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ually comprehended and clearly set forth by the Authoress, may well command a circulation for her modest book, a thick pamphlet only, but beautifully printed, among the youthful students and admirers of that language. We are greatly interested in the work, and very earnestly desire to be the means of extending its sale. It is what its title page implies, a fair exhibition of the Christian faith professed by Protestants; and which it is ardently to be desired they all possessed likewise. Our friends will gratify themselves, and materially serve a sister in that holy faith by promoting the sale of the volume.

RHODA, or the Excellence of Charity. By the Author of "the Cottage on the Common," &c.— Grant and Griffiths.

A NICE little tale for little girls under ten years old; shewing what true charity is, according to the pattern set forth in 1 Cor. xiii.

SHORT AND SIMPLE PRAYERS, with hymns for the use of Children: by the Author of "Mamma's Bible Stories."-Grant and Griffiths.

VERY unexceptionable, and well adapted to help the child, in the important exercise of prayer. We would remark, however, that caution must be used in giving a child the form of prayer "for one who has lost a mother." There are not very many mothers

concerning whom a little child could truly speak in the terms there employed; and one of the deadliest snares of Popery and other erring systems, consists in supplying language that is not strictly true, for the lips of the suppliant to utter.

THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST, otherwise the Man of Sin, for High treason against the Son of God. Tried at the Sessions house of truth, &c, &c, &c. By the Rev. W. Gregory. Third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged, with copious notes and an appendix. By a Clergyman of the Church of Ireland.-Hardy, Dublin: Groombridge, London.

MANY who would not read a grave dissertation on the leading errors of Popery will find their attention completely arrested by this lively device; and they may be led to as safe and sound a conclusion too, as by another route. We should say that for servants and young lads, among other classes, it is exceedingly well adapted. The original made a great noise some years ago, and roused many to examine the matter in this edition the condemnatory evidence is brought down to our own day.

"PEACE UPON ISRAEL." Eight affectionate addresses to the children of Israel on the three Great Feasts of the Lord. The Passover, the Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. By W. G. Rhind.— Bagsters.

THESE addresses are affectionate; they are also brief and to the point, which is to shew the typical bearing of these divine ordinances upon the manifestation of the Son of God, as the true sacrifice for sinthe sin of the world. Mr. Rhind rightly judges that the full consummation of the Feast of Tabernacles is still future. The addresses, originally printed on cards, are now collected into an elegant neat tract in stiff covers.

The Tract Society have published "The Apprentice," a most useful pocket friend to a young man entering into business; and "The Lime tree of Linden," a sweet little book, containing a lively notice of Luther and the Reformation, in the compass of a few small pages.

THE PROTESTANT.

'IT is singular,' said my uncle, as he turned over a fragment of a Newspaper in which some small article appeared to have been wrapped: it is singular and sad, and a bitter reproach upon us all; yet it sets in a clear, unmistakeable point of view the whole infernal machinery by which the great enemy is quietly but effectively working our destruction. Here is no date to this fragment; but I perfectly recollect the event to have taken place within a few weeks, and under the circumstances described. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort visited the exhibition of works of art, in Westminster Hall, about a week before it was opened to the public: here are the details of that visit, and with the following paragraph the article ends :

"Upon the departure of the Queen, a perfect rush of members of the House of Commons took place at the doors; it having been arranged that the members of both Houses of Parliament should be admitted during the remainder of the afternoon. At three o'clock a large number entered the hall. From the hour above quoted until seven o'clock the hall was literally crowded with members; and, as a proof of the interest manifested by the senators of the country' in the exhibition, it may be mentioned that, at six o'clock, just at the period when a division was expected upon the Dissenter's Chapels Bill in the

House of Commons, so few members were present that messengers were immediately despatched to the hall to request the attendance of a large number, when about 100 slowly and with apparent reluctance withdrew from the hall to the performance of their legislative functions." Do you remember having

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Yes; I read it at the time, with shame and indignation, as I do most things connected with the recent proceedings of the two Houses; but I confess that it wears on repetition an aspect of deeper criminality than at the first reading. Uncle, how can these men answer to God and to their country for so fearful a dereliction of sworn duty-for the heartless betrayal of a responsibility so solemn, when matters directly touching the Divine honour and glory were being legislated upon?'

As stewards of an important trust, they must account to Him to whom every knee shall bow; but as regards the country, by which I presume you mean their constituencies, may we not ask how they will answer for the guilt-it is no less—of choosing a body of representatives of whom the great mass may be men utterly devoid of sound religious principle, for aught they know some of whom are notoriously so, and others open opposers of the truth as it is in Jesus. That a Popish constituency should avail themselves of their power to select a Papist is not to be wondered at, neither are they to be blamed for it but that a majority of electors being Protestants, comprising perhaps the bulk of the clergy resident among them, and men whose dearest temporal interests are bound up in the preservation of our institutions that such should give their suffrages without

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