The case of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly seems to have been brought to light, and submitted to the consideration of Europe at this juncture, to mark in fearful characters the utter disregard of right principle, the selfishness, treachery, and cruel inhumanity that prevail in the high places of the land. Every step taken in this investigation, tends to sink the British government into some lower depth of debasement not merely this or that man, but the whole system as now tacitly adopted, and handed over with the insignia and emoluments of office, from whig to tory, from destructive to conservative, as a matter of course. Amid the tumult of feelings that the perusal of this gallant, noble-minded soldier's most characteristic narrative must excite in any mind, that which makes the most deep and melancholy impression, is the inevitable conviction that England's glory has departed; that while every day brings new proof of her glaring unfaithfulness to God, even the code of national honour in which she made her proudest boast among men, is a despised, forgotten thing. We cannot enter at large on the subject; but of this we are sure, that Captain Grover's volume will rouse every latent spark of right English feeling, even in the bosoms of those who look no higher than this world's fair standard of right and wrong, honourable and base; while to those who weigh every thing in the balances of the sanctuary, the result must be an acquiescence in the coming judgments of the Most High, "Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord?"

The tone of this extraordinary book, which already has created a great sensation, is frank, bold, and fearless it is the language, it conveys the very look of high honour and vivacity; of unbounded generosity;

and of an ardent devotedness in friendship, very rare in this cold selfish age of grovelling expediency. It also bespeaks the accomplished scholar, and the finished gentleman, in whom the polish that adorns does not conceal a single grain of the fine old English oak, of which his character is composed. It is the ebullition of a mind that cannot understand rascality, and hence such a flow of impetuous, honest indignation, that we must needs allow ourselves to be borne along on the current.

Dr. Wolff is, thanks be to God, returned in safety; and his own journal will shortly be before the public. Captain Grover does not anticipate what he has to relate; but his work is really a necessary preface to the other. Our readers will draw their own conclusions from it, as to the fate of our cruelly betrayed and abandoned envoys; our impression is the same as ever, that they are still alive, and within the reach of British aid, if that aid was tendered on British authority, and with the menace of British power to enforce it. That they were alive at the time when Captain Grover vainly attempted to move the government on their behalf, is proved; and, taken altogether, we must regard this as the most flagrantly disgraceful case in reference to the nation, the most touchingly honourable to two individuals, Captain Grover and Dr. Wolff, that ever in the course of our life came under our observation.

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND, from 1688 to the present time. With Appendix. By the Rev. D. T. K. Drummond, B.A. Oxon. Minister of St. Thomas' Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh. Seeleys.

"BEFORE honour cometh humility, and a haughty spirit before a fall." If the bishops of the episcopal church in Scotland had pondered this text a little more thoughtfully, it might have served as a check upon the inordinate craving for despotic power, which has ended in an exposure of their groundless pretensions, less agreeable to them than salutary in its tendency. Mr. Drummond bore with admirable meekness and quietness the persecution to which he was subjected at the hands of bishop Terrot,; but when it came to cursing and excommunicating one brother in the ministry and in the faith, by bishop Skinner, and the commencement of similarly tyrannical proceedings against another by bishop Russell, with the well-understood fact that the whole conclave, or synod of this very peculiar church was well agreed in the principle, and prepared to follow out the practice against all episcopally-ordained ministers north of the Tweed, who should decline to wear a yoke which their fathers threw off three centuries since, then it was time to see about a quo warranto, so far as the examination of testimony went; and we are mistaken if it does not furnish employment for the Scotch prelates for some time to come, to make good their claims against the facts adduced in evidence by Mr. Drummond: we are mistaken if they ever do succeed in disproving that the very acts on which they ΜΑΥ, 1845.

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ground their assumption of authority were passed, not in favour of their non-juring predecessors, but of the predecessors of the very men whom they have ventured to treat as schismatics.

It is a melancholy spectacle; but those who cause divisions must be marked, reproved, and put to shame.

THE MOTHER'S PRACTICAL GUIDE in the physical, intellectual, and moral training of her Children : with an additional Chapter on the Claims and Responsibilities of Step-mothers. By Mrs. J. Bakewell, Author of The Lord's Prayer Explained.' Conversation Cards," &c. &c. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Snow.

WE are not aware of having seen either of the preceding editions of this truly valuable work. That it should have reached a third impression is matter of thankfulness: for, most assuredly, the children of a mother who conscientiously follows the counsel of this 'guide,' will have cause to bless the day when it was placed in her hands. Commencing with some necessary cautions and injunctions, applicable to a period preceding the appearance of the little stranger, this truly judicious writer has furnished the mother a manual, from which we cannot perceive that a single important point is omitted. Not alone physical, moral, and intellectual, but spiritual things are discussed in their proper order; and the admirable good sense pervading the whole treatise, must carry conviction to every mind, of the author's eminent fitness for the office that she has been led to assume, that of a guide to young mothers.

Infant education is far better cared for, and carried on now among the very poorest classes, than in the homes of the affluent. Many a parent, by subscribing her guinea to an Infant School, does that for the ragged offspring of the hovel which nobody, and least of all herself, thinks of doing for the prisoners of her own nursery, left as they are to the hired services of strangers, who, probably, care neither for their bodies nor their souls. A book like this, placed in the hands of a wealthy, fashionable matron, might open to her alarmed eye a scene of criminal neglect on her part, sufficient not only to startle, but to draw her within the sphere of her despised duties. To such as desire to fulfil those sacred duties, and only lack an intelligent guide, the volume will be equally welcome as invaluable.

CHILLON; or Protestants of the sixteenth Century. An Historical Tale. By Jane Louisa Willyams. In two vols. Hatchards.

We were struck by the extreme asperity with which some of our reviewing contemporaries have attacked the 'bigotry' and 'harshness' and 'uncharitableness' of Miss Willyams' work. She has merely spoken the historical truth, as regards the cruel persecution and prolonged imprisonment of Bonnevard at the hands of his papal enemies, and given a few touches from the life, of the accustomed doings of Rome's partizans in that, as indeed in every other age when they had temporal power to wield the scourge of ecclesiastical cruelty. Indeed, we are rather tempted to complain that the