Thaunis said, that he wrote several books-that he took notice of the Waldenses and of the Parisian massacre-that to his knowledge the prisoner was at Rome at the time. Several other witnesses said the same; but, upon cross-examination, the whole admitted that his government extended to these places, and that it was by his laws they were put to death.

Mr. P. Painter said, that he had known the prisoner for 1,200 years-that he had painted many pictures for him, and that he had always paid him honestly. Messrs. C. Carpenter, B. Bricklayer, P. Plasterer, S. Šlater, P. Plumber, and C. Carver, gave the prisoner a good character.

Demetrius Silversmith said, that he had made more shrines by order of the prisoner than ever was made for Diana of the Ephesians; and that he always thought the prisoner a very useful man. J. Jeweller and B. Beadmaker said the same.

R. Robemaker said that he had received many thousand orders from the prisoner, whom he always respected much-that he took yearly some hundreds of thousands of pounds from him.

N. Bonaparte said that he knew the prisoner-that he came a long journey to crown him emperor.

Mr. Half-Protestant said, that he never knew any harm of the prisonerthat he always thought more was said of him than was true-that he respected the names of several witnesses examined, such as Luther and others, but he did not see the reason why they disagreed. He admitted that he had heard of murders committed by him, but thought that he was much altered for the better, and was quite a different man. He thought that every one should keep to the religion they were brought up to; and, if sincere, it was all that God would require.

Mr. Solicitor-General now addressed the jury as follows:

"My Lords, and Gentlemen of the Jury,-You need not be under any apprehensions of my intruding too much upon your time. If this were only an ordinary case, I should make no observations; but it is not only a question as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar, but of many thousands, who have been more or less concerned in his treasonable designs; and also others who have connived at his awful rebellion.

"Gentlemen of the Jury,-With respect to the evidence which have been laid before you on the part of the crown, I shall be very brief. I have little more than to call your attention to, and follow the statement of, my able friend who first stated the case. Evidence has been laid before you, to prove that a conspiracy has existed for several hundred years to overthrow the government of heaven, and compass the death of our Sovereign Lord the King. Gentlemen, the question is, whether the prisoner was a participator of that guilt; you will determine by the evidences whether he was not the very life and soul of that awful conspiracy. You have heard it proved that the prisoner lived at Rome as the Universal Bishop, Head of the Church, and God on earth; that he committed numberless murders. The small specimen that has been laid before you must have made too great an impression on your minds to require me to repeat them; and these are few to the number that could have been produced.

"Gentlemen of the Jury,-You will draw your inferences from the testimony of the witnesses, and not from any statement of mine. There is one witness, Mr. Historical Truth, who, from the knowledge of the prisoner's conduct for several centuries, enables him to give much evidence. His testimony is confirmed by a considerable number of Emperors, Kings and Queens, Martyrs, Reformers, and others have confirmed their united testimony; and inspired Apostles have satisfactorily proved that all his power was usurped.

"Gentlemen of the Jury,-It has been stated by the prisoner's counsel that the prisoner was not at several places where he is charged with committing murder; that he was at Paris on the 24th of August, 1578, and other places. This the counsel must know is a mere quibble. He was in Paris, he was in England, and in Ireland, and wherever his government extended; wherever his agents executed his laws. He has existed under a variety of names which marks his guilt. His arrogance and ambition have no example. It is a question if even Lucifer himself could vie with him. The prisoner has endeavoured to storm the skies! to dethrone the almighty Thunderer! to be universal Lord, and claim the stars of heaven. Gentlemen, I shall not trespass further upon your feelings, believing that your verdict will be according to truth."

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"Lord Chief Justice Revelation addressed the Jury; when every minutiæ of evidence was summed up with legal precision and ability. It would no doubt be gratifying to some readers to have his charge at length, but the limits of the trial will not admit it. He concluded by observing, that he left the determination of this case entirely to the consideration of the jury; and that if they entertained a rational doubt in their minds of the guilt of the prisoner, they ought to acquit him.

"The Jury did not retire from their box, but brought in their verdict GUILTY.

"The Clerk of the Crown called upon the prisoner at the bar in the usual form, to know what he had to say, why judgment of death should not be awarded against him; when the prisoner gave him a most expressive, sullen look, and remained silent.

"The Lord Chief Justice addressed the prisoner in the most impressive manner. He told him that he had been charged with the awful crime of high treason against the King of kings and Lord of lords. That he had a most patient trial, and that there was not a doubt, either in the mind of the Court or Jury, but that he was guilty. He also said, that he was sure that his conscience could not fail to bring down the vengeance of heaven upon his guilty head. He concluded thus: 'I call upon you now to attend to the sentence of the Court. You, Antichrist, shall be taken from the place where you now stand to the place from whence you came; your irons are to be struck off, and you stripped of all your pontifical vestments, splendour, pomp, and dignity. From whence you shall be drawn upon a hurdle, to the place of execution, where you shall be hung with the chain of restraint, but not until you are dead; but while you are yet alive, your church, which is your body shall be taken down, and you deprived of the vitals of your religion. Then a mighty angel shall proclaim from heaven, louder than the most tremendous peal of thunder, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen (Rev. xviii. 2), and that the hour of your judgment is come. Your head, or dominion, shall then be struck off with the sword of God's inflexible justice, when the Lord of Hosts himself will consume it with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy it with the brightness of his coming (2 Thess. ii. 8). Then another mighty angel shall take up a stone, like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon (or Rome) be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all (Rev. xviii. 21); and you shall be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judgeth you (Rev. xviii. 8). And may the Lord have mercy upon the souls of all those who live and die under your government. N.B. Some Protestant writers having, by mistake, noticed the time sentence wouldbe put into execution. It may not be amiss to observe, that it was left entirely to His Majesty's sovereign will and pleasure."

We have now brought our analysis of this most interesting volume to a close. We admit, it occupies considerable space, but we could not have done justice to the book had we dealt with it in a more summary way. We have endeavoured to furnish our readers with a brief outline of the trial, and hence, have had to wade through a mass of evidence. The volume itself ought to be procured, and carefully perused, and then preserved as a most important record. It is written in such an easy, such a perfectly-natural style, that it can scarcely fail to interest the reader. It is at the same time furnishing him with such information as his mind ought to be stored with for the times that now are, and the times that speedily will be. It does, moreover, give the reader here and there a very clear insight into character-such for example as Mr. Hate Controversy and Mr. Half-Protestant, as well as those who supported the Pope, simply because the Pope supported them: of these there are multitudes, and these multitudes will be multiplied manifold. We most cordially recommend the work entitled the "Trial of Antichrist."

The History of England, from the Earliest period to the Present Time. Adapted for Youth, Schools, and Families. By Miss JULIA CORNer. London: Dean and Son, Threadneedle Street.

The spirit in

THIS work has already reached its seventeenth thousand. which it is written, the splendour of its illustrations, the style of the book throughout, render it worthy of the support it has secured.

The Convent: a Narrative founded on Fact. By R. M'CRINDELL, Authoress of the "School Girl in France," "The English Governess,' &c. London: Aylott and Jones; and Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. THE heroine of this well-written and most deeply-interesting tale was a young Spanish girl. We meet her in a convent, a slave, but not a sister; a captive, but not a convert. She had, on one occasion, casually heard a sermon. Unlike the habits and customs in the midst of which she was reared, and by which she was now surrounded, the Bible was the preacher's text-book, and salvation by grace, and not by works, his theme! She was impressed; she carried those impressions into the convent; and at length, after a cautious scrutiny, met with, and confided in, a kindred heart. They communed one with the other; they compared the practices of that convent with the professed principles of its occupants. They discovered a fearful discrepancy. The sermon was recalled; its leading features discussed; and, as a consequence, the book from which the preacher drew both his authority and his arguments, most earnestly desired. Shortly after-and by a very remarkable incident—a Testament fell into their hands. The result was, a thorough discovery, and as thorough a detestation of the accursed system in which they were so fearfully, and apparently so fatally, entangled. Time passed on, during which the suspicions of the sisterhood were aroused; the companions were watched most scrupulously; sundry investigations instituted; and various rigid penances enforced. Meanwhile, one of the more advanced of the nuns, by her self-imposed devotion and flesh-lacerating practices, brought herself to the brink of the grave. Under these circumstancesand when almost abandoned by the sisterhood generally-the Spanish novice and her companion alternately visited her cell. Light dawned upon her benighted mind also; and with it deeds of darkness, of the most fearful character, were disclosed. The aged nun died, and with her dying breath renounced Romanism ! The indignation of the priesthood was in consequence aroused. Its effects upon the devoted pair threatened to be disastrous in the extreme. The more fully to secure his victims, the father confessor proposes their early adoption of the "black veil," which separates the sisterhood and the world for ever. By a singular train of circumstances, this act led to their rescue.

The tale-which is admirably told-is founded upon fact; but its leading feature, and on account of which we so strenuously recommend it, is the interpolation of Scripture truths in Scripture language, with the free and fair discussion of controverted points. It appears from the preface that the writer, who is since dead, had passed much of her time upon the continent; was thoroughly conversant with Popish principles and practices; and was consequently prepared the more ably to combat its opinions, which she has done with considerable talent, as well as incontrovertible truth. We think the work admirably calculated for a giftbook at this season of the year, and in these times of Popish subtlety and Jesuitical insinuation.

Not the Church, not the Pope, but the Bible. A Tract for the Times. By WILLIAM THWAITES, Author of "Facts and Opinions for Churchmen and Dissenters.' London, Houlston and Stoneman, Paternoster Row; Hastings: W. Ranson.

In this unpretending, but clearly and cleverly-written tract, the Author

has taken a brief review of the Primitive Churches, and proved by a careful analysis of the whole of the epistles of the New Testament, that there never was a pure Church; and that consequently, the Bible-and the Bible only is the rule of faith.

"No Peace with Rome." A Warning to the Church of God. Being the Substance of Two Sermons preached in St. Peter's and in St. Mary's Churches, Chester, on Sunday Morning and Evening, Nov. 3, 1850. By the Rev. FREDERICK FORD, M.A., Rector of St. Peter's, and Sunday Evening Lecturer of St. Mary's. London: Hamilton and Co.; Chester: Ducker, Minshull, and Edwards.

THE Apostle, in the course of his address to the Church at Corinth, says, "We use great plainness [or boldness] of speech;" and upon this selfsame principle, we admire the Sermons before us. They are fearless, and as faithful as they are fearless. The preacher grounds his discourses upon 1 Sam. xvii. 29, "Is there not a cause?"

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"The future (says Mr. Ford) comes like the rising flood, and destinies the most solemn stretch out before us. I would not needlessly create alarm (he continues), but impelled by a deepening conviction that I watch for your souls as one that must give account,' and that I may do it with joy, and not with grief,' I raise my warning voice. As a people, it can scarcely be questioned that there is about us an habitual indifference respecting the progress and success of God's eternal truth. How unmistakeable are the evidences that it is to the degeneracy of vital, scriptural, evangelical Protestantism, we must ascribe the fostering of the worship of the beast and his image'—that finished system of blasphemy, idolatry, superstition, and moral degradation, against which our honest forefathers protested, and, in resisting which, resisted unto blood. In righteous judgment the apostacy has again been permitted to rise up. The movement from Rome is but an intelligible, appropriate, and direct response to a treacherous movement for Rome, in the bosom of our own Church."

The preacher then proceeds to protest against Romanism proper, and against her less honest sister, Tractarianism (which he says is "feeding like a gangrene on the vitals of our own church") for the following

reasons:

"1. Because she restricts the reading of the Holy Scriptures.

"2. Because the Council of Trent declares that person accursed who believes that the justification of a sinner is by the imputation of Christ's righteousness alone.

"3. Because the Church of Rome blasphemously rejects the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures.

"4. Because she maintains that in the Mass is offered up a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.'.

5. Because she holds transubstantiation.

"6. Because she withholds the cup from the laity.

"7. Because she enjoins the duty of praying to saints and angels.

"8. Because she is guilty of gross idolatry.

"9. Because she enjoins prayer in an unknown tongue.

"10. Because she holds the doctrine of indulgences.

"11. Because she teaches auricular confession and priestly absolution.

"And 12. Because she is an intolerant and persecuting church; the enemy of all civil and religious liberty."

There is considerable point as well as power in these Sermons. We hope it may be read extensively.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs: a complete and authentic account of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive and Protestant Martyrs, in all parts of the world. With notes, comments, and illustrations, by Rev. J. MILNER, M.A., assisted by original communications from learned ministers. A new and corrected edition, with an Essay on Popery, and additions to the present time, by Rev. INGRAM COBBIN, M.A. London: Partridge and Oakey, Paternoster Row.

If a person were to say to us, "I have not a book; but I have a few shillings and only a few-to spare; what books would you recommend me to buy?" we should reply, "First, get a Bible; next Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress; and then Foxe's Book of Martyrs. In the first, you have a Guide-book to God and glory, written at God's command, under his own counsel, and by his specially chosen servants; in the second, you you have a very interesting account of the men-and how it fared with them-who started on the journey; and in the third you have particulars of the character and conduct of those who adhere to, and act under the influence of, a counterfeit or mock system. Popery is Satan's counterfeit, or imitation of God's religion; in which he has brought to bear the most consummate skill with the most admirable-but ill-directed-ingenuity, artifice, and ability." This, or something like it, would be an answer to the man who had a few shillings to devote to the purchase of books.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a book of facts, and "facts are stubborn things." In it we see, not what Popery is in her pretensions, but what she is in her practices; not what she represents herself to be, but what she really is. In Foxe's Book of Martyrs we have, moreover, a very full and a very blessed illustration of the power and the preciousness of faith -the faith of God's elect—when, as in Heb. xi., that faith is put to the severest possible test! In it we have proof upon proof that faith-being *God's own gift-can stand faggot and flames now as in Old or New Testament times.

To this edition of this invaluable work is prefixed an Essay on Popery, by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, M.A. This is a most desirable accompaniment. The volume, which contains upwards of eleven hundred pages, has many illustrations, and is by far the cheapest edition with which we are acquainted. It ought to be in very extensive demand at the present time.

Popery as it is; being an exposure of the Present Errors and Deeds of the Roman Church. London: G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand. NOT words merely, but deeds, "collected from the most authentic sources, and frequently from Papal documents themselves," to prove that, "their Priesthood is historically the same, in its Rapacity, its Bloodthirstiness, and its Persecution, as at the time when they lit the fires in Smithfield, ordained the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and perpetrated the Horrors of the Inquisition." It is a valuable tract, and ought to be circulated, not by hundreds, not by thousands merely, but by tens of thousands! The Author says-and we perfectly agree with him" that the spirit which burnt the dead bones of Wickliff, and the living bodies of John Huss, of Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, Rowland Taylor, and thousands besides, exists to this day—that the fires of Smithfield, and the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the nameless horrors of the Inquisition, were not the acts arising from the intolerance of the age, but premeditated murders and villanies, instigated and upheld by the Romish hierarchy, and continually, and at present as much as ever, instilled by the doctrines of the Papacy."