of a talented and pious young man, who having finished his term of study preparatory to the ministry in the Scotch church prior to the disruption, fell a victim to pulmonary disease, induced by a too impetuous pursuit of knowledge. To youths and young men the book is calculated to be useful, as stimulating to exertion whilst at the same time supplying a warning to those engaged in too severe application to study, -as affording much and varied information, and as promotive of earnest spiritual religion. Mr. Halley was a fellow student and correspondent of, among others, Dr. J. Hamilton of the Scotch Church, Regent Square, London. The Bible of Every Land; or, a History, Critical and Philological, of all the Versions of the Sacred Scriptures, in every Language and Dialect into which Translations have been made with Specimen Portions in their Own Characters, and Ethnographical Maps. Part 10. Class IV. Detached Families of Languages. London. 4to. Price 3s. 6d. The map prefixed to this part illustrates the distribution of the Finno-Tartarian Family of Languages, which have for their seat the northern portion of the castern hemisphere. Among the many versions treated of in the letter-press, are the French Basque, the Spanish Basque, the Finnish, the Lapponese, the Hungarian, the Mantchou, the Mongolian, the Calmuc, and the Turkish. Iona. By the Rev. W. LINDSEY ALEXANDER, D.D., Fellow of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries. London R.T.S. Monthly Series. 24mo., pp. 192. Price 6d. This "monthly volume" elucidates the opinions and practices formerly prevailing, at different times, in a small island on the northwestern coast of Scotland; which was inhabited first by Druidical priests-then by the companions of Colomba, and the Culdees, their successors-till Romish power corrupted and subdued them. It is a portion of history little known and yet valuable. The Deserter. By CHARLOTTE Elizabeth. Third Edition. London: Partridge and Oakey. 12mo., pp. 258. The third edition of one of the tales of its late well known authoress. Like the rest of her productions, it fixes the attention, while Christian truth is largely interwoven. Assuming that the military profession is not altogether incompatible with a belief in Christianity, we should yet have been more gratified had there been introduced some considerations tending to dissuade any from attaching themselves for life to a service in which their moral character will in all probability be ruined, and where religion is exposed to all but universal and unceasing persecution and obloquy. We should have liked to have seen some hints, too, that war exists in spite of, rather than sanctioned by, Christianity; and we are not quite sure that an intelligent reception of Christianity will make a man a "better soldier,"-that is, one who, having parted with all individual judgment at the command of another sends his fellow creatures into eternity The tale, however, is one which is calculated to be beneficial both to officers and men whose ear probably would not be gained by a less inviting book, The Child's Book of Poetry; Original and Selected. London: R.T.S. 24mo., pp. 172. Cloth. The wood-cuts which adorn the volume will recommend it at the first glance to the personages for whose use it is intended, and an inspection of its contents will secure the approbation of their parents. The "selected" pieces are chosen with taste and judgment, and the "original" are worthy to rank with them. One of the latter class, which though it is not appropriated to sabbath schools will be acceptable to their conductors, we have given as a specimen on an earlier page. Christian Times Portrait Gallery. London. Quarto. During the year, the proprietors of the weekly paper called The Christian Times have presented to their regular subscribers twelve portraits of dissenting ministers of different denominations. As they are now sold to nonsubscribers, at the rate of two shillings each, it may be acceptable to some of our readers to learn that the series includes Mr. Noel, Mr. Binney, Mr. Shore, Mr. James, Dr. Steane, Dr. Bunting, Dr. King, Dr. Cunningham, Dr. Symington, Dr. Brown, and Dr. Wardlaw. Having the pleasure of some acquaintance with most of these respected gentlemen, we certify very cheerfully that as far as we know Steane and Mr. Binney are remarkably exthe likenesses are satisfactory. Those of Dr. pressive. Tracts of the British Anti-State-Church Association. New Series. No. I. Church Property and Revenues in England and Wales, 4d. 11. "Its the Law" or, the Churchman's Defence of Church Rates Examined, Id. III. The Church in Chains, ld. IV. Address to Churchmen, Id. V. Address to the Wesleyan Methodists of Great Britain and Ireland, d. London: Published for the British Anti-State-Church Association, at its offices, 4, Crescent, Bridge Street, Black friars. These tracts appear to have been drawn up with the greatest possible care, the information contained in them being derived also from the most trustworthy sources. Among other curious corollaries of the facts adduced in that entitled "It's the Law," are these: "Almost all church people live in the constant breach of what they must admit to be, as compared with church-rates, the weightier matters of their law;""no classes of men in the united kingdom are such flagrant violators of the law as churchwardens and clergymen ;" honest and considerate man can be a churchwarden without bringing guilt on his conscience, because a churchwarden must solemnly pledge himself to do what he neither does nor means to do ;"-"in almost every parish, the officiat - "no ing clergyman might be, by any of his parishioners, brought to trial at the assizes, and subjected to the penalty of imprisonment without bail." 1. The Tracts for the Million. New Series. Anti-State-Church Association. Plain, calm, and pointed; adapted to awaken attention to important facts and principles. Ministerial Support and Ministerial Efficiency; or, the Duty of Dissenting Congregations in Relation to the Pecuniary Support of the Ministry. London: B. L. Green. 16mo., pp. 35. The Circular Letter which was adopted by the Buckinghamshire Association of Baptist Churches last May, written by Mr. Pugh of Buckingham, and republished for general usefulness. Devotional Musings; or, Thoughts in Verse, on Creation, Providence, and Redemption. By WILLIAM HOPKINS. London: Jackson and Walford. 16mo., pp. 32. The concluding lines will be found on a preceding page, and these, it is hoped, will recommend the whole. The Heathen World. By GEORGE E. SARGENT. Eleventh Thousand. London. 32mo. Thirty-two pages of simple eloquence and graphic description, with fourteen illustrative woodcuts, all for one penny! Marvel not that it is the eleventh thousand. RECENT PUBLICATIONS Approved. [It should be understood that insertion in this list is not a mere announcement: it expresses approbation of the works enumerated,-not of course extending to every particular, but an approbation of their general character and tendency.] The Secret Disciple encouraged to avow his Master. By the Rev. J. WATSON. Third Edition. London: Ward and Co. 24mo., pp. 85. Sanctification through the Truth. A Sermon delivered on Wednesday, May 22nd, 1850. By the Rev. W. WALTERS of Preston, before the Ministers and Messengers of the Associated Baptist Churches of Lancashire and Cheshire, assembled at Accrington. No. 1,540, The Penny Pulpit. London: J. Paul, 1, Chapter House Court. 8c0. "Preach the Word." The Matter and Manner of Preaching Considered. By GEORGE FREDERICK MABERLY. London: J. H. Jackson. Sro., pp. 48. The Eclectic Review. Edited by THOMAS PRICE, LL.D. Contents: I. Renovation of the Corpora. tion of London. II. General Pepe's Italian Revolu tion. III. The Religion of Human Nature Superseding Christianity. IV. Southey's Life and Correspondence. V. The Literature of Wales. VI. The Martyrs of Carthage. VII. Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire. VIII. Sheppard's Three Essays. IX. The Greek Question and the General Foreign Policy of Government. August, 1850. London. 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. DECLINE OF PEDOBAPTISM. The last number of The Christian Review, which is now published at New York under the editorial care of the Rev. S. S. Cutting, speaks of the very extensive disuse of infant baptism in the United States, and gives as evidence of the fact the following extract from an article in The New Englander, by an eminent presbyterian minister, Dr. Bacon of New-Haven, Connecticut : through an afternoon, evening, and morning sessions, was passed : "Resolved, That this society, in its issues and circulation of the English scriptures, shall be restricted to the commonly received version without note or comment." The Rev. Dr. Cone having been re-elected president, resigned. The following officers were chosen :- President, Rev. Bartholomew T. Welch, D.D.; Vice-Presidents, Rev. C. G. Sommers, and twenty others; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Sewall S. Cutting; Recording Secretary, Rev. Morgan J. Rhees; Treasurer, Mr. Nathan C. Platt; General Agent, Rev. J. R. Stone; with twenty-five Managers residing in New York and vicinity. The passing of the above named resolution became the occasion of the subsequent formation of the American Bible Union. President, Rev. Spencer H. Cone, D.D.; Vice Presidents, Rev. Archibald Maclay, D.D., and others; Corresponding Secretary, Wm. H. Wyckoff, Esq.; Recording Secretary, Mr. E. S. Whitney; Treasurer, Mr. William Colgate; with a Board of Managers residing in New York and vicinity. "Published statistics of the presbyterian church under the care of the Old School General Assembly, show that in May, 1847, while there were in that ecclesiastical connexion 192,022 communicants, the number of infant baptisms during the year then reported was only 9,837; or one infant to between nineteen and twenty communicants. In the seven presbyteries of Albany, New York, New Brunswick, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Charleston, containing in the aggregate 19,505 communicants, the proportion of infants baptized to the number of communicants varies from the ratio of one to thirty-three to that of one to twentyone; and the average is one to twenty-five communicants. These statistics seem to indicate a wide neglect of infant baptism in that entire branch of the presbyterian church. The annual meeting of the Missionary We apprehend that the published statistics Union was held at Buffalo, the board comof the rival assembly, and of the New Eng-mencing its sittings May 14, and the Union land congregational bodies, will show even a smaller proportion of infant baptisms. How does this happen? Our baptist brethren on the one hand, and the believers in baptismal regeneration on the other, are continually telling us that the baptism of unconscious infants is incongruous with our theory of religion. Is it so in fact ?" AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. The thirteenth annual meeting of the American and Foreign Bible Society was held in New York, May 22 and 23, Rev. Spencer H. Cone, D.D., president, in the chair. The receipts for the year from all sources were 41,625 dollars, and the disbursements 41,235 dollars. The annual report was read by Wm. H. Wyckoff, Esq. Extraordinary interest was given to the meeting by the question of a revised version of the English scriptures. The following resolution, after a discussion, extending AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. May 16. The Rev. Dr. E. Tucker of Illinois presided over the former, in the absence of the Hon. James H. Duncan, who was de tained at Washington by public duties. His excellency, governor Briggs, presided over the Union. The attendance was very large, the place of the meeting inviting a large number of members from the west. Everything relating to the affairs of the Union was reported as in a prosperous condition. The receipts of the year ending March 31, 1850, were 104,837 dollars, and the expenditures 101,447 dollars,-leaving a balance in favour of the treasury of 3,389 dollars, with which the debt existing at the beginning of the year has been reduced to 21,501 dollars. Of the receipts 9,000 dollars were grants from the American and Foreign Bible So. ciety for bible translation, printing, and distribution in Asia and Europe; 2,200 dollars from the American Tract Society for tracts in Europe and Asia; and 4,000 dollars from the United States government for the civili zation of Indians of North America. The number of missions under the charge of the Union is 17; of stations and out-stations, 329; of missionaries, 56-of whom 52 are preachers; of female assistant missionaries, 57; with 214 native preachers and other assistants; whole number of labourers, 320. The number of churches is 151, with 12,290 members; and of schools, 102, with 2,648 pupils; the number of additions to the churches on profession of faith, more than 1,236. The officers elected were-Hon. George N. Briggs, LL.D., President; Rev. Bartholomew T. Welch, D.D., and Rev. Elisha Tucker, D.D., Vice Presidents; and Rev. William H. Shailer, Recording Secretary. The Board at the meeting succeeding the Union elected officers as follows-Chairman, Hon. Ira Harris, LL.D.; Recording Secretary, Rev. Morgan J. Rhees; Executive Committee, Rev. Baron Stow, D.D., Rev. Rollin H. Neale, Rev. William H. Shailer, Rev. Joseph W. Parker, Rev. Robert E. Pattison, D.D., Hon. Heman Lincoln, and Messrs. S. G. Shipley, J. W. Converse, and Benjamin Smith; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Solomon Peck, D.D., and Rev. Edward Bright, junior; Treasurer, Richard E. Eddy, Esq.; Auditors, Messrs. Charles D. Gould and Joshua Loring. AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. The eighteenth annual meeting was held in New York, on Thursday, May 9, 1850, John P. Crozer, Esq., of Pa., one of the Vice-Presidents, presiding. The annual re port was read by Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Corresponding Secretary. The receipts of the year have been 26,443 dollars, and the disbursements 25,403 dollars. There has been an increase in the receipts over those of the preceding year of 4,324 dollars, besides 647 dollars for the Home Mission Record. The number of agents and missionaries in the employ of the society is 117. They report 949 baptisms, and 33 churches organized. The following officers were electedPresident, Hon. Isaac Davis, LL.D.; Vice Presidents, Messrs. William Colgate and John P. Crozer; Treasurer, Mr. Charles J. Martin; Auditor, Mr. Garrat N. Bleecker; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Benjamin M. Hill; Recording Secretary, Rev. Edward Lathrop; with fifteen Managers residing in New York and vicinity. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY. The eleventh annual meeting of the American Baptist Publication Society was held in Philadelphia, May 1. The annual report was read by Rev. Thomas S. Malcom, Corresponding Secretary. 18 new publica tions have been issued during the year; total on the society's list 276, of which 78 are volumes. 21 colporteurs have been employed. The receipts for the year were 23,925 dollars. The following officers were elected-President, Rev. Joseph H. Kennard; Vice Presidents, Mr. Thomas Wattson, Hon. James H. Duncan, Rev. Francis Wayland, D.D., Rev. E. E. Cummings, Mr. Albert Day, Hon. Friend Humphrey, Messrs. D. R. Barton, S. N. Kendrick, Rev. G. B. Ide, D.D., Hon. J. M. Leonard, Messrs. S. J. Cresswell, James Wilson, Rev. E. G. Robinson, Rev. John M. Peck; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Thomas S. Malcom; Editorial Secretary, Rev. J. Newton Brown; Depository Agent and Assistant Treasurer, Rev. B. R. Loxley; Treasurer, Mr. W. W. Keen. Twenty-five Managers, residing in Philadelphia and vicinity, were likewise elected. ANNUAL MEETING. THE BAPTIST UNION OF SCOTLAND. The annual meetings of the Baptist Union of Scotland and the Theological Academy connected with it were held in Glasgow on the 30th and 31st of July and 1st of August. Brother James Taylor, pastor of the church meeting in East Regent Place, presiding. On the evening of Tuesday the 30th, the annual sermon was preached by brother Francis Johnston of Edinburgh, On Wednesday, evening the annual public social meeting was held, when resolutions referring to the present position and prospects of the baptist cause in Scotland were proposed by brethren Maclean of St. Andrews, Simpson of Dun Leith, and Sinclair and Milner of Edinburgh, fermline, Walbran of Airdrie, Pearson of and adopted. The reports of the evangelists of the Union, and of the honorary officebearers, together with the letters from the churches, were read in course of the meetings. The reports showed a considerable amount of good accomplished, and the letters an increase in twelve churches of 200 members during the year. On Thursday morning the annual public breakfast of the Academy took place, when several resolutions besides the reports of the tutor, examinator, treasurer, and secretary, were submitted and adopt ed. Last session nine students attended and those previously in the Academy were reported as successfully employed in various important fields of labour. The office-bearers of the Union for next year are the following brethren in Edinburgh,-Francis Johnston, secretary; George Banks, treasurer; Thomas H. Milner, convener of committees and editor of the Union's magazines Evangelist and Myrtle, and of the Academy; F. Johnston, tutor; William Hamilton, treasurer; and T. H. Milner, secretary. Quainton .D. Walker. Princes Risborough...J. Dawson. Swanbourne .............................J. Dumbledon. The last annual meeting was held on May 7th and 8th. The Circular Letter "On the Duty of Dissenting Congregations in relation to the Pecuniary Support of the Ministry," written by Mr. Pugh, was read and adopted. Sermons were preached by Messrs. Payne and Tyler. Amongst the resolutions adopted were the following: "I. That this meeting is firmly convinced of the truth and importance of the fundamental principle of the Anti-State-Church Association; and regards that Association as fully deserving of the earnest and energetic support of those who would maintain the Redeemer's supremacy. "II. That in the judgment of this meeting, the claims of the Baptist Irish Society are not fully appreciated by our churches; they would therefore recommend that, during this year collections should be made wherever practicable, for that deserving institution. "III. That the comparative absence of outward prosperity in the churches composing this association, constitutes a loud call for humiliation; should elicit anxiety to ascertain the cause, and incite the members of the churches to renewed personal dedication. "IV. That the association deplores the isolated, and consequently weak position of many of the churches in the county; and earnestly urges the propriety and practicability of effecting a union of two or more small churches, in the same neighbourhood, so that the ministry may thus be rendered more effective, and the churches more successful." LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. The following is a list of the churches constituting this association : Accrington.......... : E. Thomas. Ashton-under-Lyne.........J. Macpherson. Irwell Terrace......T. Dawson, G. Taylor. Blackburn Bolton...... ........ Burslem........................... Bury ......... Chowbent ... Cloughfold Colne Coniston........ Goodshaw .W. Wrigley. ...B. C. Etheridge. ...R. Evans. W. Barker. .T. Wilkinson. .R. S. Frearson. Haslingden, Pleasant-st...J. Blakey. Heywood Ebenezer......J. Bury. ...........J. Sissons. ......J. Bamber. Hill Cliffe ...................................................A. Kenworthy. Little-Moor-End Liverpool, Myrtle-street...H. S. Brown, Lumb Oxford-road.... ..F. Tucker. Northwich .T. Swinton. Ogden............................. Garside. Oldham Pendle Hill Preston Rochdale Salford Stalybridge Stockport Tottlebank. .............. ..J. Birt. ...C. Kirtland. .H. Dunckley. .T. Taylor. Wigan, Lord-street.........W. Ellison. The last meeting was held at Accrington, May 22nd and 23rd, 1850, Dr. Acworth The letters of Bradford in the chair. from the churches were then read, and were almost without exception of a cheerful tone; spiritual improvement, and a They also reporting generally participated increase. announced the following ministerial changes, viz. :-The removal of Revs. J. Bury from Colne, J. Russell from Stockport, and R. Morris from York-street, Manchester; and the settlement of Revs. J. Bury at Haslingden (Ebenezer), R. Chenery at York-street, Manchester, W. Barker at Burslem, and J. H. Wood at Padiham, a station occupied by The moderator the County Home Mission. concluded the service by prayer. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "That the fraternal acknowledgments of this meeting be presented to Rev. W. F. Burchell, for his services as secretary during the past year; and that he be requested to accept the same office for the year ensuing." "That the Circular Letter read by the Rev. H. S. Brown last evening, on The Best Means of Interesting the Working Classes in Religious Ordinances,' be adopted and printed." "That in compliance with the request of the church, the united services of the Yorkshire and Lancashire associations be held in Myrtle-street 4 C |