his powerful mediation with the barbarous Ameer. If he gains the imperial ear, and is allowed to plead in his own manly way, the cause of his friend, we shall entertain an expectation of success; but alas for that cause, if he falls in with the diplomatic machinery that works in all governments, more or less, as a wall of separation between monarchs and the free exercise of their highest and noblest prerogatives! Our only safe appeal is to the King of kings; and to Him the voice of faith never appealed in vain.

Since the foregoing was written, another communication has been received by Lady Georgiana Wolff from her dear husband, which, though still involved in some perplexity, awakens a strong hope that he was about to obtain deliverance. It affords farther encouragement to pray earnestly, as for one whom the Lord yet reserves to pursue his appointed work : while it still leaves us under exciting solicitude for his safety. He had received presents and the proImise of an escort out of the dominions of the barbarian king: but his audience of leave had not yet been granted: and the fetter of a capricious tyrant was still in fact around him. We await with intense anxiety the next communications.

EXTRACT FROM THE REVIEW OF

SEWELL'S CHRISTIAN MORALS

IN THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

(A Periodical of very superior character.)

'IT must have been observed that writers of the Tractarian, or Puseyite, or British Critic school, are driving hard to bring things to the issue, which the system of the Church of Rome has always been anxious to press the issue, namely, which perils and commits all upon the alternative of implicit submission to clerical dominion, or an entire renunciation of revealed truth. It is an attempt to raise the old cry of the Church against the philosophers. Certainly Tractarianism was born or hatched in the lucky hour. Taking advantage of the rebound, in the spirit of the age, from liberalism in politics, and still more from what, in morals, gave popularity to Paley, and in religion turned the preachers of the cross, into "the apes of Epictetus," as Bishop Horsley characterizes them-this new modification of anglocatholicism hit upon the propitious time for shewing a more excellent way. The previous generation was impatient of mystery, and would have all things plain; the present is to a large extent a convert to the opinion that "there are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy;" and that the infinite, with which it is man's glory to

be conversant, is not so easily gauged in all directions as was once thought, by ingenious systematizers and plausible theorists.-The hour was

come, and the men.'

'It was all the more so, because a revival of Evangelical feeling had previously taken place, which it might use as its precursor while gradually insinuating itself into its place. A work was in progress, among all classes, even the highest, of a spiritual and heavenly character, which the enemy could counteract only by simulating and mimicking it, or by diverting it into a side channel. He must work on this occasion in his character of "spiritual wickedness in high places." Spiritual truth must be met by spiritual error, and accordingly it is not a little lamentable to observe how, in a large portion of the community, the Evangelical revival seems to have done nothing more, than create a certain discontent with old secularity, and a taste for something spiritual and new, such as Tractarian earnestness can meet and satisfy, without the same demand of personal conversion, and the same sense of personal responsibility, which the Evangelical doctrine of the cross and the Spirit of Christ so unsparingly enforces.'

THE SYRIAN MISSION.

MANY enquiries have been addressed to us on the subject treated of in the following letter; and as we doubt not that the parties referred to can satisfactorily answer our correspondent's queries, we insert this as a summary of all the rest. Individually we know nothing more of the mission than that it is under the direction of some whose names and characters we know to be an ample guarantee alike for their judgment and fidelity in this and in every other good work, and our pages are open to any reply that they may wish to give.

As to the "Orthodox Greek Church," we know but of one Greek church, between which and Romish Popery there is as little to choose, in a scriptural point of view, as there was between the heathen mythological systems of ancient Rome and Greece, identical as they were. On this point we trust our correspondent is mis-informed.

MADAM,

I have to request from you, or one of your correspondents, information on a subject which has lately been pressed upon our notice, but which, from our great ignorance of its nature and tendencies, has excited among us very opposite opinions. Assaad the Syrian has lately appeared in the West of England as the deputation from a society styled in

its printed bills, "Church of England Society for promoting Christian education in Syria." The very guarded nature of this title suggested various questions—what is its object! is it to send out Church of England ministers as instructors-is it to establish schools where the pure truths of Christianity were taught? we could not tell, but of course Assaad was expected to inform us in his addresses at the two meetings did he inform us? He gave us interesting illustrations of Scripture-amused us by personal anecdotes of himself-tickled our ears by his foreign accent and address-our eyes by his handsome person and national costume, and obtained the object for which he came-a collection. But of the intentions and efforts of the Society he told us scarcely anything we could but just understand that our aid was demanded for the Greek and not for the English Church in Syria. But of that church he told us nothing-of its darkness, its corruptions, its false doctrines, nothing,—of the means the Society were using to enlighten it, nothing, or at least nothing definite. We knew indeed that there were young Syrians educating in England on sound Scriptural principles, with the intention of returning to their native land-we knew that there were some sort of schools in Syria to be assisted in some sort of way; but as to any definite information, we were left to acquire that as best we might, and the extent of our ignorance may be estimated by the fact, that after meetings were over and Assaad gone, those who were dissatisfied with his statements or rather with his silence, had nothing but their ignorance ou which to rest their doubts, and those who were satisfied had nothing to urge against those doubts, but the well