usefulness and honour, Mr. Hoare has been recently placed, with the suffrages, let us add, of all good men, who know, either in private or from his published works, his many claims on the affection and respect of his fellow-Christians and fellowchurchmen), has taken for his subject, 1 Cor. iv.-20; "The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power:" in discussing which, he shews, first, that "a spiritual [divine?] sanction is vouchsafed to an apostolical ministry ;" and secondly, that "a spiritual efficacy is imparted to apostolical doctrines." The ministerial sanction he finds in the authority conferred upon the ministers of Christ to proclaim his word, with an assurance of his presence and blessing; and in the ministerial efficiency which accompanies their call to the office the doctrinal efficacy he finds in the power of the Divine word for the salvation of men. There is a want of succinctness in the style and collocation of the respected author, which somewhat obscures his argument; but his pearls will well repay the trouble of diving for them. The power of the Christian ministry, he remarks, is not that of miracles, nor that of intellect, but a spiritual power; and this power, he further shews, is inseparably connected with the doctrines of Christianity; so that the word of God and his Holy Spirit co-operate as instrument and agent in the spiritual renovation of the world. These considerations he first applies to the refutation of the errors of the Romanist, the Socinian, and the Enthusiast; and then turning his argument to the circumstances of his Reverend auditory, with faithful and affectionate self-application, he remarks:

"But in rejecting errors of opinion, may I be permitted, my Christian brethren at large, to put the question to ourselves : Have we been careful to exhibit a full consistency in practice? In an age when even an extreme correctness of doctrine is proved to be not always coincident with a spiritual mind or an obedient life, has the kingdom of God visited us not in word only, but in power; not only rescuing us

in name from the endless mazes of human error, but turning us in heart and in ful the way, the truth, and the life? Beintegrity of purpose unto Him, who is

hold,' said Christ our Saviour to his disciples, the kingdom of God is within you.' When that kingdom is in all its power really within us, it speaks to the heart in words more forcible than either the commands or the threats of this present world. It predominates over the calls of wealth and pleasure, and every has power to silence the voice of the most earthly object of ambition or desire. It unruly passions, whilst it speaks peace to that heart where peace had been a stranger before. It renders unto Christ a willing people in the day of his power; and subdues to the mild sceptre of his kingdom upon earth-that kingdom which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost-those who reserve not themselves, by wilful perseverance in sin, for nation." pp. 17, 18. his iron sceptre of judgment and condem

With equally probing scrutiny be continues:

"There is at the best, as we too well know, in those whose souls are given us in charge-and a more awful charge than that of immortal souls cannot either be given or received-an inexpressible backwardness to be overcome, as it were, by the power of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. They will be regular and formal and devout, so long as the favoured sin is undecent, and to a certain extent moral and touched, the Sabbath is not too rigidly enforced, dishonest interests of whatever kind are spared, the secret corruption neither exposed nor condemned. Against these deceptive appearances the Christian minister has greatly to stand on his guard at all times: but how much more difficult, nay, utterly insurmountable will be his that which shrinks from the exposure of task with others, if there be within himself his own bosom sin, from the surrender of his own cherished indulgences, from the denial of his own passions and corrupt propensities, from the cordial devotion of himself to the work of the ministry, and the ways of God. If religion be our own burden, how can we expect it to be the joy of our flock? If formality be the measure of our preaching and ministrations, can it be otherwise than the sum of the attainments of our congregation ?” pp. 20, 21.

We have space to quote but one passage more; and this shall be another in sequence to the preceding :

"Are we careful, under the guidance of the sacred word of God, to make full proof of our ministry, to watch in all things, endure even afflictions, and do the work of evangelists? Do we fight the good fight

GREAT BRITAIN.

In the press :-A View of the Scripture Revelations concerning a Future State ;Satan, a Poem; by the Author of " The Omnipresence of the Deity;"-The History of England; by C. St. George.

The subject of the Norrisian Cambridge prize-essay for the ensuing year is, "The Christian Religion the last Revelation to be expected of the will of God."

An analysis was lately made at the London University, of some water brought from the Dead Sea, which gave of mineral contents, omitting decimals, nine, five, and three, parts respectively, of the chlorides of sodium, magnesia, and lime, with one part of sulphate of lime.

The rapidity of steam navigation has led to the importation of various articles which formerly could not be brought to this country. A projector has formed a Baking Establishment on the Dutch coast, from which loaves are conveyed in twentyfour hours to the banks of the Thames.

The National Society has printed a little book on needlework curiously illustrated, by actual miniature specimens of the articles to be cut out or made. All the articles and directions are accurately to scale. We can assert on better authority than our own that the instructions are admirable, and the illustrative specimens skilfully wrought. The importance of encouraging habits of industry, and particularly teaching needlework, among the girls in our National and Parochial Schools, has been too often overlooked by many who were anxious for the mental and religious instruction of children. We trust that this useful publication will be the means of calling the attention of the friends of education to the subject. It argues little for the comfort of a poor man's family, that a woman was first monitress at a national school, if she cannot repair her husband's apparel, or cut out garments for her children.

At a recent meeting of the Geological Society, Dr. Buckland exhibited a collection of fossil bones of a newly discovered enormous extinct animal of the lizard species, to which the name has been given of the iguanidon. It almost realizes the fable of Apollo and the Python; for if the primeval ooze produced crocodiles like

this, the sun was indeed a public benefactor in drying it up to exterminate them. A bone of one of the digital joints of the animal is six inches in length; four times as large as the corresponding bone of the elephant Chunelah's skeleton at Exeter Exchange, by the side of which Dr. Buckland found it placed for contrast.

The public acts of last session were sixty-three in number, and occupy six hundred and nineteen folio pages. In addition to these public acts, there were one hundred and thirty-six local acts, declared public, and fifty private acts, and nineteen private acts, not printed.

Among the remarkable bequests mentioned in the Reports of the Education Commissioners, is one of Richard Dovey, who, in 1659, founded a free school at Claverley, Salop, and directed the sum of eight shillings to a poor man, who should undertake to awaken sleepers, and to whip out dogs from the church during Divine service. John Rudge, in 1725, left various bequests to the parish of Trysull, Staffordshire; amongst others, an annuity of twenty shillings to a poor man, to go about the parish church for the same laudable purpose.

We mentioned in our last Number the admissions of the Unitarian Monthly Repository, relative to the unpopularity of their cause. It appears, further, that not one number more of that journal is sold now than was sold twenty years ago; while in the Church of England, and among the orthodox Dissenters the aggregate sale of religious periodical publications has increased manifold. Theological reading, even Unitarian, does not appear to be to the taste of the Unitarian body. FRANCE.

The Baron de Sacy, in a learned memoir lately read before the Academy of Inscriptions, respecting the controversy on the origin of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, contends they were written in Syria, certainly not in India; that they were never completed; that many interpolations and imitations crept into the manuscripts; and that they are not very ancient, though probably more than four centuries old, as no mention is made in them of tobacco and coffee, which now constitute the staple entertainment of oriental nations.

M. Flourens, with a view to ascertain the effect of climate on pulmonary consumption, procured twenty-three chickens of a month old six he kept in a mild regulated temperature; the remaining seventeen he exposed to wet and cold; the lungs of fifteen of these soon became inflamed; six of them he then sheltered: of the eleven left exposed, nine died of pulmonary consumption, and only two recovered not one of the six original sheltered ones became diseased; and of the six partially diseased, but afterwards taken in, two died, and four recovered. The lungs of these four were examined some months after, and the remains of disease, even to suppuration, were visible. Their recovery M. Flourens attributes entirely to a timely removal to a mild atmosphere.

More than a hundred and fifty years since, a species of Bible Societies existed in France. They were conducted by members of the Church of Rome, at the head of whom was the Abbé de Barneville, whom the Abbé Gregoire calls "the real inventor of Bible Societies." The object of these institutions, Barneville says in the preface to his translation of the New Testament in 1749, was "to distribute the word of God to rich and poor throughout the kingdom." Is it not strange, he asks, that so many persons who pride themselves on praising the Bible have never thought how they might circulate it for their own benefit, and that of others? Is not this, says he, like reading the poor a lecture on the excellence of pure unadulterated bread without endeavouring to provide it for them? This society, which was patronized by some of the French bishops, distributed great numbers of copies gratuitously, and made a rule to sell no copy for more than the prime cost. These institutions disappeared about the middle of the last century. It is stated in one of the society's editions, that of 1731, that the chief part of the donations for circulating the New Testament had been received not from the rich but the poor. De Saci's translation of 1758 would appear also to have been circulated by a Bible Society, as the frontispiece represents persons taking Testaments from a chest, and distributing them to the people with the motto, "Sine sumptu ponam evangelium."

ITALY.

The new Pope Pius VIII., in his circular letter, published the 21st of last May, the very day of his inauguration, strongly nges his clergy to be on their guard

against Bible Societies, which, he says, publish at great expense false translations for popular and gratuitous distribution; and also against religious tracts, which he says circulate poison. He tells his clergy that the Council of Trent ordered that translations of the Scripture should not be allowed in the vulgar tongues, at all events, unless approved by the pope, and accompanied by notes from the fathers, and that no person should trust to his own private judgment, but follow the sense held by the church. He recommends his clergy to use the arms of their enemies to combat the evil. We wish nothing better: Protestantism has nothing to fear, Popery every thing, from free discussion. RUSSIA.

Professor Kupfer, of Casan, has succeeded, after a very laborious struggle, in climbing to the summit of one of the loftiest peaks of the Caucasus; about 1000 feet higher than Mont Blanc. From his observations on the decrease, in proportion to the elevation, of magnetic intensity, he concludes that the magnetic power of the globe cannot arise from the existence of a central magnetic nucleus.

GREECE.

The Greek government, much to their credit, refuse to allow the sale or removal of their national antiquities.

Dr. Howe, who was sent out by the New-York and Boston committees for the relief of the Greeks, immediately on his landing set the people to work, instead of distributing food gratuitously. Among other plans, he has cleared an ancient harbour in Attica; and at Megara has provided the people with beans for seed for their fields, on condition of their returning one third of the crop to found a school.

EGYPT.

M. Champollion has sent home the following curious intelligence. We must deduct something probably for the warmth of the writer's imagination, in forming conclusions on his favourite subject. "In the valley called Biban-el-Molouk, we admired the astonishing freshness of the paintings, and the delicacy of the sculpture of the tomb of Ousirei. I have had drawings made and coloured upon the spot of the richest pictures. I have also had drawings made of the series of nations represented on one of the bas-reliefs. We have the image of the several races of men known by the Egyptians. They are represented to the number of twelve, but belonging to four very distinct families. The first three are of a dark-red colour,