emoluments which assuredly would have been theirs, had they conformed to that church which the state delights to honour.

THE BAPTIST RECORD.-The Hanserd Knollys Society.

The Baptist Record and Biblical Repository is a new periodical of higher literary and critical pretensions than have been before assumed by any journal bearing that denominational name. The title-page avows, in Greek characters, that they speak the truth in love, and we are inclined to hope, from the spirit of some of the articles we have read, that this is really fulfilled in plain English. We notice it now on account of a report it contains of a new Baptist publication society, which is called "The Hanserd Knollys Society," for the publication of the works of the early English and other Baptist writers." This is following the example of the Wycliffe Society, though it is not named. As many of our readers may inquire who Hanserd Knollys was, we reply, that he was a learned and pious Episcopal clergyman, who renounced his living and his orders for conscience' sake. His decided views on all denominational subjects, have, doubtless, suggested that this society should be so cognominated. The subscription, we observe, is to be only ten shillings and sixpence a-year, which it is however thought will be fully equal to the range of "reprints" contemplated. The following statements of G. Underhill, Esq., the projector of the society, will be read with interest :

"The history of the earliest Baptists in this country is only to be scantily gleaned from incidental allusions in such authors as Fox and Strype. They do not appear to have been generally known till the beginning of the 17th century. By an opponent who wrote in 1623, they are characterised as men of godly lives, and holding scriptural doctrines. They had their full share of the persecutions endured by nonconformists generally between that time and 1640. During the civil war and the Protectorate they were numerous, both in the navy and army; though not many appear to have held command in either. They were rarely to be found entertaining the vagaries of the Fifth Monarchy Men, but were very active in disseminating their own orthodox views. After the Restoration, their sufferings recommenced; and it is said, that scarcely a Baptist minister of the day was unacquainted with the interior of some prison. Persecution was disarmed at the glorious revolution' of 1688; but liberty of opinion gave scope to the promulgation of error as well as truth, and Socinianism began unhappily to corrupt the churches. A controversial spirit was rife, new sects were originated, and divisions took place in such as already existed. Mr. Underhill gave it as his settled opinion, that the Baptists of that period were not more prone to these schisms than other bodies. He said, 'The Baptists were not worse than others in controversial bitterness; but, after much study of the matter, it is my confirmed impression that they were much better.' It was then, however, that the Sabbatarians, or Seventh-day Baptists, formed themselves into a distinct community; and Francis Bamfield, a seceding clergyman, established the church in Mill Yard, now under the pastorate of Dr. Black. The division between General and Particular Baptists was the next to occur. After these, no formal separations took place; but minor differences prevailed respecting the imposition of hands in ordination, and in reference to the Millenarian theory. Mr. Underhill was particularly

eager in claiming for the Baptists the honour of being the earliest advocates of entire liberty in religious belief; and combated, at considerable length, the arguments which Hanbury and Conder advance in behalf of the Independents."

THE TABLET.-The Catholic Institute and Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Bart.

The Tablet is a weekly journal devoted to the uncompromising advocacy of the claims of the Church of Rome. Its sole editor and proprietor is Mr. Frederick Lucas, who, we believe, was educated a Quaker, but, strange to say, was proselyted to popery; and he manifests the zeal of a recent convert in every column of his journal. Indeed, so entire is his devotion to the cause, that he assumed at the head of his paper, we think about two years ago, a vignette of the Madonna and child, with this inscription, SUBTUUM PRESIDIUM CONFUGIMUS SANCTA DEI GENETRIX, We fly to thy patronage, O Holy Mother of God! and vindicated his honesty against the expostulations of more prudent friends. As a commercial speculation The Tablet was not prosperous, and about two years ago was likely to fail, when a fund which amounted to, we think, about £1200, was subscribed by priests and prelates, with many commendations to uphold it. Mr. Lucas deserved this of his party: for he is no mercenary hireling, but serves his friends with a talent and earnestness which we should gladly see employed in a better cause.

This journal, of course, reports the proceedings of the Catholic Institute, though in the last number, the editor, in his plain-spoken style, says it is "now more than half defunct." If this be the case, it seems that Sir Culling Eardley Smith, the new Treasurer of the London Missionary Society, has succeeded by his pungent speech at Exeter Hall on the celebration of the Jubilee, to stimulate its torpid powers. It was scarcely possible that the worthy Baronet should avoid, after his recent residence at Rome, a reference to the state of popery on an occasion when the desolations of our first and fairest missions by papal intrigues, were the fact most present to the minds of all. "Whilst the emissaries of that insidious and anti-christian system have been devastating your peaceful missions in the South Seas, and bringing to the very verge of war two of the greatest and noblest nations in the world, you have had a friend," said Sir Culling, "who has been watching it at its head-quarters; and I stand before you to-day to tell you, and through you to tell the friends of missions, that popery is still what it ever was." This assertion was sustained by a series of facts which he cited, and which were in substance reported in several of the daily journals. The committee of the Catholic Institute instructed their secretary, a Mr. Smith, on the 30th September last, to inquire, in their name, of Sir Culling, "if the report be correct, and if so, his authority for the assertions contained in it."

Sir Culling promptly replied, and acknowledged the statements, but without reference to the phraseology attributed to him. On the 5th of October the committee thanked him for his promptitude, and promised "to direct an inquiry to be made as to the correctness of his statements." This looked honest and hopeful, but scarcely had fortyeight hours elapsed before the committee find that "they are met by an insuperable difficulty-that no effective inquiry can be made without the assistance of Sir Culling, and therefore they apply to him for further information, as may enable them either to confirm or contradict his statements." Sir Culling Smith gave the names of the persons and places referred to, though he " could not reveal the evidence on which some of his statements were founded, without exposing his informants to punishment." This after a lapse of a fortnight, the committee had the temerity to deny, and proceeded at great length to argue upon the five facts Sir Culling had recited, in a truly Jesuitical style. Distinguishing "between the system of the Catholic church and the abuse of that system,” and declining "either to dispute or inquire into any instances of mere abuse, they assert it can never be charitable or candid to use as arguments against the tenets of a church instances of abuse which their whole system condemns, and labours to eradicate." This is a fine specimen of the unblushing impudence of popish polemics. The point in hand related to the autograph of the Virgin, which is shown as a relic. That is a part of the papal system "The honour due to relics," is asserted in the decrees of Trent; and there is not a Protestant traveller who has visited a Roman Catholic country but knows that the superstitious use of relics is as notorious as the sun at noon-day. The use of the holy Scriptures has been forbidden and condemned; but we have never yet heard of any encyclical letter, or papal bull, issued against these impositions. The Catholic Institute concedes that they are such, and thus, by implication, must allow, that the whole herd of relic-mongers throughout Christendom are little better. Other letters succeed, and as the correspondence advanced, it grew more lengthy, and its tone was changed. "Soft soap," to borrow a phrase of Judge Halyburton's, was at first liberally applied to Sir Culling. "The committee judged from the tone of his letter, that though labouring under very natural misapprehensions, as to many matters connected with catholicity, yet that he had no formal, deliberate design to slander the church, or defame its members;" but when they found that the worthy baronet was not to be coaxed out of his testimony, they shut it all up by saying, "It is obvious, that you cannot prove your assertions, because you have nothing tangible to prove, and yet you have not the candour to disavow them." We have little doubt that something" tangible" will be given to the public before long in reply to those wily epistles, and our readers shall then have more of this interesting discussion.

THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

EGYPT and the Books of Moses: or, The Books of Moses Illustrated by the Monuments of Egypt. With an Appendix. By Dr. E. W. Hengstenberg, Professor of Theology at Berlin. From the German. By R. D. C. Robins, Abbot Resident, Theological Seminary, Andover. With additional Notes. By W. Cooke Taylor, Esq., LL.D. Being Vol. III. New Series of the Biblical Cabinet. 8vo. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.

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Mary Spencer. A Tale for the Times. By A. Howard. 12mo. Burnside, and Seeley.

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Congregational Dissent Apostolical Conformity.

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The Church Visible in all Ages. By Charlotte Elizabeth. Foolscap 8vo. London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley.

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A Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury, on the Present State of British Connexion with Idolatry in India and Ceylon, and particularly of "The Established Government Donation" for the support of the Temple of Juggernaut, in Orissa. By the Rev. James Peggs, late Missionary in India. 8vo. London: John Snow.

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Maclehose.

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The Child's Companion for 1844. Third Series. 32mo. London: Tract Society.

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