PRICES OF CANAL SHARES, DOCK STOCKS, &c.

At the Office of R. W. Moore, 5, Bank Chambers, Lothbury.

"W. B. H.," "D," "A Plain Reader," "J. H. B.," are received, and shall be used. Several of the letters mentioned in former Numbers are not forgotten, but are deferred on account of their great length. When one letter would occupy seven or eight pages, it is difficult to deal with it at this time of the year.

"If Verax" has not made his statement elsewhere, he really should do so, as it is decisive and due to the character of a great prelate; at the same time, it is not desirable that it should appear in the British Magazine.

The Editor is much obliged to "the Churchman" for his very kind and agreeable letter. Oh! si sic omnes! He would only ask the Churchman whether the onus of proving the possibility of a plan does not lie with the proposer. If the proposer offers calculations and they are disputed, he who disputes them is bound to disprove their accuracy. But if the proposer only generally gives the outline of a plan which seems difficult of execution, is not he bound to shew its feasibility? Of course, very large changes might make any plan more easy; but the question is, how far it is feasible under any systein resembling the present.

"Zetalethes" shall appear in the next Number.

The Temperance Society had better be on the alert, as it is reported, on the best evidence, that it is about to be superseded. It forbids only spirits. But a society is forming in Lancashire, called the Tea-total-lers, (not Tetotummers,) who protest against all liquors but tea. Mr. Huyshe has sent a copy of his paper in the last Number, with a circular letter, to the Bishops, as before. The Editor regrets that he had not room for it this month.

The drawing of Laindon will be very acceptable, and shall be used in the course of the

autumn.

The Editor regrets the impossibility of noticing several excellent pamphlets and sermons, especially a sermon of high principle by Mr. Norris, of Hackney.

The positive contradictions to many of the assertions about the Irish church given in Parliament and elsewhere shall be recorded next month. How disgraceful are such falsehoods to those who utter them, and for party purposes too.

It is always a matter of regret when authors are dissatisfied with the notices of their works, but it usually happens, that they think all censure unjust. In Mr. Bissland's case, the Editor can only say, that when in a sermon to a parish (not a clerical or academical) audience, he finds an attack on something called moral preaching, and an appeal to the audience whether it is not notorious that such preaching never produces good spiritual results, it is quite impossible to understand that the preacher refers to a past age. Unless he thinks the error actually prevalent, how can a living audience judge of its effects? Unless he thinks that it is widely prevalent, why does the preacher speak of it? Now as Mr. B. does not explain what he calls moral preaching, the only possible effect of such a sermon on a mere parish audience, must be to cause, not clear apprehensions of real evils, but party feelings; to make the audience believe that there is a prevalent style of preaching which is false and dangerous, whatever it may be; in short, that they who do not agree with the preacher, do not preach the gospel. No Christian men can differ about the evils of what is justly called mere moral pracing. The question is, what Mr. B. calls by that name. There are many, very many, with whom he would not agree, but whom he cannot in candour call mere moral preachers. Let him look, for example, to a common and very favourite book with what is called opprobriously the high church party-viz., Stanhope's Epistles and Gospels-and see whether, although he may disapprove of it, he can justly call it mere moral preaching. For himself, the Editor can only say, he deprecates attacks on moral preachers and evangelical preachers, especially in the pulpit. Let each man discharge his duty to the church of which he is a minister, by setting forth there, at least, her views of the truth, and abstain from commenting on his brethren. That is the only way to peace. There are points beyond the human mind to solve, on which consequently men will differ. No strength of censure will drive either from their opinions; while abstaining from it will enable them to live and act together in peace and good will.

Steps NOT to be taken in Building a Church.-"Plantagenet" inquires, if, on the repairing or rebuilding parish churches, the rectors and vicars thereof have a right to sell, for their own private emolument, any memorials of the dead, either table or mural monuments, gravestones or brasses, or the more humble tombstones and tomb rails in their church-yards; and says, that to this inquiry a speedy answer may possibly prevent an act of desecration now purposed in a small Borough-town of Buckinghamshire. In the new church of the town alluded to, although several monuments have been again set up, many handsome gravestones, with well sculptured armorial bearings, and some very early brass effigies, are collected in a barn, and about to be sold for the benefit of the vicar, whose property they are there considered. Whether they be so legally, by custom, or by statute, Plantagenet begs for information. Surely, even if there is a legal right, such stones and effigies as are here described can never be sold, or disposed of in any way but their proper one. They ought to be replaced with the utmost care; and it is to be hoped that the case has been overstated to Plantagenet, and that the stones in question will turn out to be some on which both name and arms and every distinctive mark is gone.