THIS is a work of profound learning, deep research, high standing, and great practical utility.

The Editor in his preface observes: "It is quite superfluous to write in praise of the Gnomon of Bengel. Ever since the year in which it was first published, 1742, up to the present time, it has been growing in estimation, and has been more and more widely circulated among the scholars of all countries.

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gether amongst the Aborigines in this district, though their influence over a large portion of the troops and pensioners is unabated; very many children of professing Protestants are seriously ensnared by their subtlety in attending their schools.

"It is desirable that I should receive a regular supply of the 'Protestant Magazine' monthly for each subscriber, as it would give a more general circulation of the object of the Association and be satisfactory to them. . . . . Their priests insinuate themselves wherever they can possibly intrude, and this liberal age admitting Jews, Infidels, and Turks upon the same level in the State, involves the existence of Christianity. It is evident the Government have long stood in awe of this party in New Zealand; this fear has been exhibited from the foundation of the colony, but they must fall, their hour is at hand. "I remain, "Dear Sir,

"Yours very faithfully,
" HENRY WILLIAMS.

"James Lord, Esq.,

Chairman of the Protestant Association, London." "P.S.-Many applications have been made for Nevins' Thoughts on Popery,' can you send me 12 copies, and one set of the whole of your Standard Works."

TER-CENTENARY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ACCESSION. It is contemplated to make the three hundredth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England, which will occur on the 17th of November next, the occasion of a special celebration commemorative of the event in

connexion with the cause of Protestantism. A Meeting in furtherance of this object was held on Friday afternoon, at the Caledonian Hotel, Adelphi, under the presidency of Sir C. E. Eardley, and was attended, among others, by the Rev. H. Venn, Rev. E. Auriol, Rev. H. H. Beamish, Rev. Dr. M'Crie, of the Church of Scotland; Rev. Dr. Steane, Rev. J. H. Hinton, and Mr. G. H. Davis. The subject was introduced by the Rev. W. Goode, Rector of St. Margaret's, Lothbury, who spoke of the national blessings

never

which resulted from the accession of Elizabeth, instancing more especially the free circulation of the Word of God, and the deliverance of the nation, so far as authority was concerned, from the yoke of Popery. To show the estimation in which Elizabeth was held, even by the Puritans, whom she persecuted, the Rev. Gentleman cited the words of their historian Neal, who, referring to a serious illness which she had in 1558, said,-" Even in England the hearts of all good men were ready to fail for fear of the return of Popish idolatry, the Queen being suddenly seized with a severe fit of sickness this summer. The Papists were more sanguine in their expectations, nor the Reformation in greater danger, than now. But at length it pleased Almighty God to dissipate for the present the clouds that hung over the Reformation by the Queen's recovery.' The mode of celebration suggested by Mr. Goode was a voluntary special service on the anniversary in churches and chapels, or, where that was impracticable, for example, in rural districts, a special reference to the subject in the sermons of the succeeding Sunday. It was stated that the Archbishop of Canterbury had signified his approval of the object, and intimated that he intended to address a circular relating to it to some of the principal clergy in his diocese. Some objections were expressed by Dr. Steane and the Rev. J. H. Hinton, turning chiefly on the disinclination of Dissenters to observe special days, and on the tyrannical conduct of Elizabeth towards the Puritans. The object, however, appeared to meet with general approval, and at the close of the Meeting some practical steps were taken towards carrying it out.

LIVERPOOL PROTEST AGAINST RoMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL TITLES. At a Meeting of the Liverpool Select Vestry, on Tuesday, Mr. Churchwarden Jones objected to the form of entry in the minute-book of the receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the chief Roman Catholic ecclesiastic in the district, on the subject of Roman Catholic worship in the workhouse. The letter spoke of "the Right Rev. Dr. Goss, Bishop of Liverpool," and Mr. Jones maintained that it was not

right in any public body to recognise a title which the law not only did not acknowledge, but specially ignored. He could perceive a difference between a gentleman holding himself out as bishop to a certain class of people, and claiming to be bishop over a certain territory, and he moved as an Amendment that the entry in the minute be,-" Read a letter from the Secretary to Dr. Goss, the Bishop of the Roman Catholics of Liverpool." This was seconded by Mr. Cafferata, a Roman Catholic; and after some discussion, in which Mr. Owen (overseer) suggested that it should be entered,"Dr. Goss, the so-called Bishop of Liverpool," Mr. Church warden Jones's Amendment was unanimously adopted. -Dublin Daily Express, Oct. 1, 1858.

SPAIN. PERSECUTION FOR OPPOSING THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. The clerical prints are hewing away like "doctors in theology at a once celebrated priest, named Friar Braulio Morgaez, a man of an eccentric turn of mind, who, had he been born in England or the United States, would probably have invented a new sect. On the occasion of the Pope's issuing the famous bull declaring the immaculate conception an article of faith, Friar Braulio, instead of bowing to the Papal decree like the rest of his Spanish clerical brethren, wrote one of those verbose polemical pamphlets which have more than once made him acquainted with the interior of her Catholic Majesty's prisons, the purity of the faith being a sine qua non with all Spanish Governments, who look upon heresy as a sort of moral emasculation of the State. The "Esperanza," the principal organ of the clergy, has published the order by which Friar Braulio's lucubration has been put upon the "Index" by the Papal authorities. He accuses the clerical print of high treason, quoting a law of one of the most despotic of Spain's monarchs, to the effect that to prevent the Court of Rome from trespassing on his lawful authority, no Papal decree was to be published in his dominions before it had been approved of by his Royal Council.Spanish Correspondent of the Standard, Sept. 24, 1858.

have heard with deep sorrow and regret, that in the Roman States, Edgar Mortara, a child of Jewish parents, has been taken from his father's house in the city of Bologna, and placed in the city of Rome without his father's consent, for education in the Roman Catholic religion, on the ground of his having been baptized by a Roman Catholic servant of the family.

"2. Your Memorialists strongly object to the principle that the mere fact of a Jewish child having been baptized with or without its own consent, or the consent of its parents, should entitle the clergy, ministers, inquisitors, or other agents or officers of the Papacy to take such child away from parental control, believing as they do that such course is in direct violation no less of natural right, than of the principles of civil and religious liberty.

3. Your Memorialists also desire to express their conviction that there is no satisfactory evidence, that the rite of baptism ever was actually performed over the child, and they indulge a hope that any intervention which can properly be called into exercise by Her Majesty's Government, will be exerted to procure the restoration of this child to its parents.

"4. Your Memorialists are aware that it may be contended, that Her Majesty's Government has no strict right to interfere in matters relating to the laws or the internal administration of the affairs of a foreign country, and also that the present case having arisen in the Roman States may be considered as a still further complication of the affair.

"5. Your Memorialists nevertheless very respectfuly desire to remind your Lordship that on

former occasions the intervention of the Foreign-office has been exercised, and successfully exercised, in a friendly way, to procure the liberation of some who had been wrongfully imprisoned.

"6. In the year 1844, the case of Dr. Kalley occurred, who had been imprisoned for conscience sake by the Portuguese authorities at Madeira. A Deputation waited on Lord Aberdeen, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Kalley was restored to liberty. On this case your Memorialists do not so much rely, because Dr. Kalley was a British subject.

"7. Two stronger and more recent cases have, however, occurred in reference to persons not British subjects, one the case of Dr. Achilli, who had been imprisoned in the Inquisition at Rome, and the other that of a man and his wife of the name of Madiai, who had been imprisoned at Florence.

"8. In each of these latter cases the parties were foreigners; there was a British Minister at Florence, and a consular agent at Rome. Strong sympathy was expressed both in the case of Dr. Achilli, and that of the Madiai in this country and elsewhere. Representations were made by philanthropic persons, the intervention of those whose high position in European diplomacy gave them great weight was called into exercise, and the liberation of Dr. Achilli from the Inquisition in Rome, and the Madiai from their imprisonment at Florence was accomplished.

"9. Your Memorialists, therefore, respectfully lay the matter before your Lordship, and humbly pray that it may be considered in what manner the influence of the British Government, exercised so often with success in defence of

civil and religious liberty and the rights of the oppressed, may be exerted for the restoration of the child Edgar Mortara to his parents at Bologna, and that steps may be taken accordingly.

"Signed on behalf of the Committee,

"JAMES LORD, Chairman. "Protestant Association, 31, Strand, Nov. 3, 1858."

A letter, signed "W. F.," has appeared in the "Jurist" (30th Oct., 1858) full, as it appears to us, of fallacies and fallacious suggestions. Amongst them we may mention these :

The boy is spoken of as "old enough to learn and understand a Christian catechism;" but, toward the end of the letter, it is said, in order to aggravate the horror of giving up the child to his parents, that, "If given up the child would be forcibly circumcised."

Now, it is well known the Jewish rite of circumcision should be performed at the end of eight days. This child Mortara may be as many years old, and is evidently, on the showing of Roman Catholics, so old as to have pleased the Pope, who, on account of his proficiency, "wished to see him, and was enchanted with

him."

The same letter represents, or assumes, that the poor child wishes to remain where he is.

This is quite at variance with the following, which appeared in the "Times" of the 9th of Nov. :——

"THE PAPAL STATES.-The 'Gazetta del Popolo' publishes a private letter, giving an account

of the journey of young Mortara from Bologna to Rome; from which it appears that his conversion to Christianity is not, by any means, so far advanced as was pretended some time ago by an Ultramontane paper. It is stated that the poor child did nothing but cry all the way, and call for his father and mother. The sergeant under whose charge he was having endeavoured to force a chaplet into his hands, with a little cross at the end, the boy did all he could to reject it, crying that he wanted the name of God, such as is worn by other Jewish children. The father, in one of the visits which he was allowed to pay his son, told him of the hopes he had that the Pope would relent and restore him to his parents, at which the boy expressed the greatest joy, and said he would sleep in the carriage all

the way. The letter concludes with an account of the journey of the father and mother to Rome, of the indignities they were exposed to in endeavouring to obtain audiences, and of the calumnies which had been studiously spread among the populace regarding them, viz., that it was their intention to go and murder their own child! In consequence of which their very lives were in danger in passing through the had been conveyed."-Times, 9th streets of Alatii, whither the boy

Nov., 1858.

Again, there seems to be "W. no intimation, as F." suggests, that the father, even for a short time, "acquiesced in the child being brought up as a Christian," so as to justify the Church of Rome in taking away the child from his parents; none, at least, has ever come to our knowledge.