bility of temper, rendering him quickly susceptible of the warmest emotions upon the great subjects of morality and religion, the strain of his discourses commanded the attention of the students, and at the same time left strong impressions on their minds. Having occasion every year to explain the origin of government, and to compare the different forms of it, he took particular care, when he was upon this subject, to inculcate the importance of civil and religious liberty to the happiness of mankind; and on this point he always dwelt with peculiar pleasure, treating it at great length with equal force of argument, and earnestness of persuasion. His attention, however, was not confined to the pupils under his own immediate care; he endeavoured to be useful to the students in all the different faculties; and was peculiarly solicitous_to be serviceable to those in divinity. He was a valuable member of the university in all other respects, as well as that of professor; his great abilities qualifying him, and his zeal prompting him, on all occasions, to promote its civil as well as literary interests. A firm constitution, with pretty uniform state of good health, excepting

some slight attacks of the gout, seemed to promise the world a long enjoyment of his valuable life; but he died of a sudden attack of that disease in his fifty-third year, in 1747.

He had married soon after his settling in Dublin, Mrs. Mary Wilson, the daughter of a gentleman in the county of Longford, by whom he had a son, Francis Hutcheson, M.D. who published from the original MS. of his father, "A System of Moral Philosophy," in three books, Glasgow, 1755, 2 vols. 4to. To this work is prefixed, "Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author," by Dr. Leechman, professor of divinity in the same university.

Dr. Hutcheson acquired a lasting fame by his academical lectures; and he did an inestimable benefit to moral science, by diffusing a taste for analytical investigation, to which the world is indebted for the highly esteemed works of those authors mentioned at the commencement of this article, by means of whose labors this branch of philosophy has since made so remarkable an advancement.

Tales and Illustrations; chiefly intended for Young Persons. By CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. Fourth Edition; in three volumes, 18mo. mor. cloth, with numerous engravings. Dublin: P. DIXON HARDY and SONS. London: GROOMBRIDGE.

Who has not heard of Charlotte Elizabeth? What child, belonging to a Christian family, but has read some one of those interesting and instructive little stories which have from time to time emanated from her prolific pen-a pen which, we most willingly admit, it has been at all times her desire to use in the service of her Lord and Master, whether the publication produced has been large or small. Without intending to institute an invidious comparison between the more recent works of the talented authoress (although we are compelled, in passing, to wish that some things in some of those latter productions had never been written),* we have no hesitation in saying, that the three volumes before us contain the very best stories ever produced by Charlotte Elizabeth. There is a vigour, a freshness, a truthfulness about them,

We particularly allude to her work on the second coming of our Lord, in which she seriously expresses her opinion that it would be necessary for an ex-Jewish Rabbi, who had renounced Judaism, and professed his belief in the Christian faith, to circumcise his sen, in order to fit him for the reception of those peculiar blessings promised in the latter days to the seed of Abraham.

which must at once commend them to the young and to the old; they were her firsther early writings. Indeed, we have felt surprised, and we might say grieved, to think that a lady who could with such perspicuity bring forward and enforce the great leading truths of the Gospel dispensation, and in simple and affecting narratives, so forcibly portray the design and intention of the Saviour's first coming into our world-and direct the youthful mind to that period when he shall come again as judge of the quick and the dead-for in several of the stories before us, we find those great truths very faithfully recorded-we say, we feel both surprised and grieved to find a writer so clear on the great leading doctrines of our holy religion, so blinded by false views of Scripture, as to endeavour to lead back those who had clean escaped from the errors of Judaism, to a reliance on the weak and beggarly elements of Jewish forms and ceremonies-and to exhibit the fancied second coming of our Lord to reign personally in human form on earth, (especially over the Jewish people) as though it were a matter of greater importance than his appearance with his holy angels, when he shall come to judge the world, to take vengeance on his enemies and to take up his people to dwell for ever with Him in the regions of the blessed. Into such grievous error has this talented writer

The records of experience are as valuable to the Christian as the anticipations of faith. If the latter elevate and animate, the former guide and encourage him, in his course. The history of individual believers and churches, furnishes examples and lessons of the most impressive and influential character. This is strikingly displayed in the history of the late excellent Mr. Campbell, of Kingsland, (better known to some of our readers as the African Traveller) and the church over which he so long presided. That venerable man exercised an influence, the extent of which will never be known,

""Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved to sin no more."

If, therefore, there had been less ability and piety exhibited, than appears in this publication, the associations which it revives, in many minds, must make it interesting and instructive, especially to the members of the church, the history of which it sketches and improves. The author has very appropriately availed himself of the fact, that half a century has rolled away since the erection of the chapel; to urge the people of his charge to review the circumstances connected with its history, in order to excite their gratitude for the past, and to inspire them with confidence and hope for the future. Nor is it easy to conceive of any events in the history of a church more calculated to awaken these emotions, than those connected with the church meeting in Kingsland Chapel. Looking at its past history, and present flourishing state, every pious mind must exclaim, "What hath God wrought?" The little one has become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. Let churches in a languishing condition read its history, imbibe its spirit, imitate its zeal, and then will the work of the Lord prosper among them, and his glory rest upon them. Let pastors read it, and see what simplicity, zeal, faith, prayer, and self-consecration, can accomplish for the spiritual interests of a people. The sermons, which form a chief part of the work, are highly creditable to the talents of the esteemed author, as pulpit ministrations, and

are richly imbued with a spirit of zeal and piety. The work will well repay those who peruse it. We can cordially recommend it to all our readers, both English and Irish, as calculated to stimulate the supine, encourage the timid, and guide the zealous. To the pastors of our churches in Ireland, with their difficulties and discouragements, and to the little flocks committed to their care, and often dispirited by the smallness of their numbers, their distance from each other, and their numerous disadvantages of various kinds, which it would seem almost invidious to detail, besides those arising from their location in a country where Popery reigns triumphant, and the dominant forms of Protestantism do not sympathize as they should do with their scriptural and voluntary principles, we would particularly commend this Jubilee Memorial, in the hope that they will yet have to celebrate in their chapels many such Jubilees. Whenever the priaciples embodied in the life, and illustrated in the labours of John Campbell, of Kingsland, and happily enforced by his successor, shall pervade the universal church, then will be speedily brought to pass the saying which is written, The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ."

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The Missionary Jubilee. An Ode for the Jubilee of the London Missionary Society. Arranged with an Accompaniment for the Organ, Piano Forte, or Seraphine. By JOHN KING. London: J. SNOW.

This is a very pleasing production, and well calculated for choirs or congregations; its melody is flowing, and somewhat original; its harmonies simple and easy.

The Persecuted Christians of Madagascar ; a Series of Interesting Occurences during a Residence at the Capital. By the Rev. DAVID GRIFFITHS, late Missionary to the Island. HEDGMAN, 12, London Wall. Pp. 42, 12mo.

This is an interesting sequel to Messrs. Freeman and John's interesting work on a most interesting subject; the additions which "the noble army of martyrs" has lately received, in the island of Madagascar. This book takes up the subject where the former work leaves it; details the miserable state of the native Christians after the departure of the refugees, now in England; the attempts of sixteen to escape; capture, and the martyrdom of several; the author's interrogation by the government, and punishment for aiding the endeavours to escape; the losses sustained, and the state of the country when he left it. It is gratifying to learn that, notwithstanding

their

the vigilance of the tyrannical government, more than fifty have escaped to the Mauritius, where they are occupied in planting. Look at the horrid picture exhibited at page 36:

"A spot was pointed out to me where four persons were put to death, for attempting to escape out of the island. They were caught going away in the canoe; a hole was immediately digged, in which they were

THE DOUAY BIBLE.

placed, with their heads confined in sacks; and boiling water and melted tallow were poured on them, till they ceased to breathe."

There is good reason to think, that Messrs. Freeman and John's book reached the blood-thirsty queen there. We hope this will do the same; as well as many other works which speak of the indignation felt, in this country, at her atrocities. May God, in his mercy, turn her heart. N. R.

WE presume few even of our English readers require to be informed that through the instrumentality and exertions of Father Theobald Matthew, a very great change has been effected in the habits of the lower orders of the Irish people, in reference to the drinking of spirituous liquors. Against this destructive pestilence he has waged a successful war; and he has had the pleasure of seeing numbers reclaimed from their evil habits, and becoming sober and temperate. Within the last year, the same individual issued a circular relative to the reading of an edition of the Douay Bible, published by Mr. Coyne, the Roman Catholic bookseller, and sanctioned by several bishops of the Roman Catholic Church. This work contained a number of notes, some of them rendering the meaning of the text in a way calculated to countenance several errors of the Romish Church; and it was, besides, published at such a price, 6s. 6d. each copy, as altogether to debar its general diffusion among the poorer people. It occurred therefore to a few Christian friends, that a series of tracts, containing connected passages of the Bible thus sanctioned and recommended by Father Matthew and the Romish bishops, which at once embraced the leading truths of the Gospel, and were free from Romish or radical error, might be advantageously circulated amongst the people. The trial has been made; three such tracts have been issued, and we are happy to say, have been received by many who would not read tracts of another description. A “Society, for the Diffusion of Scriptural Knowledge among the People of Ireland," has been formed, and upwards of 20,000 copies of those tracts have been circulated in various districts of the country, which we should hope will prove a valuable auxiliary to the varied instrumentality now putting into operation for enlightening the minds of the people. The Douay Version of the Bible is the only one allowed by the Romish Church, and we therefore feel it to be of the utmost importance to disseminate those portions as widely

as n

le amongst the masses of the peo

ple. The committee want funds to enable them to accomplish this desideratum; and we trust these will be liberally supplied. The Bible, in the hands of the early reformers, was the heavenly weapon before which the ancient bulwarks of error and superstition fell to the ground; and the sacred truths of the Bible, read and preached by faithful men in every district of Ireland, may, through the Divine blessing, be expected to accomplish a similar result in the present time, and under present circumstances.

Donations towards the proposed object, will be received by Messrs. LA TOUCHE and Co., Bankers; or by Mr. P. DIXON HARDY, Hon. Secretary.

SPECIMENS OF ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY.

WE have heard many persons contending that the religion of the Church of Rome is not now so idolatrous or so unscriptural as it formerly was; and that with Romanists the Virgin Mary is not an object of veneration equal to the Saviour. The following specimens from a sermon preached on Sunday, the 8th of September, by the Rev. John Miley, D.D., in the metropolitan chapel of Dublin, (since published,) and having reference to the miraculous deliverance of Mr. Daniel O'Connell from prison, through the prayers of the faithful, addressed to the "Blessed Virgin," must, at once, remove every doubt on these points. In the opening of his discourse he observed, that if he "should entirely consecrate his discourse to the praise of the Virgin, it would not be looked upon as censurable." Among the titles he gives her is, "the ever gracious Queen of Heaven"-" the mother of mercies," and "the comforter of the afflicted." He then speaks of their "piety towards her, to whom, from tenderest childhood, they have delighted to resort for advocacy and consolation, as to their life, their sweetness, and their hope." They are then invited "to implore her advocacy, and to rely upon it with the greatest confidence." And they are informed "that every grace and blessing derived to us, through the incarnation and

death of our Redeemer, was left in a manner depending, and as it were risked by the Divine ordination, on the will and deliberation of the blessed Virgin"—that," in reality, and, in fact, the decree whereby God gave us all things in giving us his only Son for our redemption, is here sanctioned by this mysterious being; it is not, as it were, effective and complete, until ratified by her assent"-that "the concession to us of that Redeemer himself was made dependent on the concurrence of her will"-"the office of giving, one may say, the initiative to redemption is left to the choice of the Virgin Mary"-"We are indebted even for a Redeemer to her free discretion, to the deliberate concurrence of her mind."

Such is the theology propounded by a D. D. in the metropolitan chapel of Ireland. Such the blasphemous nonsense by which even the better informed Roman Catholics of our city are led to look up to the Virgin Mary as their intercessor at the throne of Heaven; and such may be taken as a fair specimen of the theology taught at Maynooth, and for which the learned professors in that celebrated seminary receive eight thousands per annum from the British treasury!-verb. sat.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.

We have been favored by a respectable solicitor, who is willing to submit the case to any one who may favor him with a visit, with the particulars of one of those cases of extortion of property from a dying sinner which frequently comes under notice in this country, and we must say that it is fortunate for the Roman Catholic laity that Sir Robert Peel has afforded them protection against similarly unjust exactions in future; for latterly the Roman Catholic priesthood were amassing considerable property at the expense of the families and poor relatives of those penitents who submitted themselves to the entire control of their confessors, when the dark valley of the shadow of death was opened to their view, and the terrors of futurity were exhibited to the dying sinner, and no hope arising from faith in the atonement of a crucified Redeemer held forth to him without making his peace with the "Church" by golden offerings. The names of the parties, or their residences, we omit, however, pledging ourselves to the truth of the details, as we received them from the gentleman who was professionally consulted in the case.

It appears that an unmarried man, who, by frugality and industry, obtained some freehold property in this county, made his will in favor of his only nephew, a young man of excellent character, and for whom

he entertained a most sincere regard. A short time since, the uncle became alarmingly ill, and sent for a priest, who, on his arrival, had a private interview with the penitent, after which he sent for the nephew, told him his uncle had made a will, and that he wished him to become a witness to its execution, but that he should get the old will which his uncle had previously made and destroy it. The young man being unacquainted with the law, or with the intentions of his uncle, and believing that the priest's advice was for his benefit, brought the will, which was entrusted to his care by the uncle, and put it into the fire in the presence of the priest, whereupon the latter drew a will out of his pocket, and without further ceremony obtained the signature of the testator, and that of his nephew to the document. In a few days after the uncle died; but, lo! on the nephew making inquiry about the will, it was opened by his reverence, when it appeared that the freehold property-to the last farthing-was left to the Church for religious uses! Here the reader will perceive the cunning of the priest; for the nephew is, by a cruel stratagem, made a witness to the will against himself, should he question its validity.

We shall say nothing further on the subject, as it is likely to undergo judicial inquiry, but merely to ask every Roman Catholic in Ireland, does he not owe a debt of gratitude to the government for such a measure of protection as that afforded by the Charitable Bequests Bill? In common with this case there are many circumstances which we shall hereafter refer to, as a proof of the necessity of restraining the avarice of the Roman Catholic clergy.--Carlow Sentinel.

POPISH HUNT.

"Whether I will or not," says Luther, "I every day become more learned, being pushed forward by so many famous masters. It is now two years since I attacked indulgences, but with so much timidity and indecision, that at present I am ashamed of it. Yet one must not wonder at that, for I was then alone in rolling this rock." He returns thanks to Prierias, Eck, Emser, and his other adversaries. "I denied," he continues, "that the popedom was of God, but I admitted it was of human right: now, after having read all the subtleties on which these sparks found their idol, I know that the popedom is but the kingdom of Babylon, and the violence of the great hunter Nimrod. I therefore entreat all my friends, and all booksellers, to burn the books I have written on this subject, and to substitute for them this single proposition: The pope dom is a grand hunt, led by the bishop of Rome, to catch and destroy souls."