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.
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.
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.
REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE CRITICISMS,
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,
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.
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
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-
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,
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,
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,
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, L12
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.
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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