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ministers; he can send his political opponents, at a moment's notice, to Fort Lafayette, the American Bastille. He can dismiss every public servant of the Federal Union, down to the postmistress in the country village and the tide-waiter at the Custom-house, and he can appoint their successors. In him lie the issues of peace or war. He alone determines the awful question of the expenditure of hundreds of millions, and the destruction, calculating on the scale of the last four years, of half a million of human lives. Indeed, this is the avowed purpose of his re-election. An infatuated majority have replaced him in the Presidential chair, that the war may be carried on with vigour, and without remorse. They delight in war. Mr. Ward Beecher preached a political sermon every Sunday, in anticipation of the Presidential election. His doctrines were blasphemous, and his temper fierce. Not much better are those of the Bishop of Pennsylvania. The smooth and oily surface of society in New York is the index of a wantonness seldom attained. Cruelty has not reached her climax until she becomes sportive, assumes an air of gaiety, and finds her amusement in the misery of those she torments. With all possible seriousness we ask, what are the sanguinary "customs" of Dahomey compared with the resolutions, a hundred times expressed, by the friends of Mr. Lincoln's policy, to lay waste with fire and sword the Confederate States, and to sweep the white men, their kinsmen, from the face of the earth, rather than forego the restoration of the Union, now for ever lost?

We have drawn a fearful picture, but who will tell us that we have exaggerated one of its features? Yet we do not forget that, in these guilty States, and even in New York, there are many righteous men; many who are the salt of the earth; and for their sakes we may hope that He, who would have spared Sodom, had ten righteous men been found there, will turn away His fierce anger, and spare a people which sins with a high hand, and sins without remorse. The one gleam of light which steals across the scene, comes from the Confederates; with whom, at the beginning of the war, we had no sympathy, and with whom, as a nation, we can have but little, however we may admire their bravery and self-respect, while slavery remains. President Davis, in his message to the Congress, which met at Richmond a few days ago, proposes the training of forty thousand negroes for military service, who shall be repaid, when the war, or the period of their enlistment, ends, with the boon of freedom. Surely, this must eventually work out the emancipation of the whole of the three millions of Confederate slaves.

Of other news we have none of much importance. A system of kidnapping, to a formidable extent, for the Federal armies, has just been detected at Liverpool. Four hundred of our poor starving operatives, from the cotton districts around Manchester, were hurried. down to Liverpool, on the pretence that they were to be employed in New York, at enormous wages, in a glass-house. The plot was detected by a brave and humane gentleman, who chanced to be on the platform when the train arrived; and suspecting what their destination was, instantly cautioned them of their danger, and offered them refreshment, and beds of clean straw under sheds in the iron founderies, in which he is a partner. It was late at night, and his kindness was Vol. 63.-No. 324.

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Scripture, a suggestion for explaining

certain difficulties in, 550.

St. Paul's cloak at Troas, 709, 949.
Smith's (Dr.),
"Student's Manuals"

and other Works, 949.
Spurgeon, Rev. C. H., 783.
Superstition, on the debasing charac-
ter and ruinous effects of, 302.
The great fish (Jonah i. 17), 862.
Correspondents, Notices to, 84, 162,

240, 400, 480, 638, 718, 798, 878, 960.
Danish war, 319, 398, 478, 557, 715.
Danish war, meeting of the Conference,
398, 478.

Debate on Mr. Disraeli's motion on

Danish war, 635.

Elliott, Rev. E. B., on prophetic articles
in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the
Bible, 199.

Esdras, The first book of, 221.

Future state of the wicked and the un-
believing, 510.

Garibaldi's visit to England and his
reception, 397.

Gold discoveries, On the recent, 282.
Hindu Philosophical systems, 543.
Ignatius, Father, proceedings at Nor-
wich, 796.

Infidelity, The course of, 1.
Jehovah, The name of, 719.

Jeune, Dr., appointment to the See of
Peterborough, 558.

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
and Judgment of Dr. Lushington,
239, 317.

Lincoln, President, re-election of, 958.
May Meetings, 477.

Men, on the test of greatness among,

451.

Millenium, Origin of the term, 591.
Ministry of the word, why it is not
more effectual, 401.

Neology, The progresss of, 481.
New Zealand, war in, 237.
Notices of New Books, 73, 150, 233,
310, 394, 471, 552, 633, 712, 784, 869.
955.

Obituary of the Earl of Aberdeen, 389.
Obituary of Dr. Marsh, 785.

On the test of greatness among men, 451.
"Our Father," 799.

Our present position, 418.
Oxford Declaration, 383, 427.

Oxford Declaration and Dean Goode,

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Nichols's American Life, 432.
Perowne's Commentary on the
Psalms, 765.

Proverbs, the Gospel in the, 879.
Reply to Rénan's Divinity of Jesus,

143.

Roberts's Discussions on the Gospels,

375.

School and Home: a Tale for School
Boys, 191.

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Alexander, Dr., 869.
Alford, Dean, 234, 273,
381, 613, 942.
Andrews, J. R., 916.
Arnold, Dr., 3, 219, 290,
764.867.

Auriol, Rev. E., 788.
Bagot, Dean, 161, 598,

639, 775.
Bardsley, Rev. J., 874.
Baring, Bp., 517.
Barne, Rev. H., 286.
Bateman, Rev. J., 139.
Baxter, Richard, 321.
Baylee, Dr., 12.
Beecher, Mr. H. Ward,
245.

Bellarmine, Cardinal, 4.
Bennett, Dr. Hughes,

255.

Beveridge, Bp., 811.
Birks, Rev. T. R., 860,
876.
Bonar, Dr., 149, 162,
240, 306.

Boyd, Rev. A., 156, 700.
Brewster, Sir D., 854.
Brock, Mrs. Carey, 150.
Brown, Rev. Dr., 80.
Browne, Archd., 302.
Buckland, Dr., 854.
Bullock, Rev. W. T., 200,
218.

Bunsen, Chevalier, 3, 10.
Burgess, Bp., 762.
Burton, Capt., 296, 857.
Butcher, Dr., 725.
Butler, Bp., 452, 804.
Cairns, Sir Hugh, 318.
Cecil, Richard, 471.
Chalmers, Dr. 172, 643.
Chalmers, Rev. F. S. C.,
794.

Chamberlain, M. Cator,
480, 549, 632, 718, 798.
Champneys, Rev. W. W.,

871.

Charteris, Rev. A. H.,

170.

Cheever, Dr., 314.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, 472.
Clayton, Rev. C., 558.
Close, Dean, 76, 304.
Cogan, Dr., 799.
Colenso, Bp., 104, 422,
486, 505.
Coleridge, 942.
Colquhoun, J. C., Esq.,

712.

Crawford, Mr. J., 858.
D'Aubigné, Dr. Merle,

685.
Dale, Rev. T., 78.
Dallas, Rev. R. C., 156.
Darwin, Mr., 11, 144,

297.

Davies, Rev. J. L., 117,
505, 872.

Davis, Rev. C. H., 353.
Denison, Archd., 385.
Dering, Sir E. C., 161.
Desner, M., 10.
Disraeli, Mr., 635.
Drummond, Rev. D. T.,

231.

Duff, Dr., 182.
Durell, Rev. J., 383.
Eardley, Sir C., 157.
Edwards, Jonathan, 103.
Ellicott, Bp., 233, 378,

941.

Elliott, Rev. E. B., 199.
Espin, Prof., 349, 360.
Evans, Archd., 283.
Faussett, Dr., 302.
Finch, Mr. G., 67.
Forçade, M., 398.
Forster, Rev. Chas., 552.
Forsyth, Mr., 488.
Froude, Mr., 27, 121.
Garbett, Rev. E., 901.
Girdlestone, Rev. C., 356.
Glyn, Mr. Carr, 877.
Gobat, Bp., 303.
Goode, Dean, 318, 428.
Goodhart, Rev. C., 788.
Grant, Sir R., 859.

Hale, Sir M., 372.

Hall, Bp., 87, 949.

gratefully accepted: he added a comfortable meal in the morning,
and then hurried with them before the stipendiary magistrate, who,
as well as the heads of the police, and the custom-house authorities,
behaved with a degree of promptitude and discretion, which the
Government have gratefully acknowledged. The ship in which the
men were to have embarked, the Great Western, was detained in the
Mersey, until the Government were informed of the affair, and their
instructions received. It lies in the Mersey still; for the matter is
too serious to be hastily decided, and is before the law officers of
the Crown. A subscription was hastily made on the Liverpool
Exchange, and the poor fellows, with a few exceptions, thankfully
accepted it, and have been sent home again. We hope the Federal
Government will promptly disclaim all knowledge of the nefarious
proceeding.

The execution of the wretched Müller, for the murder of Mr. Briggs
in the railway carriage, cannot fail to impress thousands with an
awful sense of the justice of Almighty God, and with the truth of the
Scripture which bids transgressors to "be sure their sin will find
them out." But the insecurity of our railway carriages must not be
permitted to continue. When stage-coaches were in use, a guard,
always armed, watched over the safety of ten or fifteen passengers.
Now, a single guard takes the nominal care of hundreds. The safety
of the public demands that a guard should be appointed to every two
or three carriages, and that he should have access to each. There are
always railway servants unemployed through a great part of the day
at every station,-might not some of these travel from station to
station with the trains, returning with the return train to their own
central station; and this without any considerable addition to the
expense?

We close our labours for the year, and bid our readers for a time
farewell. As we do so, the knell of death falls upon our ear, and we
have to record the loss of a revered friend, a true Christian, and a
distinguished champion of the Protestant cause, in the person of
Richard Spooner, Esq., the late M.P. for North Warwickshire. For
many years he has conducted the opposition to the Maynooth Grant
in Parliament. But this was only one of his many claims upon the
respect and gratitude of his country. In a good old age, he is gone
to his reward; for he was a humble, earnest Christian, and in public, as
well as private, one who was not ashamed to confess Christ. We
hope to be permitted to return to the subject, and to do more justice
to his memory.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We must decline to make the Christian Observer the battle-ground on which to
determine the question of the merits or demerits of the Bristol Congress. The
subject has lost most of its interest; and yet we have already communications
on both sides, which threaten a long and very needless controversy, were we
once to open the question. One thing is very clear, that the Congress left
very different impressions on different minds.

RUSTICUS Mus gives us an account of what he heard from different
preachers during one Sunday in London. It is very painful, but too personal

for us to make use of.

INDEX

OF THE

ESSAYS, SUBJECTS, INTELLIGENCE, OCCURRENCES,

&c. &c. &c.

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Church Politics: The Royal Commis-
sion, 347.

Cities " desolate, without an Inhabi-
tant," 845, 891.
Clerical subscription and declaration,

Royal Commission to consider and
revise the forms of, 238, 347.
Convention between the Emperor of
the French and King of Italy, 797.
Convocation, proceedings of, 398, 636.
CORRESPONDENCE:-

Baptismal Service, Letters of Cole-
ridge on, 942.

Bonar's Book, "God's way of Peace,"
149, 306.

Bristol Church Congress, 941.
Charitable Trusts, 72.

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Church Parties, On the present aspect
of, 385.

Church Pastoral Aid Society, and the
Bp. of Oxford, 953.

Clerical Subscription, 62, 305, 548,
632.

Confirmation by Presbyters, 776.
Drummond, Rev. D. T. K., on recent

article in Edinburgh Review, 231.
Evangelical party: a retrospective
survey, 779.

Finch, Mr. G., on St. Bernard's life
and character, 67.
Infidelity, 860.

Lord's Supper, the order for ad-
ministration of, 308.

Miracles, our Lord's and other al-
leged, 308, 388, 468.
Missionary Meetings, 707.

More's (Hannah), Cheap Repository
Tracts, 944.

Mount Hermon, was it the scene of
the Transfiguration, 389.
Oxford, Bp. of, and the Church Mis-
sionary Society, 71.

Charge of, 227.

On the first resurrection, 707, 860.
Poetical contributions of Bp. Heber

and Sir R. Grant to the Christian
Observer, 859.

Pope, On the election of the, 866.
Preaching of the present day, 470.
"Priest" and "Presbyter," 383.
Public Schools, 867, 950.

Purgatory, the doctrine of, 549.
Religious periodical literature, 149.

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