"Yet, though we may conjecture that the agency of God is, in such regions, withdrawn into narrower limits, or the range of our own powers extended, there are, nevertheless, certain affec: tions and feelings which are quite be. yond our control; tender places, as it were, of the mind, which shrink from the impression of a hand which is not of this world. As in them we cannot easily discover the operation of second causes, so we are here more ready to acknowledge the First Great Cause who has created the soul, and given to it the sensibility to pain." pp. 77-79. It can hardly fail to occur to the reader of this passage, that we have in a great measure passed by the blessing of God through a season of national distress without one act of national humiliation or acknowledgment to the Almighty. This (we seriously think) could not have happened some centuries ago; and the reason of its happening now has been well pointed out by our author. A philosophizing spirit has prevailed amongst us, which, while it has enlarged our acquaintance with second causes, has diminished our sense of dependence upon the First Great Cause of all. In truth, it appears (and it is a humiliating acknowledgment) that our recognition of Providence is limited to those events which we cannot trace to any other origin; as if our knowledge of his ways could make him less our Governor, or as if the extent of our privileges could diminish his claim upou our gratitude. Whatever may be our superiority in the general diffusion or in the progressive advancement either of knowledge or of benevolence, in public acts of piety we have greatly declined from our ancestors; and we shall not think that the passage just quoted has had its fair effect upon our readers, if it does not incite them to pray to the Giver of all grace, that it will please him, in his bountiful goodness, to increase our faith, that we may regard him as the Author of all our blessings, and "in all our troubles put our whole trust and confidence in his mercy, through Jesus Christ, our only Advocate and Redeemer," LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for publication:-A De scriptive Catalogue of the Geological Specimens deposited in the Museum of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, by Dr. J. A. Paris;-The Works of Virgil, partly original, and partly altered from Dryden and Pitt, by Mr. John King;-An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations, by Mr. John Bigland;-A Poem, by the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Drummond, under the title of Odin;-A Key to the Old Testament, or a summary View of its several Books, by the Rev. H. Rutter;-and The Cottager's Companion, intended to instruct the Labouring Poor in the Art of Cottage Gardening, &c.; by Mr. W. Salisbury, of Sloane-street In the press:-Shakspeare and his Times; including the Biography of the Poet, &c., by Dr. Drake ;-The late Dr. Leyden's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa;-History of Whitby, with a statistical survey of the vicinity to the distance of twenty-five miles, by the Rev. George Young;-and (by subscription) The Memoirs of the late Miss Emma Humphries of Frome, Somersetshire; with a Series of Letters to Young Ladies, and to Parents; by T. East. The Board of Agriculture have resolved to give the following among their premiums:-To the person who shall draw up, and produce to the Board, the best Essay on the Means of employ ing the industrious and unoccupied Poor-the gold medal, or one hundred pounds: to be produced on or before the 1st of March, 1818. The Aurora Borealis re-appeared, after an absence of some years, on the 8th of April. Observations were made at London, Derby, Leeds, Paris, and other places. It was stated at the late Warwick Assizes, by the judge who presided on that occasion, that the use of Spring Guns is considered by the most eminent lawyers as illegal. He severely reprobated the cruelty of the practice, alleging that the law never intended to give any man the right of shooting another for so trivial a trespass as the cutting a stick in a hedge. A child who had been dangerously wounded by seventeen pebbles, on such an occasion, while in search of his kite, was the plaintiff, and received 1201. damages. It has been ascertained, by experiment, that Grain which has begun to germinate, if used as seed, will not spring but in the proportion of one half the quantity employed; if strongly germinated, not more than a third; and if fired or moulded, not more than a fifth. In all these cases, the young shoot is feeble and unpromising. Various substances have been recommended in mak ing bread from the flour of germinated or melted grain; particularly magnesia and the alkalis, which, when judiciously employed in small quantities, are found greatly to assist the operation and to improve the bread, without any injurious consequences to the human frame. The introduction of Steam Boats into general use, has received a temporary check, by an unhappy event which lately occurred at Norwich, in an explosion, by which several lives were lost. It ap. pears, however, that the boiler in this case was cast-iron; the valve had been criminally loaded, and the fire too much forced, for the purpose of getting a-head of a rival boat. We trust that the me. lancholy event will have the effect- not of impeding the progress of a useful and important national improvement-but of securing, in future, a more cautious attention to the construction of the machinery, and the prudence of the servants employed in conducting it. Several persons in different parts of the kingdom have lapely remonstrated against the unnecessary cruelty of "pegging" crabs and lobsters; which is done to prevent their injuring one another, or wounding their tormentors. Every purpose is answered by tying the claws instead of pegging them; and in Weymouth, the fishermen have been in, duced to adopt the more humane method, by a general resolution of the respectable inhabitants, not to purchase any fish that are pegged. Indeed, independently of the cruelty of the practice, the fishmongers prefer the mode of tying the claws, as instances frequently occur of lobsters wounded by the peg wasting away under their suf ferings, and mortification of the part often ensues. Thousands die in this manner every year. Eels, lobsters, and other animals, which suffer much in the usual modes of killing or dressing them, might be humanely dispatched in a moment, by merely puncturing the brain with a sharp iron pin, invented for the purpose. It is ascertained, by experiment, that with a proper apparatus one cask of coals will serve to distil six casks of water. A French vessel about to proceed on a voyage of discovery, is to take only water sufficient for a fortnight; and, instead of the remainder, coals, which will be but a sixth part of the tonnage. This distilled water is perfectly as good as fresh water that has been a fortnight on board. Islands, as well as the high state of civilization and scientific skill to which the natives had arrived at very remote periods of history. Sculpture have been recently brought from Java, consisting of figues of Siva, Ganesa, Durga, Buddha, &c. They evidence the extensive diffusion of the Hindu Mythology in the Eastern LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THEOLOGY. The Advantages of Solitude: a Sermon preached at Salter's-hall Meetinghouse, by the late Rev. Hugh Worthington, April 20, 1777; never before pub. lished. 1s. 6d. A Second Lay-Sermon; by S. T. Coleridge. 8vo. 5s. A new Volume of Sermons; by Bishop Horsley. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation, considered and maintained on the Principles of Judaism; by the Rev. J. Oxlee. 2 vols. 8vo. Female Scripture Biography; by F. A. Cox, A.M. 2 vols. 8vo. 24s. Sermons, on various subjects; by the late W. Bell, D.D., prebendary of Westminster. 7s. 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Germanicus, Tragédie en cinq Actes et en Vers, par A. V. Arnault. 8vo. 3s. A Translation of the above in Blank Verse; by George Bernel. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A Description of the Pictures in the Royal Museum at the Louvre, with Biographical Notices of the different Painters: to which is added, a Description of the Museum of Sculpture, in the Lower Gallery. 18mo. 3s. Major Barnes's Tour through St. He lena. 12mo. 5s. Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay; by Lieut, Edward Chappell, R.N. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. FROM an account laid on the table of the House of Commons of the number and value of books printed within the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which have been furnished to booksellers for sale, during the last seven years, it appears that there were sold, in Bibles. Testam. Com. Pr. 1810, 42,288 63,984 47,889 1811, 37,292 62,045 41,951 1812, 50,611 79,408 74,622 1813, 67,585 50,344 67,809 1814, 60,816 62,167 69,445 1815, 66,388 64,229 88,233 1816, 65,183 81,109 94,004 PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY On Thursday, the 8th of May, this Society's Fifth Anniversary Sermon was preached, at Christ Church, Newgate-street, by the Rev. R. P. Beachcroft, Rector of Blunham, Bedfordshire. The Annual General Meeting was afterwards held at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street; the Right Hon. Lord Gambier in the chair. The Report stated, that select portions of the Liturgy translated into the Bullom language, by the Rev. G. R. Nyländer, had been printed at the Society's expense; that the Compendium of the Book of Common Prayer, translated into Hindoostanee, by the Rev. D. Corrie, was in the press; that an octavo edition of the Book of Homilies, with copious Indexes, had just been completed; that during the past year 8,891 Prayer-books, 1062 Psalters, more than 88,000 Homily Tracts, and 1071 copies of the Articles of the Church of England in the same form, had been issued from the Society's Depository; that Prayer-books had been sold at two-thirds of the cost-price among the soldiery both at home and abroad; 1500 Homily Tracts had been distributed among the poor in Spitalfields, besides other donations both of Prayer-books and Tracts, for the use of scholars in Sunday Schools, and convicts on their voyage to New South Wales. An anonymous donation of 6001. was acknowledged; and many valuable names had been added to the list of subscribers. In the course of the proceedings of the day, Mr. Thady Conely from Ire-. land stated, with great simplicity and effect, the advantage he had derived, under the Divine blessing, from the Book of Common Prayer translated by Bishop Bedell into his native tongue. The Rev. Mr. Hans and the Rev. George Hamilton expressed their earnest hope, that, in its exertions for the benefit of other countries, the Society would not forget the interests of Ireland. In this sentiment we cordially concur, and we trust that it will become an early object of the Society's attention to furnish the Irish with an edition of the Liturgy in their own language and character. The Rev. Mr. Richmond, the Rev. Mr. Beachcroft, the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, the Rev. Mr. Burn, Mr. Babington, and several other gentlemen took a part in the proceedings of the day, and strongly enforced the claims of the Society to the cordial support of the members of the Church of England. Some highly interesting facts were detailed, to shew the benefits arising from its institution, and from the increased attention which it had excited among the lower classes, to the Homilies, Articles, and Liturgy of the Church, and to the venerated examples of those illustrious martyrs and confessors who had framed them. It was noticed as one, and that not the least, beneficial result of the formation of this Society, that the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge had been induced first to place the entire Book of Homilies in its catalogue, and subsequently to adopt the plan of circulating the separate Homilies as tracts. Considering the wide extent to which their diffusion will thus be secured, had no other effect than this followed the institution of the Prayer-book and Homily Society, we should have said that it had answered a most important purpose. Our views, however, are now carried far beyond the circle of our own islands, and are extended to the very ends of the earth. Measures have already been taken for putting our Liturgy into the hands of the Christian converts in Africa and Hindoostan; and we cannot but indulge the delightful hope that wherever the zeal of the Missionary Societies belonging to the Church of England shall carry the knowledge of a crucified Saviour, there the faith of the converts will be directed by the scriptural instruetions of our Articles and Homilies, and their devotion cherished and animated by the divine strains of our liturgical services. It was well remarked by Mr. Cunningham, that in the recent efforts which have been made to disturb the public peace, by exciting the people to tumult and insurrection, the barriers to their designs which our domestic enemies found it most important to remove were the formularies of the Church of England. Sedition despaired of her cause while these remained. To bring these into contempt by blasphemous parodies, and thus to alienate the minds of the people from the lessons and prayers of their ancestors, formed a main hope of the disaffected. But this very circumstance, as the same gentleman justly observed, ought to give fresh vigour to our exertions in favour of the Society. We ought to meet the exigency by increased activity, and resist the enemy with the very weapons of which he has shewn himself to be most afraid. CHURCH-OF-ENGLAND TRACT SOCIETY. The Fifth Annual Meeting of this useful Institution was held in Bristol on the 30th December, 1816; the Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Gloucester in the chair. At the preceding anniversary the funds of the Society had been declared very inadequate to its intended objects; but in consequence of an earnest appeal to public liberality, they had been considerably increased during the year, so that the Society had been enabled to prosecute its benevolent views to a greater extent than at the commencement of that period there appeared any reason to expect. The total receipts for 1816, including 2001. by sale of tracts, amounted to 6531. 16s.; the expenditure was 6657. 19s. 10d. The Bishops of Gloucester and St. David's had sanctioned the Society by their pa tronage: twenty-three tracts had been re-printed, and seven new ones added to the list; each edition, both of the new tracts and the reprints, consisting of ten thousand copies. The total number of Tracts printed in the course of the year was two hundred and seventy-five thousand. The new tracts are as follows: No. XLIV. The History of the worthy Martyr of God, the Rev. John Nicolson, better known by the Name of John Lambert, who was burnt in Smithfield in the Year 1538.-12 pages. No. XLV. A short History of the State of the Church in England, from the first Introduction of Christianity, to the Establishment of the blessed Reformation, under Queen Elizabeth.36 pages. No. XLVI. A Clergyman's Address to his Parishioners.-4 pages. No. XLVII. A Clergyman's second Address to his Parishioners.-4 pages. No. XLVIII. An Address to those who wish to attend upon the Worship of Almighty God with devout Reverence, and to their spiritual Advantage.—4 pages. No. XLIX. The Life of the Rev. William Tyndall, the Translator of the Bible, called the Apostle of England, at the Time of the Reformation, who was burnt at Antwerp in the Year 1536.--12 pages. L. The Parochial Minister's Affec tionate Address to a newly-married Couple.-12 pages. These, together with the preceding Numbers, as far back as No. 30, will |