though a very great majority of the College is formed of Italians. The new Cardinals are the Archbishops of Vienna and Munich, and the Bishop of Rochelle, a place dear to Protestant hearts. In the Allocution appointing them, he takes occasion to pay high compliments to their sovereigns, the "Concordat" Emperor of Austria, the King of Bavaria, and the

Emperor Napoleon. With them Father Jaude, Superior of St. Dominic, (a Sardinian,) was also named, but no compliment appears to his sovereign, Victor Emmanuel.

In Turkey, the Sultan has given his consent to reforms, which a few years since it would probably have cost him his throne to sanction. The points are twenty-one, and taken together, amount to a moral revolution of the principles of the government. "Equality of all confessions," "abolition of persecution and punishment on account of change of religion," (a felt want,) "admission of Christians to state offices," with the same as to military honors, and their "representation" "in the Council of State," "introduction of civil jurisdictions for the Rajahs," (Turkish Christians,). "prison reform," are among the benefits secured by this very important

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The Rev. ZADOC THOMPSON died January 19, 1856, at Burlington, Vt. The Rev. EDWARD C. BABCOCK, missionary at Green Point, L. I., died on in the city of New-York.

The Rev. S. R. CHILD died at Decatur, Illinois, on — 1856.

The following record of deaths was omitted in former numbers of the Review for the want of room:

The Rev. HENRY AISQUITH, Rector of King and Queen Parish, Md., died on the 18th of July, 1855, aged fifty-six.

The Rev. CHRISTIAN WILTBERGER died at Beverly, N. J., on the 13th of August, 1855.

The Christian Witness, in alluding to his death, pays the following tribute to his character:

"Christian Wiltberger was a man of rare attainments in the hopes, trials, and experiences of personal religion; remarkably unworldly in the various changes and details of the ministerial career, he served to make it his chief study to walk professionally as well as privately, 'so as to please God;' gifted with the largest sympathies for all that was holy and of good repute amongst those who differed with him in views of ecclesiastical polity, it may be said of him, in the fullest sense of the words, that he 'loved all them that loved the Lord Jesus.'"

The Rev. JAMES BOGARDUS DONNELLY, Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Hillsboro', N. C., died at his residence, aged thirty years.

The Rev. JAMES CHISHOLM, Rector of St. John's Church, Portsmouth, Va., died of yellow fever, October 15, 1855, at the United States Naval Hospital, near Portsmouth, after an illness of eight days. Mr. Chisholm was an eminently godly man, and greatly beloved and respected by all who knew him. In the midst of the fearful pestilence which wasted the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, he remained at his post, ministering to the sick and dying, until the angel summoned him to his rest.

The Rev. SAMUEL HAWKESLEY, Rector of Christ Church, Marlborough, N. Y., died September 2, 1855, at the age of forty-two.

The Rev. WILLIAM L. JACKSON, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norfolk, died of yellow fever, October 4, 1855. He devoted himself unreservedly to his duties, and, like the lamented Chisholm, fell at his post.

The Rev. EDWARD PHILLIPS, Rector of Christ Church, Shepheardboro', S. C., September 26th, 1855.

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The Rev. TITUS STRONG, D.D., Rector of St. James Church, Greenfield, Mass., died on the 11th of June, 1855. He had long been one of the most efficient and respected Presbyters of the Diocese of Massachusetts. A most devoted parish and a large circle of friends deeply mourn his loss.

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