siderable service to the arts: and it has already become a popular and pleasing instrument of amusement by the beauty of its combinations.

OXFORD.

The University prizes are adjudged as follows.-Chancellor's Prizes. Latin Essay: "Biography:" Mr. J. L. Adolphus, B.A. Fellow of St. John's. English

Essay: "Quam vim in moribus populi conformandis exhibeant rerum publicarum subitæ mutationes?" Mr. S. Hinde, B.A. of Queen's College. Latin Verses: "Titus Hierusoly mam expugnans "and also Sir Roger Newdigate's prize for English Verse: "The Coliseum "-to Mr. T. H. Ormerod, Fellow of New College.

THEOLOGY.

General Objections against Missions for the Conversion of the Heathen considered: a Sermon preached at St. Werburgh's, Bristol; by the Rev. J.W. Cunningham, A.M. Vicar of Harrow, &c. Sermons and Lectures; by Alexander Brimton, D.D. 8vo. 12s.

The Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity; by Thomas Gisborne, M.A. 12mo. 5s.

Twelve Sermons, preached at Calcutta by the Rev. David Brown, late Senior Chaplain to the Hon. the East-India Company. 8vo. 12s.

Sermons on Faith, Doctrines, and Public Duties; by the Very Rev. W. Vincent, late Dean of Westminster; edited by the Rev. C. Simeon. Svo. 10s. 6d.

The Holy Bible, newly translated from the original Hebrew, with Notes critical and explanatory; by John Bellamy. Part I. containing the Book of Genesis.

Essays on the Wisdom of God; by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman. 8vo. 10s.

The Homilies of the Established Church in the Welsh Language. Dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent; by the Rev. John Roberts, A.M. Vicar of Tremeirchion, Flintshire. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Account of the Life and Writings of John Erskine, D.D.; by Sir H. M. Wellwood, Bart. D.D. with an Appendix and Notes. 8vo. 14s.

Annual Obituary, vol. 2, 1818. 15s. A Critical Examination of the Bishop of Landaff's posthumous volume, entitled, “Anecdotes of his Life." 8vo. 33.

The Fourth and Last Canto of Childe Harold, with other Poems and Notes; by Lord Byron. 8vo. 12s.

The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the thirteenth century; translated from the Italian, with notes; by W. Marsden, Esq. F.R.S. with a Map. 4to. 2l. 12s. 6d. fine, 4l. 4s.

Tables of Comparative Chronology, exhibiting the Dates of the principal Events which took place from the Flood to the Fall of the Empire. 10s. 6d.

The Civil and Constitutional History of Rome, from the Foundation to the Age of Augustus; by Henry Bankes, Esq. M.P. 2 vols. 8vo. 24s.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, with a Portrait from the rare print, by Crispin de Fusse; by Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 5s.

The Science of Horticulture, including a Practical System of the Management of Fruit-trees; arranged on demonstrative physiological principles.

The Trials of James Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, three sons of the celebrated Rob. Roy, before the High Court of Justiciary in the years 1752, 1753, and 1754: to which is prefixed a Memoir relating to the Highlands; and Anecdotes of Rob. Roy and his Family.

12mo. 7s.

Results of an Investigation respecting Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, including Researches in the Levant; by Dr. Maclean.

The Friends, a Poem, in Four Books; by the Rev. Fran. Hodgson, A.M., Vicar of Bakewell, Derbyshire. 8vo. 7s.

Substance of a speech delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday the 16th of March, 1818, on proposing a Grant of One Million for providing additional Places of Public Worship in England. Is. 6d.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown's First Part of a General Catatalogue of Old Books, for the year 1818. 2s. 6d.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE

SOCIETY.

THIS Society held its Fourteenth Anniversary on the 6th of May. We hope in our next Number to be able to give an outline of the principal speeches delivered on that occasion; in the mean time our readers will peruse with no ordinary satisfaction the following brief sketch of the Report, which is itself but a brief sketch of the transactions during the past year of the multifarious institutions for the dissemination of the Scriptures.

EUROPE.

Under this head we shall advert to the Netherlands, Germany, Prussia, Switzerland, France, Italy, Malta, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Russia.

United Netherlands Bible Society.-The establishments under this common designation, now fifty-two in number, have obtained nearly 3,500l. during the last year, and circulated 4,578 Bibles and Testaments. Among their objects is an edition of the Malay Bible in the Arabic character. The British and Foreign Bible Society have contracted for 5,000 Bibles and 5,000 additional Testaments of this edition.

Germany and Prussia.-The Society at Hanover, under the patronage of the Duke of Cambridge, has disposed of 12,000 copies, and the Branch at Osnaburg of 2,500. A society has been formed at Hildesheim. The Brunswick Society, under his Serene Highness the Duke Augustas, has formed various branches. The Hambro-Altona Society is printing 10,000 German Bibles, and 2,000 extra Testaments. In Mecklinburg a promising Society has been formed, at Rostock. The Frankfort (on the Maine) Society has successfully extended its influence and operations. Various other institutions have arisen, or are in the course of formation, in different parts of Germany. As a specimen of the plans and proceedings of the German societies, we may mention 1,800 Catholic Testaments, and 700 copies of Luther's Bible, distributed by the Nassau Bible Society;-a German stereotype Testament by the Dresden Society by which society, also, the

whole Scriptures are printing in the same language, and also in the dialect of the Upper Vandals;-and 18,000 of the New Testament already printed, with a proposed edition of 10,000 Bibles, by the Wirtemberg Society. The Prussian Bible Society, under the patronage of his Prussian Majesty, exhibits, with its auxiliaries and branches, a most gratifying spectacle. Its Central Society, at Berlin, distributed in its third year 6,000 German Bibles. An edition of 11,000 copies will soon be completed, and another of 10,000 immediately undertaken. Of the numerous societies in connexion with this national institution, that of the Grand Duchy of Berg sent no less than 650 New Testaments, with 500 Psalters, to the chaplains of the Prussian army in France. at Breslau has completed an edition of 5,000 of Luther's Bible, and has been instrumental in distributing several thousand copies of the Catholic New Testament. The demand for copies continues very great, and the Committee of the Wesel Society in particular ex press their conviction that "the reading of the Bible in the family circle is on the increase."

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Switzerland.—In this country also the zeal so often commended continues to operate. At Bàsle, four presses have been continually in action, but the supply is inadequate to the demand. On the 18th of last June the eleventh edition of the octavo German Bible issued from the press, and on the 18th July not a copy was left on the 19th of August the twelfth edition appeared, and on the 30th the whole impression was disposed of: in February last another edition of 4,000 copies was produced, of which, in the course of a few weeks, scarcely fifty copies remained on hand. Among the other recent works of this society may be mentioned an edition of 5,000 French Bibles, which will be very serviceable during the interval of preparing the editions undertaken in other parts of Switzerland and the south of France. The Zurich Society, having completed the impression of the folio church Bible, has just put to press an edition of 5,000 copies octavo, with a view chiefly to supply

the schools and candidates for confirmation. The Bern Society has distribut ed 2,690 Bibles and 9,048 Testaments, and has ordered a large further supply. The St. Gall Society has dispersed since its formation not fewer than 13,696 copies of the Scriptures. A revised edition of 10,000 copies of Ostervald's French Bible, in quarto, is in contemplation by the Societies of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Neufchatel. The inhabitants of the Valleys of Piedmont, stirred up again by the spirit which so eminently distinguished their pious ancestors, actually come and entreat to be permitted to subscribe their mite to the Waldenses Bible Society.

France. Many thousand copies of the Protestant New Testament of Ostervald, and the Catholic version by Le Maitre de Sacy stereotyped at Paris, have been dispersed in France. At Montauban a large edition of the Protestant Bible, by Martin, is printing; the New Testament printed at Strasburg is in circulation, and the Old Testament is in progress. An increased desire to possess and peruse the Holy Scriptures begins to be manifested in France.

Italy.-Editions of the Catholic New Testament of Martini, without note or comment, have been printed both at Turin and Naples, and many channels have been found for useful circulation.

Malta. A Bible Society has been formed here, which is using every endeavour to render its advantageous position conducive to the dissemination of the Scriptures iu Asia and the countries bordering on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Among the most pleasing and auspicious indications of the Society's exertions, we must notice the diffusion of the Scriptures among the members of the Roman Catholic communion, and their increasing willingness to receive them. Various instances of this occur in the Report before us. It is, however, to be greatly lamented, that these facilities have not been universal. In the case particularly of Austria and Bavaria, edicts have been published forbidding the establishing of Bible Societies, suppressing those in exist ence, and prohibiting the entrance of Bibles printed in foreign countries. Still, however, especially in varions parts of Catholic Germany, a wide door is open for the dispersion of the

Scriptures among the members of that community. Among the most strenuous advocates and labourers in this excellent cause, we must particularly and most honourably mention the Catholic Professor of Divinity at Marburg, Leander Van Ess, who has persevered in spite of every opposition in printing and dispersing among his own communion suc cessive editions of his German New Testament. "Never," he observes, "did P disseminate, in so short a period, such a vast number of copies of the New Testament, as since the time of the late Bible prohibition; and no where have I perceived a more lively and ardent desire after the word of God, than in those very places where infatuated men strive to dry up the fountain of living water, or to prevent the people from having free access to it." He also adds, "I shall always continue willingly to labour, with all my strength, as long as it is day, for the honour of my Divine Redeemer: to the end that he may be known more and more, and many may be saved by the word of his salvation; that his name may be hallowed, his kingdom more effectually come, and his will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."

The proceedings in the North of Europe, especially in Russia, continue to be highly interesting and important.

The Danish Society, under his Danish Majesty, has been occupied, among other objects, in printing 10,000 Bibles and 5,000 extra Testaments. Two promising auxiliaries have arisen; one of which, in November last, reckoned 329 persons, chiefly in the lower ranks of life, among its subscribers. The num ber of persons connected with the Sleswig-Holstein Society considerably exceeds 10,000.

The Swedish National Bible Society, under his Majesty and the principal authorities lay and ecclesiastical, with its associated institutions, is in a state of vigorous and progressive operation, The Gothenburg Society, in a year of peculiar distress, has distributed more than 4,000 copies of the Scriptures. The parent Society has been enabled to priut, in its second year, 21,000 Bibles and Testaments; making the total published, from the commence. ment of biblical exertions at Stockholm, 105,100 Bibles and Testaments, besides 3,000 Psalters; nearly all of which, at the second anniversary, were in the hands of the public.

The Norway Society has entered actively into its labours, and completed an edition of the New Testament in the language of that country.

In Russia, the operations of the Institution are far too numerous for this brief detail. Every rank and class of persons, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, are eager and zealous in the cause. New auxiliaries are rising on every side; not only whole governments, but departments, towns, and single villages, have formed, or are forming, Bible establishments. The Emperor especially continues to take the most active personal interest in the progress and usefulness of the Institution.

"I consider" (said the Emperor, in his address to the Moscow Bible Society) "the establishment of Bible Societies in Russia, in most parts of Europe, and in other quarters of the globe, and the very great progress these institutions have made in disseminating the word of God, not merely among Christians, but also among Heathens and Mahomedans, as a peculiar display of the mercy and grace of God to the human race. On this account, I have taken upon myself the denomination of a member of the Russian Bible Society, and will render it every possible assistance, in order that the bene ficent light of revelation may be shed among all nations subject to my sceptre." Of the efficiency of the Russian Bible Society, in the prosecution of its object -the preparation and distribution of the Holy Scriptures-some judgment may be formed by the interesting facts; that within four years after its establishment the Society had either published, or was engaged in publishing, not fewer than forty-three editions of the Sacred Scriptures, in seventeen different languages; forming a grand total of 196,000 copies;-that the issue of Bibles and Testaments in the fourth year, fell little short of what had taken place in the three preceding years, while the increase of the funds had been in nearly an equal proportion;-and, moreover, that preparations were making, at the close of that year, for stereotyping the Scriptures in five different languages; versions were going forward into the common Russian, Tartar, and Carelian languages; and measures were adopt ing for procuring translations into the Turkish-Armenian, and Buriat-Mongo

On Tuesday, the 12th May, the anniversary of this institution was held in the King's Concert Room, Haymarket. At 12 o'clock the chair was taken by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, attended by the Archbishops of Canterbary and York, the Bishops of London and Gloucester, the Earl of Harrowby, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a number of other characters of the first respectability.

His Royal Highness having stated in a few words the object of the meeting, the Report was read by the Secretary, It stated, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent had condescended to become Patron to the Society, and that his Grace the Archbishop of York, the Lords Bishops of Winchester, St. Da vid's, Rochester, Norwich, &c. had accepted the office of Vice Presidents. The Duke of Kent, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, had also condescended to patronize, in the warmest manner, the Auxiliary Society at Glasgow. The issues during the year have been 4,480 Bibles and 5,152 Testaments: total, 9,632 copies. Net receipts, 1,4937. 17s. 6d. Net expenditure, 1,493. 5s. 11d.;-leaving Bibles unpaid for to the amount of 6501.; and the actual dɛbt (after reckoning for drafts running due, 4014. 3s. 4d.) 248l. 168. 8d. The money contributed by private soldiers and sailors in the past year, is 3591. 98. 11d.; of which 1211. 48 8d. was from the army in France. The Society is under engagements for 8601. for Bibles and Testaments. From Glasgow 4221. have been received, and 100%. from the Edinburgh Bible Society. The first battalion of the Royal Scottish regiment have voluntarily given one day's pay to the Society. With regard to the Navy, forty ships of war have been furnished with Bibles; and particular attention has been paid to the vessels employed on the Arctic Expe dition. Supplies have also been granted to a considerable number of regiments