THE RELIGIOUS ANNIVERSARIES OF THE PAST TWO MONTHS IN THIS METROPOLIS have been too numerous to allow of very specific reference to any. The impression which we have received from them is grave, not gloomy certainly, yet far from being sanguine. All our religious communities are passing through trials for which it is well if they are prepared. The grand impulse represented by the word methodism in its largest application-seems well-nigh spent ; and the organizations it produced are waiting for new life. There is now more independent thought, and there are more numerous centres of action than formerly; and it has become increasingly difficult to secure for any object the cooperation of a united body. As in general politics, so in ecclesiastical movements, men are inevitably drawn into new combinations. While, for example, the bulk of nonconformists agree with their fellow-protestants in opposing the encroachments of papal power-without limiting the freedom of the Roman-catholic, or any other church in the exercise of its religious faith and worship-others of them, not less earnest in their protestantism, decline to join the general outcry against popery as inconsistent with the claims of civil and religious liberty. We have never aspired to dictate to our readers. Our review is not the organ of a party. On this, as on other questions, it expresses the judgment of independent writers who do not always think alike, and it is supported in several quarters for this particular reason. Arguments and expressions are culled from our pages by parties who, on the one hand, represent us as enemies of religious liberty; or, on the other, as discouraging the true protestant spirit. These conflicting animadversions appear to us to nullify each other. A deep love of freedom renders us implacable in our hostility to the political despotism called popery, while our convictions respecting the kingdom of Christ are sternly opposed to the intermeddling of the state in its affairs. As Christians, we are protestants; as protestants, we are dissenters from the Church of England; as dissenters, we are for the separation of the church from the state. We profess no superior skill in determining exactly the relative importance of these successive developments of our one great principle: our aim is to avow it in all its applications plainly, consistently, seasonably, with all the respect for those who differ from us which comports with the dignity and sacredness of a religious belief.

We have here adverted, however, to only one of the many questions now pressing on serious men. The entire atmosphere of Christian thought and association is undergoing a most important change. A generation has come on the great field of life on whom devolves the delicate taskmore difficult, probably, than at any former time-of blending reverence of the past with aspiration towards the future. The grand truths, not only of science and morals, but of revelation, are now viewed under aspects not familiar to our fathers. The institutions of religion, as well as of general society, are judged of by new tests. Amid the whirlpool of theories generated by the intellectual activity of our age, we are surrounded by fears and by hopes which we believe to be equally groundless. In such a state of incertitude and collision, we turn with not unnatural solicitude to the position of our British churches. We witness the divisions of the Anglican Church, the disruption of the Scottish Establishment, the contests of the Wesleyan Society, the am

bitious struggles of the Roman priesthood; we may say that we feel the ground-swell which agitates the most vital portions of the congregational bodies. We cannot mistake the apprehensions so frequently expressed and cheered at the late meetings, of a possible failure in our Nonconformist theology. Assuredly we stand much in need of men who will preach the ancient gospel in the practical spirit, and with the enlightened energy of our times, giving a bold and manly exhibition of the whole truth as a message from God, without the speculative refinements, whether old or new, which, however fascinating to the philosopher, are a grand impertinence in the preacher:-speaking freely to the people as the ministers not of churches, but of Christ. By the labours of such men, God would put new life into society, the truth would meet the wants, and gain the confidence of thousands of working men whom the pastors of churches do not generally reach, and a tide of living impulses, now dormant, would mingle with the great waves of human progress, carrying the gospel through the land, and through the British empire, with a steadiness and a power which cannot be acquired, as we believe, in any other way.

Literary Intelligence.

Just Published.

The Witnesses in Sackcloth; or, a Descriptive Account of the Attack made upon the Reformed Churches of France in the Seventeenth Century By a Descendant of a Refugee.

Analytical Physics; or Trinology. A new Theory of Physical Science. By Robert Forfar.

Political Elements; or, the Progress of Modern Legislation. By Joseph Moseley, Esq., B.C.L.

Catherine Sinclair; or, the Adventures of a Domestic in Search of a Good Mistress. By a Servant of Servants.

Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane, of Airthrey, and of his brother James Alexander Haldane. By Alexander Haldane, Esq.

No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, as unfolded in the 8th Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. By Octavius Winslow, D.D.

On Mundane Moral Government, demonstrating its Analogy with the Systein of Material Government. By Thomas Doubleday.

A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics. By George Cornewall Lewis, Esq. 2 vols.

The Doctrine of the Manifestations of the Son of God under the Economy of the Old Testament. By the late George Balderston Kidd, of Scarborough, Edited by Orlando J. Dobbin, LL.D., M.R.I.A.

The Emphatic New Testament, according to the Authorized Version, com→ pared with the various readings of the Vatican Manuscript.

The Four Gospels, edited with an Introductory Essay on Greek Emphasis. By John Taylor.

Memoir of Daniel Chamier, Minister of the Reformed Church. With Notices of his Descendants.

African Wanderings; or, an Expedition from Sennaar to Taka, Basu, and Beni Amer. With a Particular Glance at the Races of Bellad Sudan. By Ferdinand Herne. Translated from the German by J. R. Johnston.

The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers, &c. &c. Part V. The Pictorial Family Bible. By John Kitto, D.D. Parts XXII., XXIII. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By William Hazlitt. Second Edition. Revised by his Son. Vol. I.

Every-Day Astronomy; or, Practical Lessons on the Celestial Sphere. By Berenice Gazewell.

A Manual of Universal History, on the Basis of Ethnography. By J. B. Wright.

Narrative of a Residence in Siam. By Frederick Arthur Neale.

The Autobiography of William Jerdan. Vol. I.

Michaud's History of the Crusades. Translated from the French by W. Robson. Vol. II.

Museum of Practical Geology and Geological Survey. Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts. Vol. I. Part I. Inaugural and Introductory Lectures to the Courses for the Session 1851-2. The Foreign Evangelical Review. No. I.

Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository. April, 1852.

Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, in 1851. Being the Third Series of the Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of the European People. By Samuel Laing, Esq.

The History of the Later Puritans, from the Opening of the Civil War in 1642 to the Ejection of the Nonconforming clergy in 1662. By J. B. Marsder, M. A.

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition in the years 1850-51. By Lieut. Sherard Osborn, Commanding H.M.S. Vessel 'Pioneer.'

Statements of Facts Connected with the Expulsion of Three Students from New College, London. By Robert M. Theobald, A.M., one of the Expelled. Account of the Public Prison of Valencia. With Observations. By Capt. Maconochie, R.N., K.H.

A Guide to English Composition on 120 Subjects, Analysed and Illustrated from Analogy, History, and the Writings of Celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors. To Teach the Art of Argumentation, and the Development of Thought. By the Rev. Dr. Brewer.

The Penny; A Blessing or a Curse. An Essay Treated Proverbially. Female Scripture Biography. Preceded by an Essay on what Christianity has done for Woman. By F. A. Cox, D.D. and LL.D.

Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform. Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review,' Corrected, Vindicated, Enlarged in Notes and Appendices. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. Irish Popular Superstitions. By W. R. Wilde.

The Fraternal Memorial: A Memoir of the Rev. Wm. Fernie, late Pastor of the Church assembling in Zion Chapel, Frome, Somerset. By Rev. John Fernie.

China; During the War and since the Peace. By Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., F.R.S. 2 vols.

The Eclipse of Faith; or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic.

The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir. Edited by Thomas Aird. With a Memoir of the Author. 2 vols.

The Glory of Christ, Illustrated in His Character and History and in the Last Things in His Mediatorial Government. By Gardiner Spring, D.D. The Tagus and the Tiber; or, Notes of Travel in Portugal, Spain and Italy, in 1850-51. By William Edward Baxter. 2 vols.

The Analysis of Sentences Explained and Systemized after the Plan of Becker's German Grammar.' By J. D. Morell, A.M.

The Lost Steamer: A History of the Amazon.

Leila Ada, the Jewish Convert. An Authentic Memoir. By Osborn W. Trenery Heighway.

The Natural History of Animals. Being the Substance of Three Courses of Lectures delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By Thomas Rymer Jones, F.R.S. Vol. 2.

Nuns and Nunneries. Sketches compiled entirely from Romish Authorities. The Messenger of Mercy; or, Words of Warning Addressed to the Guilty. The Pilgrim's Progress. With Forty Illustrations by David Scott. Parts IX.-XIV.

Religion in its Relation to Commerce and the Ordinary Avocations of Life. A Course of Lectures delivered in Jewin-street Chapel in the City of London. The Republic of Plato. Translated into English. With an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By John Llewelyn Davies, M.A., and David James Vaughan, M.A.

The Future Human Kingdom of Christ; or, Man's Heaven to be this Earth. A Solution of the Calvinistic and other Chief Difficulties in Theology, by Distinguishing the Saved Nations from the Glorified Saints. By Rev. D. J. Heath, M.A.

A Lecture on the Historic Evidence of the Authorship and Transmission of the Books of the New Testament. Delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, October 14, 1851. By S. P. Tregelles, LL.D.

Reminiscences and Reflections of an Old Operative.

Voices of the Dead. By Rev. John Cumming, D.D.

The Millennial Kingdom. Being Lectures Delivered during Lent, 1852, at St. George's, Bloomsbury. By Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England. With a Preface, by Rev. W. R. Freemantle, M.A.

Castle-Deloraine; or, the Ruined Peer. By Maria Priscilla Smith. 3

vols.

Notes and Reflections on the Epistle to the Hebrews. By Arthur Pridham. The Gospel according to St. Luke. Translated from the Original Greek, and Illustrated by Extracts from the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. By the late Rev. J. Clowes, M.A. Second Edition.

The Origin and Progress of Book-Keeping.

By B. F. Foster.

Our Chapel Debts. A Contribution towards Wesleyan Economical Reform. By Wm. Kelk.

A Letter to a Friend on Certain Misrepresentations of Scripture Language. Religious Progress and Lectures on the Lord's Prayer. By William R. Williams, D.D.

New Translation, Exposition, and Chronological Arrangement of the Book of Psalms. With Critical Notes on the Hebrew Text. By Benjamin Weiss. The Pastors in the Wilderness. A History of the Huguenots from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the Death of Louis XIV. By N. Peyral. 3 vols.

The Days of Bruce. A Story from Scottish History. By Grace Aguilar. The University of London a Parliamentary Constituency. By Charles James Foster, M.A., LL.D.

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VOL. III. NEW SERIES,