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A Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Rev. Archdeacon Nares, in the Parish Church of Walsall, on the 1st of June, 1814; by the Very Rev. the Dean of Lichfield. 1. 6d.

Christianity the Glory of England;-a Sermon on the present happy Era (1814); by the Rev. Bladen Downing, LL. B. 1ș.

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England's Mercies and Duties:-A Sermon, preached in the Church of St. George, Little Bolton, Lancashire; by the Rev. W. Thistlethwaite, M. A., Minister. is.

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Practical Essays on Mill-work, and other Machinery, mechanical and descriptive; by Robertson Buchanan, Civil Engineer. 3 vols. Svo. 14.5. illustrated by numerous Plates, and other Figures.

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Results of Experience in Defective Utterance; by John Thelwall, Esq. 8vo. 5s. The Port-folio, containing Essays, Letters, and Narratives. 2 vols. 12mo. 14s.

A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, in every Branch of Literature, now selfing (at the prices affixed) by John Hatch

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Mitigation of Slavery, in two Parts, by the late Hon. Joshua Steele, and Willian Dickson, LL.D. 8vo. 14%.

The Satires of Juvenal, translated into English Verse, with Notes and Illustrations, by Chas, Badham, M. D.

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Local and Literary Account of Leamington, Warwick, Birmingham, &c.; by M. Pratt. 12mo. 5s.,

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A Treatise on Domestic Wine Making. * Letters from a Lady to her Sister, during a Tour to Paris in the Months of April and May, 1814. 12mo. 4s.

A Voyage to Terra Australis in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in bis Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently, in the arined Vessel Porpoise, and Cumberland Schooner, with Views and Charts; by Matthew Flinders, Commander of the Investigator. 2 vols. 4to.

HIBERNIAN AUXILIARY CHURCH

MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A NUMEROUS and respectable Meeting of persons friendly to the objects of "The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the Eart," was held at the Rotunda, in Dublin, on Wednesday 224 June, 1814, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair.

The Rev. Josiah Pratt, Secretary of the Society, and the Rev. Daniel Wilson, a

member of the Committee, having detailed its objects and proceedings, it was unani mously resolved, on the motion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Gosford, seconded by the Rev. B.-W. Mathias, That the object, constitution, and proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, have the cordial approbation of this Meeting; and that a Society be therefore now formed in this city, for the purpose of aiding and

co-operating with the said Institution; and that it be styled," The Hibernian Church Missionary Society, Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East." Regulations were then proposed and adopted, similar to those of the Parent Society, to which the funds it may raise are, after defraying incidental expenses, to be transmitted.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Lorton has accepted the office of a Vice-Patron and President of this Society.

The following noblemen were named Vice-Patrons:-The Marquis of Downshire; the Earls of Westmeath, Charlemont, Des sart, and Gosford; Viscounts de Vesci, Lifford, Northland, and Valentia; and Lords Carberry and Headley

The following gentlemen were appointed Vice-Presidents:-The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, for the time being; the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Daly; the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, M. P.; the Right Hon. John Maxwell Barry, M. P.; the Right Hon. David Latouche; the Right Hon. General Sir George Hewitt; the Hon. James Hewitt; Robert Shaw, Esq, M. P.; Wil liam Brownlow, Esq., M. P.; Major General White; Major General Trotter; Blenly Townley Balfour, Esq; Peter Latouche, Esq.; William Gregory, Esq.; Alexander Hamilton, Esq.; and Dr. Perceval.

The Right Hou. David Latouche was appointed treasurer to this Society; the Rev. R. H. Nixon, and Abbot Trayer, jun. Esq., secretaries; and the following gentlemen the committee for the ensuing year:-Benjamin Ball, Esq., jun.; Francis Beattie, Esq.; Vicars Boyle, Esq.; Morgan Crofton, Esq.; William Disney, Esq.; Thomas Disney, Esq.; Thomas Falkner Glew, Esq.; Joseph Goff, Esq., jun.; Arthur Guinness, Esq.; Benjamin Guinness, Esq.; W. C. Hogan, Esq.; John Kingston James, Esq.; Higginson Johnston, Esq.; Peter Latouche, Esq., jun.; John David Latouche, Esq.; Thomas Lefroy, Esq.; William Shaw Mason, Esq.; Leonard Ogilby, Esq.; Thomas Par

Shaw. Treasurer, Mrs. Shaw Secretary, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. This Association has been formed chiefly for the purpose of collecting smaller subscriptions. The contribution of one penny per week constitutes a Member. Such Ladies as shall collect twelve such contributions, or one shilling per week, will be entitled to receive the Reports of the Church Missionary Society, and of the Hibernian Auxiliary, together with a copy of each monthly number of the Mis sionary Register.

Whoever snall contribute or collect Five Pounds per Annum, may affix any name' they please to an African boy or girl, to be selected out of a number of children liberated at Sierra Leone from captured slave smugglers; which child will then be clothed, maintained, and educated, in one of the So ciety's settlements on the Western Coast of Africa.

ANTIGUA SCHOOLS.

On the 29th of May, 1813, a Society was formed in Antigua, terraing themselves, "A Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in Antigua," governed by a president, and conimittee of eight persons, The number of schools, in January last, was four, and of scholars seven hundred; and notwithstanding the great inconvenience caused by a want of proper school-rooms, their improvement gave pleasure to all who attended the examinations which took place at Christmas. By a subsequent letter, dated in May last, it appears, that they had heard of the sum of 2001, having been raised in England, with a view to the erection of school-rooms, and the maintenance of the schools; and though this sum is still far from being adequate to the wants of the poor be nighted population of this Island, yet it has greatly served to encourage the exertions of those benevolent individuals who were devoting their time and labours to this object;' an object well worthy of the charitable consideration of all classes of Christians.

A Ladies' Dublin Church Missionary As sociation, in aid of the Hibernian Auxiliary Church Missionary Society, was also formed; Patroness, Viscountess Lifford. President, the Countess of Westmeath. Vice-Presidents, Viscountess Lorton, Lady Lucy Barry, Lady Florence Balfour, Lady Alolyneux, Mrs. (General) White, Mrs. Brownlow, Mrs.

CIETY.

In our number for May, we stated, that it had been dur intention to give a sketch of the speeches made on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, but that we were under the necessity of deferring it. We had hoped to be able to lay before our readers a' føller report of those speeches, than it is even now in our power to give; but as we are not

likely to gain any thing in this respect by a farther delay, we shall proceed at once to fulfil our purpose with the means we possess. The Report, of which we gave an abstract in our last number, having been read, the Noble President addressed a few observations to the Meeting. He expressed the lively satisfaction which it had created in his own breast, and which, he conceived, it must create in the breast of every one who had any real love to God or affection for man. No part of it gave him more pleasure than the tendency of the Institution to mite Christians of every name, throughout the world, in one golden chain of harmony and Jove. And the zeal shewn by the Society, be trusted, would prove durable and substantial. He trusted it was a holy flame, kindled at the altar of the Lord; and that it would continue to shed around its benign influence, until all the ends of the earth should see the salvation of God.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent moved, that the Report be read and adoped. This was seconded by the Honourable and Very Rev, the Dean of Wells, who congra tulated the Meeting on the various grounds of encouragement furnished in the Report. On some of these he dwelt with great effect. The opening prospects of the Society also shewed the necessity of further labours; and this he considered as an additional motive for congratulation. In this view, he would especially direct their attention to France, where the bloodless resignation of the tyrant opened the way for the most enlarged endeavours of Christians to benefit that op pressed country. Let us send them in his stead the Bible! The name of France had often kindled in the breasts of Englishmen many painful associations. Would to God that our desires might now be exerted to benefit their souls. There was an article in the basis of the new French constitution, which gave religious liberty to its subjects, which he could not fail to notice with pleasure. Let us remember, that in the neighbouring country there are thirty millions of persons involved in ignorance and sin-before, our enemies, but now, our friends. Let us endeavour to bring them to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus,

The President read a letter from Prince, Galitzin, expressing the gratitude of the friends of the Bible Society in Russia to the British and Foreign Bible Society, for the very eminent services rendered to Russia, He then introduced the bearer of that letter, the Rev. John Paterson, from Petersburg,

who addressed the Meeting in a very in pressive manner. He felt much difficulty in expressing his feelings on the occasion, and would gladly have remained a silent specs tator of the proceedings of that day, had he not been importuned to give an account of the exertions and prospects of the Institutions in the northern part of Europe, the inhabitants of which had commissioned him to convey their warmest acknowledgments for the liberal assistance which they had received. The simplicity of the plan, the greatness of the object, the patience and laborious perseverance, and vigorous prosecution of, that object manifested by the British and Foreign Bible Society, had awakened the attention of all classes, both at home and abroad. It had revived the dronp ing spirits even of those who were at war with Great Britain, and extinguished the spirit of hostility itself. The fundamental principle of this Society, of uniting all reli gious denominations in one grand and spee cific object, under the Divine blessing, had greatly forwarded the circulation of the Bible upon the Continent. In Russia, the Bishops highly approved of the plan, and the Archbishop of Petersburg adverted to this important feature in the Institution. Indeed, the conduct of the Emperor Alexi ander, his princes and his nobles, had been in the highest degree noble and gratifying. The effect produced was splendid. The Russian Societies combined the patronage of both church and state. They had produced the most happy effects on all classes of sa ciety; even the Russian peasants subscribed in little groupes for a copy of the Scriptures, to be held as common property. It was not unusual for them, if they could not raise the sum, to offer their passports (without which a Russian peasant cannot enjoy his daily liberty), as the pledge of payment. In Denmark, 5000 Bibles, and 5000 extra New Testaments, had been printed in the Jcelandic language, and circulated in different parts of Iceland. In these Northern regious, eight years ago, there had been but one Bible to a thousand persons, and now there will be one to ten, and one Testament to every, five persons. In Sweden, the Pros sident of the Bible Society desired that he would express the obligations they felt to the Parent Institution. In Petersburg, the Bible Society goes on prosperously: in proof of which, he had only to state, that the Bible was now on sale in that city in fourteen* different languages; and that 60,000 copies, iu ten different tongues, were preparing for

publication; and these were eagerly sought for and purchased with avidity. The demand for the modern Greek New Testament is very great in South Russia. The neces sity for printing the Armenian Scriptures will appear, when it is told, that it was with the greatest difficulty that a copy could be procured to print from, and it cost 81. In Polish Russia, the demand for the Scriptures was also frequent and urgeut: there, the Roman, Catholic bishops and clergy united to promote the object of this Society. It appears from the Report, that one million of copies have already been circulated in the world, but how many millions more are necessary yet to supply the whole population of the North of Europe! In Finland, there was the greatest desire for copies of the Holy Scriptures, and the New Testament would soon be ready. It would require many years before this country could be fully supplied, as there were 300,000 per sons destitute of a Bible. It was the determination of the Russian Bible Society, that their exertions should not be diminished, antil every family in Russia possessed a Bible. This was the determination of the great and good Alexander. Even the peasants in Russia, and the inhabitants of Siberia, have caught the sacred flame. He could not but again express his great satisfaction at being present at this Anniversary of the Institution. His expectations had been great, but now they were more than realized. Gladly would he stay all his days in this happy country; but already he heard a voice from the North of Europe, saying, 'Return, and help ns;" "and," added he, "I cheerfully obey the call."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in moving thanks to the President, spoke as follows-viz.

"It is the pleasing duty imposed upon me this day, to put into the hands of his Royal Highness a motion, to which I am sure you will all assent with the utmost satisfaction, that of returning the thanks of this meeting to our loved and respected President. It would be an idle waste of your time to use any argument to persuade you to pass a resolution, with regard to which I am convinced the feelings of every heart are completely in unison with my own; but I cannot forbear to occupy your attention for a few minutes, in congratulating his Lordship and the Society on the wonderful events which have taken place since the period of our last annual meeting.

"If ever the hand of Providence has been

distinctly visible in his dealings with man kind; if ever even the thoughtless and unobserving have been compelled to confess that the affairs of this world are guided by a power and wisdom superior to our own, it has been in the succession of wonderful events which have recently taken place. These events have encircled this country with a blaze of glory. But I wish to tell my countrymen, as I always tell my own heart, that if we look to our reward in earthly glory, we shall find our reward but disappointment and vanity. We are on this occasion called upon to regard the passing scenes of this world with a reference to remoter views and more important objects than occupy the attention of any ordinary assembly; and, considered in this light, many circumstances which have lately occurred so far surpass any reach of human foresight, that they may well humble while they delight us. It is now just two years, since, in this place, and on an occasion like the present, I took the liberty of expressing a sentiment which was not more my own than that of all who heard me, that a Christian has no enemy. What we then felt as Christians, the Almighty has now been pleased to realize to us as citizens and Britons. He has given us a peace such as He only could give: not an arrangement of diplomatic artifice, endeavouring by subtle contrivance to obtain advantages which the force of arms had failed to secure: not thé pause of exhausted combatants, waiting to recover strength for a renewal of the contest: but the cordial reconciliation of friends and Christians, casting away invete rate prejudice and ready to embrace as brethren, whom some strange delusion bad estranged. I shall not, however, dwell upon a subject which the Very Rev. Dean has discussed with such simple and affecting eloquence, further than to remind him, that the seed is already sown in France; and that we may well hope, under circumstances so favourable, and that blessing which has hitherto so visibly attended it, that it will produce a plentiful harvest. Nor shall I enter upon the various topics which that most interesting Report, which has been read to us, offers to our consideration. I feel, indeed, not only that they are too extensive to be brought within the compass of any address which I could, with propriety, offer to you; but that they are rather subjects of humble meditation and deep reflection than of public argument and discussion. I shall therefore conclude, by requesting his Royal Highness to propose

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the resolution in my hand, and which I am sure it will not be less agreeable to hiin to offer for your vote than to you to concur in." The motion having been put by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and manimously carried; Lord Teignmouth expressed his deep obligations to his Royal Highness and the meeting for the honour they had done him.

His Excellency Count de la Gardie, ambassador from the Court of Sweden to that of Madrid, moved the thanks of the Meeting to the Vice-Presidents. His manly and dignified person, his foreign accent, his high station, and bis devout and feeling manner, rendered it impossible for any heart, alive to Christian sympathies, to resist the influence of his address to the Meeting. "Permit me," he concluded, in broken accents, "to present, in the name of my king and country, the gratitude which we feel for your kindness to our poor brethren in Sweden. Receive my cordial thanks, in the name of the whole Swedish people. May Almighty God bless the endeavours of the British and Foreign Bible Society-and every one of you! I expect not to see you any more, but I shall never forget these moments, and shall esteem them among the happiest in my life. The blessing of the poor will be upon you! Excuse a man who entertains for England the most exalted seniments: let him remain in your remembrance!"

The Rev. George Burder seconded the above Resolution.

W. Wilberforce, Esq., in acknowledging the thanks offered to the Vice-Presidents, observed, that it was they who ought to thank the Society. "You claim," he said, "the abundance of our gratitude, that we are honoured to fill such an office. It is impossible not to feel our joy still extending, as the delightful prospects of the Society ●pen to our view. In the mighty range we behold mountain rising above mountain; Alps rising upon Alps; the clouds retiring, and breaking; mountains touched with the light from heaven, exhibiting a landscape great and extensive." When he reflected upon the circumstances of this country, and the unbounded liberality which it had exorcised during the long war that had now happily closed, he could not bat anticipate the most blessed and happy effects from the return of peace. " Eren in war there has been exhibited one unimpaired principle of diffusive benevolence. What may we not how expect from the seed already sown, and from our increased facilities in diffusing

it? We may expect a rich and abundant harvest. We have already reaped some of its blessed fruits. You have seen it realized in Russia: you have seen it among the Russian soldiery: you have seen it in Paris. where the principles of this book have been put in practice by the clemency of the conquerors towards that city."-But we find it altogether impossible to collect even some faint traces of this eloquent speech. He concluded with observing, that, "well as £ love my country, nothing either in glory or in honour can I more desire, than that it should be hereafter known as the country from whence the Bible Society originated; and it is my earnest prayer that that Society may multiply its exertions until its induence extend throughout the world."

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The Bishop of Norwich concluded an excellent speech by observing, that when the conduct of Alexander the Macedonian was compared with the conduct of Alexander of Russia, it shrunk into nothing. Christian hero, instead of murdering a friend, saves an enemy; instead of burning a city, saves one from destruction. Such are the true friends of the Bible Society, carrying into effect the leading principles of the Bible. He moved thanks to the Royal Dukes.

Charles Grant, Jun., Esq., M. P., seconded the motion, in a speech to the following effect.

"My Lord,-In seconding the proposi tion of the Right Rev. Prelate, I feel that it is unnecessary for me to enter into the general merits and excellencies of this Institution. They are sufficiently familiar to every man. I am sure the speeches which we have this day heard, and the able Report to which we have just listened, completely supersede the necessity of any enlarged comments on that subject. That Report is the best eulogy on the Society. It is also the best eulogy on those by whom this Society has been patronized and cherished. I wish, indeed, that all who once thought harshly of this Institution had been present to listen to that Report, to hear the sentiments by which we have been delighted, and those affecting declarations of gratitude and eșteem offered by illustrious personages from foreign shores, and made the more interesting by being offered in foreign accents. I believe that no opposition, however deter mined, could long resist such arguments. I believe that no heart, however cold, could refuse to be affected; that no imagination, however torpid and lethargic, could fail to kidle into enthusiasm, at the high prospects