language of Europe, but of your own Asia.* It is full of those ornaments, which are the pride of your own writers, and some of the boldest figures, which are obscure to us, being drawn from objects natural and familiar to yourselves, must of necessity excité. an interest in your breasts, of which we are but faintly capable. "Read then, and judge between us. We cannot have been more earnest to enquire into your secrets, than we are now solicitous to make you a full disclosure of our own. With pains, and labour, and expence, we have provided for you the means of instruction. We know and feel that our religion is derived from Heaven. It is to us the source of the most comfortable, the most exhilarating, and the most brilliant hopes; and what it is to us, we most devoutly wish it may become to you. It is the spirit of our religion not to withhold, but to communicate; not to repel, but to invitet; not to confound, but to enlighten; not to divide, and set at variance, but to conciliate the whole human race as the children of one parent; to become one fold under one shepherd, JESUS CHRIST the Righteous! JESUS CHRIST the Deity Incarnate! in whom consists all our happiness, and all our virtue, our life and light, our hope and assurance!" An appendix of very curious notes is fubjoined to this important and excellent Sermon, the perufal of which will highly gratify the reader. Of the Syriac language the learned Bishop Walton speaks in the following animated terms: "Imo lingua Syriaca ipsi Domino "et Salvatori vernacula erat, quam una cum lacte materno suixit, "in qua voluntatem Dei et expressa vitæ æternæ promissa unigenitus Dei filius orbi revelavit. Hanc sacre ore consecravit, " in hac doctrinam Evangelicam tradidit, in hac preces ad Patrem "obtulit, mysteria mundo abscondita aperuit, Patris de Cœlo vocem audivit. His accedit," he adds "quod doctorum lingua "in Christianos per totum fere Orientem sit, ut ex liturgiis et "officiis divinis constat, quæ in hac lingu, ubique fere peragun"tur." He laments, indeed, in the conclusion, that it has, since the Mahomedan conquests, been supplanted by the Arabic. It is still however, certainly of much importance, considering the accounts recently received of the Malabar Christians. This character of our most holy religion must appear from many and frequent passages in the New Testament; and this must in itself have considerable effect in disposing the minds of the Hindoos to receive it: at the same time we must recollect, that in reading the Scriptures for themselves they cannot fail also to be struck with the warnings and expostulations against infidelity; against rejecting the offers of the Redeemer of the world, and turning a deaf ear to the gracious words of salvation, as Heb. ii. 3, 4. iii. 12. xi. 6. &c. Pensées de Pascal. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ERMONS on the Practical Life, for the use of Families. By the Rev. Theodore Robertson, LL. B. 2 vols. 14s. An Essay on the Duty, Means, and Consequences of introducing the Christian Religion among the native inhabitants of the British Dominions in the East. By J. W. Cunningham, late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 5s. 6d. Vindication of the Hindoos from the Aspersions of the Rev. 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HE Rev. Johnson Grant, M. A. is preparing for publication a Poem on the Pastoral Care." A Life of Luther, which is still a desideratum in British Literature, is in great forwardness by Mr. Bower. In this work it is proposed to exhibit a full and circumstantial account of the great Reformer, and of the revolution which he accomplished. Mr. Cox is employed in preparing a new and improved edition in octavo of the Life of Horatio Lord Walpole. The third and fourth volumes of the Sermons of Mr. George Walker, of Manchester, will appear in the course of a month. A stratum of Sea-shells, among which are many fish-bones and unopened oysters, was found lately by the workmen employed in sinking a well in Fisher Row, Reading. Besides the well known strata found at Katesgrove Brick-Kiln, these antediluvian remains are fre. quently found under similar. circumstances. At the late general meeting of the subscribers to the new Charity Schools, heid in the vestry of the Holy Trinity Church, in Hull, the accounts of the expences of the last year were examined, and the committee ordered to draw up a report, and state the particulars for the information of those subscribers who were not present, and of the public. This report it is intended to prepare in full and to publish, in the course of the ensuing year. In the mean time it is a pleasing task to acquaint the friends of the Institution, that that part of it which relates to the education of girls, has been carried completely, into effect, and that both in the day school and the servants' school, the system of instruction and discipline, pursued under the direction and superintendence of the ladies' committees, has been highly successful; and that there is every reason to hope, that in a very short time the importance of these seminaries to the town, will be fully and universally felt. There are upwards of 100 girls in the preparatory day school; and 26 in the servants' school. As soon as another suitable, room can be procured, it is proposed according to the original plan, to open an additional day school, for the reception of an equal number of girls, with the present one. The execution of that part of the plan, which respects the education of boys, has been unfortunately and unavoidably delayed by several unforeseen ob stacles; particularly by the im possibility of finding a room capable of receiving the boys who wait for admission; and to erect a temporary building for the purpose, would have incurred a heavy and needless expence; as the committee was encouraged to expect that, as soon as some necessary arrangements should be made, a piece of ground every way convenient and suitable, would be granted at a moderate demand, by a friend of the Institution. These arrangements have at length been effected: and the building would ere this have been proceeded on, had it not been for the peculiar unfavourableness of the season. As early in the present year as the weather will permit, the general meeting has resolved, that the work shall be begun. Although considerable expence must be expected to attend these institutions in their outset, yet the same generous regard, which has hitherto been shewn them by the public, will, it is earnestly hoped, be continued, till they arrive at maturity, and are in a state to repay their benevolent supporters by an abundant harvest of blessings upon all classes of the community. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, AND. V CHURCH PREFERMENTS. OXFORD, Jan. 23. HIS in tor in Music; and Mr. William Russell, Student in Music, of TMr. day Few Divocations Magdalen Hall, Organist of St. elected Inferior Bedell in Divinity, in the room of Mr. Bliss, deceased. 27. The Rev. John Tench, M. A. of Brazenose College, was admitted Bachelor in Divinity. Messrs. Chas. Milman Mount, and William Buckland, of Corpus Christi College; the Rev., Thomas Fawcett, of Christ Church; the Rev. James Grooby and Thomas Chambers, of Worcester College; Rev. William Dodson, of St. John's College; Rev, Daniel Weyland and Mr. Robert Booth Rawes of St. Edmund Hall, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Messrs. Henry Dawson Roundell, of Brasenose College, and Liscombe Clarke, of New College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts. Mr. Joseph Pring, Student in Music, of Magdalen Hall, and Organist of Bangor Cathedral, was admitted Bachelor and Doc Ann's Limehouse, and the Foundling Hospital London, was admitted Bachelor in Music. 28. The Rev. Win. Adams, M. A. and Student in Divinity, of Pembroke College, and Vicar of Halstead in Essex, was admit ted Bachelor and. Doctor in Divinity, Grand Compounder. The Rev. Hamlett Harrison, M. A. and Student in Divinity, of Brasenose College, was ad mitted Bachelor in Divinity Grand Compounder. Francis Skurray of Lincoln College, and Josiah Pratt, of St. Edmund Hall, M. A. were admitted Bachelors in Divinity. John Mitchell, Esq. B. A. of Christ Church, was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder. The Rev. George Arnold, and John Round, Esq. B. A. of Baliol College, were admitted Masters of Arts, Grand Compounders. 4 29. The Rev. Edward Bather, B. A. of Oriel College, was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder. The same day in convocation, the Rev. Michael Marlow, D. D. PresidentofSt. John's College,and senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, was unanimously elected one of the Curators of the Theatre, in the room of the Rev. H. Richards, D. D. deceased. And also in convocation, Messrs. William Rhodes, M. A. of Worcester College, and George Valentine Cox, B. A. of New College, were unanimously elected Coroners, according to the terms of the Charter granted to the University by King Charles I. Feb 3. The Rev. H. Barry, M. A. is elected Fellow of Queen's College, on the new Foundation. 11. The Rev. Samuel Locke, M. A. of Wadham College, was admitted Bachelor and D. D. The Rev. Wm. Jenkins, of Oriel College; the Hon. Wm. Beauchamp Lygon, of ChristChurch; Rev. Richard Griffith, of Jesus College; Rev. Stephen Woodgate, and Rev. Joseph Rawlins Henderson, of Trinity College; and Rev. G. Watson Hutchinson of Lincoln College, B. A. were admtited Masters of Arts. Messrs. Henry Woollcombe, William Roles, and Thomas Baden Powell of Oriel College; John Wynn Eyton, and Thomas Owen, of Christ-Church; Edmund Allen, and Charles Henrick Prescot of Brasenose College, and Edwin Sandys of St. John's College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts. 12. The Rev. Gregory Ray mond, B. A. of Baliol College, was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder. A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Rev. Thomas Fawcett, of Christ Church, A. M. Rector of Bradden, in the county of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, and Chaplain to Lord Southampton, to hold the living of Aynho, in the same diocese and county. The Rev. W. Shaw, D. D. Rector of Chelvey, in Somersetshire, and author of the Etymologicon Magnum, has been collated to the Rectory of Schole juxta Mare, in the same county, on the presentation of the Dean of Bristol. The Rev. Richard Venables, B. D. Chaplain to Lord Viscount Hereford, has been presented to the living of Warmfield-cum-Heath, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. Earl Grey has appointed the Rev. W. Baverstock, Minor Canon of Durham, Vicar of Billingham in that county, and Chaplain to Colonel Mowbray's Volunteer Cavalry, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 26. Friday being Bachelors Commencement, the following Gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Bachelors of Arts: King's College.--Messrs. Byam, Litchfield, and Richards. Trinity College.——Messrs. Bloomfield, Baker, Cazalet, Chambers, Clarke, Gower, Green, Grylls, Hatchett, Hudson, Knox, Mac Arthur, Mackenzie, Mercer, Myers, Ord, Peacock, Pritchett, Remington, Sage, Scott, Sedgewick, Sutton, |