has been elected a Fellow of that society, on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines.

The Rev. St. John Wells Lucas, M. A. of Downing College, is appointed one of the Chaplains of that College, on the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Worsley.

PRIZES.

The late Dr. Smith's annual prizes of 251. each, to the two best proficients in mathematics and natural philosophy among the Commencing Bachelors of Arts, have been adjudged to Douglas Denon Heath, of Trinity College, and Samuel Laing, of St. John's College, the first and second Wranglers.

GRACES.

The following Graces have passed the Senate :

"To grant out of the Fitzwilliam Fund the sum of 501. as a subscription towards defraying a moiety of the expense of the drainage, which the Commissioners for Paving and Lighting the town of Cambridge propose to make in that part of Trumpington-street, where the Museum is intended to be erected."

That the Syndics appointed "to consider what steps may be necessary to be taken to accommodate the Professors of Chemistry and Anatomy with Lecture Rooms and Museums," be authorized to employ an architect, who shall furnish a plan and an estimate of expense for erecting a Museum and other rooms according to the recommendation of the Syndics in their report; and that, before the end of the present term, they report upon the said plan and estimate to the Senate.

That there be granted out of the university chest to Professor Clark the sum of 100%. 15s. which he has recently expended in the purchase of anatomical preparations; on condition that the said preparations become the property of the university.

At a congregation on Wednesday, Feb. 22, a letter was read from the Rev. Mr. Whewell, late Professor of Mineralogy, signifying that he was desirous of presenting to the university his collection of minerals, a collection of books on mineralogy, and the sum of 100%., on condition of the university providing a room for the reception of the minerals.

DEGREES CONFERRED.

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. William Hewson, of St. John's Coll.
Chancellor of St. David's, and Vicar of
Swansea, Comp.

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. J. B. Smith, Christ's Coll. and Head
Master of Horncastle Gram. Sch., Comp.

HONORARY MASTERS OF ARTS.

Sir Jacob Henry Preston, Trinity Coll. son
of the late Sir Thomas Preston.
Hon. John Grey, Trin. Coll., son of Earl
Grey.

Stafford Augustus O'Brien, Trin. Coll.

DOCTOR IN PHYSIC.

John Staunton, Caius Coll.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

Edward Pote Neale, Trinity Coll.
William Henry Stringer, Christ's Coll.
George Dunnage, Downing Coll. Comp.
Rev. Samuel Nicholson Kingdon, Trin. Coll.
Rev. John Thomas Hinds, Trinity Coll.
Rev. Richard Henry Wace, Trinity Coll.
Rev. Thomas Griffith, St. John's Coll.
Kev. Benj. Elliott Nicholls, Queen's Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

George William Rush, Trinity Coll.
Richard Courtney, Trinity Coll. Comp.
William Meyrick, Trinity Coll.

MARRIED.

At Rickmansworth, the Rev. J. J. Cory, Vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, to Miss Daubiney, of the former place.

At Islington, the Rev. William Waring, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Magdalene College, to Miss M. Murray.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Many thanks to our unknown Correspondents for their substantial communication. We have carefully read the “ Address," and will forward it as desired.

The Prospectus of the "Biblical Cabinet," and the pamphlets of "P. H." came too late. The "Defence" of "W. T. W." has not yet arrived.

We beg "Philarchæus," and "C. M." to accept our thanks. The subject alluded to by the former is fully discussed at p. 505 of Vol. X. and pp. 46, 180, of Vol. XI., where he will discover himself to be an old acquaintance.

Many thanks to the Editor of the "P. J." His parcel arrived safely, and we hope ours will do the same.

"D.'s" communication, on the "Abolition of Negro Slavery," lies at our Publishers'. As we have already fully stated our views upon the subject, and have no intention at present of resuming it, we are unable to avail ourselves of his good intentions.

THE

CHRISTIAN

REMEMBRANCE R.

APRIL, 1832.

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ART. I.—1. Irish Education. Six Letters on the Subject of Irish Education, addressed to the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley, M. P. Chief Secretary for Ireland, by J. E. GORDON, ESQ. M.P. With an Appendix, containing an Outline of the New System of Education proposed by His Majesty's Government, in a Letter addressed by Mr. Stanley to His Grace the Duke of Leinster. London: Hatchard and Son; Roake & Varty; Nisbet; Seeleys. Dublin: Curry & Co. and Tims. 1832. 8vo. Pp. 74.

2. Scriptural Education in Ireland. Memorials of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and of the Clergy of the Diocese of Derry, to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, with His Grace's Replies. To which is added, a Paper circulated by the Commissioners of Education. London: Fellowes. 1832. Pp. 29.

JESUISTRY, whether Catholic or Popish,-whether practised by the professing Christians of the Established Church, or the avowed disciples of the Bishop of Rome,-is to us equally despicable, equally worthy reprobation: nor shall we be deterred from an explicit and undisguised avowal of our opinions, while we profess to hold the rank of spiritual guides. What! is the Bible to be torn, at the instigation of popish demagogues, from the hands of our fellow-countrymen? Are we to behold the tares of popery choking the wheat of the Gospel,-or the heel of the dragon, reversing the prophetic decree of God, bruising the head of his creatures; and remain as if wrapt "in cold obstruction's apathy?"-Never!

We are perfectly satisfied, that, after the many eloquent appeals which have been made upon this highly interesting and important subject, after the manly and convincing letters of Mr. Gordon,and the conscientious remonstrance of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, and the Clergy of the Diocese of Derry,-after the splendid

and gratifying display of religious zeal under the immediate auspices of the Primate of all Ireland,-and the "glorious, pious, and immortal" declaration of a quarter of a million of Protestants from the same portion of the United Kingdom,-after such proofs of intensity of feeling upon the point, -we are aware that any thing advanced in our pages, must, to a certain extent, be uncalled for and superfluous. We should not, however, discharge our duty faithfully and conscientiously, were we to remain silent spectators of the "strategie" of the Jesuits, and their infamous and unholy attempts to check the circulation of the word of God.

To say that we have observed their manoeuvres with deep distress, would convey but a faint idea of what we have felt upon the subject; but our distress has been alleviated, and our fears in some degree removed, by the burst of indignation which we witnessed at Exeter Hall, when the late meeting upon the subject was convened, and by the knowledge that the whig Archbishop of Dublin has found it impossible to form even a quorum of the Irish Bench to second his own views of mutilating the Gospel of his Saviour, on the miserable ground of expediency.

Is there, can there be, one, who feels in his own breast the blessed influences of our holy religion, sanctifying him in prosperity, sustaining him in adversity, and affording him the comfortable assurance of a "final exaltation to the same place whither his Saviour Christ is gone before," who can experience even a momentary indifference, whilst millions of his fellow-creatures are threatened with a deprivation of that Book, which, to his own soul, has been the source of light and life? No-no-it cannot be. Holding fast, as we trust all our readers do, the pure doctrines of Christianity, uncorrupted by the superstitions and heresies by which, from time to time, it has been attacked and surrounded ;-attached to a Church whose sublime Liturgy infinitely surpasses all uninspired composition,-which is regulated by a system of discipline, that insures order and sobriety in the midst of enthusiasm and extravagance,—whose ritual is at once simple and imposing, and which has been hallowed and endeared to us by the sufferings and death of a "noble army of martyrs," and the pious example of a host of great and good men, who, we humbly hope, have ascended from the Church militant upon earth to the Church triumphant in heaven;-thus situated, we say that no exhortation can be required to cause our exertions in her behalf to be in some measure proportioned to the exalted character, which, amid the secret intrigues and open attacks of her inveterate foes, she has uniformly maintained since the era of the Reformation. :

The new-light infidels would persuade us that the Bible is the cause of dissension and turbulence, the root of all evil; and impudently

assert that "tranquillity and happiness" would inevitably follow its expulsion from the schools. Such reasoning we scout with contempt, and call for the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible! Not the Douay misinterpretation,-not that version which transfers the mediatorial power of Christ to the Virgin, and a host of spurious saints, not that translation which is rendered according to the glosses and scholia of the Jewish rabbins, or Popish commentators ; but the Bible, as authorized by the Established Church, and received as immaculate by every sect of professing Christians, with the single exception of Papists!

That our sentiments are in unison with the majority of those, whose peculiar province it is to watch over the interests of the Church, and superintend the education of the rising generation, will be gathered from the following extract from the Address of the Clergy of the Diocese of Derry, to his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, upon the whig scheme of education in Ireland; an address which does honour to the head and heart of every individual whose signature it bears.

Under the most calm and deliberate view of the plan (of the Board of Education), we feel bound to declare, that we would consider it as a compromise of principle and conscience, as inconsistent with the reverence which we bear towards the oracles of God, as an abandonment of our ministerial faithfulness, and a breach of that true Christian love and honour, which is due from us to your Grace's exalted station in the Church's ministries, if we did not raise our voice at this perilous crisis, solemnly to protest to your Grace, and through you to the Government and the nation, against the system proposed.

Independent of all objections to the subordinate details of the education measure, the ground of our protest is simple and plain: as ministers of God's word, we cannot, we dare not, become a party to any system of parochial instruction, in which the Bible, as given by the Spirit of God through the prophets and the apostles, is to be considered as a book outlawed, and exiled for its dangerous tendencies to the commonwealth, and in which its place is to be supplied by partial selections, framed at the discretion, and accommodated to the expediency or the worldly policy of men.

We claim the Bible, as the essential part of the national education of a Christian people in a Christian land; we claim it, because it is the great Christian basis of moral and religious education, and because, without an education so based, we much doubt the value of any education whatever; we claim the Bible for our schools, because it is the birthright of every Christian—the Christian's great charter of truth and hope; and finally, we claim it, because, most happily, the Bible is the only common ground on which those who widely differ in other respects can meet together, and learn to know and serve God as brethren.-Pp. 19, 20.

In every word of this we cordially agree, and take this opportunity of expressing our assent, because, in the evil days upon which we have fallen, we feel it to be our solemn duty to our God, to our king, and to our country, thus plainly and unequivocally to declare the convictions of our conscience, our understandings, and experience ; --convictions which forbid us, by a silent apathy, to become participators in

any system for depreciating, mutilating, or tampering with the word of God; with that word, by which the whole world, the beggar at the gate as well as the monarch upon the throne, the teacher as well as the hearer, must one day be judged.

But what says the late Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford, and present Archbishop of Dublin, to this spirited and orthodox address? His Grace refers to his reply to the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's; and blinks the question, by hinting that the memorialists appear to him to have misconceived the nature of the proposed conciliatory plan of education. Of his Grace's Letter to the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, we conscientiously say, that as far as internal evidence goes, it might have been written by the Titular Archbishop not one of the leading principles of the Reformation are recognized; and it abounds in a species of jesuitical sophistry, which we had hitherto fondly imagined was confined to popery.

His Grace boasts himself to be of no party; but every line shews the cloven foot of liberalism, and betrays the emancipationist. Take, for example, the following:

But, I should add, that, strongly disapproving as I do of the Romish system, I do not think it allowable to oppose it by any kind of coercive measures. That they have acted, or are ready to act, in that manner toward others, would not justify us in following such an example. If parents choose to send their children to a Roman Catholic priest for instruction, I must ever maintain that those Christians "know not what manner of spirit they are of," who would go about to prevent them by any other means than meek and patient persuasion. -P. 15.

The Reverend Prelate had, a few pages before, volunteered an indirect defence of the withdrawal of the annual grant to the Kildare-street Society, and its appropriation to the new-fangled theory. A more jesuitical piece of writing we never witnessed:-perhaps his Grace may deny the inference we draw; but certainly the subjoined passage, both in letter and spirit, appears to bear us out:

To this purpose it was resolved to appropriate a sum of money, not raised from the revenues of the Church, or from the voluntary contributions of individuals towards some other object,-but out of the national revenue, raised by the taxation (we should remember) of all denominations of the King's subjects. -P. 9.

If such arguments are to prevail in the councils of those to whom the welfare of the Established Church is intrusted, it requires no prophet to foretell its speedy overthrow. The argument upon taxes levied upon all classes would apply equally well to tithes; and under such liberal hierarchs as Archbishop Whately, we may live to see our cathedrals and churches occupied, in rotation, by Papists, Unitarians, and infidels; and sound doctrine, and orthodox professions of faith, become a mere dead letter. But, turn we from Dr. Whately to