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his Whig opponents, (as in his exile subsequently he acknowledged,) a Popish Monarch was to have been given to Great Britain. The Patronage Act was intended, first, to lessen the power of the Presbyterian Whigs; and, secondly, to exasperate them, and make them willing to break the Union with England,-one of the articles of which the Patronage Act notoriously violated. If national honour be worth anything, even were patronage an excellent system, this Act ought to be repealed, and the system established in good faith, and for honest purposes.

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We take the opportunity of recommending to our readers a "Memorial addressed to the Government, by the Committee of the last General Assembly, and bearing the signature of the Moderator, Dr. Gordon. It is a concise, clear, and temperate statement of the case of the Church, as it really is, disentangled from the extraneous matter with which the subtlety of its opponents has endeavoured to connect it. We consider the "Memorial" itself as a master-piece among compositions of the kind. We are glad, too, to take this opportunity of continuing to bear our testimony in favour of church-purity, as well as of protesting against the assertion, that an Establishment, as such, is necessarily secular if it be so, it is necessarily wrong.

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The Kings of the East: an Exposition of the Prophecies; determining, from Scripture and from History, the Power for whom the Mystical Euphrates is being "dried up: with an Explanation of certain other Prophecies concerning the Restoration of Israel. pp. xvi, 355. Seeley and Burnside.Although we have never supported any of the definite schemes of interpretation which have, of late years, been applied to the unfulfilled prophecies of holy writ, our abstinence has proceeded neither from want of veneration for the prophecics themselves, nor of interest in the subjects to which, it seems on all hands to be admitted, they generally refer. Many of these schemes we have seen, both propounded with confidence, and afterwards declared by events to have been entirely mistaken. Fulfilment will be the only particular interpreter of prophecy. Nevertheless, some general features seem to have been ascertained: at all events, the agreement of writers on certain points, widely disagreeing as they do upon others, is remarkable. And on all hands it seems allowed, that from the present time, to about 1860 or 1870, will

be an eventful period. The writer of this volume applies the term "Kings of the East" to the East-India Company, as exercising the sovereignty of India; and the "drying up of the Euphrates to the depopulation and dismemberment of the Turkish empire. The movements of the last ten years have certainly been singular; and when we look at Britain, ruling, with all her faults and mistakes, for the intended good of the people, and the benefit of the world, our hopes are strong. Syria seems waiting for national inhabitants, and the world is preparing for the reception of the Gospel. The duty of British Christians is plain; and if they faithfully discharge their duty as Christians, they will find that they have pursued the line of conduct best calculated to promote the welfare of their beloved country. They who engage in these difficult studies will find some curious facts in the volume before us; and, to say the least, some curious coincidences too. Like all other writers on prophecy, the author deprecates all union with the mystical Babylon. Modern statesmen may treat such subjects with contempt; but he who really believes the Bible to be the book of God, will never overlook the prophetic injunction, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.'

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The Conversion of the Jews: a Series of Lectures, delivered in Edinburgh, by Ministers of the Church of Scotland. Foolscap 8vo. pp. 188. Groombridge. -The volume contains a statement on the general subject, and seven Lectures. The references are chiefly to what is pious and practical in the subject; to its known facts, and to its admitted obligations; while what is as yet enveloped in the mysteries of prophecy and Providence is passed by. It is a very interesting volume, and likely, by its circulation, to do much good.

Ecclesiastica: or, the Church, her Schools, and her Clergy. By E. M. Roose, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. 8vo. pp. xvi, 448. Hatchards.-Chapter I. contains a sketch of the history of the Church, from the Reformation to the Revolution; II. and III., an account of her public schools, and universities; IV., of "the great Church Societies;" V., of "Episcopacy in England," with chronological lists of the Bishops of each diocess from the Reformation; VI., "our great Theologians;" VII., "our great literary and scientific Divines;" VIII., "the living Bishops, and other eminent Divines." Such are the con

tents of the volume, as shown by the several chapters. The details consist of useful biographical and historical statements, on the subjects referred to in the chapters. For many persons, the volume

will furnish almost a necessary Vade Mecum; to all students it furnishes much valuable information on what may be termed, the ecclesiastical statistics of the established Church.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

I.

ROYAL ADDRESSES.

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

MAY it please your Majesty,-We, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, being the Committee to whom the Conference of the people called Methodists in the Connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A., has intrusted the charge of its civil rights and duties, humbly beg permission to offer to your Majesty, by the direction, and on the behalf, of the said Conference, our hearty congratulations on the recent birth of a Prince; an event which has diffused universal joy through your Majesty's wide dominions.

Deeply sensible of the advantages of an hereditary monarchy, and of a settled and direct succession to the throne, and not less mindful of the blessings which this country has enjoyed under the sway of the House of Brunswick, we hail with delight and thankfulness the birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as a new pledge of the continuance of the present Royal Family upon the throne of these realms, of the security of our national rights and privileges, and of the prosperity and happiness of all classes of your Majesty's subjects. More especially do we rejoice in the additional security now afforded us, that those Protestant Institutions which are the truest glory and strongest defence of your Majesty's throne, and which we regard as the bulwark of our constitutional liberty, both civil and religious, will be perpetuated among ourselves and our descendants to the latest posterity. And we cherish an earnest hope and confidence, that, under the watchful care of your Majesty, and of His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the education of the Prince of Wales will be such, as will prepare him to maintain, in every station which he may hereafter be called to occupy, those principles of pure and scriptural Chris

tianity, by the assertion of which the illustrious ancestors both of your Majesty and of your Royal Consort have been happily distinguished.

We offer our most devout acknowledgments to Almighty God, the Author of all good, who has preserved your Majesty and the infant Prince in the hour of danger; and we humbly pray that He may continue to protect and to guide your Majesty in all things. May his gracious Providence watch over the infancy and youth of the Prince of Wales, and endow His Royal Highness with every needful gift to qualify him for the exalted station to which he is born. And may the great King of kings vouchsafe to your Majesty, to your Royal Consort, and to every branch of your illustrious House, his perpetual favour and benediction !

In the Address which we thus presume to offer, we assure your Majesty that we express the most cordial sentiments and wishes of the whole body of the Wesleyan Methodists at home and abroad.

Signed in behalf of the Wesleyan
Conference,

JABEZ BUNTING, D. D.,
Chairman of the Committee.

Wesleyan Centenary-Hall and
Mission-House, Bishopsgate-
street-Within, January 24th,
1842.

THE ANSWER.

From the Right Honourable Sir James Graham, Bart., M. P., Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Whitehall, February 7th, 1842. SIR, I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address, on the occasion of the birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, from the Committee having charge of the civil rights of the Wesleyan Methodists.

And I have to inform you that the

same was very graciously received by Her Majesty.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,
J. R. G. GRAHAM.

The Rev. Jabez Bunting, D. D.,
Wesleyan Mission-House, Bi-
shopsgate-Within.

HIGHNESS

II.

ΤΟ FIELD MARSHAL HIS ROYAL PRINCE ALBERT, OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA, K. G., &c, &c.

MAY it please your Royal Highness, -We, the Committee, to whom the Conference of the people called Methodists in the Connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A., has intrusted the charge of its civil rights and duties, beg permission most respectfully to offer to your Royal Highness, by the direction and on the behalf of the said Conference, our hearty congratulations upon the safety and recovery of Her Majesty, and the birth of an heir to the throne of these realms.

We rejoice in an event which, while it affords the choicest gratification to the feelings of your Royal Highness, is fraught, as we humbly trust, with the most important and beneficial

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quences to this empire, and tends to bind the affections of its people still more closely to your Royal Highness. And we entreat your Royal Highness to receive the assurances of our high respect and esteem for your Royal Highness as the consort of our beloved Sovereign and the father of the infant Prince. We sincerely pray that the life of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales may be spared to witness the long and happy reign of our gracious Queen; and that, by the blessing of Almighty God upon the fostering care of Her Majesty and your Royal Highness, he may grow up under the full influence of those principles of scriptural truth and piety, and of constitutional liberty, which will best prepare him to succeed, as we trust at some far-distant day he will, to the throne and sceptre which he inherits.

In the Address which we thus presume to offer, we assure your Royal Highness that we express the most cordial wishes and sentiments of the whole Wesleyan community at home and abroad.

Signed, &c., as before.

THE ANSWER.

From G. E. Anson, Esq., Secretary to His Royal Highness Prince Albert.

Windsor Castle, Feb. 7th, 1842. SIR, I have not failed to lay before Prince Albert the Address of the Committee to whom the Conference of the people called Methodists, in the Connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A., has intrusted the charge of its civil rights and duties; and I am commanded by His Royal Highness to return his best thanks for their congratulations upon the convalescence of Her Majesty the Queen, and the birth of an heir-apparent.

I am further commanded to offer the sincere acknowledgments of the Prince for their assurances of high respect and esteem for the personal conduct and character of his Royal Highness.

ΤΟ

I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, G. E. ANSON. The Rev. Jabez Bunting, D.D., Chairman.

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MAY it please your Royal Highness, -We, the Committee to whom the Conference of the people called Methodists, in the Connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A., has intrusted the charge of its civil rights and duties, beg leave most respectfully to present to your Royal Highness, by the direction and on behalf of the said Conference, our warmest congratulations on the birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the safe recovery of Her Most Gracious Majesty.

An event involving so deeply the domestic and conjugal felicity of Her Ma jesty and her Royal Consort, and affording such additional security to the British throne, must needs excite in the minds of all Her Majesty's faithful people the warmest emotions of joy and gratitude. And we beg to assure your Royal Highness, that, while we share with our fellowsubjects in these sentiments, we rejoice that the manifestation of them will afford fresh evidence to your Royal Highness, that Her Majesty reigns in the affections of a loyal and devoted people. We pray that your Royal Highness may long live to reap the fruit of that maternal solicitude with which your Royal Highness watched over the early years of Her Majesty, and to enjoy every good gift

which a bounteous Providence can bestow.

In the Address which we thus presume to offer, we assure your Royal Highness that we express the most cordial sentiments and wishes of the whole Wesleyan body at home and abroad. Signed, &c., as before.

THE ANSWER,

From General Sir George Couper,
Bart., Principal Equerry to Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Clarence-House, Feb. 2d, 1842. SIR, Having had the honour of submitting to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent the congratulatory Address from the Committee to whom the Conference of the people called Me

thodists, in the Connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A., has intrusted the charge of its civil rights and duties, upon the joyful event of the birth of the Prince of Wales, I am commanded by Her Royal Highness to convey to you, and to all those whose sentiments are embodied in this most gratifying Address, the expression of Her Royal Highness's heartfelt thanks for it, and for the renewed assurance it contains of loyal and affectionate attachment to Her Majesty.

I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most faithful, humble servant, G. COUPER.

The Rev. Jabez Bunting, D. D.,

Wesleyan Centenary-Hall,
Mission-house, Bishopsgate-
street-Within.

MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN AMERICA.

THE Board of Managers, to whose direction the Missions of the American Methodist Church is entrusted, have this year begun to publish Monthly Notices of their proceedings, and of the success of the Missions which are under their care. The first Number of their periodical work has just reached us, from which we have made the subjoined selections. Their operations, it will be perceived, are, as yet, not very extensive, and are seriously impeded by debt. Having hitherto, we believe, neglected to contribute weekly in the classes for the support of the ministry at home, it will be perceived that they are attempting to apply this branch of the Wesleyan economy to the support of foreign Missions. -Edit.

STATE OF THE TREASURY.

WE are pained to announce the fact, that the amount of debt for which our Treasurer is answerable has, for months past, been unprecedented in the history of our Missionary Society. Notwith standing all the appeals which have been recently made, from the pulpit and the press, and the success which has generally attended these appeals, yet still the present debt exceeds fifty thousand dollars, a large proportion of which is borrowed money, for which we are obliged to pay interest. And this at a time when the Board are called upon to fit out an expedition for Africa, now just on the eve of sailing; and when the necessary supplies for our Missionaries at Oregon

compel us to an expenditure of more than ten thousand dollars. And this in addition to the heavy drafts which are coming in, almost daily, from the different sections of our work.

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

1. THE LIBERIA MISSION, on the western coast of Africa, as we learn by our latest advices, continues to prosper, and a revival of religion has been enjoyed in several of the stations. Notwithstanding the lamented death of brother Burton, the Principal of our Conference Seminary at Monrovia, the institution is still continued, under the direction of brother Herring, and the assistant Teachers.

Dr. Goheen is now the only white man in the Mission; and on him devolve the duties of Physician, Editor of "the Luminary," and Secular Agent, during the absence of the Superintendent. The Rev. John Seys, so long the head of this flourishing Mission, is still in this country, and is employed in the service of the Board, for the present, by travelling, and taking up collections for our funds. The Rev. Squire Chase, Rev. John G. Pingree, Rev. G. S. Brown, and sister Wilkins, will embark for Africa during the present month; the former as temporary Superintendent, and the latter as Teacher of a female school. Both brother Pingree and brother Brown will join the Liberia Annual Conference, and are expected to labour among the natives of the interior. This expedition is now on the eve of sailing,

and will involve the Board in considerable expense.

2. OREGON MISSION.-At the date of our latest despatches from this, the largest Mission under the care of the Board, our brethren and their families had gone to their several stations, and were employed in providing Missionhouses, school-houses, &c., in order to enter fully upon their work of evangelizing the natives. We have favourable reports of the converts who had already been gathered into the church from among the Indians; and we are in daily expectation of a detailed report of the state of this Missionary field from the Superintendent, Rev. Jason Lee. The expenses of sustaining this Mission are so great, as to give us a strong claim upon the liberality of the church.

3. SOUTH-AMERICAN MISSIONS.At Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and Montevideo, we have, for several years, been sustaining Missionaries and Teachers, with but little success, except among foreign residents, the natives being inaccessible to the Gospel, by reason of the connexion between the civil power and the Romish priesthood, obstructing our work by the strong arm of the law. Under these circumstances, and especially in view of the pecuniary embarrassments of our treasury, imperatively requiring retrenchment, all the labourers in this field have been recalled. This measure has been reluctantly adopted, seeing our brethren employed in South America are able, pious, and faithful Missionaries; and, amid all their difficulties, have persevered in their efforts to do good, with commendable zeal and fidelity. But our funds will not longer justify us in sustaining them in that field.

4. GERMAN MISSIONS.-These, being conducted in a foreign language, are enumerated among foreign Missions. The last Annual Report contains their number and location in the different Conferences. They are all prospering; and in some of the western cities, especially, we learn, that they have had great success during the last year. A new Mission has been commenced in the city of New-York, among the German population, of which brother C. H. Doering has charge. Already a church and Sundayschool have been formed; and a "protracted meeting," recently held, has been blessed to the conversion of souls. The Board have been constrained to recommend the appointment of another Missionary to this field, notwithstanding our exhausted treasury.

DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

UNDER this title we include all those Missions which are located within the bounds of the several Annual Conferences, except the German. They include Texas, where an Annual Conference is already organized out of our former Missionary field, and from which we have received encouraging accounts. The Missions to the slaves of the southern states are still prosecuted with zeal and success. The Indian Missions, under the care of the southern and south-western Conferences, are in a flourishing condition, as we learn from our last reports, and are doing great good, especially to the rising generation. And we are cheered, from week to week, by the intelligence from the Missions in the destitute settlements and remote districts of our white population, that God is reviving his work in almost all our Mis

sion stations.

The Board had been obliged, at the beginning of the year, to reduce the appropriation for domestic Missions, from ninety to seventy thousand dollars; and it has become necessary to reduce it still further; so that the Bishops and Conferences have been under the necessity of curtailing and restricting the work at home, in order to meet our demand from the Missions abroad.

OUR AGENCIES.

THE last General Conference elected three Corresponding Secretaries. These officers are the following: Rev. Charles Pitman, Rev. William Capers, D.D., and Rev. E. R. Ames. They have their districts severally assigned them, within which they are expected to travel, hold Missionary Meetings, and take up collections in behalf of our funds. But while these brethren are exclusively devoted to their work, and, in addition to these labours, are employed by correspondence, and otherwise, in promoting a Missionary spirit among our Preachers and people, they ought not to be expected personally to visit every church, or even every Conference. Much less should any excuse themselves from individual effort or responsibility, by waiting for the Secretaries, and neglecting the duties they owe the Missionary cause. We may be assured, that these officers of the church are discharging their duties with zeal and fidelity, and are diligently occupied under the direction of the Board of Managers; but to visit every part of our extended work, even in the four years of their appointment, is wholly impracticable.

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