the Rev A. Tidman, over the Church in Barbican, London. By Andrew Reed. 8vo. 52pp. Westley and Co. 1s. We believe this admirable discourse, which is chaste in style, and forcible in statements and appeals, cannot be read by any minister without the revival of his holiest feelings, and we therefore deliberately, yet warmly, recommend it to the devotional perusal of all who sustain the pastoral character. INDIA'S CRIES TO BRITISH HUMANITY; containing the Suttees Cry. Facts and Observations on the Practice of taxing Pilgrims in various Parts of India. An Appeal Relative to the exposing of the Sick on the Banks of the Ganges, &c. By J. Peggs, late Missionary in Orissa. Seeley. 8vo. bourds pp. 280. 5s. 6d. -The providence of God has placed under the controul of Great Britain in India, an extent of territorial and dependent possessions, equal to 830.000 square miles, which are inhabited by one hundred and fourteen millions of our race, the subjects of the same government, and candidates of the same immortal existence with ourselves! phlets, replete with information, and illustrated by wood cuts, which we are happy to have now before us in one cheap volume, exceedingly adapted for the use of reading societies and vestry libraries, and as we ardently desire to see public indignation decidedly expressed against these blighting. yet tolerated abominations, so we strongly recommend our readers to promote their circulation, as they desire that this reproach of our country should be swept away! LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. A Discourse on the Principles and Rules of to Scripture ProInterpretation, as applied phecy; delivered at the Monthly Association of Ministers and Churches on February 5, and published at their request. By John Pye Smith, D.D. is preparing for publication. The New Edition of Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments, will be com pleted in the course of the present Month, revised throughout, in 5 quarto volumes, including a volume of Maps and illustrative Plates. In the press, the first volume of the Vestry Library; commencing the Contemplations of Bishop Hall, which, with the Select Works of Baxter, and of other eminent Authors, in succession, will be published in handsome duodecimo volumes every two months. Edited by the Rev. T. Russell, A.M. In a few days will be published, Pastoral Discourses, on the subject of Revivals in Religion. By H. F. Burder, M. A.; together with a Statement of Facts and Documents, relating to American Revivals. A Volume of Tales, under the title of Sketches of Irish Character, from the pen of Mrs. S. C. Hall, the Editor of the Juvenile Forget me Not, is announced for publication in April. In the press, He is Risen: an Easter Offering, inscribed to the Governors of Christ's Hospital: octavo. In the press, a Memento for the Afflicted, by Barzillai Quaife. And yet, what do the majority, even of the thinking part of our countrymen, know of the intellectual and moral condition of these nations, whose destinies are so mysteriously united with our own? It is, perhaps, not too much to say, that the enterprise of Parry and Franklin has awakened more interest, and diffused more information amongst the ordinary readers of our day, respecting the Esquimaux of the arctic circle, Biblica, &c., has in the press, in one large volume than is possessed in relation to those who form the right arm of our vast empire. Mr. Peggs has laboured with most commendable assiduity to diffuse information respecting the abominable murders which are daily committed in India, by the exposure of the sick on the banks of the sacred Ganges, and by the burning of widows on the funereal pile with their departed husbands. He has also unmasked the infamous practice of receiving, as a part of British revenue, the proceeds of most sanguinary and licentious scenes of idolatry. These have been the subjects of three able pam The Second Edition of the Opening of the Sixth Seal: a Sacred Poem, dedicated, with permission, to the Rev. H. H. Milman, will be ready in a few days. Mr. W. Carpenter, Author of the Scientia Svo. Popular Lectures on Biblical Criticism aud Mr. W. Jones, Author of the History of the Waldenses, &c. has in the press, a Christian Biographical Dictionary, comprising the Lives of such Persons in every Country, and in every Age, since the Revival of Literature, as have distinguished themselves by their talents, their suffering, or their virtues. The work may be expected to appear in the course of next month. We understand, that the Committee of the Christian Instruction Society intend to publish, with the April Magazines, the first number of Christian Visitor and Quarterly Record of the a Quarterly Journal, price 3d. entitled, "The Christian Instruction Society," which is intended to encourage the gratuitous Agents of that Society in their benevolent labours, and more extensively to diffuse a knowledge of its valuable operations. In the press, Recognition in the World to come, or Christian Friendship on Earth perpetuated and perfected in Heaven. By C. R. Muston, A. M. THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RECORD. Collegiate Establishments in the United of "The University in Cambridge." It States. To every reflecting mind it must appear essential to a correct estimate of the moral and religious character of a nation, that the means of education which exist within it should be understood, as by them the minds and characters of their professional and influential men are doubtless formed. "The Americans have been placed, as respects moral and intellectual advancement, different from all other infant nations." Their literature was not like a seedling plant, which has to gather by its own tiny fibres, amidst all the variations of the seasons, the nutriment which is essential to its growth, but rather, like some healthful graft upon a sound and vigorous stock, which is at once sustained and nourished by a stronger stem. Within twenty years of the landing of the first settlers, a Collegiate Institution was founded, and now there are thirty-six Colleges in the United States, besides several Theological Seminaries. "Few men in America," observes Dr. Moase, “have originally sufficient property to justify them in devoting their lives to the pursuits of literature. Our Colleges have no well endowed fellowships to supply this deficiency. A Government merely popular can never extend to learning any thing like English patronage: and Mecanases are indeed but rarely to be found in a country where wealth or office is the general object of pursuit. The consequence is, that men of learning of the English stamp are seldom to be found in the United States. The regular clergy, however, throughout the States, are not, as a body, behind the English clergy in theological or general learning. In the best Colleges, the classical and sacred languages, and other branches of a liberal education, are taught by recitations and lectures to an extent not surpassed in the general course of instruction at Oxford and Cambridge." We shall now furnish our readers with a list of the Colleges in the United States, in their chronological order, with some historical and statistical facts respecting the more ancient of them, which will afford a bird's eye view of their present state. Harvard College, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, three miles from Boston, is the most ancient and best endowed classical establishment in the United States, and is honoured in its charter with the title was first established as a school, in 1636, by a grant of £400. from the General Court of the Colony, and, in 1638, the Rev. J. Harvard bequeathed £800. to establish it as a College, which was ac complished within twenty years of the arrival of the first settlers. Its list of benefactors is long and respectable, containing the names of some of the most distinguished characters in Great Britain and America, and the fostering care of the local Government has preserved it in continued prosperity. Its buildings are eight in number, including Halls, Chapel, Library, Laboratory, &c. which are inclosed in grounds of 14 acres. Its academical course is completed in four years, and the expense of board and education cannot be reduced below about 100 guineas a year. It has fifteen academical instructors, and between two and three hundred under-graduates. The Library contains 30,000 volumes, besides a social library of the Students, including 4,600. The whole number of Alumni since its foundation, 4,941, of which, 1,271 have been ministers. There is one painful fact connected with this establishment, viz. that Socinianism is the undisguised creed of several of its professors. William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia, was founded by William III. in 1690-1, who gave £2,000., 20,000 acres of land, and a poundage on the exports of tobacco for its maintenance. With such provision it might be expected to rank with the first of the American Colleges. This is not the case. It has only 6 Professors and 106 Students. The Rev. Adam Emfic is the Principal. The Library contains about 3,500 volumes. After the American Revolution it was strangely perverted from the original design of its foundation, which was to educate "able and faithful ministers;" and without attempting to account for its want of prosperity, it is evident that the blessing_of God could not be expected on an Institution wrested from the purposes of its pious founders to teach the meaner sciences of this world. Yale College, in New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1701, and received its name in commemoration of the bounty of the Honourable Elihu Yale, of the East India Company's service in London, and a son of one of the early settlers. Amongst its early benefactors, Bishop Berkely and Sir Isaac Newton deserve foundation, nearly 2,000 students have mention. been educated. There are at present 80 students. The Rev. Dr. Carnahan is the President. The government of this College is in the hands of a president and eighteen fellows, who have also the power to confer the usual degrees. This Institution enjoyed the presidency of Dr. T. Dwight, under whose paternal care it advanced in public favour and general utility. The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Day is its President, who is assisted by twelve other Professors. Since its foundation more than 4,000 students have been educated, of whom nearly 1,000 have been ministers. Its present number is 335. very The Collegiate buildings are respectable, and the Library contains 8,000 volumes, besides a Social Library of 6,500 belonging to the students. Nassau Hill, at Princetown, New Jersey, was founded by a charter from J. Hamilton, Esq. President of the Council in 1738. It has enjoyed the labours of some distinguished American divines, particularly Dr. Witherspoon. The buildings are respectable, and the site lovely, and its relative situation would soon make it the first Institution in the Republic, but the terms of its charter are limited, and State patronage has been hitherto withheld from it. During the revolutionary war, its library and philosophical apparatus were burned and destroyed by the English army. These losses are now repaired, and the Public and Social Libraries contain about 12,000 volumes. Since its The University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, was founded in 1755, by the union of two literary institutions, which had previously existed in that city. They were incorporated in 1791. The philosophical apparatus is very complete, and the revenues exceed £2,000. per annum. It is most celebrated for its medical schools, which rank amongst the first in the United States. Its Principal is the Rev. Dr. Beasley, assisted by five other Tutors. Columbia College, in the City of New York, was founded in 1754, and called King's College till the Revolution. It is entrusted to a Corporation of twentyfour members. The College stands on the banks of the Hudson. The Rev. Dr. W. Harris is the Principal, assisted by eight other academical instructors. The present number of students does not ex ceed 150. These historical notices of the elder Colleges of North America, will be sufficient to enable our readers to form a general idea of their rise and present state. We will, therefore, close this article by presenting them with "Statistics of the Colleges in the United States," obtained by the special correspondence of the Secretary of the American Education, and published in the Quarterly Journal of that Institution. When President or Provost ed. 1638 1691 Rev. A. Erfic 1701 Dr. J. Day 1738 Dr. J. Carnahan 1754 Dr. W. Harris 1755 Dr. F. Beasly 1764 Dr. F. Wayland 1769 Dr. B. Tyler 1770 Dr. P. Milledoller 1783 Dr. W. Neill Thus it appears that the United States possess 36 colleges, 26 of which have been founded since the establishment of their Independence in 1782. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENT OF A DAY OF HUMILIA TION AND PRAYER. Board of Congregational Ministers resident in and about London. Tuesday, February 10, 1829. Resolved-That the Editors of the Congregational and Evangelical Magazines be requested to insert the following resolution of the Board : "That as a practical manifestation of the interest which this Board feels in the great subject of revivals in religion, they cordially unite in recommending, that Friday, the seventeenth day of April, be set apart for special humiliation, and, as far as practicable, of united prayer in the several churches and districts with which they are respectively connected. THOMAS HARPER, Sec. PRESENTATION OF THE PETITIONS OF THE DISSENTING MINISTERS OF LONDON. The Petition, which embodied the Resolutions passed at the Meeting of the Body of Dissenting Ministers at Redcross Street, on the 27th of January, was signed by 69 ministers. We are not in possession of a correct list of the names, but the following we know were attached to it, which will fully justify the remark of Lord J. Russell, that the Petitioners were amongst the most respectable Dissenting Ministers in the metropolis. Presbyterians. - Dr. T. Rees, Rev. Messrs. Aspland, Broadfoot, Belsham, Davidson, Fox, and Mudge. Independents.--Rev. Doctors Winter, J. P. Smith, and Humphrys. Rev. Messrs. Orme, J. Fletcher, G. Clayton, J. Blackburn, J. Yockney, A. Tidman, T Harper, R. Halley, H. Townley, W. Walford, J. P. Dobson. Baptists.--Doctors Newman and Cox. Rev. J. Hughes and T. Price. On Wednesday evening, Feb. 12th, Lord John Russell presented the Petition to the House of Commons, when, having described the character of the body from which it came, he stated, "there were to this petition the names of 69 of the most eminent dissenting ministers in London and its vicinity. The Petitioners were not indeed rich in revenues from the profession of their religion, but they were accustomed to the deep and earnest study of that religion, and they objected to the Church of England because it approximated to the Church of Rome. man, therefore, could be farther than the Petitioners were from inclining to the Roman Catholic faith; but, consider ing that every man had a right to the free exercise of his conscience in matters of religion, they thought it incumbent upon them to express their conscientious opinion that religious tenets should be no bar to civil employment." (Hear, Hear!) No On Friday, Feb. 20th, Lord Holland presented the Petition to the House of Lords, and said, that it came from a body of men well known to the government of the country, although, perhaps, not equally well known to their Lordships. It was perfectly true that they had no corporate capacity--that they possessed no legal uncorrupted existence - it was likewise true, that they held no actual office of emolument or trust under his Majesty's Government, and that they had no right to claim any, save such as their piety, their learning, and their moral lives gave them in their respective congregations over which they presided. Though he was sure they would be the last in the world to wish him to ascribe to them any power or authority with which they were not legally invested, and though none, he believed, were more remarkable for the exercise of manifold virtues, he thought it but right to observe, that these Petitioners had, as a body, been long recognized by the Government of this country, aad that they were the successors and representatives of those men who negociated, through no less a man than the great Mr. Locke, with the Government of the country, the Toleration Act the corner-stone of that great and glorious edifice, which he trusted would be now fully completed: they were the descendants and representatives of such men, and they had been uniformly remarkable for their devotion to the cause of civil and religious liberty, and their loyal attachment to the throne. Without resorting to any invidious comparisons, were the Noble and Right Reverend Lords who sat on the opposite benches present in the House, they would allow him to say, that there was no class of men in this country to whom his Majesty's family were more deeply indebted than those Protestant Dissenters; and so strongly was that felt, that every Prince of the House of Brunswick, on his accession to the throne, received upon the throne an address from these Protestant Dissenters. It was quite true that they were not invested with any corporate capacity, but these Petitioners were intimately connected, he believed, with all the old Protestant Dissenters in England, consisting of not less than 3,500,000, exclusive of the Wesleyan and other Methodists. They were, as he had remarked, distinguished for their attachment to the reigning family--they were decidedly opposed to the errors of the Church of Rome -they had always been keen in detecting any thing like an approach to civil or ecclesiastical tyranny, and the first to expose and defeat the attempt. Such were the men who now approached their Lordships, praying them to extend the principles of civil and religious liberty to all classes of his Majesty's subjects. He would confess that if he required any new fact to render him favourable to the great measure of Catholic emancipation-if he required any authority to induce him to support that cause, the authority of such men would weigh more with him, than that of almost any other body of men in the kingdom. He had, moreover, to mention, that this Petition was not open to an objection which had been made to one on a former evening. This Petition had been adopted in pursuance of a Resolution which had been agreed to before the intentions of His Majesty's Government had been made known. That Resolution was adopted at a very full meeting, and the majority in its favour was not less than three to one, bearing nearly the same proportion as those who signed did to those who had not signed this Petition. He was sure their Lordships would give a favourable consideration to the Petition of such men, who counted amongst their body such distinguished names as Watts, Doddridge, and Lardner. The Petition was then presented, and read at length. MEETING OF THE DISSENTING The Deputies of the several congregations of Protestant Dissenters of London and its vicinity, held a meeting at the King's Head in the Poultry, on Friday, the 13th of February ; William Smith, Esq. M. P. in the Chair. We understand that the previous question was moved, and on a division, negatived by a majority of 36. That the following resolution was then put, and carried by a majority of 67 to 26. Resolved, That this Deputation, while fully sensible of the wise and conciliating policy of the Government and Legislature towards the Protestant Dissenters, in the abolition of the Sacramentaĺ Test, lament to see the peace of society still disturbed by the division and jealousies arising out of the continuance of other laws of a similar character; and they feel themselves called upon, at the present crisis, to express their earnest desire to promote the union of all the subjects of the realm in one common interest, and in the peaceful enjoyment of equal social privileges. That this Deputation, therefore, gladly declare their gratitude and joy at the recommendation contained in His Majesty's speech delivered at the opening of the present Session of Parliament, which they consider as wisely calculated to promote the object of their desire, in the removal of all civil disabilities on account of religious faith and worship. That it be referred to the Committee to prepare petitions to both Houses of Parliament, expressive of those sentiments, and that the Deputies be informed when, and where, the petitions may be signed LORD NUGENT'S LETTER ON THE REGISTRATION OF THE CHILDREN OF DISSENTERS. A meeting of the congregation of Independent Dissenters, assembling at Hale Ley's Chapel, Aylesbury, was held on January 18th, to consider the pro |