the rest of the campaign. At the date of the last advices he had resumed offensive operations on both sides of the Vistula, and had been joined by General Dembenski from Lithuania, with a body of 5,500 men, all mounted with these General D. had fought his way through the cantonments of the Russian army, and brought in with him two Russian generals, and one thousand privates prisoners. The Polish army in the field amounts to sixty thousand men of all arms;-their artillery numbers two hundred pieces, served by artillerymen equal to any in Europe.

It is a singular fact, which is not generally known, but for which we have indisputable authority, that it had been for some years past a favourite plan with the imperial court, to bring the Polish division of the Russian army into the highest state, both of equipment and discipline: by an unaccountable indiscretion, these were permitted to remain quartered in their own country, where they joined the insurgents with 30,000; and to this circumstance, the success of their first operations is to be attributed. PORTUGAL. The French force, de

spatched to Lisbon, to enforce from Don Miguel compliance with the demands of that court, having entered the Tagus, and taken possession of the Portuguese ships of war with very little opposition, prepared to land the troops and occupy the capital, when the Portuguese government thought fit to comply with the requisitions of the French commander, and agreed to pay fifty thousand pounds sterling towards the expenses of the expeditionthe Portuguese ships to be detained till the money is paid.

ITALY.-The_Austrian troops have evacuated the Papal territories. As they retired, the inhabitants displayed their determination to submit to the Pope only in spirituals; the Papal authorities were openly rejected, and others substituted by the people. The Pope promises to grant a civil consti

tution.

WEST-INDIES.-The crown slaves in the West-Indies have been emancipated by command of His Majesty about seven months ago. In reply to a question lately put in the House of Commons, Lord Howick stated, that their conduct since their emancipation had been regular and industrious.

PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL.-The new choir of this Church being completely erected, the ceremony of its re-opening took place on Monday, July 25. The interest which it had excited in that part of the country was extreme. As soon as the doors were opened, the Church was filled with not less than 3000 persons, whose eyes were gratified by the spectacle of as beautiful a choir as art ever produced. Handel's Te Deum was performed by Mather, the celebrated blind organist. The communion service was performed by the Lord Bishop of the diocese, assisted by the Deau; and the sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, who, having been the author, promoter, and finisher of the whole scheme, was invited to fill the new pulpit. His discourse was listened to with great attention and interest by the assembled multitude. The history of this work is somewhat singular. The old interior of the building having been destroyed, in the civil wars, by the troops of Oliver Cromwell, a very mean and inappropriate choir of painted deal had occupied its place. Four years ago, a subscription was raised, in the city and neighbourhood, to erect a new organ-screen and altar-screen of stone, and a choir of Norway oak, under the auspices of the late Dean, Dr. Monk, the present Bishop of Gloucester. The amount subscribed was about 6,000%., but the beauty of the workmanship exceeds what might have been expected even from this large sum; and it is the general opinion, that no Church in the kingdom presents a more beautiful interior. The plans are those of Mr. Edward Blore, the architect, and the work has been executed with uncommon skill and elegance, by persons who are natives of this place. A new organ-case forms part of it. After service, the present Dean, the Very Rev. Dr. Turton, entertained the subscribers, together with others of the nobility, clergy, and gentry, at a most elegant and sumptuous banquet, laid out with

the greatest taste in the garden of the Deanery. Nearly 300 ladies and gentlemen partook of this collation. The poor of the city shared largely in the liberality of the day, which will long be remembered in Peterborough. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester has been requested, by the subscribers, to publish the sermon; and his Lordship has, we believe, kindly consented to comply with the request.

NEW CHURCH.-The New Church at Colford, Gloucestershire, has been consecrated by the Bishop of the Diocese, who preached on the occasion; afterwards a collection was made, amounting to upward of 100%. The Church, which has been built chiefly by private subscriptions, aided by a grant from the Society for promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches, is a neat Gothic structure, and is capable of containing about 500 persons. Upwards of 400 of the sittings are declared free for ever.

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If the Clergy, on accepting additional preferment, would, when announcing it, at the same time say what they have resigned, it would prevent the otherwise unavoidable error, in which we may occasionally fall, of verbally making them large pluralists.

We beg "E. S." and "S. S." to accept our thanks; the correction shall be made in the proper place.

The following notice was accidentally omitted to be placed at the end of Mr. Lebas' Life of Bishop Middleton :-" The Drawings of the Syrian Churches mentioned by the author, in a note at page 312 of the first volume, have been omitted through unforeseen circumstances in the progress of printing the work."

"A. Z." shall be taken into consideration.

THE

CHRISTIAN

REMEMBRANCER.

OCTOBER, 1831.

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ART. I.-1. Presbyter's Letters on the West India Question; addressed to the Right Honourable Sir G. Murray, G. C. B., M. P. &c., by HENRY DUNCAN, D. D. Ruthwell. London: Underwood. Pp. 129. 2. Fate of the Colonies: a Letter to the Proprietors and Planters of the West Indies resident in the Colonies, by R. ALEXANDER, Esq. London: Fraser. Pp. 31.

3. The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India Colonies; in a Letter to Viscount Goderich, Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. By VINDEX. London: J. Ridgway. Pp. 24.

4. Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope. By the Rev. WILLIAM WRIGHT, M. A. of Trinity College, Dublin, Chaplain at Bathurst, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and Missionary for the last ten years in the service of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Longman and Co. and J. Rodwell. Pp. 107.

5. Anti-Slavery Reporter. No. LXXVII.

6. Quarterly Review. No. LXXXIX.

DISINCLINED as we are to discuss any matters having a political tendency, it is impossible to behold with indifference, or allow to pass unnoticed, the many works continually issuing from the press upon the subject of West India Slavery; since the sentiments of the writers in a moral and religious point of view bring them within the legitimate scope of our criticism, and in some instances our arguments have been impugned and our position attacked in any thing but a Christian spirit, and with a coarseness of invective and soreness of feeling, which the irrefragable truths we advanced, could alone have elicited from those mild and sentimental philanthropists. Amongst the individuals who have so warmly espoused the cause of the negroes, we are disposed to allow there may be many estimable personages,

but we do not on that ground adopt all their theories, or lend so willing an ear as themselves to the calumnies industriously circulated against the West India proprietors, who in every point of view are entitled to the same consideration accorded to the Anti-Slavery Society. And we must deprecate in the strongest terms the conduct of such men as the Rev. D. Wilson and others, who seize, with an odium plusquam theologicum, on every idle rumour or disgusting tale prejudicial to the planter, whilst they as carefully conceal all, even the most trifling circumstances, that may in any way conduce to place the matter in dispute in a point of view unfavourable to their own ideas.

To those amiable but inconsiderate personages, who have been misled by the advertised and placarded sanctity of the parties above alluded to, we would recommend the subjoined extract from the Quarterly Review of April last, being well calculated, if not altogether to destroy, at least to weaken the faith they have hitherto reposed in the purity of intention and authenticity of fact, upon which the Parliament of Aldermanbury profess to rely:

The motives of most of the persons of whom this body is composed, we believe to be perfectly pure and disinterested, and we should be sorry to apply to them a single expression which could be regarded as unkind or disrespectful. But the bulk of them really know nothing of the difficulties with which the subject is surrounded. They are directed solely by abstract notions of justice and humanity, which cannot be denied to be among the best of all human incentives to action, when under the control of knowledge and discretion; but when deprived of this salutary restraint, are among the most fallacious guides it is possible to follow. They conceive it to be their duty, at all hazards, to rescue the African, whom they invariably paint to themselves as mild, tractable, and industrious, out of the hands of a master who is always represented as inhuman and oppressive; and imagine, that as soon as the fiat of manumission shall have issued from the British senate, the work of mercy will be perfect, and the reign of peace and happiness will begin. From the whole tenor of their words and actions, it is evident that they neither know the facts, nor understand the grounds upon which their opinions ought to be founded; and like many other well-meaning, but incompetent legislators, they stir up and promote innovations of which they are qualified, neither by their habits, nor by their acquirements, to foresee the consequences immediate or ultimate.-P. 212.

Had the Anti-Slavery Society been composed entirely of individuals of this class, we should scarcely have noticed them, or their proceedings; as whatever mischief their ignorance might have produced, their utter incapacity would have neutralized. The reviewer, however, has classed the species, and we are introduced to another of the component parts of the tribe :

Next to these, we may advert to a small, but compact phalanx of politicians, who affect a deep interest in the state of the negroes in the West Indies, and make common cause with the abolitionists, in order that they may be ushered into public place, or public favour upon their shoulders. With them slavery may be regarded as a kind of stock in trade, and the woes of the sons of Africa are valuable,

"Ut puris placeant, et declamatio fiat."