of the Rolls; and yet the united salaries of all those Judges were under the Parliamentary salaries of one class of our ecclesiastical dignitaries. With the Judges in Scotland, the whole number was 33; and yet their united salaries did not equal the incomes of the 27 prelates. The highest Scotch judge had a salary below the Parliamentary income of a Welsh prelate; and the whole of the Scotch judges had not salaries equal to the amount of income of four prelates. Then he came to members of that and the other House holding office during pleasure. The number was 48; their time and strength were devoted to the public, and yet their united salaries did not equal the amount of income of the 27 one-third that of the Archbishop, one- | three Vice-Chancellors, and the Master half that of the Bishop of London, and considerably below that of the Bishop of Durham or Bishop of Winchester. The honourable member for Oxfordshire last year proposed to take off 10 per cent. of the income of the Prime Minister, but would he not touch that of the ecclesiastical dignitaries? The enormous disproportion between those incomes justified inquiry. Now let them take the Board of Admiralty; it consisted of a First Lord and five junior lords; they were charged with the administration of one of our most important departments, and yet their united salaries did not equal the official income of a single primate. Let them also take the Customs and Excise. They had two boards; one with a chairman and eight commissioners-prelates. They, like the judges, were the other with a chairman and six commissioners; and yet the united salaries of both boards did not equal the income of two prelates. He would take another branch into which the noble lord proposed inquiry-that of foreign ambassadors and ministers. They represented our Sovereign in all courts and countries with which we had to deal. There were 33; and commencing with the highest, in Paris, who received £10,000 a year, to the lowest Chargé d'Affaires, their salaries did not come within 50 per cent. of that amount which was annually divided amongst the bench of bishops. He would take another service-the governors of colonies;-they were 43 in number; and from the highest, in Canada, who received £7,000 a year, to the lowest, the governor of the Falkland Isles, who received £400, the whole expense did not come near the amount annually divided amongst the bishops. He now took the salaries of the Judges-an establishment which they looked upon every day as that upon which the institution and government of the country depended; and he believed he might say, that, of all our functionaries, none were more reverenced than the Judges. In the Court of Queen's Bench there were a chief justice and four judges; there was a similar number in the Common Pleas, and also in the Exchequer. In Chancery there were the Lord Chancellor, paid for work which they could not evade, and yet, except the Lord Chancellor, not one had a salary exceeding the Bishop of London, or two-thirds of that of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was said the other night, there were few instances of public men becoming richer by public life. An instance of a Minister of State becoming richer from office of late years, was, he believed, unknown; and the reason assigned for it was, that the duties of their office obliged them to neglect their private affairs. That was not the case with the prelates. He had a return of the personal property left by 29 prelates since 1828. It amounted to £1,500,000. Prelates were generally advanced in life when they were consecrated; they were generally poor men before; and yet in what other profession or country in the world could they find twenty-nine members of a profession leaving fortunes averaging £50,000 a piece, accumulated after they had passed middle age? The preiates certainly had duties to perform, but the deans and canons had none; and yet at that moment they divided amongst them annually a greater amount of income than the salaries of the functionaries in all the departments of the public service included in the motion of the noble lord. A bill had been proposed to reduce the incomes of deans to £1,000 a year; but the noble lord stated, on a former evening, that the Bishop of Salisbury had said, that if the income of the dean of Salisbury were reduced to that amount, no one could be found to take it." We do not believe that the total revenues of the Church exceed its wants; the case is not one of plethora, but of a determination of wealth to the head. The share of the hierarchy is enormous, and out of all decent proportion. Mr. Horsman states that not one of the Judges have a salary exceeding that of the Bishop of London. This is the only assertion made at random we can detect in Mr. Horsman's speech. What can he or any mortal man pretend to know of the Bishop of London's income? It is a thing inscrutable. The depths of that pocket have never been sounded. All that is known is, that there is a huge, new, and beautiful city at the bottom of it, with fines out of number, and leases extending from Tyburn to Harrow, and from Paddington to Edgeware. Fable riots in the imagination of the Bishop of London's wealth. Seventy and eighty thousands a year have been assigned him in certain years when large fines came tumbling in; but nothing is known for certain, except indeed that, however rich he may be, the good man is not so rich as he could wish. The fact mentioned by Mr. Horsman of the large wealth left behind them by bishops is certainly most remarkable. It is alleged that the holy men want their large incomes for purposes of hospitality and charity; but if they make these uses of their wealth, it must be returned to them by some miracle, for instead of being laid up where the moth does not destroy, it is to be found treasured up in the most mundane of all places, in the earthly shapes of marketable bonds and securities. There is but one other solution of this riddle, and it is, that, as the Bishop of Asaph asserts the bishops to be the hardest worked men on the face of the earth, they must be so fully employed as to have no time even to spend their money. But this their families and establishment would surely do for them; and they have not yet dropped any of that state, in the latter respect, which caused Mandeville to explain the sumptuousness of their equipages by the fact that it takes a great many horses to draw such a load of humility as a Christian prelate. EPISCOPAL THE munificence of the Archbishops and Bishops has been inquired into, in consequence of the laudation which Mr. Goulburn bestowed upon the Right Rev. heads of the Church, for their charity, in reply to Mr. Horsman's remarks during the debate on the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill. In Mr. Goulburn's speech, he says: "The largest subscription to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Church Missionary Association, and similar Societies, were contributions from the Bishops. The Bishops were the leading contributors to the Christian Knowledge Society, the Prayerbook and Homily Society, and others. CHARITY. Wherever a Bishop resided, a portion of the episcopal expenditure would be seen; to say nothing of the thousand instances of secret charity." To meet this allegation, a gentleman in one of the daily papers, having examined the last Reports of the National Society, Additional Curates' Society, Propagation Society, Christian Knowledge Society, Pastoral-Aid Society, Church Missionary Society, Prayerbook and Homily Society, British and Foreign Bible Society, and British and Foreign School Society, in order to ascertain the real extent of the charity given, furnishes the following synoptical table, which speaks for itself: tieths are "aliens from the common-is wanted is, that it should take a still wealth of Israel, strangers from the larger hold upon the heart of the covenant of promise, having no hope, Churches, that every Church, and and without God in the world," Eph. every person in every Church, should ii. 12. When we consider that thirty-make it a point of conscience to begird two millions of Bibles are abroad in the earth, translated into languages spoken by 600,000,000; let us not forget that only one in thirty-one, on an average, have in their hands the bread of life; that 968,000,000 are destitute, and that to 400,000,000 the Bible is a sealed book this very hour. When we consider that several hun dred thousand have been rescued from heathenism in the last fifty years, 200,000 of whom, perhaps, are now alive, let us not forget the millions that have perished in their sins, and the millions that have been heathenized during the same period. Heathenism has been on a terrible increase for centuries. It is a startling fact, that the disparity between the friends and the foes of Christianity, between the disciples of the Saviour and unconverted men, is greater, vastly more so at the present time, than it was fifty years since. himself to the work of supplying it with the means of carrying on its mighty warfare. A great deal is done by some Churches, and a little by many; but sure it is that vastly more could be done than is now done. Were all Churches and all individuals to come up nearly to the point of duty, it admits of no dispute that its revenues might be doubled. We have been very deeply impressed with this conviction by the perusal of the Life, just issued, of the late lamented Dr. Heugh. That excellent minister belonged to what was recently known as the United Secession Church, and latterly to the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He was resident, for most of his life, in Glasgow, pastor of a large but not particularly wealthy church in that city. When he repaired to the great Metropolis of the West, the spirit of Missions was very low-not lower than in the other Presbyterian Bodies, but very low indeed compared with what it is now, as will forthwith appear. Dr. Heugh became deeply convinced that the state of things was by no means satisfactory. Dwelling on the condition of the Heathen and the duty of the Church, it occupied his thoughts, found its way into his con FOREIGN MISSIONS-THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. THIS great Institution, which has achieved such triumphs for the Redeemer in all the great Mission fields, has claims paramount on the British Churches of every order, but more especially on those of the Nonconform-versation, and at length broke out in ist Body. Its principle is the most simple and catholic that can be conceived; its economic administration scarcely admits of improvement; it is ail that reason, truth, right principle, and good feeling can either furnish or require. The foundation is sure. What occasional addresses to his congregation. The facts of the case are so extraordinary that we must quote that portion of the Life which refers to them. They are the following: The following statement will present the Missionary income of the congre if this most important item be omitted in their calculations, the probability is, that if he have any individuality of character, they will seriously mar his happiness, while endeavouring, to the utmost of their power, to promote it.Curtis. REMEDY FOR HEAT. A plan has lately been tried for moderating the intensity of the heat, during the summer months, where slated or tiled roofs are in close proximity with bed-rooms, &c. It is as follows: "Let the roof (i. e. the slates) be whitewashed; and the temperature in the room underneath, which before was almost insupportable, will not only be tolerable, but very agreeable. The materials in use are whiting, size, (or thin glue,) and a little linseed oil. This mixture has a good body, and will not be very soon washed off by rain." Poetry. HYMN OF THE TRUE MAN. BY ALICE CAREY. PEACE to the true man's ashes! Weep for those Whose days in old delusions have grown dim ; Such lives as his are triumphs, and their close An immortality: weep not for him. As feathers wafted from the eagle's wings Lie bright among the rocks they cannot warin, So lie the flowery lays that genius brings, In the cold turf that wraps his honoured form. A practical rebuker of vain strife, Bolder in deeds than words, from beardless youth To the white hairs of age, he made his life A beautiful consecration to the truth. Virtue, neglected long, and trampled down, Grew stronger in the echo of his name; And, shrinking self-condemned beneath his frown, The cheek of harlotry grew red with shame. Serene with conscious peace, he strewed his way With sweet humanities, the growth of love; Shaping to right his actions, day by day, Faithful to this world and to that above. The ghosts of blind belief and hideous crime, Of spirit-broken loves, and hopes betray'd, That flit among the broken walls of time, Are by the true man's exorcisms laid. Blest is his life, who to himself is true, And blest his death; for memory, when he dies, Comes, with a lover's eloquence, to renew Our faith in manhood's upward tendencies. Weep for the self-abased, and for the slave, And for God's children, darkened with the smoke Of the red altar-not for him whose grave Is greener than the mistletoe of the oak. WATER IS BEST. WATER is best for the man of health, 'T will keep his strength secure; Water is best for the man of wealth, 'T will keep his riches sure. Water is best for the feeble man, "T will make his health improve; Water is best for the poor, I ken, "Twill make his wants remove. was the prince of popular orators; his eloquence was of every kind. Easy, airy, elegant, conversational, argumentative, declamatory; alternately moving and melting, thundering and lightning, he carried everything before him like a whirlwind. John Wesley, on the other hand, with a fine, solid, clear, and highly cultivated intellect, logical, analytical, polemic, persuasive, seldom excited, but, always glowing, diffused light on every side, winning, persuading, and mastering all auditors. But there were times when that calm heart became animated, inflamed; and when those quiet lips, as a volcano, poured forth floods of lava, appalling, consuming, destroying whatever it touched. His extraordinary equanimity, and his extreme sense of propriety, seemed to have repressed the higher emotions in the breast of Wesley, who wanted nothing but a determination to have become a highly impetuous orator. As it is, his printed works, more especially his Sermons, contain many passages of highly impassioned eloquence. The sermon on the "Use of Money," may be adduced as an instance, as also that in which occurs his famous apostrophe, on the subject of Calvinism, to " Lucifer, Son of the Morning." The following passage is from the former of these: "Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbour in his body: therefore we may not sell anything which tends to impair health. Such is, eminently, all that liquid fire, commonly called drams, or spirituous liquors. It is true, these may have a place in medicine; they may be of use in some bodily disorders; although there would rarely be occasion for them, were it not for the unskilfulness of the practitioner. Therefore, such as prepare and sell them only for this end may keep their conscience clear. But who are they? Who prepare them only for this end? Do you know ten such distillers in England? Then excuse these. But all who sell them in the common way, to any that will buy, are poisoners general: they murder his Majesty's subjects by wholesale, neither does their eye pity or spare. They drive them to hell like sheep: and what is their gain? Is it not the blood of these men? Who then would envy their large estates and sumptuous palaces? A curse is in the midst of them-the curse of God cleaves to the stones, the timber, the furniture of them-the curse of God is in their gardens, their walks, their grovesa fire that burns to the nethermost hell. Blood, blood is there: the foundation, the floor, the walls, the roof, are stained with blood! And canst thou hope, O thou man of blood, though thou art "clothed in scarlet and fine linen, and farest sumptuously every day;" canst thou hope to deliver down thy fields of blood to the third generation ? Not so; for there is a God in heaven: therefore thy name shall soon be rooted out. Like as those whom thou hast destroyed body and soul: Thy memorial shall perish with thee."" CHARACTER OF THE AFRICAN. AFRICANS are great gamblers, and there are several games of chance at Cape Mount. One of these, called Po, is a warlike game. Each has a side of a board, pierced with twelve round holes; in each hole are four men. They commence by what is called making a town, which is, by each |