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the further fact, that the members of the Church constitute a vast majority of the whole population of Tasmania, the numbers being :Church of England, 34,811; Scotch Presbyterians, 3729; Roman Catholics, 4492; Wesleyans, 2263; and other denominations, 1929.

Vicar-Apostolic of Van Dieman's Land.-A vicar-apostolic is about to be intruded by Rome into the diocese of Tasmania. A Dr. Wilson has embarked for the colony, accompanied by three missionaries, one of whom is a Trappist. Dr. Wilson intends to assume the title of Bishop of Hobart Town.

TURKEY.

Encroachment of the Russian Church.-The clergy of Moldavia have been induced to break off their connexion with the Patriarch of Constantinople, and to give in their adhesion to the Russian Church. This resolution, to which some of the higher clergy gave their assent but reluctantly, is said to be almost universally disapproved of by the inferior clergy of Moldavia.

Persecution of Christians in Albania.-The Christians in Albania have been subjected to the most inhuman persecutions from their infidel and sanguinary rulers. The Bishop of Scopie has addressed a letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople, imploring his interference with the Turkish Government; but hitherto the efforts of the Turkish troops to reduce the rebellious Albanians to order have been wholly unsuccessful, and the violence of the persecution is increased rather than abated.

Persecution of Christians in Kurdistan.-Another persecution against the Christians has been set on foot by Beder Khan Bey, the most powerful of the Kurdish chiefs. Abdoul Ahad, the aged Primate of Gibel Toor, and patriarch elect of the Jacobite church, has been barbarously murdered on the road between Mediad and Jezirah. Another Bishop, an hundred years old, is said to have been murdered at the same time in another part of the country.

Punishment of Renegades.-The capital punishment hitherto inflicted on Christians who had embraced Islamism, and abjured it again afterwards, has been abolished.

WEST INDIES.

Romanism in the Dutch Settlements.- A public complaint was made at the last synod of the Reformed Church in Holland, of the activity of the Romish missionaries in the island of Curaçoa, where they are endeavouring to get the schools into their power.

INDEX

OF THE

REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE CRITICISMS,

EXTRACTS, AND NOTICES.

Abbey of Croyland, Chronicles of, 423.
Eschylus, the Agamemnon of, 105; its
surpassing excellence, 108; character
of the dramas of schylus, 112; his
philosophy practical, 114; his appa-
rent scepticism, ib.; design of the
Agamemnon, 115, 122; Orientalism
of his illustrations, 117; his peculiar
ethical character, ib.; viewed as a
theologian and a moralist, 118; diffi-
culty of the choruses, ib.; the Orestea,
121; defence of the Areopagus, 121,
142; the chorus, the impersonation of
Eschylus himself, 127; grandeur of
his conception of Cassandra, 134;
character of Clytemnestra, 142; law of
the "Avenger of Blood," ib.
Albania, persecution of the Christians in,

508.

Acre, the fall of, in 1291, its effect upon

the power of the order of the Knights
Templars, 4.

Albans, St., chronicles of the monastery

of, 423; first battle of, 436, 446; second
battle of, 441.

Albigenses, crimes imputed to them, 26;

Act of the Council of Toulouse against
their possessing copies of the Scrip-
tures, 370; statement of Reinerius
Saccho, 385.

Algeria, Protestant congregations there,
486.

Altars, stone ones replaced by wooden
communion tables at the time of the
Reformation, in England, 471.
American Slave States, their tenets re-
specting the inferiority of the African
races, 275.

Anglo-Catholic Church, her present posi-
tion, 478.

VOL. I.-NO. II.

Antiquarian research, important disco-
veries made by, in recent times, 452,
453.
Architecture, ecclesiastical, undue im-
portance given to it of late, 187.
Aristophanes, his excellence as a drama-
tist, 111; his charge against Euri-
pides, 113.

Aristotle, his observations on Tragedy,
108.

Art, the handmaid to Reason, 106.
Asaph (St.), projected union of the see

of with that of Bangor, 46, 50; obser-
vations respecting the diocese, 49.
Athenian life, no privacy in it, 120.
Auricular confession, remarks on, 359.
Australia, imperfectly explored, 302.

Baptism, (Infant,) the rite implies the

early and careful religious education
of the child, 395, 400.

Bede, his arguments for the increase of
the episcopate, 55.

Bedell (Bishop), excellence of his cha-
racter, 80, 96.

Bellemains (Jean aux), archbishop of

Lyons, banishes Waldo, 387; retires
to the monastery of Clairvaux, 388;
his assiduous study of the Psalms,
389.

Benedict XI., his elevation to the ponti-
ficate, 5; poisoned by Philippe-le-
Bel, ib.
Bequests, temptations to invade property
made over by them, 2.

Bible, less read in latter than in the
middle ages, 378-9; singular com-
plaint of Luther, ib.

Bishop, office of, as defined by the

Ll

Canons, 52; familiar relation between
the bishops and their churches, 53.
Bishops holding two sees, origin of the
practice of, 50.

Bishoprics, additional ones, arguments in
favour of, 46, 105; extent to which
the number of bishops should be en-
larged, 90; revenues for the endow-
ment of them, 100.

Boniface VIII., his quarrel with Philippe-
le- Bel, 4; suspicious circumstances
attending his death, 5.

Borromeo, Cardinal, his exemplary life,
80.

Bristol, projected union of the see of,
with that of Llandaff, 46, 47; united
with Gloucester, 48; moral consider-
ations respecting the population of
Bristol, 48.

"Brothers of the Christian Doctrine," 413.
Burnet (Bishop), on the three orders,
182-3; schoolmen, 183.

Butler (Bishop), his doctrine of habits,
341.

Calhoun (Mr.), the representative of the
slave-holding interest in the Southern
States of America, 275; his observa-
tion on slavery, ib.
Cambridge, colleges established there in
the fourteenth century, 34.
Camden Society of London, 415.
Camper's facial angles, 291; fallacy of
his theory, 292; base of the skull,
293.

Canons of the primitive Church respect-

ing bishops, 96.

Canterbury, primacy of, whence derived,
97.

Carlyle (Mr.), on the present condition
of the Church of England, 81.
Catechetical instruction, 180; importance
of it, 400.

Chaldean Christians in Persia, 502.
Chartism and Socialism, their designs and
proceedings, 70.

Children employed in mines, their de-
plorable condition, 66.

Chinese war, early advances of the Chi-
nese in civilization and manufactures,
194; services of the Nemesis in the
war, ib.; her voyage out, 195, 196;
events which led to hostilities, 198,
199; wall of China, 200; surveys of
the Chinese sea, 201; capture of the
Boca Tigris forts, 202; Canton in-
vested, ib.; a truce, 203; ransom of
the city, ib.; Ning-po captured, 204;
severe frost, ib.; capture of Wu-sung,

Shang-hai, and Chin-kiang-fu, 205;
the fleet moves up to Nan-king, 207;
treaty signed, ib.; future prospects,
209; means of acquiring the Chinese
language, 213; facilities for the intro-
duction of Christianity, 215.

Christian population, difficulty of reclaim-
ing a lapsed one, 89.

Chronicle of Jocelin de Brakelonda, 377.
Church, the visible, unity of, 74; rules
by which it has always proceeded in
the founding of sees, 96.

Church of England, her peculiar duties at
the present day, 71, 72; state of, at
the Revolution, 78; the Wesleyan
separation, ib.; inefficiency of Church
discipline, 79; diversities of theologi-
cal opinion, 82; emphatically the
Church of the English people, 84;
adoption of Church principles, 310;
non-interference of the Church in the
Wars of the Roses, 449, 450; recent
attempt to bring about an approxima-
tion between the Church of England
and the Protestant Church of Ger-
many, 145.

Civilization, its tendency to make a people
more difficult of pastoral control, 88;
not identical with Christianity, 89.
Classical literature, importance of, in a

sound system of education, 106, 107.
Clement V., his elevation to the pontifi
cate, 6; his treatment by Philippe-le-
Bel, 6, 7; agrees to the revocation of
the bulls, Clericis laicos, and Unam
sanctam, 7; his proceedings against
the Knights Templars, 15, 16; flees
from Poictiers to Avignon, 18; founds
the schools of Orleans in rivalry of the
university of Paris, 35.

Colleges, era of their rise, 34.
Collieries, condition of the, 66; preva-
lence of Methodism, 67.
Colonial Bishops, 86.

Colonies, the religious condition of the,

45.

Colonna (Egidio), preceptor of Philippe-
le-Bel, 42.

Confession, the duty of, 350.
Confiscation of Ecclesiastical property, its
progress traced, 3.

Confirmation, nature of the rite, 401.
Controversies, religious, advantages at-
tending them, 309.

Corporate bodies, their property less secure
than that of individuals, 1.

Cranmer (Archbishop), on the Power of
the Keys, 182; on the Three Orders,

ib.

Croyland, Abbey of, Chronicles of, 423;
Continuator of, 424.

Dante, Lord John Russell's translation

of the "Francesca da Rimini," 164;
excellence of the original, 165; Hal-
lam's observations on it, ib.; Carlyle's
Lectures on Dante, ib.; difficulty of
translating him, 166. 172; charac-
teristic of his poetry, 167. 179; pas-
sage in Virgil referred to by him in
the "Francesca da Rimini," 176.
Delphin edition of the Classics, character
of it, 107.

Democritus, account of his life and writ-
ings, 456.

Destruction of religious houses, 416.
Diocesan and parochial schools, 392.
Diocese, size of a, to be determined by
its moral extent, 54.

Discipline of the Church, present ineffi-
ciency of it, 79-81.

Dissent, prevalence of in North and
South Wales, 50; general observa-
tions on dissent, 73; the middle classes
the strongholds of, 84.
Disturbances in 1842; observations on
them, 72.

Doctrine, agreement in, mode of effect-
ing, 83.

Dog, the wild, its characteristics, 284.
286.

Domestication, effect of upon the in-
ferior animals, 285.

Dramatic Poetry, importance of cultivat-
ing a taste for it, 110.

Druot, undisturbed in his religious opi-
nions in the midst of Napoleon's staff,

30.

Dunstan (St.) holds the sees of London
and Worcester, 50.

East, the, the hot-bed of heresy, 28.
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, their ap-
pointment and proceedings, 45, 46;
extracts from the reports respecting
the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor,
and Llandaff and Bristol, 46, 47.
Ecclesiastical matters, temper of the
public mind respecting them after the
passing of the Reform Bill, 44.
Edinburgh Review, singular views re-
cently put forward in it respecting the
unity of the Church, 363.
Education, no remedy for the moral de-
basement of the people, 85; the due
education of children must begin with
the reclaiming of their parents, 86;
principles of a sound education, 105;

defeat of the opponents of religious
education, 391.

Edward V., doubts respecting the mode
of his death, 433.

Ellen Middleton, a Tale, by Lady Geor-
giana Fullerton, 336; design and cha-
racter of the novel, 336. 356; defects
of the volume, 360.

English Church, a branch of the Church
Catholic, 317; inward and spiritual
evidences, 320, 321.

English Episcopate, view of the progres-
sive increase of it, 54. 59; arguments
of Bede, 55; relation of, to the cor-
rective discipline of the Church, 78;
office of, with respect to false doctrine,
83; episcopal occupations, ib.; seats
in the House of Lords, 97, 98, 99.
Episcopate, the, essentially the same with
the apostleship, 52; opinion of St. Je-
rome, ib.; the necessity of episcopal
oversight increases with the age of
political states, 88; condition of a
church without a bishop, ib.; duties
of the episcopate, 93; especially to-
wards the clergy, 96.

Fabyan's "Concordance," 428.
Faith, necessity of it, 326.

False wonders of relics worship, at the vil-
lage of Argenteuil, near Paris, 492.
Fathers, value of their writings, 467.
Fear, not Horror, the feeling which it is

the true object of tragedy to excite,
133. 138; its two elements, 134.
Fifteenth century, uncertainty that cha-
racterizes the annals of this country
throughout the greater part of it, 417.
"Fleetwood's Chronicle," 427.
France, number of dioceses in, 64; con-

dition of the Reformed Church there,
460; education question, 491.
Free will, and the responsible agency of
man, 340.

German churches, their present condition,

460; contrast between the national
mind of England and that of Ger-
many, 146.

Gibbon, his dependence upon the testi-
mony of Ammianus, 452.
Gibraltar, Italian visitation of the bishop
of, 497.

Gnosticism, its origin and character, 28.
Greek Church, constitutional recognition
of, 496.

Greek drama, its unrivalled excellence,
110. 138; its connexion with certain
theological, political, philosophical,
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and ethical systems, 113; Euripides
the poet of the sophists, ib.; charges
brought against him by Aristophanes,
ib.; Sophocles commences the work
of corruption in tragedy, 125; fol-
lowed by Euripides, ib.; erroneous
principles upon which modern trans-
lations of the Greek drama have been
executed, 145.

Hallam, Mr., his character of Henry

VIII., 40; his opinion respecting the
Episcopate of the English Church, 68.
Harford's version of the " Agamemnon"
of Eschylus, 115.

"Hearne's Fragment," 427.

Henry VI., death of, 433, 434; the St.

Louis of England, 450.

Henry VIII. and Cromwell, their pro-
ceedings with respect to ecclesiastical
establishments contrasted, 24; Henry's
reign attended with as much misery
and suffering as that of Edward IV.,
39; his character, 40, 41; contrasted
with that of Philippe-le-Bel, 40-42.
Heresy, the East, the hot-bed of, 28.
Hog, the, the same species with the wild
boar, 284.

Holland, Church statistics of, 498.

Holy places, moral result of a visit to, 29.
Homer, the founder of the Greek Neo-
logy, 114.

Hong Kong, Anglican mission at, 491.
Hooker on the faith of baptized infants,
399.

Horse and ass, their offspring a barren
hybrid, 277; wild horse, its charac-
teristics, 284.

Hottentots, the Korah race of, 301; their

treatment, ib.; degenerate into the
bushmen, ib.

Hume, his character as an historian,
452; contrasted with Turner and
Lingard, ib.

Humphry (Duke), death of, 434.

India, extensive progress of the Gospel
there, 499.

Industrial Schools, 407.

Infant training, proper mode of conduct-
ing it, 397, 400.

Iron steam boats, unwarrantable careless-

ness in the construction of some of
them, 195-197.

Isidore, the spurious decretals of, 389.

Jerome (St.), his opinion respecting the
identity of the Episcopate with the
Apostleship, 52, 53.

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Knights Templars, churches in England
which once belonged to them, 1; cir-
cumstances attending the suppression
of the order, 2; number of Frenchmen
connected with it, ib.; proceedings of
Philippe-le-Bel and Edward II. of
England, ib.; its condition at the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century,
4; bravery and misfortunes of Jacques
de Molay, ib.; grounds of the quarrel
with Philippe-le-Bel, 8, 10; conduct
of Clement V., 9, 11; condemnation
of the order, 12: their imprisonment
and the charges against them, 12, 13;
proceedings against them at London
and York, 14; and at the Temple at
Paris, 15; behaviour of de Molay, 16;
the papal commission, 19; register of
its acts, ib.; proceedings against the
order in Ireland, Scotland, Germany,
Spain, Cyprus, and Naples, 19; coun-
cil at Vienne, ib.; the order finally
abolished, 23; the members go over
to the other orders, ib.; fate of de
Molay, 21; the statute de Terris Tem-
plariorum, 23; fate and fortunes of the
Temple of London, ib.; solitary in-
stance of apostasy, 29; tendency to
deism, 29; impotence of the order
against the power of Philippe-le-Bel,
31; countenanced the usurpation of
King John of England, 32; conduct of
the secular clergy, ib.; rise of I Cavalieri
gaudente, 33; proceedings of the Uni-
versity of Paris, 34; secrecy in which
the measures against the Knights
Templars were enveloped, 36; charges
against them, 37; motives by which
Philippe was actuated in suppressing
the order, ib.

Knox (Alexander), his views respecting
the influence of the Church of Eng-
land, 68.

Kohl's Travels in Ireland, 457.

Language, viewed as an instrument of
thought, 109.

Latimer, inveighs against non-preaching
prelates, 53.

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