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These, we may presume, want no information; but, to such as anticipate the investiture of this enviable badge, a knowledge of the rules will be essentially valuable.

28. A Sermon preached at Hull, Nov. 1831, on the Unknown Tongues, by R. M. Beverley, Esq., (Westley, London,) begins by furnishing scriptural tests, by which we are directed to try the spirits which at times appear in the church. To these tests the unknown tongues are summoned, and the result is, they are "weighed in the balance, and found wanting." But it is useless to animadvert on what neither speakers nor hearers ever pretend to understand.

29. Sermons for Children, (Religious Tract Society, London,) contain wholesome and important truths, delivered in plain and familiar language. Affectionate exhortation is the leading characteristic; and this is so prominent, that it is calculated to captivate the youthful mind, to infuse into it right principles, and to inculcate practical godliness.

30. The Etymological Spelling-book and Expositor; being an Introduction to the Spelling, Pronunciation, and Derivation, of the Language, &c., by Henry Butler, (Simpkin, London,) can hardly fail to be very useful in schools, and to all young persons. It unites, on a small scale, the joint properties of a spelling-book and dictionary; in which, syllable, accent, and meaning, are so combined, as to give extensive information at a single glance.

31. The Champion of Cyrus, a Drama, in Five Acts, by Luke Booker, LL.D. F.R.S.L. &c., (Simpkin, London,) is introduced with some well-written prefatory observations. The characters in the drama are well sustained, but the plot is not intricate, and few momentous events burst upon us unexpectedly. It nevertheless has numerous incidents which are at all times interesting, and the reader's attention is always kept on the alert, until the final catastrophe. It is a composition of considerable merit, but one, we conceive, that is better suited for the closet than the stage.

32. Legends and Stories of Ireland, by Samuel Lover, R.H.A., (Baldwin, London,) are founded on Irish character and manners, of which the island furnishes an almost inexhaustible source. Numerous publications of a similar nature are already before the public; but to an industrious gleaner, the field is still prolific in rich supplies. This volume contains seventeen stories, some of which are of the most wild and romantic description, and all must be traced to their origin in that unlettered

barbarism, which rarely fails to give birth to miracles, fairies, ghosts, and monsters. To such as delight in "legendary lore," this will be found an entertaining volume. It contains several humorous etchings, by the same author. These are highly grotesque, and every way suitable to the legends which they are intended to illustrate.

33. A Charge addressed to the Rev. James Reid Brown, in the Scots Church, Swallow-street, London, Nov. 1831, by Robert Burns, D. D. F. S. A., (Douglas, London,) appears before us only in outline. A short advertisement states, that, during its delivery, notes were taken of the leading topics by Mr. John Leslie, one of the congregation, and that from these notes the present pamphlet emanates. Of this charge, enough has been preserved to place the ministers of the gospel in a state of awful responsibility, and to convince them that their duties are both numerous and important. Mr. Burns ranges through an ample field, like a traveller well acquainted with its capabilities, and directs his ministerial pupil how to cultivate the soil, to root out the weeds, to sow and cherish the sacred seed, and prepare an immortal crop for an eternal harvest. Mr. Leslie has followed him with commendable industry and success, and engages to devote the produce of his little publication to purposes of Christian benevolence.

34. The Substance of a Sermon, by J. Peacock, London, (Wightman, London,) is earnest, energetic, and scriptural, enforcing the doctrine of its text, "that now it is high time to awake out of sleep."

35. Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, in Nov. 1831, by the Rev. Chas. Simeon, M.A., (Holdsworth & Co., London,) will obtain a strong recommendation to public notice from the well-known author's name. Mr. Simeon has long stood at the head of the evangelical ecclesiastics in the university, of which he is one of the brightest ornaments, on which account every production of his pen is always received with serious expectation, that is rarely disappointed. These discourses are on the offices of the Holy Spirit in the conversion of sinners. To this he ascribes a divine efficiency which no agency can supersede, and for which nothing can become a substitute. His language is energetic and affectionate; the authority of scripture supports his arguments, and no one can doubt the legitimacy of his positions, who admits the great truths of gospel revelation.

36. A Sermon preached Nov. 6, 1831, at the St. Pancras Parochial Chapel,

London, by the Rev. William Harness, A.M., (Longman, London,) glances in no disguised terms at the gift of tongues claimed by certain individuals in a neighbouring Scotch church. Of these strange pretensions, it furnishes a just exposure, and leaves their votaries in a pitiable condition. With all besides those who labour under the delusion, its argumentation and reasoning will be duly appreciated; but it will appeal in vain to a tribunal over which neither the dictates of reason, nor the sancions of revelation, preside.

MISSIONARY COMMUNICATIONS.

THROUGH hosts of impediments, from evils occurrent, and the opposition of ungodly men, the friends of the Hebrew nation persevere in their efforts to induce the descendants of Abraham to embrace the truths of the gospel, and hail Jesus of Nazareth, whom their fathers crucified, as their true Messiah. Hitherto, althongh they have much to mourn over, from untoward disciples, and men who were once washed from their filthiness, but have returned to the beggarly elements of this present world, and become gainsayers, they have to rejoice, on beholding many of their children walking in the truth.

The Hebrew institution at Camden Town contains a band of Hebrews, who, for the most part, appear to be earnestly seeking the Lord of life, and to feel a holy brotherhood each with each, and with those who are placed over them, knowing that they care for their souls. To bebold these sons of Abraham, who erewhile were vagabondizing from village to village, and from town to town, engaged in a nefarious traffic for their daily bread, seated in the industrious exercise of a manufacture, by which they will in due time be enabled to provide things honest in the sight of all men; and engaged, both morning and evening, in reading the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, comparing them with each other, and in holy conversation, with prayer and thanksgiving, exhorting each other to know and hold fast the truth as it is in Jesus Christ, is an exhilarating spectacle to those who feel an interest in their welfare, and who remember the awful blasphemies which erewhile proceeded from their lips.

The Hebrew Institution in Hackney Road, contains Jews who have put on the Lord Jesus Christ, both inwardly, we hope, by the Holy Ghost, as well as outwardly, by an open profession of, and baptism in, His name. Previously to the establish

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ment of this institution, they had no asylum from the wrath of their offended Jewish brethren who, enraged at what they deemed their apostacy, persecuted them incessantly, and by every means sought their overthrow and destruction. Without the means of support, and without the knowledge of any trade by which they could honestly obtain it, their situation was pitiable in the extreme, being cast upon the wide world, bereft of every relative, every friend, and all the means by which they formerly existed; for all these departed like a shadow, the moment it was known that they had embraced Christianity.

On being gathered together from all quarters, these baptized Hebrews, within the walls of this institution, enjoy peace and rest; and the comforts with which they are surrounded, the instruction they receive, the holy conversation in which they join, and the supplications to the God of all grace, which are duly offered up for themselves, and all their outcast brethren, cheer their souls. The opening prospects of procuring a decent livelihood in the exercise of that industry to which they are for the first time becoming accustomed, and of worshipping God according to their own consciences, also rear up their hearts in grateful aspirations to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath, by His providence and grace, called them out of darkness into marvellous light, and placed their feet in the paths of peace.

Since the departure of those turbulent spirits which introduced anarchy in a charity where harmony ought to reign alone, these institutions have peace within their walls, and unanimity amongst their conductors; and such is become the spirit of inquiry in the Hebrew community, that applications for admission are perpetually made, in such numbers, that the inmates might be multiplied fourfold at any time. But the difficulties attendant on procuring sufficient funds to meet the current demands necessary for the support of these, and all other large establishments, arrest the good which would otherwise flow to this long-afflicted, yet chosen nation.

On Sunday morning, February 5th, the Rev. H. Revell, eldest son of H. Revell, Esq. of Burton Crescent, London, and of Round Oak, Surrey, at the early age of 32 years, left this vale of tears, for a brighter world, to be for ever, we doubt not, with the Lord. His death was awfully sudden. In assisting the Rev. T. J. Judkin, minister of Somer's Church, St. Pancras, where the inmates of the Hebrew institution in Camden Town regularly attend Divine service,

on Sundays, the Rev. H. Revell became acquainted with these Israelites, and, as a christian minister, volunteered his services to them in their new abode. Often have his ardent lectures, and his feeling exhortations, warmed the souls of both Jews and Gentiles, during his repeated visits; and

Whitecross-street Prison.-In a petition about to be presented to parliament, on the subject of imprisonment for debt, it is stated, that, out of 3500 persons annually discharged from this place of confinement, 1500 are for debts varying from five pence to amounts under forty shillings! The above petition has been drawn up by Mr. James Wright, now immured in this prison for debts contracted by his patriotic endeavours to promote the welfare of friendly societies.

Widows' Fund Anniversary. - The Rev. Eustace Carey, late of Calcutta, is expected to preach the annual sermon for the relief of the necessitous widows

long will they be remembered with grati- and children of protestant dissenting ministers, on

tude and affection by all who heard him. His zealous solicitude for the redemption of Israel from their long and awful night of bondage and tribulation, was manifested on all occasions; and the deep regret of all concerned in their welfare, with due submission to Divine Providence, on this sudden bereavement of the little flock, of a minister, who was borne away in the zenith of his useful career, while the promise of long and extensive usefulness bloomed upon his brow, was proportionate to their affection for him.

During nearly the whole of Saturday, February 4th, the Rev. H. Revell, exercised himself in his favourite work of mercy, visiting and relieving the poor and the afflicted, in the Somers-Town district of St. Pancras parish, according to his accustomed benevolence, and in the evening he delivered a most solemn lecture, to the inmates and others, in the Hebrew institution, Camden Town. His impressive manner, while he dwelt upon that passage, "The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" will be long remembered by all who heard him. About ten in the evening he reached his habitation, and almost immediately retired to rest, being greatly exhausted by the labours of the day. Not issuing from his room at his accustomed hour on Sunday morning, his servant became alarmed, entered his chamber, and found him in the bed a corpse. "Blessed are the dead which

die in the Lord: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."

W. COLDWELL.

King Square, February, 1832.

GLEANINGS.

Sunday schools in Great Britain.-There are at least one million and a quarter of scholars belonging to Sundayschools in the united kingdom; and, taking the population at twenty-one millions, that will give one child to Sunday-schools out of every seventeen persons of the population. The average expense in conducting a Sunday-school, of two hundred children, is about 51. per annum for lessons and books, if purchased at the Sunday School Union Depository, and about 157. per annum for rent; the chief part of which sums are, in most cases, contributed by the teachers themselves, in addition to their gratuitous labour. So that the children can be instructed in the Sunday-school for two shillings per annum.

Wednesday, the 11th of April next, at the Rev. J. E. Giles's, Salter's-hall chapel, Cannon-street. Service to begin at twelve o'clock at noon, precisely.

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Emancipation of Crown Slaves. In the house of commons, August 17th, Mr. Burke asked the noble under secretary for the colonies, whether government had taken proper measures for the regulation and maintenauce of the crown slaves who had been emancipated in the West India islands? Lord Howick said, that government had not issued orders for the emanci pation of the crown slaves, until they had taken all necessary precautions to guard against unfortunate consequences. It was, however, gratifying to find that these precautions were unnecessary. He had received a despatch from the governor of Antigua, which stated, that, during the five months which had elapsed since the emancipation of the crown slaves, they had been employed industriously in providing for their own support, and that, although the number was 371, no case of crime had occurred amongst them, nor were there any complaints of poverty.' Here, then, we have irrefragable proof, that large numbers of slaves, who have undergone no previous preparation, may be liberated at once, without detriment either to the public or themselves. After this, it is to be hoped, the Codrington trustees will no longer persist in believing, that, to enfranchise their tradesmen, at once, would be followed by "more suffering and crime than have ever yet been witnessed under the most galling bondage.' If, to make the assurance doubly sure, they should wish, before they liberate their 300 captives, to take the same precautions which government took before they emancipated the 371 crown slaves in Antigua, no doubt Lord Howick would be most happy to inform them what those precautions were, though, in the event, they proved unnecessary. It is hardly to be supposed, that the negroes, under the care of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, are in a more unprepared state for the enjoyment of freedom, than were the negroes who were held to belong to the crown. If, therefore, the latter could be safely and beneficially put in possession of the rights they had too long been robbed of, no reasonable man will say that any injurious consequences could be apprehended from the society's doing the same act of justice to the unhappy beings, whom, by the law of the strongest, they have held, from the hour of their birth to this very day, in miserable bondage. Does this society think that the non-enslavement of the new-born infant also, must be followed by "more suffering and crime than have ever yet been witnessed under the most galling bondage." Are they not afraid that their conduct will be construed, by other slave holders, into a direct sanction of that most iniquitous principle, that human beings, reduced to a state of slavery by acknowledged fraud and violence, may yet be retained in bondage.

Attorneys and Solicitors.-What is the real history of the change which has so recently taken place, in regard to these two titles and designations? We have now, in reality, no country attorneys, they are all solicitors; and, in calling themselves so, they seem to forget their origin. The following is a pretty true account of the office and profession:-" In the time of our Saxon ancestors, the freemen in every shire met twice a year, under the, presidency of the shirereeve, or sheriff, and this meeting was called the sheriff's torn. By degrees, the freemen declined giving their personal attendance, and a freeman who did attend, carried with him the proxies of such of his friends as could not appear. He who actually went to the sheriff's torn, was said, according to the old Saxon, to go at the torn, and hence came the word attorney, which signified one that went to the torn for others, carrying with him a power to act or vote for those who employed him." I do not conceive that the attorney has any right to call himself a solicitor, but where he has business in a court of equity.Heraldic Anomalies.

Magnificent Oak Tree.-Recently was felled, near Ludlow, in Shropshire, a noble oak, the produce of which was 39 tons of timber, 55 cords of wood, 200 park pales, and five cords of brackets. A bough, broken off before the tree was cut down, which weighed seven tons and a half. Three men were employed a month in stacking it. The whole tree was valued at 1651,

The Rich and the Poor.-In the churchyard of Clackmannan, there is a tombstone, with the initials C. G. engraved upon it. From the inscription, now nearly obliterated, it appears, that the poor man interred there went one day to the castle to ask charity. The haughty lord of the mansion happened to be at an open window, and, hearing the supplicant's petition, called out to him," Gae to hell! you shall na come in here." "To hell!" said the poor man, " I need na go there; I have just come from that!" "Ay," said the chief," what's doing there?" "Why, my lord, they are playing the same game there as here they are taking in the rich, and holding out the poor." This smart reply cost the poor man his life; the tyrant of the castle caused him to be tortured to death.

Stilton Cheese.-Although Leicestershire has acquired no national fame, like Cheshire and Gloucestershire, for the excellence of its cheese, it stands, nevertheless, both as respects its superior quality and high price, the first in the kingdom-perhaps in the world. Many of its best dairies invariably fetch equal prices with the higher qualities of those districts. This only puts it on an equality. But it is in this county that the true English parmesan, called Stilton cheese, was first made, and continues to be a standard article of production. This far-famed delicacy is to be found at the tables of the highest ranks; and, when of the best quality and in the highest state of perfection, independent of its exquisite relish, it probably contains the greatest concentration of nutriment of any artificial preparation of food. The secret of its make was for some time confined to the family of the original inventors, who were under an engagement to sell all they could make to the famous Cooper Thornhill, of Stilton ; and, being thus to be obtained of him only, it received the appellation of Stilton cheese, when it ought to have been named Withcote cheese, being first made in that small village, on the eastern side of the county bordering upon Rutlandshire, and about thirty miles from Stilton.Curtis's Topographical History of Leicestershire.

Marking Ink.-Marking ink may be made of the following ingredients-Sulphur of manganese, 1 oz. ; distilled water, 1 oz.; powdered sugar, 2 oz.; lamp black, drm. Those substances are to be blended into a paste. It may be used as printer's ink. When dry, the mark is to be washed in a solution of caustic, or pure potash; and, after being again dried, the part is washed in plain water.

Island of Borneo.-A Mr. Dalton has published, in the Singapore Chronicle, a portion of his journal of a tour up the Coti river, on the east coast of Borneo, six hundred miles from its fall into the sea. Major Mullen and his party were murdered here, and no other European is known to have penetrated thus far. The sultan of Coti, who was at Marpow, sent for Mr. Dalton, and, much against the wish of his Bugis friends at Tongarron, the capital of Coti, he placed himself under the guidance and protection of Saib Abdullah, the Bandarre, and proceeded to Marpow, in company with him. His description of the journey opens new and beautiful scenes, in a country hitherto unknown, and shut to European eyes. At Marpow, he made a fictitious but excusable contract with the rajah, to supply him with money and goods from Singapore, by which alone he saved his life, and obtained permission to leave the country.

Legend of St. George and the Dragon.-Gibbon says, that St. George was no other than the Bishop of Cap. padocia, a personage of very unecclesiastical habits, and expresses some degree of surprise that such a person should ever have been sanctified in the calendar. But the whole story of this deliverance of the princess of Egypt, is an allegory of the sufferings of the church, which is typified as the daughter of Egypt, driven into the wilderness, and exposed to destruction by the dragon, the ancient emblem over all the East, of imperial power. The Bishop of Cappadocia manfully withstood the attempts of the emperor, and ultimately succeeded in procuring an imperial recognition of the church in Egypt. We have adverted to this, merely to show the devices in which the legends of the church were sometimes embodied; and the illuminated missales, even the mass-books, in the early stages of printing, abundantly prove and illustrate the opinions expressed.-Note to Gall's Life of Byron.

Extraordinary Potato Root.-A single root of potatoes was, a short time since, dug up in the ground occupied by Mr. Richard Wilson, Leyland Moss, to which were attached no fewer than two hundred and sixty potatoes! Large roots, as well as large crops, of this vegetable, have this year been common in that district; but the above exceeds any to which our attention has yet been called.

Cost Price of a Peer-We understand that the fees at the Herald's Office, and other necessary expences attending the creation of a new peer, amount to 6002.

Goods and Chattels.-The following is copied from the Antigua Weekly Register of June 7- For sale, by John Page, on accommodation terms, a rich set of pearls, &c. Also a good family horse, and substantial gig and harness. On hand, various articles of furniture, glass and crockery ware, saddle and draught horses, gigs, negroes, &c."-First pearls, next furniture, then horses and gigs, and, finally, human beings, among the numerous et ceteras that scarcely deserve naming! Take another specimen :-" Kingston, July 13, 1831. Wanted, old copper, which will be purchased in small quantities, or otherwise. And, for sale, a young negro man, an excellent baker and cook; and his mother, an excellent washerwoman. They will be sold separately or together.-N. B. A trial will be given, if required."

Adulteration of Wines.-Wines are adulterated with bitter almonds, or leaves of cherry laurel, in order to impart to them a nutty flavour; with sweet-briar, orrice-root, clary and cherry-laurel water, and elderflowers, to give a high flavour; with alum, to render young and meagre wines bright; with cake of pressed elderberries and bilberries, to render faint-coloured port pale; with red sumach, to colour white wines red; with oak sawdust, or sloes, or husks of filberts, to give astringency to unripe wines; with tincture of raisin-seeds, to flavour factitious port; and with a variety of spices, to render wine pungent-From a chapter on Adulterations of Alimentary Matter," in Dr. Ryan's Manual of Medical Jurisprudence.

Test of Coffee.-Persons desirous of knowing whether coffee is pure, or whether succory has been mixed with it, will find the following an infallible test :--"Let a small glass vessel be filled with cold water, and a pinch of the coffee thrown into it. If the water remain transparent, and be not in the slightest degree discoloured, the coffee is pure; but should the liquid become tinged with red, and red particles fall to the bottom, as in the case of sugar, when being dissolved in water, it is a sure proof that the coffee has been adulterated with succory." "-Journal des Connaissances Usuelles.

Capture of a Slave Ship.-The British man-of-war, Druid, lately captured, near Bahia, a slave schooner, with fifty-eight slaves. They had nearly finished searching her, when by chance an officer put his sword into the bung-hole of one of the water tubs, and was answered by a cry from within. The cask was opened, and out crept three Coast of Mina blacks.Globe.

Arrival of Captured Slaves at Sierra Leone.-The Portuguese and Spaniards impress on the minds of the slaves, that the English are anxious to destroy them; in consequence of which, the poor creatures are, just after capture, much dejected; but, as they are generally immediately released from their confinement, and every possible attention paid to them, they soon become cheerful, and, although totally unacquainted with one another's language, shortly become familiarized by signs or motions; and, when anchored in Freetown harbour, awaiting their adjudication, their countrymen located in the colony visit them; and, from being acquainted with their approaching delivery, they indulge in merriment and pleasure. Should there be any disease among the slaves on board the ships, they are landed as soon as the necessary legal forms are gone through. Many of these poor creatures arrive in such a deplorable state, from want and disease, that it is difficult to preserve their lives. It is really shocking to humanity, to see a cargo of children arrive, sometimes mere skeletons, in a complete state of exhaustion. The small-pox and measles often break out on board the slave vessels, as well as the ophthalmia. Slaves are purchased from the natives, on an average, for about four pounds each, and are paid for in gunpowder, arms, tobacco, ardent spirits, &c. Those taken in the latitude of Sierra Leone, might reach Fernandez Po in fifteen or twenty days.- Major Ricketts.

Singular Advancements in Life.-The Roman emperor, C. Julius Emilianus, was a Moorish slave. Aurelian, the emperor of Rome, was the son of a poor peasant. Pope Alexander the Fifth was a common beggar in the Isle of Candia. Pope Adrian the Fourth was a poor English monk.

Animal Reduction.-The jockeys of Newmarket, and other race-courses, waste themselves, to be reduced to the standard of weight prescribed: this is effected by being half-buried in a dung-heap! The injury inflicted on the constitution is terrible; it is an act of suicide : they may, indeed, not know what they are doing, but their masters ought to know better.

The Solitary Mariner.-A bottle has been picked up on the coast of Jutland, containing a letter, in Danish, to the following effect." Lost, the whole of the crew, carried off by cholera, except myself, Nicholas Pederson, second midshipman of the ship Henrietta Dorothea, of Borgen, (Norway,) the 7th of August, 1831."

Natural Curiosity.-There is, in the garden of Mr. Sharples, of Horwich, a wasp's nest in a gooseberry tree. It is in the shape of a balloon, and has the appearance, at a distance, of being covered with cloth. There is a sentinel wasp constantly on duty at the entrance of the nest, which betrays uneasiness at the approach of intruders; there are three or four other wasps generally on the top of the nest, which regularly take their turn as watchmen. Hundreds of persons have called upon Mr. Sharples to inspect this curiosity. Capacity of Blacks. The editor of the Liberia Herald, of West Africa, a newspaper edited by a negro, and circulating in a colony of free blacks, in an article intended to refute the opinion that the negroes are inferior in point of intellect to the white races, cites a number of instances of celebrated black men who have distinguished themselves, notwithstanding every disadvantage. Among others, Hannibal, an African, who rose to the rank of lieutenantgeneral, under Peter the Great of Russia. His son, a mulatto, was also a lieutenant-general in the Russian

of artillery. Francis Williams, a black, born in Jamaica, was educated in the University of Cambridge; after his return to Jamaica, he taught Latin and the mathematics. Anthony Williams Amo, born at Guinea, took the degree of Doctor in Philosophy at the University of Wittenburg, and distinguished himself in metaphysics: he was also skilled in the learned languages. Job Ben Solomon, son of the Mahometan king of Banda, was taken, in 1730, and sold in Maryland; he found his way to England, and became acquainted with Sir Hans Sloane, for whom he translated Arabic manuscripts. James Eliza John Capitein, an African, was carried as a slave to Holland, where he acquired several learned languages, and took degrees in theology at the University of Leyden: he was sent out as a Calvinistic minister to Guinea. Ignatius Sancho, who distinguished himself as a literary character in England, died in 1780. Thos. Fuller, an African, although unable to read or write, performed difficult arithmetical calculations with amazing facility. Balinda, after being a slave for forty years in Massachusetts, addressed, in 1782, an eloquent petition to the legislator of that state, for the freedom of herself and daughter. The petition has been preserved in one of the volumes of the American Museum. Othello, published, in 1784, at Baltimore, an eloquent essay against the slavery of Africans. Cesar, a black, of North Carolina, wrote several popular pieces of poetry. The newspaper from which we make the extract, is itself an instance of the intellectual capacity of the race. It is conducted with great gentleness, and with a spirit of benevolence which certain of our journals would do well to imitate.-Preston Chronicle.

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A Modern Pilgrim.-The "Memorial Artesien" gives us the following description of a pilgrim, at present traversing Europe as a punishment for his sins. walks on bare feet, is clothed in a brown robe and inner garment, and wears on his head an old hat with broad brim, and in his hand carries a long staff. His hairs are white; and his gray beard at least six inches in length. He styles himself a pilgrim, and declares that he is bound by a vow to travel through the world. He comes, it is said, from Rome, and is going to St. Jago di Compostella; but being unable to proceed through Bayonne to Spain, he is going to England for the purpose. This is certainly not the shortest way; and there are some who think that religion is not the real motive which actuates this man. Whoever he be, it is difficult to believe that he is a secret agent, for his language is not above that of common beggars. His name is Anthony Keichenger. born at Albonne, Moselle, and his age is about 70.

Literary Notices. Just Published.

Part XXXV. of the National Portrait Gallery :The Likenesses here presented, are those of Earl Grey de Howick, the prime minister; Admiral Alan Gardner; and Lord Chief Justice Kenyou.

Part XIII. of Baines's Lancashire.

Part VIII. of Life and Times of William the Fourth.

No. II. of Sunday Scholar's Repository, 18mo. No. I. of the Nautical Magazine, to be continued monthly.

The Mind, and other Poems. By Charles Swain. Illustrations of the Vaudois, in a series of Views. Engraved by Finden.

The Shakspearian Dictionary, forming a general Index to the most striking passages in the works of Shakspeare.

The eighth Report of the committee for the Improvement of Prison Discipline.

Speeches on the Punishment of Death, in the House of Commons.

The Georgian Era, in 4 vols. vol. I.

Essay on the Rights of the Hindoo over Ancestral Property. By Rajah-Rammohun Roy.

Moral Fables. By Ingram Cobbin, M. A.

The Voice of Humanity, No. 7.

The History and Topography of the United States of North America, Parts 26 to 30.

The Druid, a Tragedy. By T. Cromwell.

The Phenomena of Nature, familiarly explained. From the German.

History of the Jews in all Ages.

Lardner's Cyclopedia, Vol. XXVII. Italian Republics.

Christian Directions, showing how to walk with God. By T. Gouge.

The Bow in Strength, or the History of Joseph. By Charles Larom, Sheffield.

The Writer's and Student's Assistant, or Compendious Dictionary of English Synonyms.

Herbert's Country Parson, Church Porch, &c.
A Catechism of Phrenology.

The Watchword of the Reformers. By the Rev. F. Sanders, M. A.: from the German.

The Plague and Fire of London. By the Rev. John Scott, M. A.

Sacred Poetry. By a Layman.

A Dictionary of the most important Names, Objects and Terms found in the Holy Scriptures. By Howard Malcom, A. M.

A Treatise on the Authority, Ends, and Observance of the Christian Sabbath. By Duncan Macfarlan. An Outline of English history. By H. Ince. The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Iialy. By Thomas Keightley.

The Classical English Vocabulary. By Ingram Cobbin, A. M.

Portable Sudatory Bath. By M. La Beaume. The Child's Commentator on the Holy Scriptures. By Ingram Cobbin, M. A.

Saturday Evening. By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm.

M. A.

Elements of Astronomy. By W. Brett, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Tales and Conversations for Children of all Ages. By Mrs. Markham, author of History of England. 2 Vols. 12mo.

Ten Sermons upon the Nature and Effects of Faith, delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin. By the Rev. James Thomas O'Brien, Fellow, T.C.D. 1 Vol. 8vo.

Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library, Vol. IX. (Memoirs of the Duke of Wellington, Vol. II.) Small 8vo.

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan d'Acunha, an Island centrically situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. By Augustus Earl, Draughtsman to his Majesty's Discovery Ship" the Beagle." Illustrated with Engravings.

Illustrations of the Christian Faith and Christian Virtues; drawn from the Bible. By M. S. Haynes,

Author of "Scenes and Thoughts," &c.
The New Bath Guide, in a series of Poetical
Epistles. By Christopher Anstey, Esq. With Preface
and Annotations. By J. Britton, F.S.A.

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Letter of Inquiries to the Rev. John Scott, on his Sermon entitled, "Reformation not Subversion." By Ebenezer Morley.

A Treatise on the Internal Regulations of Friendly Societies. By J. Wright. Second edition.

An Attempt to render the Art of Short-hand Writing easy to be acquired. By J. Wells.

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