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2. Dublin, Raphoe, Limerick, Dromore.
3. Cashel, Elphin, Down, Waterford,
4. Tuam, Ferns, Cloyne, Cork.
5. Primate, Killaloe, Kilmore, Clogher.
6. Dublin, Ossory, Killala, Clonfert.
7. Cashel, Meath, Kildare, Derry.

8. Tuam, Raphoe, Limerick, Dromore.
9. Primate, Elphin, Down, Waterford.
10. Dublin, Ferns, Cloyne, Cork.
11. Cashel, Killaloe, Kilmore, Clogher.
12. Tuam, Ossory, Killala, Clonfert.

FRANCE.

M. Dupin, in a paper read before the French Academy of Sciences, has drawn a picture of Great Britain as honourable to his own freedom from illiberal national prejudices, as to the country which he panegyrizes. We copy a portion of his remarks, not for the purpose of flattering our countrymen, but with a view to suggest to them the high duties and responsibilities which Divine Providence has laid upon them.

"Though Great Britain," says M. Dupin, "is elevated to the highest pitch of naval power, a wider field having been opened for its display than ever was enjoyed by any other nation, people that live remote from the sea have nothing to apprehend from her fleets; and, notwithstanding her indubitable exertions in arms, and the apparent grandeur of her military achievements, there is nothing in the greatness or manner of these exploits sufficient to produce any portion of alarm in other states. But, with respect to her commerce, almost every resource which the highest ambition could covet has been placed within her reach."

"In Europe, the British empire borders on Denmark, Germany, Holland, and France; and, by her out-posts, it has connexion with Spain, Sicily, Italy, and Western Turkey. In Gibraltar, Malta, and the Ionian islands, the English have the keys of the Mediterranean and Adriatic. In America, they have all the northern regions to the Pole, and to the confines of the Russian possessions, and those of the United States. Under the Torrid Zone, they cross the Gulf of Mexico, and establish their sovereignty in the midst of an archipelago between the two hemispheres of America." In Africa, by their forts on the Gold Coast, and establishments at Sierra Leone, they diminish the many and great horrors that too often multiply in Negroland. They justly consider Negroes in captivity as in an unnatural and degraded state; and would have them to enjoy at home, in common with

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their brethren and their neighbours from Europe, such blessings as their country affords, and would permit them to enjoy plentiful subsistence and their natal soil. In a part more advanced towards the Austral Pole, in places where for centuries the Spaniards and Portuguese had only a port of refreshment and the Hollanders a plantation, the English are establishing an empire, which will soon be aggrandized by subsequent colonization, and the addition of various contiguous dominions." "In India and its archipelago, Britain is in possession of some of the finest countries of the East; and, indeed, on the Asiatic continent her factors have dominion over sixty millions of subjects. Her arms have been usefully employed on the Persian Gulf, and in the Erythrean (or Red) Sea, in putting a stop to the unsparing ravages of marine bandits, a horde of robbers and buccaniers who make no pretensions to civilization, who shew no regard for the blood which they shed, or the desolation which they cause. The conquests of the English merchants commenced where those of Alexander terminated, and where the god, Terminus, of the Romans, could never arrive. We have, at this day, the spectacle of a commercial company, embodied in a narrow street of the city of London, employed, after reducing the natives to subjection, in making and establishing constitutions, partly democratical, among the conquered; in forming administrations and systems of government suited to the habits and genius of the people for whom they are designed, a people previously subject to pillage and confiscation, and whose servitude had been perpetuated for ages.

"Thus, from a single centre, by the vigour of its institutions, and from the advanced state of its arts civil and military, an island which, in the Oceanic archipelago, would scarcely be reckoned of the third order, exhibits the sublime and interesting object of commanding attention, from the movements of her industry, and the weight of her power, in all the extremities of the four parts of the world. A further train of reflection is supplied, if we add the diversity of objects connected with civilization which follow from British influence, and which we find rising to view from British colonization : perhaps one fifth of the globe will, one day, receive the laws, speak the language, conform to the manners, and fully participate in the commerce, arts, and intelligence, of Great Britain."

"I will venture to assert," liberally

adds M. Dupin, "that, as Frenchmen, the honour and interest of our country, and, as friends of humanity, sentiments of justice and generosity, should make us take an interest in the dignity, peace, independence, and happiness of all nations, in whatever part of the globe nature may have placed the domicile of their nativity."

NORWAY.

In the last volume of Dr. Clarke's Travels, lately published, it is stated that there is not in all Norway a bookseller's shop, the trade of bookselling being left to the grocers. Let our readers compare this fact with the above statements respecting the literature of England and Ireland. What a blessing for such a country as Norway is the Bible Society! the operations of which have necessarily opened the way for a wide extension of education..

UNITED STATES.

The origin and use of the celebrated Loggan Stones in Cornwall, and other rocking stones found in Great Britain, are lost in remote antiquity; but the difficulties of conjecture are greatly increased in reference to America, which also possesses similar monuments. In the town of Durham, in New Hampshire, is a piece of rock computed to weigh 60 or 70 tons. It is a detached block of coarse granite, about 15 feet in diameter. Formerly the wind or a hand would move it, and its vibrations could be plainly seen; but about four years since a party of idle persons visited it, and, after several hours' labour, succeeded in moving it from its balance by levers. There are other rocking stones in Putnam County, New York; in Andover, New Hampshire; and in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. The two last may be easily moved several inches by the hand..

SOUTH AMERICA.

Recent accounts from Columbia state, that the Government, intent upon promoting knowledge among the people, have enacted that newpapers and periodical works, national as well as foreign, whatever may be their number, shall pass free of charge through the post-offices; and that national pamphlets and other printed papers, not exceeding four ounces, shall enjoy the same exemption. The governments of the Western hemisphere, from the United States of America to Hayti and Columbia, are widely recognising the duty and policy of training up a well-educated and well-informed people. Let us hope, that, if any of the nations of the old world

have refused to set them an example on this subject, they will at least not be slow in following the steps of their younger rivals.

CHINA.

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Our readers may judge of Chinese ideas of authorship and the liberty of the press, from the fate of an author named Whang-see-Heou, whose crime is thus set forth in the Report of his judges. "We find," say they, "Ist, That he has presumed to meddle with the great dictionary of Kang-hi; having made an abridgment of it, in which he has had the audacity to contradict some passages of that excellent and authentic work. 2d. In the preface to his abridgment, we have seen with horror that he has dared to write the little names (that is, the primitive family names) of Confucius, and even of your Majesty: a temerity, a want of respect, which has made us shudder. 3d. In the genealogy of his family, and in his poetry, he has asserted that he is descended from the Whang-tee.When asked why he had dared to meddle with the great dictionary of Kang-hi, he replied, that dictionary is very voluminous and inconvenient; I have made an abridgment, which is less cumbersome and expensive.' Being questioned how he could have the audacity to write in the preface to this dictionary the little names of the Emperors of the reigning dynasty, he answered, 'I know that it is unlawful to pronounce the little names of the Emperors, and I introduced them into my dictionary merely that young people might know what those names were, and not be liable to use them by mistake. I have, however, acknowledged my error, by reprinting my dictionary and omitting what was amiss.' When asked how he had dared to assert that he was descended from the Whang-tee, he said, 'It was a vanity that came into my head. I wanted to make people believe that I was somebody.'-According to the laws of the empire, this crime ought to be rigorously punished. The criminal, therefore, sha!! be cut in pieces, his goods confiscated, and his children and relatives above the age of sixteen years put to death. His wives, his concubines, and his children under sixteen, shall be exiled, and given as slaves to some grandee of the empire."-The Sovereign was, however, graciously pleased to mitigate the severity of this sentence, in an edict to the following effect :-" I favour Whang-see-Heou in regard to the nature of his punishment. He shall not be cut in pieces, and shall only have his head cut off. I forgive his relatives. As

to his sons, let them be reserved for the great execution in autumn. Let the sentence be executed in its other points: such is my pleasure."

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The rapid increase of the colony of New South Wales may be ascertained from the following statements of a petition, lately presented to the House of Commons by Sir J. Mackintosh, from the emanci

pated convicts.-The emancipated convicts are 7,556 in number; their children amount to 5,859. Of cultivated land they possess 29,000 acres; of land yet uncultivated 212,000 acres; they occupy 1,200 houses in town, and double that number in the country; they have 174,000 sheep, 415 horses, and of other cattle 48,800; they have 215 colonial ships in constant employment; and have netted in trade a capital of 150,000.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

Five Lectures on the Gospel of St. John, as bearing Testimony to the Divinity of our Saviour; by C. J. Blomfield, D.D., Archdeacon of Colchester. 12mo. 2s.

The Psalms of David, translated into divers and sundry Kindes of Verse; by Sir Philip Sidney, Knt., and the Countess of Pembroke, his Sister. Now first printed from a copy of the original MS. transcribed by John Davies, of Hereford, in the Reign of James the First: with two portraits. 12mo. 12s. boards.

Part. I. of Scientia Biblica. Being a copious collection of Parallel Passages, printed in words at length, for the illustration of the New Testament. 3s.

Letters on the State of Christianity in India; by the Abbé J. A. Dubois, late Missionary in Mysore. Small 8vo. 7s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa and adjoining Provinces; with an original Map, Tables, and Index; by Major-Gen. Sir John Malcolm. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 12s. boards.

Correspondence on Prison Labour and Tread Mills; by Sir J. C. Hippesley, Bart. Svo.

Arch's Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books. 8vo. 2s.

Hay's Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics. 28.

Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano. Small 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards. A Greek and English Lexicon, by John Jones, LL.D. 8vo. ll. 10s.

Substance of the Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May 1823, on a Motion for the Mitigation and gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions: with a Preface and Appendixes, containing Facts and Reasonings illustrative of Colonial Bondage. 8vo. 5s. sewed.

Memoirs of the Marchioness De Bonchamps; edited by the Countess of Genlis. 12mo. 5s.

Memoir of John Aikin, M.D., with a Selection of his Pieces; by Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. boards.

Description of an Electrical Telegraph; by F. Ronalds. 8vo. 6s. boards.

The Works of Canova, engraved in Outline by H. Moses, with Descriptions from the Italian of the Countess Albrizzi: published in parts monthly. Imperial 8vo. 4s.; 4to. 6s.

Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral of Worcester, 12 plates; with an Account of the Fabric.

The Stratification of Alluvial Deposits; by H. R. Oswald. 1s. 6d. sewed.

A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, Proverbs, &c. ; by Arch. Nares. 21. 15s. boards.

No. I. of the Mechanic's Magazine. 8vo. 3d. Published weekly.

The Wonders of Nature and Art; by the Rev. W. Hutton, M.A. 12mo. 4s. The Village Schoolmaster: a Poem; by L. Raymond. 12mo. Is.

Poetical Memoirs; by J. Bird. 8vo. 6s. 6d.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE institution, and kindred institutions

SOCIETY.

THE Nineteenth Report of the Society, lately published, contains, among a condensed mass of interesting facts, the following, which we extract rather as a general specimen than as a regular syllabus of the proceedings of this vast

thronghout the world.

The Committee advert, in the first instance, to the Protestant Bible Society at Paris, and its auxiliaries in other parts of France. At the last anniversary of this institution, a ViceAdmiral of France, who is one of

the vice-presidents of the society, remarked, in allusion to this country: "The union of two nations so long separated by war, but who join at present in furtherance of pious and benevolent institutions, exhibits to the world one of the most beautiful of spectacles, and proves that it is not in the power of man to break those bonds which render the body of Christians but one family. After a long and active career, during which my duty frequently imposed upon me the necessity of fighting the English, I am happy at length to fulfil the duties of a Christian, and to unite my exertions to theirs for the good of all men, by disseminating on earth the knowledge of the Divine word."-The central society at Paris is rapidly exhausting, by the distribution of the Scriptures in its own immediate sphere, and supplies to auxiliary societies, those large editions with which its depository has been stocked. It has undertaken a stereotype edition of Osterwald's Bible. Of Martin's Bible 36,000 copies have been provided; and stereotype plates of a large edition completed. The society is now supported by thirty-six auxiliaries, one consistorial society, twenty-eight branch societies, and forty-nine associations. The parent society has begun to publish monthly extracts of its correspondence.

The Report before us next mentions the results of the endeavours of the British and Foreign Bible Society to satisfy the desire for the Scriptures among the Roman Catholics in France, among whom it is stated that the demand for the Scriptures is great. Upwards of 12,000 Bibles and Testaments, of the French Catholic version, have been circulated during the year, and an additional donation of 5,000 New Testaments has been recently made to the Society for Mutual Instruction.

The Baron Silvestre de Sacy has undertaken to edit the Carshun and Syriac New Testaments. The Turkish New Testament has been revised by Pro. fessor Kieffer, and the printing of the Bible in the same language advances. The four Gospels have been translated into the modern Armenian language, from the ancient Armenian text. The Committee look forward to the most valuable assistance in the execution of their Oriental translations from the formation of "the Paris Asiatic Society for the Encouragement of Oriental Literature," under the presidency of the Baron de Sacy. The French Government have indulgently remitted the duties upon copies of the Scriptures imported into France.

From the Bible Society of the United Netherlands, the Committee have re

ceived very encouraging accounts. The central society at Amsterdam has now nearly sixty auxiliaries; and 5,896 Bibles and 4,339 New Testaments were issued during the last year from the depository of the society. Among its auxiliaries, the "Merchant-Seamen's Society" has been distinguished by its activity. Many striking proofs of the salutary effect produced among the sailors by the diligeut and faithful use of the Bible, have been recorded. The Catholic versions of the New Testament of De Sacy and Maurentorf, in the French and Flemish languages, have obtained a wide circulation in Ghent, Ostend, and in other places. The translation into the Javanese language had been carried on by the Rev. M. Brückner, as far as St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, and the four Gospels had been revised for the press. The Malay Bible, in the Arabic character, is nearly completed. Every opportunity for conveying the New Testament of this version to the coasts of Sumatra, and other parts, has been embraced, and the distribution of the New Testament had ex. cited a great desire for the whole Bible.

The numerous Bible Societies in the different cantons of Switzerland, labour with zeal to supply the want of the Scriptures among the natives of their country, whether speaking the French, German, or Italian language. The Bâsle Society has continued its extensive distribution of the Scriptures in these languages. The Aargovian Society has a small ladies' association at Aarau, which proceeds with silent but beneficial effect in collecting contribu tions, and distributing Bibles and Testaments.-The Zurich Society has circulated, during the ten years which have elapsed since its formation, nearly 6,000 Bibles and Testaments. The venerable Antistes Hess still takes an active part in its concerns, with a zeal unsubdued by age and increasing infir. mities. "If we take a retrospective glance," (he observes), "how much have we seen that we are happy to have outlived; and again, how much have we experienced which it has afforded us joy to have witnessed; for instance, this blessed promulgation of the word of God. What glorious things do we anticipate by the eye of faith, as about to develop themselves when we are no longer on earth! For my part, I consider myself happy in being able to devote the remuant of my days to that study which has been my favourite employment for sixty years past. As I entered the list of authors with the Life of Jesus,' so now I leave it with the same inexhaustible theme of meditation and reflection, of faith and hope." -The St. Gall Society, during the eight

years of its existence, has circulated upwards of 21,000 copies of the Scriptures, both among the Protestants and Roman Catholics in its immediate sphere. The small society established in the Toggenburg district has been very active. "Experience has taught us, (says the secretary)," that the actual want of the Scriptures will never be fully ascertained in any quarter, till a Bible Society has been formed for the particular purpose of investigating it." Toggenburg was the birth-place of Zuinglius: and the following extract from a letter addressed by that eminent reformer to the magistrates and clergy of his native district, was read, with considerable effect, at the first anniversary of the Society, held on the 3d October 1822. "It is God's will that we should attend to his word alone, and live in conformity thereunto; maintain it, therefore, in its purity; and see, in the first place, that it be presented faithfully, and without human additions; and secondly, attend unto it, by doing what it commands."-The Bible Society of the Grisons at Coire has supplied with the entire Bible the Protestant Italian congregations in the mountains. The new edition of Diodati's Bible was welcomed with joy by the Italian inhabitants of the canton.-The Bern Bible Society has received from an unknown friend a donation of 1,000 francs, a sum which has enabled it to strike off 2000 copies of the Psalms, for the use of schools.-The Lausanne Bible Society has, during the year, disposed of 5000 copies of its quarto edition of the Bible. Previously to this seasonable supply, the Committee of the Lausaune Society had received most affecting statements respecting the want of the Scriptures in the canton, and considerable contributions towards reliev ing it, from nearly forty parishes; in one of which the minister had discovered, during an investigation which occupied six days, the want of 120 Bibles.The Sixth Report of the Geneva Society exhibits the gratifying statement, that the distribution of Bibles and Testaments by that institution during the last year, has been greater than in any preceding one, and has increased the total amount of its issues, since its formation, to nearly 5,000 copies. Among the poor, the zeal for contributing to its funds is represented as being so great, that it has occasionally required restraint: and the income of the Auxiliary Committee for the labouring classes was doubled in the last year. The Geneva Society has extended its aid to various societies in France, and to the Waldeuses in Piedmout.-At Neufchâtel parochial committees have been instituted, for supplying the parishes in the vicinity.

CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 261.

Very satisfactory details have been received from the Bible Societies established in different parts of Germany. The Wuertemberg Society had issued 5528 Bibles, aud 2620 Testaments, during the year, making the total amount of its issues, for domestic purposes only, 63,994. At the head of the donations to the society appears a recent grant of 500 florins from its royal patron, the King. Among various bequests, there is one of 1500 florins from a Roman Catholic lady.-The Bible Society of the grand duchy of Baden has adopted active measures to ascertain the want of the Scriptures in Carlsruhe, and in the surrounding ter ritories. Returns of the estimated deficiency from thirty-three districts make it exceed ten thousand copies, a number still supposed to fall far short of the real amount.-The Hesse Darmstadt Society has issued 3000 Bibles and Testaments; yet the demand for the word of God continues great from every quarter. The reports from various other societies are similar. The Frankfort Society has distributed, in its seventh year, nearly 9000 Bibles and Testaments. Catholic pilgrims, travelling journeymen, and tradesmen, of all conimunions, are spoken of as earnest in their desire of possessing the sacred Scriptures.-A magistrate of the city of Bayreuth, M. Leers, and the Rev. Dean Paum, have printed by subscription two large cheap editions of Luther's German Testament, of which 600 were distributed gratis to the poor. The British and Foreign Bible Society seconded the benevolent efforts of these individuals, by a grant of 1000 New Testaments, and an offer to assist them in the publication of a third edition of the New Testament, which they gladly accepted, and began printing 7000 copies.-The Saxon Bible Society were printing a second edition of the Wendish Bible. Great eagerness for this work prevails among the people. The Herrnhut Branch of the Saxon Bible Society has circulated during the past year 10,375 New Testaments, of Gosner's and Van Ess's versions, and 1710 Bibles in the German and Bohemian languages, with a number of copies of the New Testament of Luther's version. -The Society of Eisenach has extended its relief to neighbouring districts. Her highness the Dowager Duchess of Saxe Meinengen has expressed her desire of distributing copies

with her own hand. A minister thus expresses his gratitude on receiving a supply of the Scriptures: "What real delight have you afforded to myself, as well as to the poor children, by the beautiful Bibles you sent us! Of the sixty-four young persons preparing for 4 I

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