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unabashed and unconscious of shame; whilst among the lower orders there prevails a spirit of insubordination that brooks no restraint, appearing in frequent instances of cruelty, and midnight depredations, hitherto foreign to the character of our peo-, ple.' 'And,' adds the Right Rev. Prelate, what is of all circumstances the most appalling, the truths and precepts of our holy religion itself, are by many lightly regarded, if not entirely set at nought and despised.' The Bishop, after stating these alarming facts, tells his clergy that the most effectual mode of endeavouring to arrest this general career of sin, is to inculcate a clear knowledge of the uncorruped doctrines of religion, natural and revealed, upon both of which subjects he expatiates at considerable length with his wonted eloquence. Let not then,' he recommends, the Sunday pass by, so frequently, as of late it hath done, without your displaying to your hearers the goodness of the Almighty, in th formation and providential care of his creatures. Convince them that the line which the Deity has marked out for them by his eternal laws, is the path of virtue. Every act of obedience to the will of our Creator, hath its appropriate inducement and recompence. Kindness is, for the most part, repaid by kindness. Temperance is its own reward. Industry hath in its right hand, length of days; and in its left hand, competence and content.' If the virtuous be sometimes overwhelmed with misfortunes, this is but a proof that there is a better world, in which they shall meet with their reward; nor is this, he contends, the only evidence which natural religion affords of a resurrection from the dead. The Bishop's ideas upon this point have often been inculcated before, but NO. II. (1831.) VOL. IV.

we have never seen them clothed in more persuasive language.

'The mind of man shrinks from, and dreads the idea of annihilation. It looks with fond and anxious hope to future and brighter scenes; to a reunion with those we have loved upon earth made Saints in Heaven. Surely then we are justified in believing that a God of all power, and of all justice, would not have implanted in our Souls this aspiration after, this longing for immortality, if it were a state we are never destined to attain. This feeling then, which gives life a charm; which is the parent of noble thought and action; this, cannot be the groundless vision of the fancy: an expectation which never is to be realized-a desire which never can be granted. Far more consistent is it even with the deductions of our reason alone to believe, that the hope of bursting the bands of death and triumphing over the King of Terrors, is an instinct which will lead to its own fruition; that it is a link which unites earth to heaven, an anticipation which may render us more fit partakers of those joys that are to be revealed.'

It is no part of our object, at present, to enter into those doctrines advanced by the prelate, which many members of his own church, not to speak of the dissenters, strongly contravert. We may observe, however, that his explanation of the intimate connection between faith and good works is as concise as it is exact and eloquent in language. Among the causes of those evils which, he says, the church has to deplore, he particularly notices those wild and enthusiastic notions of religion, which are at present so frequently inculcated in conventicles, and sometimes even in our public ways and fields!' The tendency of such 2 R

preaching,' he adds, 'is too often to reconcile a life of sin with the assuredness of salvation'! The prelate thinks the present systems of toleration and of education rather too unlimited, and as so many causes of the evils which be laments, to which he adds the distressed state of the poor. Upon this latter point he agrees in principle with Mr. Warner, in recommending to those of his clergy who have glebes, to let out to each labourer with a family, a small allotment of land, upon which they might subsist in content and peace. The bishop clearly sees, and would endeavour to stem, the tide of opinion so strongly setting in against the whole system, spiritual and secular of the established church, and prudently concludes with informing his clergy that he is a friend to reform, hoping that they will follow his example. We trust that his advice will not have been given in vain.

ART. XVIII.-Thoughts on Various Subjects. By William Danby, Esq., of Swinton Park, Yorkshire. 8vo. pp. 253. London: Rivington. York: Todd. 1831. WE have here a Second Edition of Mr. Danby's "Ideas and Realities," considerably enlarged, and we may justly add much improved. Wit he ains not at, humour he never affects; and though he would risk occasionally to pass to the lively from the severe, he cannot be charged with much of the buoyant qualities of mirth. His thoughts are such as we may easily suppose likely to float through the mind of a country gentleman, liberally educated, surrounded by useful books, enjoying all the luxuries of a pleasant seat in Yorkshire, and finding employment in his many leisure

hours in the soothing occupations of literature. It is something for such a man to be able to say to himself every morning-Well, I shall advance so far in the preparation of my book to day! We can easily understand the feeling with which Mr. Danby sent the proof of his last sheet to the press. It must have been like parting with a friend, who had long been near him, and kept away the blue devils from his library. The general current of his 'thoughts' is sober, religious, and respectable, without being very profound. They are generally clearly, sometimes neatly expressed; as in the following three or four specimens, which we shall cite.

'Life has its pleasures, but the only real ones are those which are doubled on reflection; and they are most felt in the encouragement they give to hope for more.'

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Nothing can add more to the expression of our feelings than laying our hand on the arm of him to whom we are expressing them. It is an argumentum ad fratrem, a kind of animal magnetism, an electric chain, that conveys the fluid to the breast of him whom we are addressing ourselves to, if he has feelings to receive it, and if the address is worthy of exciting them. It disposes him to sympathize with us, and to listen to us with the same confidence that we seem to place in him ; accordingly it is introduced into the conversation between Yorick and the Mendicant Friar, in the "Sentimental Journey," and it is much more interesting to me to recollect it in one whose example I most wish to follow, and whose memory I have the most reason to respect; my own father. This expression of natural feeling is surely among the most pleasant that can be given, received, or recorded: and if all that accompanies it is in concurrence with it, we cannot well doubt of its sincerity. It has the feeling of truth, and should only be expressive of it.'

The mind's exertion of its own powers is very sufficient to show that there is much beyond them; and the glimpse that it catches of this is as sure

a proof that it is within the reach of higher intelligence.'

In all cases of personal attachment between the sexes, the less sensuality there is the better; for whatever degree of sentiment may be mixed with it, it is still the part that draws the human nearer to the mere animal nature, and not the less so for the sentiment that may be mixed with it; for the compari. son must be made between the two; Moore's

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"O the heart that has truly loved, never forgets,

But as truly loves on to the close," ought to be, and will be true, if that love has its proper seat in the mind. And, look we not forward to a far higher love than any that the excitements of this world can inspire? Young most truly says,

"Virtue alone entenders us through life: I wrong her much; entenders us for ever."

For virtue must be immortal. Nothing that is really good, can be lost; for it must have come from God, and will return to, and abide in Him.'

ART. XIX.-Translations of the Oxford Latin Prize Poems. First Series. 8vo. pp. 193. London: Valpy. 1831.

To men of classical education, especially to those who have been educated at the universities, the publication of which we have here the first series, will be eminently acceptable. It is to contain translations of the best Latin poems which have gained prizes at Oxford, and we may observe the interest which the work excites from the long and highly respectable list of subscribers, with which the present volume is ushered into the world. Of the manner in which the translations are executed, we do not hesitate to speak in terms of the highest praise. The energy and modulation of the verse, reminds us in every page of the best days of Eng

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Here fix'd the Chief his temple and his throne:

Though from thy gates opposing factions here

With stern defiance drove the gifted Seer,

Yet, sacred city of his love! 'twas thine To heap the earliest incense on his shrine;

To own the terrors of his conquering blade,

And hail with joy the Exile thou hast made.

Yes!-thou art known to fame! to thee, 'tis said,

A voice divine the wandering Abraham led:

Within thy courts, at his command re stored,

Blazed the pure altars of Creation's Lord. And hence thy race, for ancient faith renown'd,

Surpassing favour with Mohammed found;

His seat of empire hence thy walls be

came,

And shared for sanctity Mohammed's fame.

Nor strange that hence, with pious gifts array'd,

Thy shrine revered the Moslem tribes invade;

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ART. XXI.-1. Pietas Privata.The Book of Private Devotion : A series of Prayers and Meditations ; with an Introductory Essay on Prayer, chiefly from the writings of Hannah More. 2. Daily Communings, Spiritual and Devotional. By the Right Rev. George Horne. London : Nisbet, 1831.

WE are glad to meet with such publications as these, for never was there a period, perhaps, in the history of the world, when they were so much wanted. Mrs. Hannah More's religions feelings are well known-her whole life having been one round of dedication to pious and benevolent thoughts. Dr. Horne's Communings' form a complete manual of religion in themselves. A passage is selected from the Psalms, which is slightly amplified, and at the same time expounded, in the prayer, or rather we might call it the aspiration that follows it; and thus a small volume is composed, which may be said to contain the spiritual essence of the whole Book of the Psalms. One of these prayers is appropriated to each day in the year. The two volumes are beautifully printed, and would easily find room in a gentleman's waistcoat-pocket, or a lady's reticule.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Thunder Storms.-In England, thunder-storms generally occur in the afternoon. Of thirty-five remarkable ones which are noticed in the Philosophical Transactions, twenty-seven commenced between noon and midnight; generally it was about three or four in the afternoon. One lasted all day, and

the remaining seven were in the morning.

Flower Stakes.-No person who is fond of flowers should think of using wooden laths to support them. A much more substantial, as well as an infinitely more elegant substitute for the lath will be found in the delicate iron stakes

which are now manufactured for that purpose, and which are particularly well calculated for sustaining all the tall growing plants, such as fuschias, georginas, pinks, and others which require protection against high winds. The evil of wood is, that it soon becomes decayed, and easily yielding to the blast, both plant and stake fall at once to the ground. Moreover, the iron rod from its slightness is much less conspicuous than the wood, and consequently tends in no degree to diminish the natural beauty of the plant to which it lends assistance.

Red Spiders.-These insects are the pest of some gardens. It is recommended by an experimentalist, that the leaves of plants which they infest, should be frequently syringed on both sides with clear water, which has been found completely to destroy them. In green-houses the same effect may be produced, by the application of steam.

Atmospheric Tides.-It has been inferred with a great degree of probability, from a variety of ascertained facts, that there exists an analogy between the lunar influence on the tides of the ocean and the temperature of the atmosphere. During the last winter, the lowest degree of temperature, both in London and Paris, was in each period of frost the day, or day but one, after one of the lunar quarters.

Elevation of Territory.- From observations that have been made by Boblaye, in the Morea and Egina, it appears that the whole soil of the Peninsula has risen considerably, not in a continuous manner, but by sudden starts, so that the grounds abandoned by the sea, are marked out in steps or layers, in irregular gradations.

Mr. Campbell.-This gentleman

has of late been a watcher of the dead. The breath had scarcely quitted the frame of Sir Thomas Lawrence, when the author of the "Pleasures of Hope" was proclaimed as already engaged upon the memoirs of the illustrious artist. The task, however, if ever really undertaken, was soon abandoned. Now, again, a similar trick is played off with respect to Mrs. Siddons, who was no sooner buried than her will was opened, bequeathing to the same gentleman the task of celebrating her name to all posterity. It is said that she has left considerable materials for her biography if so, we hope that they will be consigned to some person who really will make use of them.

Cholera Morbus.-It is reported that this dreadful malady has already found its way to Vienna, and to Pest in Hungary. It appears from the Riga Medical Report up to the morning of the 15th of June, that the total number of hospital patients was 1,386; cured, 308; dead, 798; house patients, 1,226; cured, 558; dead, 488. Total, 2,612: cured, 866; dead, 1,286; and left, 466. The physicians say that the disease is now of a much milder character than at first. From the 31st of May to the 1st June, there were only twenty-four deaths; from the 1st (13th) to the 2d (14th) thirty-one deaths, but only seventynine new cases. From the 2d (14th) to the 3d (15th) twenty-nine, and eighty-five new cases, whilst hitherto upwards of 100 people were daily attacked. The number of hospital deaths alone was from sixty to seventy daily.

M. Bonpland. - Tidings have been at length received of this eminent naturalist. From a letter written by him to a friend at Buenos Ayres, it appears, notwithstanding all the reports which have been

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