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HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D. A New Translation, by H. BEVERIDGE, Esq. With a Portrait of Luther. Vol. I. Collins.

We are gratified to see the multiplied editions of this remarkable history, as we believe there is no work extant which more vividly shows up the worthlessness of a merely sacramental and formal religion; or which is better adapted to awaken in the masses of society a warm-hearted love for the essential verities of a living faith. It is characterised by a high order of talent, possesses all the fascinating interest of a work of fiction, and is pre-eminently suited to the times in which we live. "In the page of D'Aubigné we see history written in the spirit in which it ought ever to be written. Facts are not amassed, but selected, and stated for the sake of the principles which they develope; and while historians have too often seemed to outlaw the Divinity from his own world, our author has ascended to the proper standing-point from which to contemplate all events, and keeps his eye on that golden chain which links the destiny of man with the throne of God." Collins's Edition contains the author's latest improvements; presents a translation of the Latin notes wherever they are not translated in the text; and while it is printed on good paper, in very beautiful and clear type, it surpasses all other editions we have seen, in cheapness.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

JAMAICA.-FALMOUTH.-Rev. T. F. Abbott has received a unanimous invitation from the church at Falmouth, late under the cure of our lamented brother Knibb; and, under the advice of the brethren of Western Union, has accepted it. The correspondents of Mr. Abbott will be so kind to address their letters to him at Falmouth, as he commenced his labours there on 1st of February.

JAMAICA. We are grieved to hear that the Rev. Thomas Burchell has been dangerously ill. He has not enjoyed his accustomed health ever since Mr. Knibb's death. The last Sunday in December his illness assumed a most serious form, and on new year's day scarcely any hope of his recovery was entertained; but a favourable change had taken place. At the date of our correspondent's letter (January 5,) he continued to improve. Dr. Spence urges his leaving the island with as little delay as possible. It is probable, if he suffers no relapse, that he will leave, for England, by the mid-February packet. Much sickness has prevailed amongst the brethren.

THE UNITED STATES.-The recent ministerial changes had created much excitement, lest the settlement of the Oregon question should fall into the hands of Lord Palmerston; the alarm, however, was alleviated by the arrival of the "Hibernia," which conveyed the intelligence of Sir R. Peel's resumption of office. Nothing can more completely demonstrate the advantages of a good commercial understanding between nations, to the maintenance of peace, than the following extract of a letter from the United States :

Referring to the prospect of war, the writer says, "With such a conviction on the public mind, and such prospects apparently before the country, its commercial operations began sensibly to diminish, and its industrial energies to droop. Business was languid, the money market depressed, and mercantile and financial transactions assumed that unsettled appearance which betokens

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"On the arrival of the steamer, the impression created at Boston, by the pacific character of the news, was of the most lively and satisfactory description. In the streets, and in the places of public resort, little else was to be heard but mutual congratulations upon the prospect of continued peace with England. Every one was taken by surprise, and every one was delighted. Scarcely an hour had elapsed from the time when the steamer first touched the wharf before the principal Boston papers issued their 'extras,' announcing with exultation the pacific intelligence from Europe. I was prepared for some diversity of sentiment on leaving the New England States, but during my progress to New York, I witnessed the exhibition of but one feeling, that of unqualified satisfaction at the unexpected tenor of the European news. New York, notwithstanding her democratic majority for Mr. Polk, felt in unison with Boston, and every commercial capital in the Union has by this time echoed and re-echoed the same feeling. Never was there a better illustration afforded than this of the pacific tendencies of commerce."

RUSSIA. Alleged persecution of the Polish nuns at Minsk.-A horrid and incredible tale of cruelty has gone the round of the papers, according to which the most shocking barbarities have been inflicted on certain nuns, by an Archbishop of the Greek church, with the concurrence of the emperor Nicholas. The Semeur shows the whole story is false, from the pretended ukase of the emperor to the Te Deums of the maltreated nuns. The Semeur exposes the grossness of the deception attempted, in the descriptions of unheard of and unendurable sufferings;-two hours' sleep only per day, during seven years of hard labour by females, in chains, hewing stones, and wheeling loaded barrows; floggings twice a week of fifty blows each; confinement in vaults so damp that the worms crept in and out of the eyes, mouth, and nostrils of the dear nuns; some burnt to death in a stove, others drowned in frozen lakes; till at length, these mutilated, debilitated, and nearly starved women found all their keepers drunk, jumped from walls three stories high, and one of them got to Paris, where she was not seen, and to Rome, where Father Ryllo prepares a tale to divert attention from the tricks, and to excite compassion for the persecution of the worthy Jesuits. The showing up of the Semeur has been decisive. The Reformation, a paper published at Geneva, says, "The disgrace of this fraud will recoil upon Rome, and will be the greater for the audacity of the falsehood and the publicity it has attained."

BERMONDSEY.-The Rev. W. Dovey has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church here, which he had held for twenty years. As a testimony of their affectionate esteem, the church have presented him with a purse of gold.

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.-Rev. J. C. Finch has accepted an invitation from the Baptist church in this town, and entered on his labours the first Sabbath in the year.

TOTTENHAM.-The Rev. W. Wallace, late of Birmingham, has recently entered upon the pastorate of the Baptist church here.

POPERY FOSTERED.-A correspondent in the Record newspaper says, "We have now the fact before us fully established, that two of the Wilberforces, Robert and Henry, have had and approved of curates who have declared them. selves to be Romanists.

John Hasler, Printer, Crane-court, Fleet-street.

ASIA.

THE LATE DR. YATES'S FAMILY.

In a letter to a friend in England, Mrs. Yates says, "I have consulted with our dear friends in the mission as to what they considered I had better do with respect to remaining here or going home, and they, with some of my friends in England, seem to think it best for me to remain in India. My mind was for a time unsettled on this point, but this advice, together with my own general feeling on the subject, has decided me to remain here. Had my dear girls, Ann and Mary, been younger than they are, I should have felt it more my duty for their sakes to have returned; but as they are almost grown up, perhaps they will do best to remain in India. William is now practising as a doctor at a place called Raneegunge Collien, about 160 miles from Calcutta: he seems contented and comfortable. Dear John, whom perhaps you have seen, is the only other one. I trust Dr. Hoby will be a father to him, and that our friends at home will take notice of him for his father's sake as well as ours, as he is too distant for us to comfort him.

"We have left our old house to Mr. and Mrs. Wenger (who kindly came to reside with us when my dear husband left us) and are residing with our friends, Mr. and Mrs. G. Pearce. We are very comfortable with them and their niece, and Miss Parker, and form, as you can easily imagine, quite a large family, and a very united family; so that we have much to be thankful for."

AFRICA.

MO-HOUSE, FERNANDO PO.

The votaries of superstition called Mo-men, who pretend to supernatural gifts of healing, are formidable opponents of the gospel. Charms of various kinds decorate the interior of certain buildings in which they exercise their skill, a view of one of which, with the adjacent scenery, appears on the preceding page.

FERNANDO PO.

A series of letters, varying in date from July 10 to September 3, have been received from Mr. Sturgeon, pastor of the church at Clarence, from which the following are extracts :-

You have probably heard of the death of Mr. Duffis, one of the settlers from Jamaica. It took place on the 2nd of June. On the following Lord's day morning I improved his death from 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8, to an attentive audience. Our brother was at work but a few minutes before his death. I have always considered him a good man, and well calculated to promote the object for which he came to Africa.

He took a great delight in reading the scriptures aloud. On one occasion, when passing his house, I heard him reading and talking with great earnestness, as I supposed, to a little congregation of his neighbours. I entered his cottage, and to my great surprise found that his congregation consisted of his wife and child, whose attention he was directing to Christ and his great salvation. He

was engaged in reading the word of God when here to be their pastor, Calabar would probhe died, about four o'clock, P.M. He was ably long ere now have been my residence. buried next morning by brother Clarke, in As it is, I would wish to guard against making his garden, at ten A.M. As this was the first my rest at Clarence. Seasons may occur death among those who came from Jamaica, when a newly arrived brother may be fully, and occurred so suddenly, it produced a great competent to take care of my little charge for sensation in the town. May the death of our a month or two, who could not prudently go dear brother be the means of leading sinners to a more unhealthy field of labour. In such to him who is "the resurrection and the life." a case my heart would bound with joy to Our greatly beloved brother Newbegin has proclaim the gospel to other tribes, for which also lost his dear infant, about seven weeks old. my few years residence in Africa, and slight On the 19th of June, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, acquaintance with African habits, may have brother Newbegin, Mrs. Saker, Miss Stewart, partially prepared me. The greatest difficulty with Mrs. Sturgeon, left our Cove in the attendant upon this plan would be leaving Dove, for Bimbia and Cameroons. Brother my sub-stations, which I hope will be in Saker left Clarence for Cameroons on the active operation before another year has 10th ult., intending if possible to form a passed away, as it is not judicious for a misstation there; having previously visited it sionary on his first settlement in Africa to with Dr. Prince, purchased land, &c. Mrs. engage actively among the natives. But for Saker has gone to share the labour and joy, this inconvenience provision can be made. I to be assisted by Miss Stewart for a season. indulge these views, and wish to carry them When brother Newbegin left us he was rather out, because I think your committee, and my disposed to remain at Bimbia a short time, brethren in Africa, will approve, and future and take some preparatory steps for the settle- emergencies will demand them. Should no ment of himself and dear Mrs. Newbegin at such claims arise, I shall thankfully devote that important station. Should he do so, the the more time to my own beloved people, case of Mrs. Newbegin will be truly distress-devising new schemes of usefulness, and coning. The infant left these abodes of sorrow veying the bread of life to the famishing abofor the realms of bliss two days after the de- rigines of the island. parture of Mr. Newbegin in the Dove. The meltings of soul of Mrs. Newbegin, in the absence of her beloved husband, for the loss of her tender offspring, may be better conceived than described. Such a loss was not anticipated. Her grief was poignant indeed; but though cast down, our dear sister was not in despair. She remembered him who hath said, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Her sorrows and her tears she poured into the bosom of her God; and hearing her Father address her in accents of mercy, saying, "Be still, and know that I am God," her submissive spirit responded, "It is the Lord."

There has been a general sickness here for some time, though not severe. Miss Vitou, who acts as housekeeper during the absence of Mrs. Clarke, has been ill nearly the whole of the time. She has had several very restless days and nights. Mr. Thompson has also been very poorly, sometimes in great pain, for more than a week. Mrs. Thompson, after a long and trying illness, is greatly improving. Their two children continue in a very weak state. Mr. Norman had to close bis school a day or two last week, through fever, but has re-opened it. My dear wife has been a great sufferer of late. I think her pains were more acute last week for two or three days, than they have ever been before. I hope the sea-breeze will strengthen her, that she may return to Clarence to labour among this interesting people with increasing delight and vigour.

I had a long and interesting conversation with Commander Gootch, of the "Sealark," on Saturday last, respecting the establishment of a mission at Old Calabar. This gentleman, who has visited almost every part of the Western coast of Africa, gave it as his opinion that no European missionary can live there, and do the work required. He also added, "they (the missionaries) will require more courage than those who stand before the cannons' mouth." There was much truth and force in what he said; still, in attempting this great work, we think the promise applicable to our case: "Be strong; let not your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded." The commander appeared to take a lively interest in all our movements, and spoke of the emigration of educated negroes from Sierra Leone to Badagary as likely to work well. As a practical evidence of his interest in our affairs, he gave me £2 3s. 4d. towards our new chapel, and requested me to take his boat, and submit the case to his first lieutenant and other officers on board, which generous offer was gratefully accepted, and £3 obtained from that source, making a total of £5 3s. 4d. His intelligence, cheerfulness, and kindness were a valuable boon to me at that time, and supplied an antidote to my. dejected spirits, as I was then engaged in preparing for two funerals, and busily employed in multifarious duties.

Captain Bligh entered our Cove a few days ago. Ten hands were lost during the six or eight months he was in the Calabar river. One hundred and twenty-eight white men have Had I not been chosen by the church died in that deadly place within the last