confessedly their own, we cannot divine. The total number of the ministers of the Kirk is about 1200. At a subsequent meeting of the Free Assembly,' a deed of separation from the established' portion of the church was agreed to and signed by the protesting ministers and elders; whereby the seceding party renounced all the rights and privileges before held by them, and declared their benefices to be void. The General Assembly, on the other hand, when the recusants had retired, repealed the Veto act, and, in addition to that, the resolution by which the quoad sacra ministers were admitted to seats in the Assembly. bishop should have full power to remove (a thing he is happily very rarely called upon by necessity to do) an immoral person from a benefice, without being subject to actions at law; and there are many ancient means that ought to be resorted to, (in spite of the ridiculous apprehensions that a return to such obviously beneficial practices and usages implies a return to the errors of the church of Rome,) where none other such advantageous arrangements can be designed and contrived, for enabling the Church to exercise her rightful authority, both for the glory of God, and the happiness of man. Amongst these latter may be named a restoration of the conventual system. If we look through society in England, we mean the great mass of the classes imme As respects the prospects of the Anglo-catholic church, there can be no doubt that if the self-reformation that has been begun be steadily car-diately under the nobility, we cannot ried on in her, she will ere long be help noticing the frequent occurrence in a state of security. It may be un- of one or more of the young women known to the general reader that the of a family being given up, beyond dioceses are divided into districts, the rest of their house, to religious whereby the due exercise of epis- thinking. So obvious is this oftencopal superintendence is materially times, that parents are heard to comfacilitated. Each of these districts plain of their daughters' thus seemis under an archdeacon; and the ing tacitly to condemn the authors function of the archdeacons is to of their birth of worldly-mindedness: visit and inspect the clergy and they turn with aversion from the churches of the diocese, and to watch domestic amusements which have and report the due performance of been allowed in the family; and ecclesiastical duties by the incum- nothing but that which is serious, or bents, and the repair and upholding aiming at the practice of serious of the fabric of the sacred edifice duties such as teaching religious by the churchwardens and parishion- truths, and ministering to the temers. The function of the bishop is poral wants of the poor in their neighnot only to act upon these reports, bourhood, or even, what is far from but annually at least to visit, by him- a rare occurrence, displaying a desire self, every parish in his diocese, and to join in the public attempts to conto exercise his episcopal autho- vert the Jews and other unbelievers, rity by a most resolute superinten--nothing but a course, so opposed dence, and, where it is required, by an authoritative interposition, through the whole body of his clergy. Diligently administered as these functions, archidiaconal and episcopal, now are and which they were not some years since—an improved and improving condition of the church of England is, and will continue to be, the necessary result. There are of course still requirements: the to what is usually deemed connected with feminine propriety and even ability, will afford them pleasure. It must be confessed that this 'serious' tendency (as it is now technically called) in young females of the educated classes, is often found to result from frequent conversations with clergymen of the evangelical school, or even with dissenters: but though those parties certainly foster such a spirit when they see it arising, or may even occasionally be the cause of its existence, it proves a considerable tendency in the female cultivated mind to receive and act upon religious impressions, and we have testimony in history of this fact, in all ages and among all nations. The amiable bishop Horne has not been the only eminent modern divine of our church to wish this tendency in the female heart were turned to good account by some systematic guidance of it; Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer, were all friendly to the retention of monasteries; and we conceive that immense good would result to the community in every way, were the conventual system to be now restored. To the young persons themselves, it would be a security against their rushing into fanaticism and dissent; and should they continue 'serious' until old age, we are convinced that a religious woman in her declining years is a more estimable one than the antique devotee of frippery, scandal, and the card-table. The entering into, and the continuance in, such sanctuaries, ought to be optional and voluntary; the parochial (i. e. the secular) clergy should be the directors of the religious duties to be performed by the respective superiors, and by the sisters; and the bishops should control all-without the creation of any other order of clergy, even should monasteries be also re-established, with the same objects in view, for men desirous of devoting themselves to active religious duties. Such institutions would not tempt people to leave the world, but would afford them an honourable refuge should they seek retirement from it. That portion of the funds of such convents which had been set apart for aiding the needy, would be distributed to the poor in a precise and regular method, under the eye of the parochial clergyman; and the latter would thus have a purse at command, which his ill-paid benefice could not supply, wherewith to administer to all the pressing wants of the religious poor-poor made religious by the continual private admonitions and instructions of the secluded sisters and brethren. Thus would relief come to the hungry, the naked, and the ignorant, from the proper and natural source-the Church. In conclusion, we have a few remarks to make on a recent ecclesiastical arrangement. The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799, by dissenters chiefly, with a view to send Christian teachers to Africa and other heathen portions of the globe. The establishment of such an institution being considered by churchmen a needless encroachment on the privileges of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in foreign parts,' it received no important support at first from members of the establishment. But at length numbers of the evangelical clergy became subscribers to its funds; and, in 1841, to prevent unkind charges as to an unwillingness to aid a work pious in itself, though not carried on in the way which the Church, whose direction in such matters is of vital importance, prescribes, the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and several of the bishops, consented to join the number of its patrons. As there had long been a struggle between the Missionary Society and the bishops for superiority-the former labouring to plant churches out of catholicity-it was hoped that such condescension on the part of those whose authority had been originally set at nought, would produce at least a respect for their high office in the Church; but on the contrary, a contempt for the apostolical succession, or, in other words, for episcopal supremacy, is observable in all that is connected with the proceedings of united churchmen and dissenters. In a sermon before the Missionary Society, 1842, the Rev. Hugh Stowell thus mis-states the position and objects of the bishop's office. Episcopacy ought not to anticipate, but to follow evangelization. It is not the foundation-stone, but the top-stone of the building. It is when a country or district has been evangelized, that the episcopate (both somewhat irregular terms) comes in to crown and consummate the work. Like the goodly spire which crowns so many of our beautiful national temples, the architect did not first bid the spire soar aloft to the skies, but he reserved it to grace and consolidate the finished structure.' The bishop then is a mere ornament of the church, by Mr. Stowell's showing, since we never heard that the spire was an useful or necessary portion, however beautiful, of the sacred edifice; and it is also clear, by the same allusion (if true), that the Church would be just as much the Church without her prelates. We confess we always considered the first bishops, the apostles, the first founders of churches; and we rejoice that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel thinks so too, by sending out bishops to found the branch churches in our colonies. 1823, Dost Mohammed, usurper; 1839, Shujah-ol-Mulk restored; 1841, murder of the Shah, and anarchy. LIECHTENSTEIN - (Prince), 1836, Alois. LIPPE (Prince), 1820, Leopold. Lippe Schaumburg—(Prince), 1807, George. LUCCA (Duke), 1824, Charles. MECKLENBURG SCHWERIN-(Grand-duke), 1837, Paul Frederick. MECKLENBURG STRELITZ(Grand-duke), 1816, George. MoDENA - (Duke), restored; 1814, Francis IV. NASSAU (Duke), 1839, Adolphus. NETHERLANDS 1815, William I.; 1840, William II. OLDENBURG—(Grand-duke), 1829, Augustus. PERSIA-1834, Mohammed Mirza. POPES-1829, Pius VIII.; 1831, Gregory XVI. PARMA (Duchess), 1814, Maria-Louisa, widow of Napoleon Buonaparte. PORTUGAL-1828, Dom Miguel; 1833, Maria II. da Gloria. PRUSSIA1797, Frederick William III.; 1840, Frederick William IV. REuss-Greiz SOVEREIGNS.-ANHALT DES--(Prince), 1836, Henry XX. RusSAU-(Duke), 1817, Leopold. AN- SIA-1825, Nicolas I. SARDINIA— HALT BERNBURG - (Duke), 1834, | 1831, Charles Albert Amadeus. SAXAlexander. ANHALT Coethen ONY-1836, Frederick II. SAXE(Duke), 1830, Henry. AUSTRIA COBURG-GOTHA~(Duke), 1826, Er1835, Ferdinand I. BADEN-(Grand- nest. SAXE-MEININGEN — (Duke), duke), 1830, Charles-Leopold-Fre- 1821, Bernard. SAXE Altenburg— derick. BAVARIA-1825, Lewis I. (Duke), 1834, Joseph. SAXE-WEIBELGIUM-1831, Leopold I. BRA- MAR(Grand-duke), 1828, Charles ZIL-1831, Pedro II. BURMAH- Frederick. SCHWARZBURG Sonder1837, Tharawadi, usurper. BRUNS- HAUSEN (Prince), 1835, Gunther. WICK-WOLFENBUTTEL-(Duke), 1831, SCHWARZBURG RUDOLSTADT-(Prince), William. CHINA-1820, Taou-kwang. 1814, Frederick-Gunther. Two SiDENMARK 1808, Frederick VI.; CILIES-1830, Ferdinand II. SIKHS 1839, Christiern VIII. EGYPT -1798, Runjeet Singh; 1839, Kur1810, Mehemet Ali, pacha for the ruck Singh; 1840, Nao Nehal Singh ; sultan of Turkey; 1840, appointed 1841, Shere Singh. SPAIN -1833, hereditary pacha. FRANCE-1830, Isabel II. Maria, under the regency Louis-Philippe I. GREECE-1833, of queen Christina, who was supOtho I. HANOVER-1837, ERNEST- planted, 1841, by general Espartero, AUGUSTUS. ELECTORAL HESSE duke of Victory. SWEDEN AND NOR(Elector), 1821, William II. GRAND WAY-1818, Charles XIV., BernaDUCAL HESSE-(Grand-duke), 1830, dotte. TURKEY-1808, Malmud II.; Lewis II. HOHENZOLLERN HECHIN- 1839, Abdul-Medjid. TUSCANY(Prince), 1838, Frederick. (Grand-duke), 1824, Leopold II. SIGMARINGEN WALDECK (Prince), 1813, George. (Prince), 1831, Antony. KAUBUL-WURTTEMBERG-1816, William I. GEN - HOHENZOLLERN GENERAL INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. Abbott, Charles, lord Tenter- den, 461 Abdul Medjid I. of Turkey, Abercromby, Ralph, 184 Acton, the chevalier, 120, 126 622; habits, 699; women, 132 Aikin, John, 209 Ainsworth's Fictions, 556 Alceste, shipwreck of, 233 Algiers, lord Exmouth's siege Ali Pacha, 362 Amelia, princess, death of, 51 489; boundary question American War, second, 54 Amiens, peace of, 32 Brereton, colonel, 401 Brissotines, 96, 204 British Statistics, 559, 560, 561 Buonaparte, Louis, 131 Louis Napo- Burdett, sir Francis, 51, 225, Burgess, Thomas, 456 308; revolution in, 422, Burney Family, 253 Buttermere, Mary of, 222 Cadiz, siege of, 310 Cadouhal, the Chonan chief,62 bage's, 280 Bab- Calendar, New French, 15, 97 Canton, convention of, 509 : Carbonari of Naples, 125 487 INDEX. Chartists, 483, 491 Chenier, 201 Chili, 281 Cherubini, 371 Chimneysweeps' act, 545' Cholera, Asiatic, in England, 400 Chooars of India, 448 Christinos, who, 435 Cirta, the ancient, 493 396 Ciudad Rodrigo, capture of, 45 Clubs, Brunswick, 267 181 Cologne, Clement, archbishop Colonies, British, interests of, Columbia, 281 Comet, the Great, 53; Hal- Cooper, Astley Paston, 369 Arthur, murder of, 725 Constitutions, representa- Contagion and infection, 401 Corn-law acts, 294; amend- Cornwallis Charles, marquis, Davy, sir Humphry, 84, 337 Deemsters of the Isle of Man, Delambre, 212 Desaix, Louis, 187 mas, 373 Diez, Juan Martin, 310 Dogger bank, naval fight of, Domingo, St., revolt of, 33; Dollond, Peter, 211 Douglas, Isle of Man, 285 |