and who in his last but undying declaration made a profession, which 'like a father's commandment and a mother's instruction,' should be 'bound about the heart' of every dutiful and loyal son of the Church of England.

"As for my religion, I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith, professed by the whole Church before the disunion of east and west; more particularly I die in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrines of the cross.' "

We should be happy to see this excellent work circulated widely in every parish in England: its effects could not but be most salutary in all cases. The hints and suggestions which it supplies in reference to the arrangements and care of churches and cemeteries, and on matters concerning public worship, are most judicious and unexceptionable, and conveyed in a style so pleasing that they must have influence with all who may peruse

them.

XXIV.-A Hand-book round Jerusalem, or Companion to the Model. By the Rev. JOHN BLACKBURN, M.A. London: Rivingtons. THE value of this book is chiefly as an explanation of the Model of Jerusalem, executed by and under the superintendence of the Author. It embraces a compendious view of the information brought to light by the researches of modern writers and antiquarians.

xxv.-A Manual of Gothic Architecture. By F. A. PALEY, M.A. London: Van Voorst.

THIS Manual may be recommended to all students of Gothic Architecture as very beautifully got up, and as evincing a thorough knowledge of the subject.

XXVI.-Songs of the Wilderness. By GEORGE J. MOUNTAIN, D.D., Lord Bishop of Montreal. London: Rivingtons. THE object of this little volume is one which must enlist the sympathies of every Churchman. It is designed to engage the interest of the public on behalf of the urgent spiritual wants of Canada, and to contribute towards the erection of a bishopric in that province. There is throughout these poems a tone of piety and of feeling, which inspires respect for their author, and will, we doubt not, render them acceptable to a considerable class of readers.

XXVII.-Miscellaneous.

THE Charge of the Lord Bishop of London, (Fellowes, Rivingtons,) recently delivered, is probably so well known to

our readers, that it can be scarcely necessary for us to do more than refer briefly to its publication. Considering the mode in which the bishop's suggestions on rubrical observances in his lordship's last Charge were received, it became a subject of some anxiety and interest, how the whole question would be treated on the present occasion. On the whole, as far as we can gather, the Charge has given general satisfaction. It is a very candid exposition of views and intentions which every one must respect, and of difficulties which, if fairly considered, will remove all those imputations of vacillation of principle, or want of sincerity, which it has been our lot to hear. We sincerely trust that there may be no more difference on questions of minute detail, but that, under the difficulties of the case, all parties may act in harmony for the promotion of the welfare of the Church, and the reasonable carrying out of her directions on all great points, without attempting compulsion in reference to minor points of temporary difference.

The "Form of Prayer used in laying the first stone of Trinity College Chapel, Glenalmond," &c., by the Rev. Charles Wordsworth, M.A., Warden (Rivingtons), will have afforded the highest gratification to the numerous class who are interested in the welfare of the Scottish Church, and of the seminary for the education of clergy, which has recently been erected at Glenalmond. The Address of the Warden on the occasion, is worthy of his reputation as a scholar, a divine, and a sincere and earnest Christian.

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"A Discourse on the Necessity of providing an enlightened Education for the Christian Ministry," &c., by Edmund Kell, M.A. (London: Simpkin and Marshall), is a sermon by a Unitarian preacher, who inveighs against the system of instruction at Oxford and Cambridge, and urges the necessity of throwing open the Universities to Dissenters of all kinds. "Education for the People," by the Rev. Scott F. Surtees (London: Bell), proposes a plan of national education, in opposition to that of Dr. Hook. Mr. Surtees is of opinion that the religious education of Churchmen and Dissenters can very easily be conducted together, and is desirous of union between them in various ways.

"The Village Wake," a sermon by the Rev. John Boustead, M.A. (Painter), has the object of promoting a religious observance of the annual feast-day kept in commemoration of the consecration of churches, which has degenerated into an occasion of excess and immorality. "The Cause of Blight and Pestilence in the Vegetable Creation," by John Parkin, M.D. (Hatchards), adduces reasons for believing that the potato blight will continue, and that other classes of vegetables will also become infected, from whence the author takes occasion to suggest extensive VOL. VI.-NO. XII.-DEC. 1846.

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fisheries, as the only remedy against famine. His pamphlet is deserving of attention. "The Autobiography of Thomas Platter," from the German (Wertheim), is a very amusing history of the life of a contemporary of Zuinglius, and adherent of the Reformation. Pauperism," by the Rev. R. B. Bradley (Whittaker and Co.), proposes the abolition of the present Poor Laws, and the substitution of a vast benefit society, supported partly by the poor, and partly by the rate-payers, and which would afford liberal relief to widows, and aged and infirm persons. "Sharpe's Magazine," the cheapest periodical of the day, continues to maintain its character for ability and general interest. Adapted for family reading, it supplies a greater quantity and variety of matter than other periodicals of four times the price.

Mr. Prowett, of Caius College, Cambridge, has published an English metrical translation of the "Prometheus Unbound" of Eschylus. It is preceded by some observations on the differences between the ancient and modern drama. The translation seems well and carefully done.

Four more little volumes of the "Devotional Library” have reached us, from the editorial pen of the indefatigable Dr. Hook. They bear the respective titles of "Short Meditations for every Day in the Year:"—Part I. Advent to Lent. "The Crucified Jesus; a devotional Commentary on the 22nd and 23rd Chapters of St. Luke," by Anthony Horneck, D.D. "The Retired Christian exercised in Divine Thoughts and Heavenly Meditations," by Bishop Ken; and "Helps to Self-Examination," by W. F. Hook, D.D. The first of these four report assigns to a female pen, and we are specially pleased with it.

"The English Churchman's Calendar for the year of our Lord 1847, compiled from the Book of Common Prayer," is as distinct as red and black, Old English, Roman, and Italic types can make it. It really seems to be an useful publication. It adheres to what is expressed in our Prayer-book; suggests where that is silent; and "has nothing whatever to do with" the "Roman Catholic rules, whatever may be the intrinsic superiority of those rules."

Mr. Burns' Illustrated Catalogue" is one of the prettiest books of the season.- We have to thank the authors for two or three more small publications, which the press of matter obliges us to defer a notice of, as we have been unable as yet to bestow on them the attention which they seem to deserve.

Foreign and Colonial Intelligence.

AUSTRALIA.-Visitation of the Diocese. We are delighted to find, by a Visitation Journal of the Lord Bishop of Australia, recently published by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, that the Church in that colony is fast recovering from the state of prostration which the Bishop had to lament over on the occasion of his last visitation 1.

The bishop began his visitation tour in the last days of the year 1844, and continued it till the month of December, 1845. In the course of it he consecrated twelve churches, and laid the foundation, or otherwise provided for the commencement, of eighteen churches and chapels. Of the churches to which the Bishop referred in 1842, as remaining in an unfinished state, three only are now unconsecrated, one of them on account of the impossibility of procuring a minister to take charge of it. This, the want of clergy, seems now to be the great difficulty with which the Bishop of Australia has to contend, and for the removal of which he makes an earnest appeal to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, that they would consider the "destitute condition to which he is reduced by the want of additional clergymen, and the deplorable consequences which must arise unless that want can be by some means speedily removed." He ordained two deacons in December, 1844; but since that time, says the Bishop, 66 no suitable candidates for admission have been presented. During the same interval the diocese has lost the services of several; others are at this time completely or partially disabled by sickness; and, in the event of any other casualties diminishing our remaining numbers, it would not be in my power to provide for the ecclesiastical services of the diocese, or to keep open the several churches, much less to occupy the additional ones, of the actual erection of some of which, and of the still further proposed augmentation of their numbers, I have now transmitted a statement."

As regards the social condition of the diocese, the following observations of the Bishop will be read with interest:-"The transportation of felons to this colony has been discontinued six years; and the rapidity with which nearly all traces of the convict system have disappeared in that short interval, is as gratifying as it is surprising. Almost the only remaining mark of its existence is the stockade at Blackheath; and the number of prisoners does not at this time exceed seventy." And at the close of his journal he adds :-" One other circumstance ought for the credit of the country to be

1 See English Review, vol. ii. p. 224, 495, 496.

recorded. Although continually travelling through the most lonely and unfrequented parts of it by day, and sleeping by night in the remotest stations, exposed to every outrage, had there been the slightest disposition to commit acts of violence, being also perfectly unprotected, except on two or three occasions for a very short time by the attendance of a single mounted policeman, I never met with the slightest molestation, threat, or rudeness; but experienced in all places, and on the part of all persons, from the highest to the lowest, the most perfect attention, civility, kindness, hospitality, and respect. It is right that this should be mentioned, in order to correct any impression that may prevail to the disadvantage of the general character of the people of this colony; my sincere persuasion being, that there can be no country in which an unprotected solitary traveller could have spent so much time, and passed over such an extended space, with a more perfect freedom from annoyance or injury. Some weight is due to this testimony, resting upon the experience of the sixteen years which I have now completed here, in journeyings often in the care of all the churches; but, thanks be to God, without attendant perils of any kind."

FRANCE.-Protestant Religious Societies.-The following summary of the receipts and expenditure of the Protestant religious societies in France during the year 1845-6, is taken from the reports read at their annual meetings, held at Paris in the spring of this year :

The most important of them, the Société évangélique, whose proceedings have been noticed in a former number of our Review 2, employed during the last year 146 agents, of which thirty-four were ministers, and five-and-twenty evangelists or lay preachers.

GERMANY.-Critical situation of the Evangelic Church of Prussia; the General Synod. The deliberations of this assembly, unexpectedly 'suspended at the end of August last, have had the effect of accelerating the crisis; the approach of which has been clearly indicated by the tendencies manifested of late years both among the clergy and laity of the evangelic communions of Germany. The fearful question, whether the

2 See English Review, vol. v. pp. 493–503.