of Captain Humphrey Pudner, and the creditable manner in which the Chapter expended the donation, at last presented something like a finished appearance.

Time has begun to show of what a perishable nature were the materials employed on the exterior of the Cathedral, and partial restorations have been made; but the north-western tower of the Church has been entirely rebuilt since the 3d of Sept. 1832. The central tower is 234 feet high, and 35 feet in diameter; and has two series of most elegantly designed windows. The Cathedral itself is in the form of a cross, with a semi-circular eastern end: measuring at the eastern transept, we find the total exterior length to be 548 feet, by 156 in breadth. The northern side seems in the ancient times to have been surrounded by monastic offices, and many rich remains of various antiquities are on the walls of the building.

The crypt is larger and more lofty than any other in England. Its internal length from west to east is 230 feet; its breadth at the transept is 133 feet; its plan is cruciform, the main part of which is 83 feet 6 inches from wall to wall:—it has a nave and aisles, whose short but massive pillars support low arches, which in return support the choir above. The oldest part of the crypt is from the western end to the distance of 150 feet eastward; and the eastern part, which is under Trinity Chapel, has pointed arches and pillars, a little varying from those more to the west. Some part of the groining has been painted; and there is reason to suppose, that the whole crypt was once illuminated by lamps suspended from iron rings, still to be seen in the intersection of the groins,

The Virgin Mary's Chapel, or the Chapel of our Lady Undercroft, is situated under the high altar, and is on either side inclosed by open screen-work. The southern transept of the crypt or undercroft, as it was also called, was anciently a Chantry Chapel, endowed with the manor of Vauxhall by Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1363.

The angles of the central tower are strengthened by braces, which Prior Goldstone constructed, which are attached to the most eastern pillars of the nave: they are ornamented and bear the Prior's motto:

Non nobis Domine sit nomini tuo da gloriam.

There is a flight of several steps from the nave to the choir and to the aisles, where are others leading to the Trinity Chapel these steps and the different levels add greatly to the architectural beauty. The choir-screen is one of the most beautiful in England; statues of the English kings successively from John to Richard II are in niches on each side of the entrance, and one bears in his hand the model of a Church. The organ is that which was erected in Westminster Abbey for the commemmoration of Handel in 1784.

The dimensions of the choir is 150 feet by 40. The Trinity Chapel to the east of the choir is accounted one of the greatest architectural curiosities in the kingdom, and its painted glass windows are uncommonly brilliant, but very obscure in their design. The only indication

of Thomas à Becket's shrine is a tesselated pavement: but there are some large tiles with figures representing the signs of the Zodiac. On the northern side of Trinity Chapel is a Chantry. In the circular Chapel, called Becket's Crown, is a marble chair, formerly used for the enthronization of the Archbishops of Canterbury.

From the northern arch are entered the Prebends' Vestry, formerly St. Andrew's Chapel, the treasury and auditory. From the eastern transept a passage leads to the Baptistery, in which transept were formerly altars dedicated to St. Martin and St. Stephen. The broken fragments of the before mentioned old font, collected by Somner, the antiquary, are here preserved. To the eastward of the Baptistery on the site of the Prior's Chapel, is the Cathedral Library. The northern transept is denominated the martyrdom; and a marble slab in the pavement marks the exact spot before the altar of St. Benedict, where Thomas à Becket was murdered. On the eastern side of the martyrdom is our Lady's or Jesus Chapel, commonly known as the Dean's Chapel; its screen of open arches surmounted by canopies is beautiful, and its eastern window is surrounded by vine leaves and grapes.

The cloisters are on the northern side. The ambulatory is 134 feet in dimension. The castern walk of the cloister leads to the lofty Chapter-house, 92 feet by 37 in measure, and has on each side a continued series of pillars and arches rising from the stone seats; at the eastern end is the Prior's throne. The western transept on the southern side of the Church has St. Michael's Chapel, and more to the eastern another transept and St. Anselm's Chapel.

The monuments are many and curious, the most remarkable of which are those of Edward the Black Prince in the Trinity Chapel, and of Henry IV. and Queen Joan of Navarre, his second wife, to which the kneeling figure of Dean Wotton may be added. In this very condensed description, only an outline is given of the things which the visitor of the Cathedral may expect to see. Our print represents the exterior, as the building strikes the eye; and conveys an accurate idea of its magnificence. Of all our Cathedrals we know none associated with such various historical recollections as this; none in which the interest of the spectator and antiquarian is so continuously excited. It recalls to our minds the arrival of Augustine, the persecution of the Christian Britons, the murder of Becket, the power of the priesthood, and the abject bondage with which it fettered the public. The changes and injuries, the repairs and improvements, which it has undergone, have been numerous: in one thing alone it has been uniform, viz. its connection with the Archiepiscopal Primacy of all England. Considered, as a whole, it cannot be surpassed by any other Cathedral in the kingdom.

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ATTACK MADE ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF TRAVELS IN TOWN."

MR. GRANT, from whose pen these volumes proceed, affects a most intimate acquaintance with every person and every thing, and would rather be considered some ubiquitous personage than a mere mortal confined by time and place. He seeks, as in a mirror, to display the public and private scenes of this vast metropolis, and hesitates not to unfold the impulses and secrets of its inhabitants; yet, like most others of supposed universal genius, he is very frequently wrong, where he would be thought most accurately right. He belongs not to those who judge not, lest they themselves be judged; but, estimating others by his own religious and political principles, he is foully vituperative and disgustingly intolerant when he writes of those who differ from himself. He seems to us a man of scraps and anecdotes, a purveyor of copy for newspapers, a sort of restless Paul Pry, who is quite as likely to be deceived as to be correctly informed.

The volumes bear marks of that which is technically called bookmaking and the author grasps at too much: he scarcely ever soars aloft without incurring the danger of an Icarian tumble. He would compress our metropolitan world into a few pages; but how much is lost or pressed out of shape in the torturing attempt! Defects and distortions continually meet the eye; wanton illiberality, and unjust attacks on individuals, by their names, occur so plentifully, that were the work weeded from its obnoxious parts, a full volume would be lost. The Clergy are the constant subjects of Mr. Grant's rebuke: Dr. Shepherd, for instance, is chastised for having occasionally quoted Greek and Latin in his sermons at Gray's Inn: with Dr. Shepherd's particular audience, we really cannot see any serious fault in the act: but if the writer had proved him to have made inappropriate quotations, the charge might have been maintained. We abhor this straining at gnats and deglutition of camels or elephants, (as the proverb is differently read); the Pharisaical conceit and dictatorial decisions of Mr. Grant are insufferable. However we may disapprove of the doctrines of particular persons, ungentlemanly personality cannot be tolerated. Mr. Grant's opinions are Evangelical; but he is a Dissenter, and exhorts the Evangelical Clergy to secede from the Church; and does not scruple to call the Clergy, whose sentiments differ from this portion of their brethren, Arians aud Socinians. The number of Clergy who hold Socinian views, in London, he states to be very considerable; than which a more wilful falsehood never proceeded from the lips or from the pen of any one.

We do not blame him for his remarks on the Oxford Tracts, which are in general keen and to the purpose; but we require, that in attacking this most dangerous innovation, he should not include those among the party who are opposed to it; that ere he vilifies individuals with his obloquy, his information be correct. In this reckless random spirit, he intimates that the Editor of The Church af England Quarterly Review is attached to Puseyism: the calumny is foul and utterly untrue. We, who know the Editor, assert from our certain knowledge, posi

tively and unequivocally, that he is as hostile as ourselves to these near approaches to Popery, and that his pages are open to the defence of the Church and her forms, as they have been handed down to us through successive generations. Inferring from the description which he has given, that he is ignorant who the Editor really is, let us ask this professor of superior sanctity, and ready mote-extractor from his brother's eye, what right he has wantonly to asperse persons unknown to him? By what process he makes his bitter censures and fierce invectives coincide with the gentle spirit of Christianity and its inseparable charity?

But there are those whom he can puff and bespatter with praisemen distinguished with the title of orthodox Dissenters, who are really bound to present him with the plate which his continual races to hear them have won. But even here he seems to penetrate the secrets of some of their hearts; for he boldly decides, that some actually are not influenced by the principles of the denomination to which they belong, but, in fact, should be classed under some other. We suspect that few of these individuals will be obliged by this startling disclosure of his knowledge. The evangelical Clergy are blamed too, for not co-operating with these orthodox Dissenters; and we are amused with an account of the various opinions which prevail in the Church, and the remarkable unity of sentiment which may be found among all the various classes of Dissenters. Of this writer's inaccuracy we want no stronger proof.

It is not astonishing that the building of additional Churches in the metropolis should disconcert him, after what we have read; for he must view each new Church as an opposition to the Dissenters. When he asserts that the Dissenters cherish no hostile feeling towards the orthodox party in the Church, he asserts that which his own pages and and every day's experience refute; for, although we will not pretend to misunderstand his notion of orthodoxy, it is clear that most of the Dissenters hate the whole Church.

Hitherto, Mr. Grant has been only preparing himself for the general assault. False and cowardly accusations are now made against the Clergy without moderation; some of whom, "even having the appendage of D.D.," are affirmed to reject the idea of a divine revelation. Dr. Whately, the Archbishop of Dublin, is particularized as unsound; and the clerical order is charged with being an intermixture of men possesing Swedenborgian, Moravian, Arian, and Socinian principles:-nay, he pronounces," that there is no creed from the highest Antinomianism down to the lowest Latitudinarianism that has not its patrons in the pulpits of our National Church." Citing some person's observation, that the Church of England has a Calvinistic Creed, a Popish Ritual, and an Arminian Clergy, Mr. Grant declares his own inability to make any essential distinction between the ritual of the Church of Rome and that of the Church of England. As the absence of all idolatrous worship from the Anglican Ritual makes a most remarkable and essential distinction, the wilful mis-statements of this author are self-evident, and prove how little he is to be trusted on theological subjects; the venom which he pours out against the Church, blinds him to his own folly and weakness; and till scurrility be accepted in the place of argument,

malicious hatred in that of pure and undefiled religion, the vehemence of his pages will be an antidote to the poison which he discharges. Let him disprove, if he pleases, the principles of the Oxford schism, for thus he will be conferring good upon the public; but let him not include more of the Clergy in it than those who can be shewn to favour it ; and let him not asperse any of us, as if we were estranged from Christ. The falsehoods to which this writer descends are numerous. He daringly asserts that not one of the Tory newspapers has condemned this party have not the Times, the Record, and many newspapers in the provinces boldly and ably exposed their errors, and so opened the eyes of the public, that those who are fascinated by the delusion must have wilfully, and in opposition to all evidence, sought and courted it? Is it possible that he who

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the almost ubiquitous, the all-enquiring Mr. Grant, should not have read these papers! But if he has read them, what must we think of his veracity? Professing to know more of the Bishop of Exeter than most men, he directly charges him with belonging to this party, and heaps on him fouler abuse than may probably be heard among the lowest grades-abuse as derogatory from the gentleman as it is inconsistent with Christianity. What right has he, a Dissenter, a man clearly incompetent to the nicer points of theological criticism, to intrude upon us his very inconsequential notions concerning Mr. Head? What right has he to interfere with the Bishop in the management of his diocese, and pour forth invectives on conduct, the principles of which he does not understand? The zeal with which the Bishop of Exeter defends the Church, and maintains his Episcopal authority, naturally exposes him to the hatred of her enemies; in proportion as they dread his talents and firmness, they basely and captiously defame him; and despising dominion, speaking evil of dignities, foaming out as raging waves their own shame, they care not how they disturb the peace of Christendom, if they can but gratify their infuriate spleen. To the Bishop, individually, it must be a matter of contempt; for it is the nature of the ass to kick: what, then, if the kick be accompanied with a bray?

Proceeding from abuse to abuse, this writer predicts the extinction of the Church, which "must, through these schisms within her own bosom, crumble to pieces." This is false; for however the innovations of the Oxford party may perhaps incline some individuals to Popery, the great body of the Church will be found true to their religious principles: if in the apostate days of Israel there were seven thousand who bowed not the knee to Baal, how many seven thousands will be found among us who will continue to worship the God of their fathers, as their fathers worshipped him!

Occasion is again taken to designate The Church of England Quarterly Review as the organ of the Oxford confederacy: in disproof of the charge, we will only refer our readers to the Number which will appear simultaneously with this, in which those tenets are assailed. Not satisfied with these sweeping accusations, the author attaches a suspicion to ourselves, on the plea that the Rev. Mr. Irons is the Editor of The