held by the million for irrefragable doctrine. What may be believed by the same profound and dispassionate judges touching the errors of the Church of England, is, perhaps, to be found in some future convulsion; but we may rely on it, that the more extravagant the better, as the more native to the spirit of its calumniators, and the more amusing to the drowsy ignorance that must be fed with some stimulant, or it falls asleep, useless to the grand cause of " subversion all over the world.”

In England, of all countries, we must be prepared to expect those attacks. Our vast and restless population, the trade of the pen, the habit of party, the general struggle and conflict for life, arising out of the public pressures; the very crowding of a multitude twice the number of the whole population of the United States, in an island not exceeding one of its provinces, must engender an immense quantity of that heated and perilous spirit which endangers the quiet of society. There will be many discontented with fortune, and not a few desperate against the law. Possession without labour is the great revolutionary prize, and the tickets will never want claimants. There will be many to whom religion is a dead letter; and some to whom it is a scorn; many who wish for change through mere restlessness, and some who contemplate secure revenge and profitable plunder. Among those the banner of revolt will never want followers; but the direct attack on the Constitution is hazardous, and the scaffold lies in the way. To lead the "Federes" against the Church is a safer warfare, and it is equally sure of reaching its true point at last, the Crown. Sap the great, antique circumvallation of the state, and the open assault is not far off, the march will be easy over the ruins, and the triumph will be final. But, besides the random politicians and the obscure philosophists, there are those who hate religion for its own sake; a banditti of deplorable and sullen outcasts, blinded to the perception of truth, and leagued by a sworn hostility to the hope of a hereafter. Shall we presume that those who would trample out the slightest seed of Faith, should reverence the spot where its protected verdure makes the glory of the land? Satan roaming round the wall of Eden, might as soon hold compact with its guardian spirits for its security.

It had been our purpose when we began these pages to give some general view of the principles and constitution of the establishment. But other matters make it now impossible. The time for that too will come. The subject is extensive; but none can be more cheering, clear, or important to public

knowledge. We have adverted to Dr. Hobart's errors necessarily, but reluctantly. His profession, his place in that profession, the very name of Episcopacy' would have of themselves made us anxious to receive him with the right-hand of fellowship. We have not lost sight of the feeling; but there was imposed upon us the stronger duty of defending the truth.

"Here is one of yourselves, even a Bishop, loading you with accusation," must be the language of the first libeller. It was essential to shew that the accuser was mistaken, or prompted by the impulse of an unwise popularity. But no man can be more easily answered out of his own mouth. What are we to think of the consistency of his opinions, who thus winds up his censure of the Establishment.

"In her doctrines, in her ministry, in her worship, she is all glorious within; and thanks to the sound and orthodox and zealous Clergy, who have been faithful to her principles, she is still the great joy and the great blessing of the land. It would be impossible to sever the Church from the State, without a convulsion which would uproot both, and thus destroy the fairest fabric of social and religious happiness in the European world." P. 35.

We can easily pardon native partialities. Yet we have never met a tourist so resolutely determined to discover every perfection of all countries in his own homestead as the Dr. He absolutely urges this to the highest point of human endurance. He travels through the finest countries of Europe, and after some lines given "to radiant skies, and breezes that bear health and cheeriness to the decaying and languid frame,” nay, after the compulsory acknowledgment, that it would be "absurd in America to urge a superiority over these lands, or altogether an equality with them," he turns to comfort the men of New York, the denizens of the yellow fever and ague, with "all is less adverse to our own claims than I had supposed." He thus proceeds, plucking away the feathers of Switzerland, &c. &c. to cover the naked wing of the "States." If they have alps, the States have ridges of hills, if they have "stupendous castles crowning mountain passes, ""interesting ruins," large and imposing edifices of religion, splendid palaces filled with works of genius; magnificent libraries, &c.; Let America still console herself: she has something that may remind her of them all; she has a state prison, and a philosophical hall, and a landscape cut out into square inches, with every ploughman a lord of the soil. If she have not "the public squares, or fountains, or magnificent Cathedrals of Europe," she may feel with becoming

pride that she can build as spruce a Chapel as any of them, and that no Ebenezer in the City Road does more honour to modern bricklaying than the Ebenezer of New York. Our readers will forcibly feel how far the "Natale Solum" can fill up a man's comprehension; when this patriot, after his Swiss, French, and Italian ramblings, with Lausanne, and Naples, and a hundred others before his memory, writes down, that, "perhaps no city can boast of a promenade superior, if equal, in point of prospect, to the battery of New York!" P.9.

Dr. Hobart came to England under peculiar circumWe must acknowledge that, whatever may be the labours or the learning of the Episcopal Church in New York, it had hitherto much escaped notice in England. Whatever may be the merit of its virtues, it had lost none by a too ambitious publicity. We hear a good deal in the Dr's. pamphlet of the literary education of its pastors. But their literature had confined itself to the modest but doubtless meritorious cultivation of the native mind; and content with fame on one side of the Atlantic, it apparently scorned the clamorous competitions of European theology. Dr. Hobart was an invalid, a man of pleasing manners, and, above all, an Episcopalian clergyman. Through the introduction of the amiable and active individual named in the preface, he found easy and generous access to the English divines, and even received personal attentions of a marked nature from some of them, whose high public occupation considerably precludes those things. We had no secrets to conceal; he looked about him freely, and at length took his departure under many declarations of respect and grateful remembrance.

We can assure this gentleman that it is with much more pain for him than for ourselves, that we have at last his own evidence of his employment while here.

Of all trades that of an abuse-hunter is the surest to enjoy employment. The determination to find things wrong can never be disappointed. The Jew salesman is not surer of finding every thing convertible into his traffic: the gipsy is not more expert at deciding on the property of all that can be turned into possession. An eye thoroughly yellow will see the world yellow from the sky to the ground. Investigators of this order are to be met with in all countries; we have them. among us in abundance, accurate and investigating as the fly on the pillar in St. Paul's, shooting out their minute feelers on every thing, and finding all roughness, intricacy, and decay. The grandeur, the proportioned beauty, the awful magnifi

cence of the whole are nothing to this keen tribe, while they are fixing their microscopic vision on some hair's-breadth crevice, or struggling over some monstrous projection the hundredth part of an inch high. Our true surprize is, that Dr. Hobart did not contrive to find ten times the abuses. With all his borrowing from report, his assortment is still meagre, and we can well understand the compatriot disappointment, that when he had risked so much to carry out his cargo, he had not made it better worth the voyage!

We confidently hope that this gentleman will feel the suitableness of henceforth abjuring politics, and be content with the popularity for which he has paid so hard a price. We shall probably hear no more of him than we have heard of his associate Theologians. His faculties may be well occupied in America; for, after all, it is from Episcopacy that we must expect whatever of religious decorum and sound doctrine is to be the portion of the Western world. All things there are too much tossed about in the yeasty ocean of Republicanism. The religious chart of America is still the melancholy counterpart of its physical one; here and there little traces of life among endless sweeps of sectarian barbarism; the land overspread with Dunkers and Thumpers, and Memnonists and Jumpers, enthusiasts gay and gloomy, beyond all counting; the slaves of strange and unscriptural folly, or giddy and presumptuous ignorance, or reckless and revolting passions; a vast hilarious and holy rabble, drugged by the cup of Fanaticism. Among those orgies Episcopacy sits, like the virgin of the poet, pure yet bound, still repelling the evil enchanter, and, we should trust, long disdaining his draught of licentiousness. To uphold this little Church in the midst of licensed extravagance, is among the most honourable of all duties; and we must hope, that its pastors will long be found worthy to transmit to posterity the faith of their righteous fathers and our own.

A Sermon preached at Lambeth, May 21, 1826, at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Charles Richard Sumner, Lord Bishop of Llandaff. By the Rev. J. B. SUMNER, M.A. Prebendary of Durham, &c. 8vo. Pp. 22. London. Hatchard.

THIS sermon, which was published by command of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a manly and intelligent exposition of the text.

"Take heed unto thyself and unto thy doctrine, continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee." 1 Tim. iv. 16.

The occasion was unusual, for the preacher was the brother of the Right Reverend prelate, and personal feelings might be presumed to have given an additional interest to the exhortations of the accomplished divine.

The choice of a Bishop is among the most important events of the Church, and is, perhaps, not inferior to any of the duties of the crown. Upon the vigour, learning, and purity of one man, the most extensive results have depended; and we have not to look back far into English history to know that to a Bishop may be due the fall or the safety of a Constitution. The late reign made it one of its proudest boasts that the Episcopal Bench was the object of its pious care; and the present Monarch has signalised his reign by equal and patriotic diligence in the selection of the most distinguished for literature and virtue among the clergy. The peculiar situation of the present Bishop of Llandaff gave his Royal Master opportunities of close investigation; no man in the realm is perhaps better able to judge of the qualities for high office, whether in Church or State; and we believe that, whether on the ground of learning and ability, of amiable manners and temper, or of Christian piety and knowledge, it would be difficult to point out a more popular promotion than that of the late Librarian to his Majesty.

An English prelate has before him a career that might stimulate the noblest and holiest ambition. A member of the great council of the nation, and a peer of England, he has the most conspicuous field that the world ever offered, thrown open to his public talents, and constitutional knowledge;—a Bishop, he stands in the highest rank of the most illustrious and purest Church of Christianity; the guardian of its interests, the assertor of its doctrines, the director, guide, and governor of its clergy. As a member of general society, he has all the influence attached to rank and revenue, with a degree of respect