other alterations were made in the arrangement of the prayers and exhortations. The use of the Sign of the Cross over the Elements at consecration was omitted.

THE WORDS, "As our SAVIOUR CHRIST hath commanded and taught us, we are bold to say," were left out before the Lord's Prayer. The words used at the delivery of the ele ments were altered. In the first Book they were "The BoDr of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH was given for thee, pre serve thy body and soul unto everlasting life.' In the second book these words were substituted, "Take eat this, in remembrance that CHRIST died for thee, and feed on Him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving ;" and in like manner at the delivery of the cup. Twenty-one sentences of Holy Scripture to be sung, every day one, after the Holy Commu nion, were all left out. Some rubrical directions at the end were left out, and others added.

THE USE of the Litany was enjoined on Wednesdays and Fridays as well as on Sundays, to distinguish from the other days of the week the days on which our Lord was betrayed and crucified. The occasional prayers "for Rain, for Fair Weather," &c., were shifted from the end of the Communion Service, and placed after the Litany. In the Baptismal office, the sign of the Cross was enjoined to be used on the forehead only; the exorcism was omitted, and the use of the chrysom. Some alterations were made in the Interrogations. The anointing on the head was not directed to be continued. Some slight alterations of a similar nature were made in the office for the Private Baptism of Infants, in the Catechism, and in the Order for Confirmation. The crossings and the use of bracelets and jewels in marriage were not enjoined in the rubrics. In the office for the Visitation of the Sick, Psalm cxliii. was omitted in the commencement, as also the Unction, and Psalm xiii. after it. Some slight alterations and transpositions were made in the office for the Communion

of the Sick. The cxvi., cxxxix., and cxlvi. Psalms, some Collects, and the Order for the Communion at the Burial of the Dead, were omitted in that office. The Ordinal, or Forms for the ordering or consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, was drawn up. This review of the Prayer Book was completed and brought into general use, A.D. 1552, and continued to be received throughout all England till the death of King Edward, and the accession of Mary, when it was utterly abolished, and the Acts of Parliament, by which it had been established, were repealed.

THE MARIAN persecution caused a great many of the reformed clergy and laymen to fly from their native country, and take refuge on the Continent. The majority of the refugees settled at Frankfort, when in accommodation to the French Protestants there, together with whom they had possession of a Church, they abrogated a great many of the formularies and ceremonies of the English Church. Before they had been there long, Dr. Richard Cox, who had been employed in compiling King Edward's Prayer Books, arrived at Frankfort, with some others, and disturbed the order of their service by answering aloud after the minister, and reading the Litany, which the exiles at Frankfort had ceased to do. This gave rise to many bickerings and mutual explanations, and accusations, which resulted in an order from the Senate of Frankfort that Knox (their Minister) should depart. Knox had before written to Calvin on the subject of the English Liturgy, and had received from him an unfavourable opinion of it. These troubles at Frankfort were the occasion of much disturbance to the English Church for nearly a century afterwards. The refugees at Geneva translated the Bible, which was published by Rowland Harle, in 1560. F. C. H..

ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE CHARITY CHILDREN, AT ST. PAUL CATHEDRAL.

NEVER DID the "long-drawn aisles" of St. Paul's appear us more holy than on Thursday, June 6; never did the sur beams which occasionally streamed through the vaulted dom seem so much like the golden ladder on which the "angels God ascended and descended" in the dream of the patriarc of old, as when they shone for a few moments upon the head of those thousands of children who were congregated beneath We seemed to picture Charity herself newly alighted fro heaven, and standing in the midst overshadowing them wit her white wings, while her angelic smile lighted up the hol fabric as she stood with her finger pointing to the sky. was a sight that went home to every heart, and made -Englishman proud of the land of his birth, to know that hun dreds of those children, who were fatherless and motherless were watched over and tended by the Angel of Charity, an that thousands who waited to do her bidding, with willing hearts and open hands, were assembled in the temple which her overpowering presence then hallowed. Then, to know that so vast a multitude formed but a portion of the numbers, which English charity clothed, fed, and educated; and that if all could have been assembled, tier above tier, as they then sat, they would have reached to the very summit of the dome itself, extending, as it were, to heaven, and with folded hands, and meek, supplicating faces, seeming to plead in our behalf before the footstool of God.

BEFORE prayers, the Hundredth Psalm was sung.. The Reading Psalms were chanted by the gentlemen of the choir, the children joining in the "Gloria Patri" (Jones's)' to each psalm. After the First Lesson, Boyce's "Te Deum;" and after the Second, "Jubilate Deo." The Prayer for the Queen was preceded by the "Coronation Anthem," in which the See the Music at the end of this article.

children joined. Before and after the sermon, preached by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, the usual psalms were sung; the whole terminating with Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus." IT WAS a sight never to be forgotten, to see those thousands of clean and neatly-clad children ranged one above another, to the height of twenty feet, beneath the huge overshadowing dome: to see the girls at the beginning or ending of a prayer, as if touched by the wand of some magician, raise or drop their thousands of snow-white aprons at the self-same instant of time, was like the sudden opening and folding of innumerable wings, which almost made the beholder start, as if he had stepped suddenly upon the threshold of another world. The gaudiest gardens that figure in oriental romance, with all their imaginary colouring, never approached in beauty the rich and variegated hues which that great group of children presented. Here the eye rested upon thousands of little faces that peeped out from the pink trimmings of their neat caps; there the pretty head-gear was ornamented with blue ribbons, looking like blue-bells and white lillies blended together; further on the high range of heads stood like sheeted May-blossoms, while the crimson baize which covered the seats looked in the distance as if the roses of June were peeping in between the openings of the branches. The pale pearled lilac softened into a primrose-coloured border, which was overhung by the darker drapery of the boys, upon whom the shadows of the arches settled. Ever and anon there was a sparkling as of gold and silver, as the light fell upon the glittering badges which numbers of the children wore, or revealed the hundreds of nosegays which they held in their little hauds, or wore proudly in their bosoms. High above this vast amphitheatre of youthful heads, the outspread banners of blue and crimson and purple emblazoned with gold, were ranged, all filled with

Stains and splendid dyes,

As are the tiger moths' deep-damask'd wings.

And when the sunlight, at intervals, fell upon the hair, or th innocent faces of some snow-white group of girls, they seem surrounded with...

A glory like a saint's,

They look'd like splendid angels newly drest,

Save wings, for heaven.

KBATS.

Eastward the organ rose with its sloping gallery of chorister selected from Westminster, the Royal Chapel, and St. Mark' and from thence the full choir burst; and the sounds we caught up and joined by thousands of voices, until the hu building seemed to throb again beneath that mighty utteranc The eye fairly ached as it rested on the vast plane of hum faces, which inclined from the west end of the cathedral, a came dipping down almost to the very foot of the choir, chequered was the richly-coloured field it fell upon.

AS THE anthem stole upon the ear, we seemed born awa to another state-to that heaven of which we catch glimps in our sweetest dreams, when all those childish voices joine in the thrilling chorus; when we beheld thousands of childis faces in the ever-shifting light, we could almost fancy that w stood amid those ranks "who veil their faces with thei wings" before the blinding glory of Heaven. Over all peale the full-voiced organ, sounding like music that belongs not earth; now high, now low, near or remote, as the reverberate sound rose to the dome or traversed the aisles, coming in an out like wavering light between the pillars and shadowy re cesses-spots in which old echoes seemed to sleep, old voice to linger which only broke forth at intervals to join in the solemn anthem that rose up and floated away, and would only become indistinct when it reached the star-paved courts above.

THERE WAS Something pleasing in the countenances of many of the girls-something neek and patient in the expression they wore, especially in the little ones. You could almost fancy you could distinguish those who were orphans, by their looking timidly round, as if seeking among the spectators for some one to love them.