north had these remarks" on the state of trade" a few weeks since: The unsettled aspect of political affairs, and the consequent decline in the value of public securities, have had an injurious effect upon this market, and we understand that one or two orders for goods for the Mediterranean have been countermanded."

Alas! our Ministry are "men of wit," deciding great national concerns from motives of private resentment, and doing very bad actions in a good humoured manner. "Sir (said Burke), men with good humoured faces have signed papers that have made nations tremble."

Having thus rapidly glanced at our Foreign Policy, we will give one more example of the way in which the Ministry foster Revolution at home: Messrs. Wakley and T. S. Duncombe-the latter of whom owes his seat to the corrupt interference of Ministers, and both of whom are styled their "honourable friends" in the House-have been figuring, "sans culotte," at a dinner given to the two chartist incendiaries, Lovett and Collins; when the chartist-coroner-chairman, among other seditious matter, held out to the British people an example in these noble martyrs to their cause worthy of their imitation; his colleague, Duncombe, was no whit behind him in jacobinic eloquence. The Marsellaise was played. And these are the men whom her Majesty's Ministers delight to honour! Vogue là galère !!

Again, one of the thorough-going supporters of the Melbourne Ministry, speaking of O'Connell's repeal agitation, thus continues:

"We are no friends to repeal; but we would take away every pretext for seeking it, by doing justice to the Irish; and we would begin by declaring that every Church preferment in Ireland, as it became vacant, should be secularized, and the proceeds paid into the public treasury. We would gradually abolish the Protestant Church of Ireland, and so remove that greatest of all evils and insults that one nation ever inflicted on another."

Is not a Ministry that countenances such proposals for Church robbery in their semi-official organs, deserving the character thus drawn of them by a journal of rival opinions :

"Base panders at the same moment to Irish democracy and Russian despotism; the Melbourne Ministry seems ingenious in discovering the most effectual means of earning the contempt and execration of history -if history should ever think it worth while to rescue the memory of so wretched a Government from oblivion, to gibbet it to everlasting shame."

And thus we are driven by these Imbeciles at railway speed to destruction, and the road runs so smooth, with almost impercep

tibly descending gradients, that the motion is scarcely felt; yet the speed ever increases as we go; "vires acquirit eundo," and down we fly. The engineer who presides is an Incapable, and already begins to get frightened at the downward rush, while the firemen and stokers keep up the steam to the highest pressure, and the moral railroad surpasses all physical ones for running smoothly and pleasantly. The engineer who constructed it is no vulgar workman; he is an unrivalled master, the greatest capitalist in the universe, a prince, and immortal-he is prince of the powers of the air, and consequently of the elements of fire and water, and their compound-steam. He turns out his works

perfect in their kind; on his broad railway there is nothing to alarm the delighted passenger-no thrashing of wheels-no loud beating of the engine-all rushes on smoothly forwards and downwards, on the "facilis descensus averni."

We conclude with the application of Mirabeau's dying prophecy concerning the National Assembly of France in 1791 to the English Ministry of 1840:

"They have chosen to govern the Queen, instead of governing by her; but soon neither she nor they will rule the country, but a vile faction, which will overspread it with horrors."

Ecclesiastical Report.

VARIOUS measures, some of them of very great importance, have been discussed in Parliament since our last. In this department of our Review, our object is to embrace all those topics which in any way affect the interests of our apostolical Church. While Papists and Dissenters are so active in supporting their respective systems-while they can unite even with Infidels against the Church of England, it would be inexcusable in Churchmen to sit still, and not stand up to defend that system of doctrine and discipline for which not a few, at the era of the Reformation, were content to suffer not merely the loss of property, but the loss of life. The eagerness with which our common enemies advance to the attack-the virulence which seems to animate their movements—and the fact that Papists and Dissenters can make common cause in an attack on the Anglican Church, forgetting their distinctive differences in their hatred; are circumstances which prove that those who compose this heterogeneous mass of materials are fearful lest the object of their dislike should still retain her hold on the affections of the people,

and maintain her ascendancy in the country. The very circumstances to which we allude should also animate Churchmen in their course, and unite them as one man against the common enemy; for it is certain that the opponents of the Church would not evince so much activity, or display so much violence, unless they were afraid of her influence, and conscious that, so far from declining, she is advancing amongst the people. If Churchmen are true to themselves, and will only copy, in some respects, the example of their opponents, no fears need be entertained respecting the issue of the contest which has been commenced, and which is now carrying on by the Dissenting, Romanist, and Infidel combination.

purpose in this number to notice those questions which, from their public character, demand our first attention; leaving some other matters to our next Report.

EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENTS.

Two members of the Episcopal bench have been removed by death since our last Report. One of the vacancies has been filled up by the elevation of the Rev. C. Thirlwall to the see of St. David's; the other by that of Dr. Shuttleworth to the see of Chichester. Respecting the first appointment we cannot but declare our unmingled grief and disappointment; not however on account of the character of the new prelate, for we know that it is irreproachable—but on account of his principles, which, in our opinion, are not such as should be entertained by the governors of the Church in these days of spurious liberalism and schismatic encroachments. The men who are sworn to defend the Church should promote to the Episcopal bench those whose feelings are in unison with the spirit of the Church. It cannot be for the welfare of the Church to advance to that high dignity men who entertain such opinions as those which, on more than one occasion, have been advanced by the present Bishop of St. David's. We allude especially to his views on a question agitated only a few years since, relative to the abolition of subscription in our Universities, and the consequent admission of men of all sentiments into those venerable seats of learning. Our earnest hope is, however, that the Right Reverend Prelate will reconsider the question, and that his sentiments on that subject, and on some few others, will undergo a decided change. In justice to the Whigs, we feel constrained to admit, that the majority of their appointments would reflect honour on any Administration. One of the organs of the Ministry complained loudly, since the vacancy in the see of Chichester, of some of the late Episcopal appointments. The Bishops of Salisbury

and Ripon are especially alluded to, while Dr. Hampden and Dr. Arnold were pointed out as proper persons for the mitre. We hope, however, that her Majesty's Ministers will continue to act as they have done in the case of Chichester; select men not on account of their political views, but for their high character; and that they will, in all their appointments, regard the welfare of the Church, and not the advancement of party interests. To us it is passing strange that the Morning Chronicle should recommend the elevation of any man to the Episcopal bench: to be consistent with its own oft-repeated principles, it ought to recommend the abolition of the whole order! That journal is the organ of Dissenters and Papists; it advocates their measures, and uniformly opposes the Church; how then can it recommend that the vacancy should be filled up? At all events it ought, if it did not urge the abolition of Episcopacy, to remain quiet. But the truth is, that the conductors of the Morning Chronicle are well aware that the Episcopal benches must be filled, and that the people of England are not prepared to sacrifice their Church, and therefore, feeling assured that Bishops there must be, they advocate the selection of those individuals whose views are most in accordance with their own. The fact that the Morning Chronicle recommends a man to such an office is calculated to excite suspicion in the breasts of Churchmen. Again however would we express our hope-a hope confirmed and strengthened by the late appointment of Dr. Shuttleworth, that her Majesty's Ministers will, in all future appointments, consult the interests of that Church of which they are the sworn defenders and guardians.

THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY OF SCOTLAND AND AMERICA.

In our last Report we intimated, that a bill on this subject had been introduced into the House of Lords by the Archbishop of Canterbury. That measure has been passed into a law; and the impediments which prevented a canonically ordained minister from entering our pulpits, unless ordained in England or Ireland, are removed. We rejoice in the alteration, inasmuch as in future the clergy of those churches whose views on matters of doctrine and discipline are similar to our own, will not, on visiting this country, find a middle wall of partition between them and ourselves. Our readers are aware that the exclusion was the act of the State, not of the Church: the inconsistency is now happily removed. The Bishops and Priests of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, who have been canonically ordained, are now enabled, under certain limitations and restrictions, to perform divine service in our churches. It is enacted, "that it shall be lawful for the Bishop

of any diocese in England or Ireland, if he shall think fit, on the application of any Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland or of any Priest of such Church canonically ordained. by any Bishop thereof, residing and exercising at the time of such ordination Episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland, to grant permission under his hand, and from time to time under his hand to renew such permission, to any such Bishop or Priest to perform divine service, and to preach and administer the sacrament, according to the rites and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland, for any one day, or any two days, and no more, in any church or chapel within the diocese of the said Bishop." It is further specified that the party in question shall not officiate on any day except on those which are specified by the Bishop; but the Bishop has the power to renew the permission as often as he pleases. Before the permission is granted, certain letters commendatory from the Scottish Bishops are to be exhibited. By another clause in the bill its provisions are also extended to the clergy of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

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It will be seen that the clergy from Scotland and America are merely permitted to officiate under the license or permission of the Bishop: they cannot hold livings or curacies. object of the bill is merely to permit a friendly intercourse between the clergy of these churches and those of the Anglican Church. To have permitted the clergy ordained in Scotland or America to hold livings or curacies would have been unwise: none of our brethren in Scotland or America could expect it. Had such permission been granted, the Bishops would not have been able to adhere to that rule, which most of them have adopted, of ordaining no person who has not graduated in one of our Universities; for many, to avoid the ordeal of a University career, would procure orders in Scotland, or even in America, so that the Bishops would find that numbers who had never graduated would obtain curacies, and even livings, in this country. It is not desirable to admit men to our churches as permanent ministers who have not been ordained by our own Bishops; but it was exceedingly desirable that the Bishops and Priests of other Episcopal Churches should be permitted to officiate. This end has now been accomplished by the bill of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bishops and Priests of the Churches in Scotland and America may now enter our pulpits and celebrate those ordinances which hitherto they could not perform, because an act of Parliament required that, in order to the performance of any clerical act, the orders of the officiating minister must be conferred in England or Ireland. No Churchman ever doubted that the orders of the two churches in question were valid and