Religious Entelligence. Our heart was warm ed--and we think our city has been highly favoured by the renewal of those labours among us, that were formerly owned and blessed of God. Tract Societies.-The Paris Reli gious Tract Society, had, during the Installation. The Rev. Jacob for their continued and fervent prayBroadhead, D. D. was installed the ers. We love to greet such honest, Pastor of the Church in Broome-street faithful heralds of the cross who, in New-York, on the 14th ult. forsaking the new fangled notions of The inaugural discourse was deliver- hairbrained theorists, stick to the good ed by the Rev. Eli Baldwin, from old way. Romans, x. 15. "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things." Charge to the pastor and people, was given by the Rev. Gerardus A. Kuypers, D. D. In the afternoon the pastor elect, delivered a discourse in reply to his charge, from 2 Thess. iii. 1. "Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified." He declared his cordial belief, that the canons of the Reformed Dutch Church were fairly and legitimately drawn from the revealed word of God, and contained a just summary of its doctrines. That these doctrines furnished to the believer a plain and delightful pathway between the extremes of Arminian- the universal dissemination of the ism or Hopkinsianism on the one word of God. He had in consehand, and Antinomianism on the quence of aid from the London other; and yet preserved in the hand Tract Society, published 5000 copies of the Christian pilgrim, "the word of his small book entitled "The of the Lord," to be a lamp to his feet Holy Chrysosthom, or the voice of and a light to his path. That they the Catholic Church, concerning the clearly embraced the true spirit of useful and edifying method of reading the Gospel, and presented motives the Bible." This eminent and pito the sinner in exact coincidence ous Catholic priest thus writes ;—"In with the dealings of God in the a period like the present, when Rome regeneration of his children. And and the Romanists are making all that they also presented a rational their power and influence subserviand clear view of the economy of ent to the pernicious works of darkGod, in the salvation of man as defi-ness, both by words and writings, it nite and complete in all its parts to is our duty to do all in our power to the exclusion of all contingency, counteract their efforts; persuaded resting upon Jesus Christ as the that the Lord will not suffer his true chief corner stone, and reaching to Christian Church, of all confessions the sinner by a divine imputation. to be overthrown."--The Hamburgh Having distinctly announced this to Tract Society, has during the past be his understanding of "the word of year, greatly increased its operathe Lord," a most impassioned and tions. affectionate appeal was then made tracts. The issues exceed 38,000 Stockholm, (Sweden,) circulated last year about 65,000; making a total of two millions since the year 1800. From Poland a Missionary writes: "Your tracts have been instrumental in stirring up many to a sense of true religion; and where the tracts have been distributed, they have manifested earnest longings after the preaching of the Gospel." In Spain a vast field of usefulness is opened. A letter from Gibraltar states, that "it is an important fact, that many of the Spaniards begin to suspect that they have been misled; and this has naturally resulted from their reading the word of God, and the tracts distributed among them." He adds, "I am acquainted with a Spanish priest, who begins to enjoy divine truth through the reading of some tracts; and he has translated several of them into Spanish. of the Episcopal Church of England, we perceive in ecclesiastical rule and authority, the same class of evils which strike and pain the eyes of a traveller in the monarchical forms of government of Europe. There is an improper and unequal distribution of power and of funds. Christianity in that country comes to every man's door-not in the angel form assumed by it generally in the United States, or Scotland-but in the shape of a dunning tax gatherer, and by the collector; who, by the strong hand of law, wrings from the unwilling purses of the rich, and from the pittance of the poor, the lordly sums of an ecclesiastical revenue. On one side you behold a lord bishop in his splendid robes and gilded chariot, and rich livery moving on in state; and caring perhaps as little for the thousand flocks of his diocese as he Vaudois Churches in the valleys of cares for the mob shouting at his Piedmont.We rejoice to see among chariot wheels. Others, wallowing the miscellaneous items of the pro- in riches, frequenting theatres, and ceedings of the British "Society for assemblies, and Renelagh, and the the propagation of the Gospel," a circus, and the race grounds; while statement of their benevolent agency they seek a thousand schemes of for the Vaudois clergy. In the year luxury to disperse their boundless 1768, the king of England granted riches, ministered to them by their special permission to these Protes- unwilling flocks. There is another tants to solicit donations in Britain, priest of a lower order in the grade with the view of forming a fund to ecclesiastic, combining deanships, and "enable these Protestants to main-rectories, and cures; and from these tain the Ministers, Churches, schools and poor which they were not able to support in any tolerable manner."This fund was placed in the hands of the "Society for propagating the Gopel." It was invested in government securities, and the interest is religiously appropriated to the support of the Gospel in the valleys of Piedmont. The capital stock is to derive a revenue of 32,000l. ster10,000l. sterling, 3 per cent bank an-ling per annum. pluralities deriving a revenue greater than that of the archbishop of Canterbury, or of York-or even the enormous ecclesiastical revenues of oppressed Ireland. Simpson, in his Plea for Religion, mentions a certain eminent gambling, jockeying, and fox hunting priest in England, who contrived from his many pluralities nuities. The interest is 2921. per an- All these appear to us plain repubnum sterling. This is paid in small stipends to thirteen pastors; and also some assistance is generously given to the widows of the deceased Ministers.-Christian Observer. Poor pious Clergy Society of London. In the splendid establishment licans, and plain Episcopalians, Dutchmen, and Presbyterians, to be such enormous evils that no Christian people, that in fact no people of spirit, like the English could endure them. But it turns our astonishment into disgust when we look over a file of English papers, or over a stipends, raised by the voluntary conlist of advertisements on the covers tributions of those who choose to beof our file of religious magazines; come members. In reviewing all and see in prominent letters, a curacy this, how forcibly does the anecdote for sale, a rectory with a good living of Lord Bolinbroke strike us! A cerfor sale or exchange for another li-tain clergyman of very profligate having in another part of the king-bits, visited Bolinbroke one day."You have caught me reading Cal dom!! In this vast establishment, the effi- vin's Institutes," said Lord B. rising cient services and parochial duties and taking him by the hand, "how are performed by a well educated, beautifully he treats the doctrines of pious, and laborious class of men-grace!" "The doctrines of grace,' the curates and vicars. Some of them said the profligate clergymen, 66 they passing rich on 70l. a year; some have set the world by the ears.' "I starving on the pittance of 20 or 30 am astonished to hear you say so,” or 501. bestowed as a kind of chari- said Lord B. "If I believed in the ty from the hands of the rector, or Bible, I certainly would believe in other grade in office, who holds the the doctrines of grace, for the Bible presentation, derives, it may be, two, teaches them clearly. But," ador four, or five hundred a year, from ded Lord B. with a cutting sneer, it and renders all the services by this" the greatest of all the miracles, miserably paid and laborious proxy. and that which puzzles me the The design of the above Society most is, that Christianity exists, and is to aid these poor and pious vicars such profligates as you are its Minisand curates, by additions to their ters! Literary and Philosophical Notices. Rutgers College.-A very large and valuable reflecting telescope made by Dr. Herschell, and lately imported, has been added to the philosophical apparatus of Rutger's College. The cost was nearly $800 It is said to magnify six hundred times. Professor Adrain has promised us a description of this elegant instrument and its powers, for our next number. It is said to be the largest in the United States. from the able pen of Mr. Shaler, has lately been published." The life of Lord Chatham, the distinguished British statesman, is about to be published under the auspices of the noble family descended from him. The work will appear in three volumes, qua o. In the Christian Observer for January, the life of Bonaparte had been announced. The author is said to be Sir Walter Scott. This is only New Publications.-The Rev. Dr. conjecture. Sir Walter, in putting Morse, of New-Haven, is about to in his claims as creditor in a late failpublish in several volumes, an Amer-ure, said on oath, that he was proican Clerical Biography. And Dr. Thatcher of Plymouth, an American Medical Biography. We wish them prietor :-he did not swear that he was the author of the Waverly Novels. It is stated to us by a gentleman just from Scotland, that the loss An interesting work on the policy, of Sir Walter, amounts to 70,000%. customs, government, &c. of Algiers, I sterling or $300,800. The conse much success. and every reviewer is writing-has come forth to tell the world that Miton's system is worse than what any one sect could have conceived it In the words of the Ecclectic Re view for January, "Milton's sys. tem of theology has been characterised as a combination of Arianism, Anabaptism, Latitudinarianism, Quakerism; and (in reference to his quence was his bankruptcy. But so much is he beloved, that upon his misfortune being known, it was resolved at a private meeting of the nobility and gentry in Edinburgh, at the instance of Duke of Buccleugh, to present him an amount equal to his loss. It is also stated, that he has accepted it in trust on honourable conditions. The first volume of the life of Napoleon, by the author of opinions on polygamy,) NahomeWaverly, was published in London on the 3d of February. Taste. The taste for Poetry, and Belles Lettres, is seldom combined in the same mind with a taste for metaphysics or mathematics Nay, a taste for the former is often very far removed from that of the latter. A profound mathematical genius of ten shows strong feelings of disgust at the lightness of poetry; and a poetical genius is absolutely disgusted with mathematical abstractions. The eminent Maclaurin used to say, "I never could discover any thing sublime in Milton's Paradise lost. But I could never read the queries at the close of Newton's Optics, without actually feeling my hair stand on end !" dism. No existing sect can claim the honour, or the shame of having engendered the theological moister, upon which is entailed the fate of all Hybrids-it will perpetuate no new variety."-p. 4. A Society of Ancient Northern Literature has been formed at Copenhagen. It intends to publisi in the original language, but with a Latin translation, a number of ver old Icelandic manuscripts, which is expected will throw great light a the ancient history of the North sions in Inda, as may hold out prospects of success in their cultivation. Tea Tree. By the lat accounts from Calcutta it appearshat the British resident at Nepaul as discovered the tea shrub originally brought from China, growing luxurintly, and ripening its seed yearly, is the garden of a Colossal Organ.-The Count of Cashmirian, at Katmandu, and that the Glenthorn, who holds the most ex-utmost exertions wil be used to effect tensive possessions in Silisia, (Prus- the introduction of these invaluable sia,) has caused to be built in the for-trees into such of the British possesest of Rumeperst, a colossal organ. Its smallest pipes are three feet and a half in diameter. It is played by Lead.-We learn that the vein of steam; and the airs played by it may lead ore in Southampton has been latebe heard 15 miles in every direction. ly examined by Professor Eaton, and Milton. Of this great man consi- several gentlemen from New York and dered as a poet, there is only one Philadelphia. It is said that the indicaopinion among the learned. He is tions of the vein in the western part of above all praise. Of his theology, the townare so favourable, that a comthere can also be one opinion. View-pany is foming for the purpose of opened as a whole, every sect will con- ing it, at a place three or four miles demn him. The attentive student of south-west of the well known mine the Paradise lost, had indeed long in that town.-Hamp. Gaz. ago viewed him as an Arian. But Hydrography.-The North Sea his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, has again broken, in three places, the discovered in manuscript among the Isthmus, which connects the north state papers in the office at White-ern extremity of Jutland with the hall, and lately published-a book rest of the Peninsula. Three rapid about which every body is speaking currents now unite the North Sea with the gulf called Lum Fiord, | lapse of 25 years on a desert island, vhich empties itself into the Cate- still spoke English quite well, exceptgate. These currents are so strong, ing the last syllables, which he had hat they cannot be crossed in boats. forgotten. I have remarked the same Four persons who made the attempt phenomenon in a person who was have perished. The sea has laid young, but blind for fourteen years, open the remains of ancient forests. to whom, as I shall hereafter relate, Loss of Memory." A singular I restored the faculty of writing." remark, and which, I believe, has ne- Madame de Genlis makes this rever been made, is, that in cases where mark, in consequence of a note which the menory has been lost, without had been written by the Dutchess of any change in the reasoning faculties, Cerifalco, after confinement in a subit is always the last syllables of the terranean cave for nine years: in words which are forgotten. It was which note she observed, that almost thus, that Alexander Selkirk, an En- all the last syllables were wanting.— glish sailor, who was found after a Mem. of M. de Genlis. Sketch of Public Affairs. "The king of England's household, in actual pay, every day consists of 795 persons; 507 have salaries, which amount in a year, to 102,2591. Two hundred and eighty-eight, whose salaries are unknown, but probably average 1501. each-43,000l. Total 143,2591. or $644,950. Besides these, there are a large number of footmen, undercooks, scullions, porters, hostlers, cowkeepers, &c. His own salary is about $5,000,000. That of the president of the United States, $25,000; or one two hundreth part of his majesty's." GREAT BITAIN.-The public distress, | ford an instructive lesson to republicans:though somwhat mitigated in general, is far from bein removed. In many of the manufacturing districts, the distress is indeed melanchor This distress is greater in England thann Scotland. The banking institutions in th latter country are on a very different fooing from those in England. Hence the Scottish banks have weathered the storn thus far. Letters from Manchester of the Sth ult bring intelligence of the re-apperance of distress in that place. Between forty and fifty thousand persons were out of employment; and many, it is said, were in a starving condition. The want of orders by the manufacturers, was assigned as the cause of the unfortunate recurrence of these distressing events. It is, moeover, stated that unexampled misery reigned among the wretched manufacturers of Blackburn."The moan of famine met the agenzing ear from famished fathers and starving children." It is to be hoped, hovever, that these statements are altogether exaggera ted. Considerable disturbances, it is said, have prevailed in many parts of the south and west of Ireland, for some time past, The value of the imports and ex-bers of the family-has been before the ports of Great Britain, are thus given in a parliamentary document. From January 5, 1825, to the same date of 1826, the imports amounted to 49,134,025. or $218,155,071. And the exports to 60,898,6321. or $270,389,992. The following is a specimen of the king of England's expenditure. It ought to af NAPLES.-This country, which has suffered so much at the hands of the legitimates and tyrants of the holy alliance, has been visited with a great calamity by Divine Providence. The country has sustained a terrible shock of an earthquake. In the village of Tito, 60 houses were destroyed, and many lives lost. At Polenza, not a house escaped damage. The extent of the damage and loss of lives is not yet ascertained. FRANCE. The project of a law respecting the right of birth, or the entailment of landed property, and conveying it to the elder son, to the exclusion of all the other mem house of Peers. It has caused, as well it may, a great sensation throughout the kingdom; and petitions come in against it from all quarters. This is the peculiar appendage of the aristocracy in a monarchical government. In the unequal distribution of property caused by this regulation, it is no uncommon thing to see the elder son rol |