MR. MYERS has brought out a second edition, considerably enlarged, of his valuable book, 'Both One in Christ,' which we esteem it a very high honour to have been permitted to preface with some introductory pages. The Lord has signally blessed the former impression of the work, no less than the personal labours of this faithful Israelite among his brethren after the flesh. We greatly desire the circulation of the book.

THE Religious Tract Society have re-published, in one of their elegant diminutives, Hooker on Justification; a standard work in the Christian church.

WE have been delighted with a sermon preached to the Chartists, by the Rev. Dr. Whittaker, at the parish church of Blackburn. These misguided men came, and gave him as a text the first six verses of James V. He took them, but added all the remainder of the chapter; and to a congregation of 4000 persons addressed a bold, faithful, affectionate discourse, which we hope will be remembered with gratitude by many who heard it, even when the fashion of this world shall have passed away.

THE PROTESTANT.

'Do you remember M'Ghee's speech at his last meeting in Exeter Hall?'

Surely, uncle: it would not be easy to forget it.' • You can recal his expressions with regard to the abiding effects of priestly domination among the wretched slaves of the confessional?'

' He represented it as leading in an especial manner to "perjury, intimidation, and sedition.'

You are right. In the month of April Mr. M'Ghee exposed to our view the secret working of that infernal machine, which is hidden from common sight behind so many veils of artful concealment, that human ingenuity, unaided by divine teaching, could never prevail to uncover it. He exhibited the nature, the presumed object, and the obvious tendency of the complicated action incessantly carried on: he traced the governing wire from its first subtle connexion with the Propaganda in Rome, to its ulterior action, when impelling the bullet from the assassin's tube behind some covering thicket in Ireland. He drew a picture, in relation to his poor demoralized country, the truth of which we, alas! could well attest from personal knowledge: but to the mass of the public it was the bare assertion of a perhaps prejudiced witness, desirous to make good his own argument against a religion which he was

bound to oppose. Four months have elapsed, and England possesses, in the form of solemn deposition on oath before the highest tribunal of the land, a body of evidence bearing out to the fullest extent all that M'Ghee asserted; all that he implied; all that our worst apprehensions could have pictured of the probable results from that diabolical piece of machinery that we had been permitted to examine.'

'You allude to Lord Roden's committee?'

'Yes: I love to hear it called Lord Roden's committee. I love to hear the name of Lord Roden associated with the most important public service that has for many a long year been rendered to the church and country—to remember how cheerfully that Christian patriot sacrificed the long-cherished project of a missionary tour in other lands, fraught with anticipations of varied enjoyment, healthful, intellectual, spiritual-and with purposes of solid usefulness in a most encouraging sphere: how readily all were relinquished for the dearer privilege of fulfilling a laborious, wearisome, and most onerous task in a close-pent committee-room, in the hope of demonstrating by its works the fatal power of that engine of which M'Ghee unveiled the hidden machinery; and thus arresting the progress of his country's ruin.'

'And has he not succeeded, so far as the demonstration could go?'

'He has never was assertion more triumphantly substantiated. Take M'Ghee's speech as the indictment set forth by leading counsel, and Lord Roden's committee as evidence in support of the prosecution, you have grounds for a conviction, such as no opposing testimony can ever shake. Popery is the criminal; and the Protestant government of this Protestant

land the guilty accessory both before and after every fact. Power to commit such crimes, connivance during the commission, and subsequent impunity, all are proved against the government. I date the first clause far back: I charge it upon former administrations, even from the first slackening of those restraining bonds by which, while declining to coerce the minds of men, all facilities for political mischief were placed beyond their reach. To them be the shame, and on them lie the guilt of having permitted this pile to be laid, and through a series of years to accumulate, which it was reserved for the present government to see kindled without one real effort to quench the torch, or to stay the spread of the rising conflagration.'

What a fearful disclosure is that of the ribbon society! Its organization appears complete throughout the land.'

We all knew that long ago: the public knew, but could not remedy the evil: government knew, and would not.'

'It is hard to conceive, uncle, that they were really informed in a matter touching not only the lives of individuals, but the existence of England's authority there, yet permitted it to exist, and to grow unchecked.'

It is one of those awful phenomena of our corrupt nature, to be accounted for only on the principle of that engrossing selfishness which directs, as it were, an inverted telescope towards every object likely to interfere with its own pursuits, at once diminishing its apparent magnitude and increasing its apparent distance. Rank, power, and emolument are seductive things: the man who holds them, sub

ject to a political or other casual change, naturally bends a favouring look on what seems likely to strengthen and perpetuate his tenure. God, in just judgment, has permitted a party whom we guiltily received into the legislature from motives of unhallowed expediency, to acquire there a preponderance which, though numerically and morally they are the least of all parties, governs every division in the Lower House. This influential little clique lends itself to prop up the present administration, requiring as the price of its support a connivance at enormities such as have just now been divulged; and leaving us room only for the charitable hope that, by a process of self-deception, our governors are really so blinded as not to be fully conscious they have all along been lending themselves to a system of deliberate perjury, treason, and murder.'

'At all events, uncle, they can now plead such ignorance no longer.'

Honestly they cannot: but by means of that inverted telescope they contrive to divest the facts of their present importance, and to overlook their inevitable consequences.'

'But they cannot prevent the people of this country from duly exercising the senses and the reason which God has given them.'

That is the point: Even without the commentary of Lord Brougham's masterly speech, and aided only by such extracts from the evidence as have appeared in all the public prints, we must perforce become acquainted with the plain fact that a treasonable confederacy, which under some name or another has always existed among the Romish population of Ireland, and which it has ever been the policy equally