gined; and the whole is well conceived, and ably executed, furnishing clear evidence of a perfect familiarity with the best classical models. There are many other poems of merit in the volume. We would especially notice that on "the workhouse chapel," and on "Avon woods," as showing poetical power of a high class. We may add, that the tone throughout is all that could be wished.

XXIV. A Brief Argument for reviving in the Church and Realm of England the Ancient Synodal Action, &c. PEILE, D.D., &c. London: J. W. Parker.

By T. W.

THE learned author of this publication is well known to the public by his elaborate Commentary on the Epistles. The view here taken grounds the admission of Laity to the Synods on Scriptural precedent, and obviates the danger of disputed elections by vesting the nomination in Episcopal hands—a most important practical suggestion, and well worthy of attention.

MISCELLANEOUS.

AMONGST the publications which now lie before us, and which we are at present prevented from noticing by want of space, but to which we hope to return hereafter, are" Christ in Hades," by W. W. Lord; "Medwin's Sermons ;" "Syriac and Chaldee Reading Lessons;" "A Reply to Phases of Faith," by Walther; Bishop Pearson's "Lectures on the Acts;" "Rural Thoughts, by Whiting; Stapf's "Spirit of Education;"" Babylon and Jerusalem; 66 Songs of the Bells;" Laurence's "Services for the Sick;""The Exiled Soul;" De Teissier on "The Lord's Supper;" "Lives of certain Fathers of the Church;" "Allerton and Dreux;" "The Crystal Palace;" "Miller's Sermons ;" "The Three Paths," by Anderson; "The Turf;" "The Road," by Nimrod, and other Volumes of "Murray's Readings for the Rail;" "Lowell's Poetical Works;" Forbes on "The Christian Sacrifice;" Pickering's "Christian Classics;" "Gift at Confirmation;" "Caswell's American Church ;" "Home is Home;' "Pigott's Patriarch of the Nile;" "England before the Norman Conquest;""State of Man subsequent to Christianity;" "Bellis's Sermons ;* "Lilias Davenant;' "Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter;" "Twice Told Tales," and other Volumes of "Routledge's Popular Library;" "Penrose's Sermons ;" "Elements of Christian Science," by Adams; "Cavendish's Life of Wolsey;" 66 Wilkinson's Sermons," &c. &c.

Foreign and Colonial Intelligence.

EUROPE.

FRANCE. The ceremony of the installation of the President recently took place in the Church of Notre Dame.

The honours paid to a king anointed on the day of coronation are scarcely greater than those which attended Louis Napoleon on this occasion. A solemn "Te Deum was performed in every Cathedral Church of France; the blessing of Heaven was invoked upon the country, and upon the man who has been appointed to sway its destinies for the term of ten years. The service concluded with the "Domine Salvam," thus worded:- -"Domine, Salvam fac Rempublicam -salvum fac Napoleonem, et exaudi nos in die quâ invocaverimus."

The "coup d'œil" presented on entering the Cathedral of Notre Dame was very fine. The pillars of the great nave, adorned with purple-coloured banners, sprinkled with stars of gold; the velvet draperies and enormous garlands of foliage and flowers, which covered and fell from the galleries; the richly-decorated flags, carrying the arms and names of the chief cities of the empire; the columns of the sanctuary, covered from base to capital with silk brocade of crimson and gold; the altar in the choir, with its rich and gaudy ornaments; the benches for the authorities and the constituted bodies; and the galleries on either side crowded with persons; the orchestra of 500 musicians, vocal and instrumental, disposed in the galleries at the extremity of the choir, and the principal feature of all, the lofty dais, with hangings of crimson and gold, doubled with white, surmounting the "estrade," which faced the altar, and supported the "siege d'honneur,' whereon sat Louis Napoleon with his "prie Dieu," the Archbishop of Paris (who officiated in the service) to his right, and the attendant Bishops to his left.

The President arrived exactly at noon, and the orchestra performed, while he entered the cathedral, and took his place, the march and "Vivat in æternum," by Lesueur. The "Te Deum," which Lesueur composed for the battle of Austerlitz, and which was afterwards performed in celebration of the taking of Algiers, displayed the strength and number of the musicians to the highest advantage. The hymn to St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris, and the offertory, which followed the "Sanctus" of M. Adam, and the "Domine Salvam,” which terminated the ceremony in a highly effective manner, were executed to perfection.

The 66 Patrie states the cost of the ceremony at Notre Dame at 190,000 francs.

M. Lacordaire, Superior of the Dominican Order in France, has been ordered to quit Paris, in consequence of some expressions in a sermon preached by him in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

The "Univers" contains a long letter from the Irish Roman Catholic Primate Paul Cullen, returning thanks for the contribution of 137. to the Catholic Association for resisting Anglican proselytism.

A chapter is to be created for the service of the Church of St. Geneviève, late Pantheon.

ITALY. Accounts from Rome state that the Austrian Government has just offered to the Pontifical Government such great facilities for the creation of a Roman army, that that measure may now be considered as definitively decided on. The following is the plan on which this matter will be carried out:-All the existing corps will be disbanded and remodelled; two regiments of a foreign legion will be recruited for out of the country. Austria lends the town of Como as the centre of formation for this force; each of these regiments will be 2500 strong. These 5000 men will none of them be Italians, and, as far as can be, Swiss, Austrian, and Bavarian. Baden will also furnish its contingent. Two Roman or Italian regiments, each of 3500 men, will be formed from the remnants of the regiment of guards and other troops, which were in course of organization. The gendarmerie will be carried up to a strength of 5000 men, 4000 of whom are already enrolled; a battalion of foot chasseurs of from 1200 to 1500 strong, a regiment of dragoons, and one or two brigades of artillery, will complete this force of 20,000 men. The 5000 gendarmes, the 5000 Swiss and Germans, and the battalion of chasseurs commanded by M. Aldeon-Polomba, an officer devoted to the Holy See, will form an effective force which will insure the fidelity of the two native regiments, and will permit the Pontifical Government to protect itself with its own troops. The formation and the support of this army will entail fresh charges on the Treasury.

The Pope has issued a decree giving his sanction and benediction to an expansion of the "Association for prayers for the conversion of England," which is henceforward to embrace all who are separated from "the Church."

A petition is in course of signature among the British residents at Rome, addressed to the Cardinal Secretary of State, for permission to build a Protestant Church within the walls, the necessary funds being ready.

The following facts are comprised in recent communications from Florence. The Grand Duke of Tuscany continues to persecute Protestant Christians. One of these being very ill, was lately attended by two of his friends. The physician Gallori, a follower of the priests and of the police, instead of apprising the family of the state of the sick man, as was his simple duty, in order that his various social and religious duties might be attended to, seeing that the poor invalid did not ask for a confessor, because he said that he had peace in the faith and in the promises of his Saviour, himself called in the priest, who imme

diately hastened to perform his part; and forthwith asked the sick man if he believed in the Pope. "No; but I believe in Jesus Christ." An animated discussion followed this beginning, and the sick man, who quoted many texts of Scripture in opposition to the nonsense and temptations of the man, became so tired, and his illness so aggravated, that his friend who was attending on him, and who up to that moment had been silent in a corner of the room, conceived that he was bound in charity to rise, and he said, "My friend, you have spoken well, but now it is enough." Upon this the priest, looking angrily at the speaker, took his hat, and ran to the Prefettura in order to vent his rage. Thirty gendarmes went to arrest the two attendants upon their friend, and the sick man himself is watched by one of the gendarmes at his side, who allows no one to enter the room but the wife and the brother. The priests went successively with extraordinary preparations for administering the communion; they took care to keep away at that moment even the above-mentioned persons of the family in order that they might not have witnesses. But the continued abiding of one of the gendarmes, sufficiently shows that the sick man has not been wanting in faith. The two new prisoners are tranquil in spirit, because they know that "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake." This happened on the 2nd of January, 1852.

GERMANY.-A Lutheran minister, named Eichhorn, in Baden, having attempted to revive the strict old Lutheranism, which has been supplanted throughout the greater part of Germany by the "Union" Church, a compromise between Lutheranism and Calvinism, has been arrested, and, in virtue of the state of siege, declared "a prisoner of war."

The current number of the "Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland," contains a statement from Messrs. Wingate and Smith, respecting the circumstances under which they were lately expelled from Hungary. The following passage will interest our readers :

"On returning home on Sabbath afternoon from the house of prayer, we found a summons waiting us from one of the heads of the police (who are a very different body, and clothed with very different powers, in Austria from what we are accustomed to in our own happy country) to appear before him next day. We speedily communicated with each other, and finding that both had been cited at the same time, and that the object could not, therefore, be to obtain information from us, but to make an announcement to us, we immediately anticipated the worst. On appearing at the time appointed, we were simply informed that an imperial order had arrived, to the effect that we should leave the country without delay. We demanded the reason of such summary proceedings against us. The councillor of police said, 'that, so far as he knew, the government had nothing against us personally, but that the nature of our functions was disliked by them.'

We subjoin an extract from a letter written by Mr. Edwards, another

Missionary, who had been labouring in Lemberg, and who was also summarily expelled :—

“Breslau, Jan. 31, 1852.

"I arrived here yesterday, and only embrace the first leisure moment to let you know where I am, deferring all particulars till next week. On the 18th December, without any premonitory symptoms, the storm that had been long brewing burst, and I received orders not only to suspend my meetings, but to quit Lemberg and Galicia before the end of the month. In a personal interview with -, I prevailed

on him to retract the latter part of the sentence, and to bring the whole matter before the ministry in Vienna. He told me that there was nothing against me but the enmity of the civil governor, who is a pupil of the Jesuits. I wrote a statement of the case to our ambassador in Vienna, but before his answer came, having got a hint from a person in high official station, that nothing could be accomplished but by personal application, I resolved to undertake the journey, fatiguing enough at any time, but how much more so when the country was covered with snow! and on the 31st of January set out for Vienna. I obtained an audience, and stated my case to the Minister of the Interior, and for ten days did all I could think of to help the matter, but with so little success, that when my business was finished in Vienna, the police refused me a passport back to Lemberg, and I would not have obtained it, had not providentially a document in my favour been transmitted the same day from the highest court of the martial law in Lemberg to the police in Vienna. On the strength of this I obtained a billet, good for eight days, to return to Lemberg. There was now nothing for it but to remove my family, with Mrs. Edwards within a month of her confinement, a journey of more than 200 English miles, before we could reach the railway, and double that distance before we could reach Breslau, the first Prussian town in which we could hope for permission to take breath. On reaching Cracow, I requested a few days' rest, that the weak members of the party might recruit from their fatigues, but was told sternly that I was not allowed twenty-four hours, but must immediately proceed; and if my family could not, I must go alone and leave them, and if we could not go the whole way to Breslau, we must go a part. By virtue of expostulation, we obtained a few days, but for which it would probably have been fatal to one of our number; and as soon as we were able for the journey, proceeded, and reached this only last night.”

The key to the whole of this painful history is, we think, clearly to be seen in the few words put in italic. For the first time for nearly a century, the Jesuits have obtained a complete ascendancy at Vienna.

SPAIN. The subjoined correspondence has recently been published::

"Madrid, July 6, 1851.

Sir, With reference to the note addressed to you by the Marquis of Pidal on the 4th of December last, I have the honour to state to you