difficult, not to say impossible, for us to exhibit the subject in the same simple, abstract, and elemental form in which we find it. Whatever may be our wish, we are almost sure to present it through a medium of our own, which, like a tinted glass, will discolour, though it may not distort the object. All this, however, constitutes no objection to the principle itself; and no man would be more willing, or able, to surround it with such barriers and restrictions, than the author of these volumes.

On only one more topic have we courage to demand the further attention of our readers. Our single and exclusive fear with regard to these volumes is, that they may dangerously minister to the indolence of this self-indulgent age. Although he who borrows from Mr. Simeon must do more for himself than such copyists of other men's discourses as Sir Roger De Coverly wished to be multiplied in the Church of England; yet he who habitually draws from these streams, instead of repairing to the fountain head of original composition, is unlikely, we conceive, to become a great, or even a very useful minister. Assistances of this kind are, after all, the easy chairs of theology; and a machine from Merlin's Cave is not a more certain originator or perpetuator of gout in the physical system, than an apparatus of this kind of vacuity and helplessness, if called into habitual operation, in the study of the young divine. Nor let the novice in thelogy attempt to propitiate a murmuring conscience, by the notion that his own scheme or skeleton will, let his labour be what it may, be far less complete than that of Mr. Simeon. It is highly probable that he judges of himself correctly as to this point; but then his deficiences in art will be more than supplied by the suggestions of a mind warmed by the topic before him. A sermon needs not merely bones but flesh; not mere

ly flesh, but the vis vivax-the ac tive principle-the breath of life. And that discourse will almost uniformly discover more of this spirit, which is conceived and nursed in the bosom of the writer, Almost every great writer in metaphysics, poetry, philosophy, and practical theology, has become great by the delineation of the workings of his own mind. Without thus introverting the eye, he will, whatever may be his skill as an author, either exceed nature or fall below it; will speak to the understanding rather than the heart; will give us rather the empty flourish of the instrument, than the tones and melodies which awaken all the sympathies of the soulwhich touch the hidden strings of contrition, and love, and zeal, and tenderness-which carry us out of ourselves, and place us at the mercy of the individual thus acting upon us. Nature has a language, like that ascribed to the heavenly bodies, universally intelligible. Heart answers to heart; conscience to conscience. The very imperfections of the preacher, if he evidently gives us his best-his all -the discoveries made in his own soul-the argument suggested by a heart in earnest, may move the mind to attention and interest. Sincerity is received in lieu of talent; and we value the sermon because we love or respect the man. So strong is our apprehension, therefore, lest the admirable skeletons in these volumes should reduce our younger clergy into mere copyists, or something akin to it, that we would earnestly recommend them scrupulously to construct one sermon in the week out of materials supplied by general reading, by invention, or by original thought; and would further counsel them, in borrowing from Mr, Simeon, rather to consult his sketch than to copy it. Let them be content with small things, at their own expense, rather than aim at high ones at the expense of others.

Let them be free to own to what extent they are indebted to the assistance of another, remembering that nothing is more difficult to overcome than the disreputation of strutting disingenuously in borrowed plumes. We ourselves have heard sermons obviously suggested by the sketches of the author before us; but so modified by the labours of thought, and feeling, and conscience, as to become strictly the

address of the speaker. This is as it should be. The raw material may be that of others; the manufactured article should be our own. Of this raw material, this staple commodity of theology, no man has laid up larger stores in the public wareroom than the able and pious author of these volumes; and we earnestly pray that it may please God to bless and prosper his important labours.

GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for publication : — The Works of Arminius, now first translated into English, with his Life ;-Vindiciæ Hebraicæ, occasioned by the Strictures and Innovations of Mr. Bellamy, by H. Hurwitz;-The Correspondence of Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, by Archdeacon Coxe;-The Works of Sir R. Blackmore, now first collected, with his Life, by Mr. Chalmers, 10 vols ;— A Classical Tour in Turkey, Greece, and Italy, by P. E. Laurent;-The Beauties of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, &c. adapted to Psalms and Hymns;Genesis and Daniel defended against Count Volney and Dr. Francis, &c. by J. Overton.

In the press :-The Universe, a Poem, by the Rev. R. Marturin ;-Tour in the United States, by W. T. Harris ;-Family Cyclopedia, by J. Jennings.

By an act passed this session, sentence of whipping is not to be awarded on female offenders; but instead of it imprisonment, or solitary confinement.

Another act just passed provides a summary mode of obtaining satisfaction for damages done to buildings, fences, land, crops, or any other kind of property. The offender being taken be fore a justice of the peace, any time within four months, and the offence proved, he shall forfeit to the party aggrieved, such a sum, not exceeding 51. as shall appear to the justice a reasonable compensation for the injury.

Offenders may be taken instanter, without warrant. Appeal is allowed to the quarter sessions.

Captain Parry has arrived in London, with intelligence of considerable interest, from our Ships of Discovery in the North. They have succeeded in exploring a passage through Lancaster'sSound, into the Polar Sea, and have penetrated as far as longitude 115 deg. W. between the parallels of 74 and 75 deg. north latitude. In this space twelve islands have been discovered, and named the Islands of New Georgia, in honour of his majesty. The expedition wintered in a harbour on the south side of the largest of these islands. The darkness was such, that at noon they could scarcely see the letters of a book printed with large types. During the prevalence of the winds the thermometer fell to 57 deg. below zero, at which periods they could not venture into the open air; but when the winds subsided, they found the air quite supportable, and amused themselves in shooting partridges and ptarmigan. Captain Parry met with no inhabitants; but he frequently saw deserted huts on the shore. The Magnetic Pole appeared to be about 100 deg. of west longitude. The conductors of the expedition have no doubt but that there exists a passage to the Icy Cape, which might be penetrated during the month of August, by keeping close to the shore, the powerful radiation of which partially melts the ice; but the passage, even if penetrated, is not likely to serve any commercial purpose.

SPAIN.

The new order of things in Spain has given rise to a most rapid and extraordinary fecundity in journals and other periodical works. Instead of a few scattered publications, occupied chiefly with ecclesiastical annunciations, processions, and a meagre price current, Madrid alone now produces nearly thirty periodical political papers, independently of which the press teems with answers, apologies, and explanations on political topics; and with shoals of sermons, essays, and commentaries on the constitution. There is, indeed, a censor of the press appointed; but, at present, the office is extremely indulgent. The principal country towns also have their journals.

RUSSIA.

The Jesuits lately banished from the Russian empire were in number about 800, of whom 300 were in Siberia and Kamtschatka. Their colleges in general bad from 24 to 30 members; that of Moscow contained 140.

EGYPT.

The celebrated monument of antiquity, known by the name of Cleopatra's Needle, has been presented to his Majesty George IV. by the Pacha of Egypt. It is intended that it should be set up in Waterloo Place, opposite Carlton Palace. The weight of the column is about 200 tons; the diameter at the pedestal, seven feet.

INDIA.

It

ed at Madras, on the same plan as that at Calcutta. The objects of this Society will be the purchase, preparation, and publication of works useful in seminaries of learning, to be supplied either gratuitously or at a cheap rate. will form no part of the design of the institution to furnish religious books; a restriction, however, very far from being meant to preclude the supply of moral tracts, or books of a moral tendency.

At a meeting of the Bombay Literary Society, Captain M'Murdo presented an interesting account of the late formidable earthquake in India. On the 16th June 1819, a violent shock took place in Cutch, which lasted about two minutes, and which, when at its height, occasoned a motion of the earth so undulatory that it was difficult to stand, and the waving of the surface was perfectly visible. Until the beginning of August, no day passed without one or more shocks; but subsequently they became less frequent, only occurring every third or fourth day till the 23d of November, which seems to have been the last distinct one. shock of the 16th was the most serious. In the province of Cutch, no town escaped. The capital, Bhooj, suffered in many respects more severely than any other place; nearly seven thousand houses were overturned, and eleven hundred people were buried in the ruins. The works in the fortified towns were in general destroyed. The total

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CHURCH MISSONARY SOCIETY. HAVING presented an outline of the Society's recent proceedings and correspondence in India and Western Africa, (see our Numbers for August and October), we proceed to select a few particulars relative to the New Zealand

Mission.

Mr. Marsden writes respecting the young New Zealanders under his care at Parramatta (New South Wales)

"The chiefs' sons who are with me visit our orchard and vineyards, and are much astonished to see the fruits, and anxious to promote the cultivation of them in their own country.

"Various things here, which they had never before seen, furnish us with much conversation about the Maker of all. They see such a difference between our civilized and their savage state, that they cannot be persuaded that the same God made both them and us. When I tell them that there is but one God, they advance many arguments to prove my assertion incredible."

With reference to the seminary, Mr. Marsden states

"After having natives living with me for more than four years, I cannot entertain a doubt of the success that