annexed to it, under the care of the mistresses. The expense of each school for the year is 127. The master of the Latin school, with the consent of M. Best, pastor of Latour, and president of the Commission for the Hospital, agreed to conduct the family-worship at the hospital, and to read my tract of Church-of-England prayers every morning and evening, as well as other prayers on the Sundays. He also reads the Scriptures to the patients. For this service, and for giving instruction in the winter evenings to inferior schoolmasters, and those who wish to be such, I engaged to send him about 51.

"I am of course desirous that plans which succeeded so well, and at so moderate an expense, should not fall to the ground. If I should have opportunities given me by clergymen who have churches and chapels, to preach on behalf of the schools, and to collect, not such consider able sums as would injure large institutions, but moderate donations, I shall be most happy to avail myself of their kind permission. If I could obtain the means, I would wish to support ten schools instead of three; that every parish might have the advantage of a girls' school. The committee for the Waldenses have four schools under their care in four different parishes. A generous individual, Lieut.-Col. Beckwith, has also established one, as well as contributed in various ways to the amelioration of the condition of the Waldenses. The necessity for these plans I need not again state, as it has been frequently dwelt upon in your pages."

AMERICAN PROPOSED ALTERA

TIONS IN THE LITURGY. The nature and extent of the proposed alterations in the Liturgy by our American Episcopal brethren, to which we have more than once adverted, with the reasons on which they are founded, may be learned from the following statement from the pen of Bishop Hobart.

respect merely the Psalms, and the Les-
sons, and the proportions of them which
are to be read. At present, the Psalms
for the day, or one of the selections, must
be used. It is proposed that the minister
may be allowed, not compelled, to take,
instead of the Psalms for the day, or one
of the selections, any one of the Psalms,
which shall be said or sung. At present,
he is compelled to read for Sundays, for
holy-days, and for all other days, the
Lessons from Holy Scripture, as prescrib-
ed in the Calender. It is proposed, that,
still confined on Sundays and holy-days to
the prescribed Lessons, he may, at his
discretion, read a part, not less than fifteen
verses, instead of the whole; and on
other days, when there is not daily ser-
vice, he may, at his discretion, select
other Lessons from Scripture than those
prescribed. At present, according to the
construction which some clergymen (in
my judgment most erroneously) put upon
a rubric at the end of the Communion
Service, they conceive themselves at liber
ty to omit using the Ten Commandments,
Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, which are
usually denominated the Ante-Communion
Service. It is proposed that the rubric
be so altered as to preclude all cavil, and
to render the use of the Ante-Communion
Service imperative. These are all the
alterations proposed in the usual Morning
and Evening Service. And hence you
will perceive how erroneous are the no-
tions which, to a certain extent, have
prevailed, that the Lessons for Sundays
and holy days are left entirely to the
discretion of the minister, and that the
Liturgy is to be mutilated as to its parts,
or altered in its admirable Prayers and
Collects. These remain as at present.
On Sundays and holy-days the Lessons,
as now prescribed, are to be used; the
discretion applies only to the proportion
of each Lesson.

"In the Confirmation Office, it is proposed not to substitute another preface and another prayer, instead of those now used, but to allow the bishop, at his discretion, to use another preface and another prayer, retaining all the substantial parts of the former.

"What are the alterations proposed? On this subject I would adopt the language of a Right Rev. Brother, and say, that, strictly speaking, there are no altera"These are all the alterations proposed. tions of the Liturgy contemplated; that is, there are to be no omissions of any The next inquiry is, What good object is parts of the Liturgy, nor a different ar- contemplated by these proposed alterarangement of them. As a whole, the tions? The answer is, The abbreviation Liturgy remains as it now is. There is of the Liturgy by law, so as to remove all no omission, or alteration, or different reason for abbreviating it contrary to law arrangement of the Prayers of the Morn--the admitting, in certain cases, of more ing and Evening Service; they are to appropriate Lessons-the securing the remain as they now are. The alterations use of the Ten Commandments, Collect,

pride, and self-will, that is so apt to mix unperceived with our best actions, seldom have had a fairer scope, and seldom shewed themselves more strongly than on this occasion. This blind attachment to form was nobly contrasted with the simple and striking devotion of a Black servant of a Catholic Frenchman, who offered himself for communion, was carefully examined, and accepted. He would not be dissuaded from making his small offering of money with the rest. 'God,' said he, has put it into my heart to do something for his cause, and I hope you will not refuse my offering. The difficulties in the end were happily adjusted, and we sat down in

peace.

"Here would be, perhaps, the place to examine the manner, spirit, and success of my ministry for years in Missouri; but besides that we have already extensively communicated upon these subjects with each other, you know that my present plan is not to go into this kind of detail. A missionary in such a region,-with a family, feeble in health, and constituted in body and mind as I am,-might expect, with the best and most earnest intentions, to encounter numberless difficulties. The region was just beginning to be peopled. All the elements of religious combination were in a state of chaos. People are apt every where to regard the form, more than the substance of religion. In new countries, composed of emigrants from different regions, forms are almost the only thing remembered and retained. A man of earnestness of mind, and of strong feelings, is liable to be depressed and enfeebled in the contemplation of such a field, in which he sees the dark side of things, in the actual exemplification of what passes for religion. It is the more discouraging from its having at first a very different aspect. Your first reception is apparently cordial in the highest degree. Mutual congratulations that you are come, are interchanged, and all promises attention and harmony. As you inspect things more intimately, and as the innate principles of disunion begin to come in play, this fair prospect becomes gradually overcast. The worshippers split on trifling differences. The more trifling, the more pertinaciously they cling to them, and where but a few Sabbaths before all seemed union, you soon find that all is discord. Who shall be the preacher? what modes of worship shall be adopted? and especially where shall the house, or place of worship, be located? -these are themes, too often, of bitter and disorganizing dispute.

"In these new regions, too, of the most absolute independence, you see all the wanderings of human thought, every shade of faith, every degree of the most persevering attachment to preconceived opi

nions. You see, too, all degrees of pretension in religion, followed by unhappy manifestations of the hollowness of such pretension. You meet, it is true, with more cheering circumstances, and we are sometimes able to see that which we strongly wish to see. But the missionary must prepare himself to encounter many difficulties of the sort which I have enumerated.

"The people think in general, that attendance upon preaching sufficiently compensates the minister. No minister of any Protestant denomination, to my knowledge, has ever received a sufficient living two years in succession. Take these circumstances together, and you will then have some idea of a minister's prospect of worldly success and comfort in these regions. But have they not been useful? Have they not had success? I would hope both. The precursors in new regions have generally encountered such trials as are recited above; but, I would hope, not in vain. They have drawn sighs, that have only reached the ear of Heaven. Not one good word or work has been without its impression. The seed, which seems to have been scattered in a sterile desert, may spring up; but, perhaps, not till a future and more favoured period. Many faithful, laborious, and patient men, who have been associated with me in these labours, have fallen in these wildernesses, after having encountered all these difficulties. What

is worse, they have fallen almost unnoticed, and their labours and sufferings unrecorded for they toiled and died, it may be eight hundred leagues away, in an American desert; and with such a decease there are connected no feelings of romance.

"If my plan admitted such a narrative, I would attempt to rescue from oblivion, the names of three young men whom I knew intimately, and who died in the discharge of missionary duties in these regions. I heard of the death of others, that I knew not. But, freed from earth and its toils, their bones moulder in these remote prairies, as peacefully as though their fall had been recorded, their names and deeds eulogized. They were exemplary and devoted men, and their names are no doubt recorded on more durable tablets than the frail memorials of men.

"Let not the inference be drawn, that I would describe the men of these countries as peculiarly bad, or indisposed to religion. Truth and gratitude equally forbid, that any thing should fall from my pen, intending to convey the conclusion that this is in any respect a degenerate race of men. The evils do not belong to them in particular, but to human nature placed in such circumstances."

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

THERE have been no domestic occurrences during the month which require particular record. Mr. O'Connell has been elected for Clare without opposition; but however successful he may be as a popular orator, we have no fear for any great mischief he will be able to effect within the walls of parliament. -Ireland, we lament to say, is far from being in a tranquil state; but we still venture to hope that the late excitements are but a temporary ebullition; and that, if wise and truly Christian measures are followed up for the benefit, temporal and spiritual, of that long unsettled portion of our beloved country, a brighter day will dawn upon it than has ever yet been witnessed in its annals of confusion and blood. The legislature and government, as well as British Christians in general, have much to do, and much to undo, for Ireland; and we trust another session of parliament will not pass over without an anxious attention to this important subject. The condition of the working classes in our own island also requires serious consideration; for though we fear that no legislative measures can wholly prevent those occasional fluctuations and depressions under which so many of the manufacturing, and other classes of our dense population, are at present suffering; yet much may be done, both morally and politically, by wise and timely measures, to make such transitions more equable; and above all, to render the great bulk of the population better prepared to meet and bear up against temporary vicissitudes.

In France a most sudden and complete change has taken place in the administration, which is placed under the premiership of prince Polignac, and consists of what are currently termed the ultra party. The public feeling is strongly against this new ministry; and the more so in contrast with the late cabinet which, by its opposition to Jesuitism, its encouragement to education, and its general course of liberal policy, had largely obtained the suffrages of the country. It is thought that a principal cause of the change is, the state of affairs in the East of Europe, and that the new government may be found

greatly to dilute, if not to reverse, the proceedings of their predecessors in favour of the rising liberties of Greece, and to espouse the cause of Turkey against Russia.

The state of affairs to which we have just alluded, has become increasingly perplexed and anomalous. In the first place, Russia is pressing on with her victorious armies towards Constantinople, having already passed the Balkan,and seeming likely to meet with no effectual check to her triumphant progress. Turkey, in the mean time, has continued resolute in yielding neither to the claims of Greece, nor the pretensions of Russia. England, with its present administration, is affording a feeble and almost discouraging assistance to Greece, in carrying into effect the resolutions of a former cabinet; while France, by its late change of ministers, is conjectured to have veered round to the supposed views of our own premier, which with those of a very large class of our countrymen are considered in favour of Turkey, as opposed to Russia; and not very unfavourable as opposed to Greece. The Greeks, in the mean time, refuse to accede to the propositions of their allied friends by dissolving their brotherhood, suspending hostilities, giving up posts in their possession beyond the line of diplomatic demarcation, and separating the Peloponnesus, and the neighbouring islands from continental Grecce. With respect to the questions between Russia and Turkey, we cannot see that they affect this country in any such manner as would justify our plunging, as many among us are urging, into a sanguinary warfare to preserve an alleged balance of power, and to succour Turkey, which has become highly popular in many quarters as "one of our oldest, best, and most valuable allies." But with respect to Greece, we have a very strong opinion both of the duty and the expediency of maintaining with honest zcal her cause; not by arms, for that is not necessary, but in such a way as fully to carry into effect the spirit of the resolutions agreed upon in her favour. No long time can elapse before we become acquainted with the result of the pending negociations on the subject.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

G. B.; Y. M.; ABIGAIL; H. S. C. H.; PHILANTHROPOS; V. J.; Y. Z.; E. M.; X. X.; Y. M.; HARRIET; AN OBSERVER; A FRIEND TO THE WRETCHED; and C. L.; have been received, and are under consideration.

SUPPLEMENT TO RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. We have only space in the present Number to remark, in reference to the appended papers, that the monthly Extracts of the

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY

contain much interesting miscellaneous intelligence; and that the Reporter of the ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

contains a most valuable official paper on the Cultivation of Sugar by Free-labour, with many important facts relative to the state of Slavery in the Mauritius.

We postpone the Quarterly Extracts of the Reformation Society to our next Number, not having space at present to notice their contents.