Dr. D'Aubigné, in the course of his letter, says:—

"The following is a portion of a letter from a pious minister (a pupil of our theological school), placed by us in an important position:They have succeeded in carrying off a young Protestant orphan, a very interesting child of twelve years of age, and have placed her in a Roman Catholic convent. We have taken steps to bring her out of it, but they have positively refused to give her to us. We have asked the mother, who is in Africa, to send us a warrant to overcome the powerful opposition which we meet with. We have applied to the magistrate of the district, but he rudely repulsed us. We have made fresh attempts with some hopes of success, but in answer they sent us a letter from the young girl, in which she said that she wished to remain Roman Catholic, and that if we attempted to prevent her, she would throw herself into the Saône.'. . . . That shows, dear Sir, with what people we have to do, and what would become of all our stations for evangelization, were we to forsake them for one moment. But if we persevere with faith, victory will surely be the Lord's. See the end of the history of that young girl. The pastor and his pious wife, seeing all their efforts fruitless, threw themselves on their knees and besought the Lord with earnest entreaties to restore the child, which had been thus taken from their care. The very next day the Roman Catholic magistrate, who had received them so badly, came to them and said that on reflection he had recognized the justice of their demand, and brought back the child. They discerned the Lord's hand in this striking de

PLANS FOR GETTING RID OF THE MAYNOOTH QUESTION. A PLAN was put forward some time since for getting rid of Maynooth, as it was said, by paying down in a lump 250,000. This plan never met with general favour, for it was apparent that, instead of thereby getting rid of State support, the sum given, calculating interest at 51. per cent., would be equivalent to a perpetual endowment of 12,500l. per

annum.

that the different officers and But, even assuming all the students have either vested interests or a moral right to have that education completed by the State, which has been commenced by the State, the less objectionable plan of dealing with the question appears to be this, viz., to let all who are now students have their education completed, and the President, professors and officers, while they continue such, receive their salaries. This seems the very utmost that can be required.

On comparing the two plans the difference is very great. The Grant is 26,360., of this 6,000l. is for President, Professors, &c., and 20,3601. for students.

The complete College course is said to consist of eight years.

Supposing, therefore, oneeighth of the pupils to go out each year, the 20,360l. will diminish by one-eighth, or 2,5461. each year, gradually tapering off to nil. To ascertain the relative value of the two plans, the sums paid should be reckoned, with interest, to the end of the eight years. At that period the cost incurred by the country, as regards the students, Will be. Reckoning Interest on the

Grant for Students

Total for students

£91,620

26,159

. £117,779

58,800

£176,579

Showing a difference between the two plans at the end of eight years of £173,421 The President, officers, and professors will still have to But the be provided for. grants for students being disposed of, 6,000l. only will in future have to be paid, and that only while the present professors and officers continue such; and even that sum gradually diminishing as lives fall in. While by 250,000l. being paid down, 12,500. may be annually realized by Maynooth College, instead of 6,000l.; and after professors and officers have ceased to be such, 12,5007. a-year for ever, instead of nothing.

GRANTS OF PUBLICATIONS.

FROM a City Missionary in the eastern suburbs of London :To the Secretary of the Protestant Association.

"26th Dec., 1857. "DEAR SIR,-Herewith you have a circular, kindly, and Papistlike, put under our doors in this locality.

"Would to God Protestants would arouse to duty and battle to defend their own interests socially and nationally, as well for time as for eternity.

'Oh! for an hour of Luther now!

Oh! for a frown of Calvin's brow!' "Allow me to say, I find the 'Works' kindly granted me by your Committee very useful, and can with truth say they have opened my eyes more than ever to see the apostasy of the mystic Babylon.

A handbill, notifying the delivery of certain lectures.

Common Things regarding the Bringing-up of our Girls. By JANE BROUGH, author of "How to make the Sabbath a Delight." London: Wertheim and Macintosh. 1857. 8vo. Pp. 84.

How to make the Sabbath a Delight. By JANE BROUGH. London: Wertheim and Macintosh. 8vo. Pp. 66. THESE publications, though small, are a valuable contribution to works on the subject of education. They are written for the higher classes in society; and parents and guardians will do well to avail themselves of the useful suggestions they contain, given, as they appear to be, by one whose mind has been for many years devoted to education, and to studying the characters of young people. We cannot give any long extracts. The subjects treated of are all of them important. The writer manifests much anxiety to promote the mental and moral training of those under her care, by calling into aid many instrumentalities-too much neglected-by constantly giving them something to do, with hours appropriated to each, and not too much of anything at a time; by interesting herself in everything connected with her pupils, and not leaving them by themselves to do as they can; and also by providing books of

an interesting and useful kind, for perusal or reference during the hours not positively devoted to tuition. Miss Brough's observations, with regard to suitable premises for carrying the higher classes, are very valuable. on the work of training children of Her remarks upon religious instruction and Sunday employments must impress every thinking mind, and she lays much stress-and not without reason-upon the necessity of attending to the health and physical wellbeing of the young.

A few lines in reference to the subject of Romish controversy claim our special notice. At page 32 of "Common Things" Miss Brough

writes:

"The spreading influence of Roman Catholic error is so great at the present time, that I cannot avoid introducing one word on the subject; not that I would make our children controversialists, by any means, but I would have all our children thoroughly grounded in the Christian points of doctrine which are directly antagonistic to the Roman dogmas. I would have them well acquainted with texts of Scripture, proving that there is but one Mediator; the sin of idolatry, justification by faith, confession of sin to God alone, and such like important doctrines; and when our children have grown stronger in mind and in love, it will be time enough to enter more into the points of difference between the two Churches, and then there will be less likelihood of anyone leading another astray."

Sketches of Moral and Mental Philosophy; their Connexion with each other, and their bearings on Doctrinal and Practical Christianity. Introductory Tracts and Essays. By THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., LL.D. Edinburgh Thomas Constable ; Hamilton, Adams, London. 1857. Svo., pp. 624.

:

"There seems a special necessity in the present times for laying open to the light of day every possible connexion which might be fancied or alleged between theology and the other sciences. The truth is, that infidelity, foiled in its repeated attacks on the main citadel of the Christian argument, now seeks for auxiliaries from every quarter, however remote, of human speculation. There is not perhaps one of the sciences which has not at some time or other been pressed into the service; and the mischief is, that, in the proportion to their ignorance of these sciences, might the faith of men be unsettled by the imagination of a certain wizard power that each of them, on the authority of some great infidel name, has been said to possess."

The connexion of science with religion, its elucidation of it, and its bearing upon it, will always therefore prove to be important for the rising generation, and Dr. Chalmers has largely contributed to throw light on many points connected with these subjects.

In India fields are rarely separated by hedges. Divisions are made by low embankments of perhaps a foot-and-a-half high, and of equal breadth, which serve at once to define boundaries, to retain the water needful for the crop, and often as the means of communication from one village to another. When the full crop is growing, a boundless expanse of waving vegetation may be seen stretching in uninterrupted grandeur, like the surface of the sea. Alluding to the disappearance of the boundary lines with the rising crops, a native Christian teacher once observed to me, when speaking of the evils of sectarian division in the Church, "These are not perceived when believers abound in the fruits of the Spirit; they are made prominent in proportion to our sterility."-Land of the Vedas.

If we have not grace enough, it is because we do not pray enough. -Bogatzky.

Entelligence.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF
WINCHILSEA.

We regret to record the death of one of the earliest patrons and promoters of the Protestant Association, the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham,* who expired on the 8th of January, at Haverholm Priory, near Sleaford, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Each succeeding year, as we journey along the "steep and dusty highway of life," we hear of the departure from among us of one and another, who, in their varied spheres, might be considered as standard-bearers in the

Protestant army. It was not many weeks before the close of 1857, that we noticed the death of Dr. Townsend, Canon of Durham, an able writer in defence of Protestant truth; and now, in the first nonth of the new year, we have to record the death of that honest-hearted nobleman the Earl of Winchilsea, by whose side, in 1839, we well remember standing at a public Meeting in Exeter Hall, when his Lordship was rather roughly handled, at the outset of the proceedings, by a body of Chartists who had obtained admittance into the Hall.+ Here, then, too, we witnessed, after the riot was quelled, his Lordship's Christian forbearance towards these offenders, though whilst the confusion was going on, no surrender" seemed stamped on his manly brow. Our recollections, too, carry us back ten years earlier, when in 1829, in opposing the so-called Catholic Emancipation Bill, he among the faithless was most faithful found, with a thoroughly honest mind, turning a deaf ear to all the dishonest whispers of expediency, so plentifully circulated everywhere. He exerted himself to the utmost in endeavouring to prevent the passing of that measure; and, indeed, for many years afterwards, he was always to be found among our most valiant

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supporters, "leading," as an eminent writer has said, "the forlorn hope, with resolution as unabated and vigorous, as untiring as though the wreath of conquest already touched his brow." Writing as we do in the year 1858, we cannot help noticing how many of that once united band of consistent Protestants in the House of Lords, have, one after the other, been gathered to their fathers, until out of the 109 peers who voted against the Bill in 1829, only nineteen temporal, and two spiritual are now living. Lord Winchilsea succeeded his cousin in August, 1826, as tenth Earl of Winchilsea, and fifth Earl of Nottingham, and was three times married; by his first wife he leaves two children-a son, Viscount Maidstone, who succeeds him, and a daughter married to Mr. Christopher Turnor, of Stoke Rochfort; by his second marriage he had no issue, but by the third he leaves an infant family; the eldest, a son, born March 28, 1851. Lord Winchilsea had not very lately taken any prominent part in politics; but he had done enough we conceive, as an unflinching Protestant, to entitle his name to be handed down to posterity, in conjunction with the names of the Duke of Newcastle, Lords Eldon and Kenyon, Bishop Burgess, Michael Thomas Sadler, and a host of other honest-minded worthies who, having passed through the waves of this troublesome world, have, we trust, through the rich mercies of redeeming love, safely entered into that haven of peace, where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest.—From a Correspondent, January 16, 1858.

SCOTTISH REFORMATION

SOCIETY.

THIS Society has closed the seventh year of its operations, and has carried on a constant and voluminous correspondence with Protestant Societies and men of influence throughout the three kingdoms.

"Maynooth.-In last session of Parliament it made special efforts to rally all the friends of Protestantism in support of the Motion made by Mr. Spooner in Parliament for the abolition of that Institution; and they expressed a decided opinion against all attempts to compromise that ques

tion, or to settle it on any other ground than that of principle.

"General Election.-Previous to the General Election an Address was issued by the Society. Questions were prepared for candidates and electors, and a tabular statement was drawn up of the votes and attendance of all the Scottish Members of Parliament for the last three years on the divisions on Maynooth.

"Vicino.-Stark.-Seiler. - Efforts were put forth on behalf of Vicino, a friend of De Mora, arrested in Spain on a charge of heresy; and also on behalf of Mr. J. M. Stark, late Inspector of Schools in Prince Edward Island, who was obliged to leave that island in consequence of his resistance to Popish aggressions upon the public schools. Negotiations were also begun, and are still being carried on, in behalf of M. Seiler, a Protestant, whose daughters have been inveigled away and abducted by the emissaries of Rome in the French village of St. Genis, and are still kept in forcible and secret confinement.

"Popish Reformatories--The question of Popish Reformatories, which are receiving from Government at the rate of 7s. 6d. per week for every boy or girl committed, and placed under the instruction of monks and nuns, has met and will continue to meet with the serious attention and persevering opposition of the Society.

"Government Popish Books.-The pernicious course pursued by the Committee of Privy Council on Education in allowing books, written by monks or Jesuits, filled to the brim with the worst dogmas of the Church of Rome, to be put upon their list of educational works for the schools of the whole country, has engaged the serious attention of the Society, and, mainly in consequence of our efforts, the press, as well as the ecclesiastical courts, have taken up this subject,-fraught as it is with the greatest danger to the country at large.

"Open-Air Preaching.-The question of open-air preaching, in connexion with the riots at Belfast, has also been discussed by the Society, and a manifesto was published setting forth that the riotous interferences of Romanists to prevent, by force and violence, the