"p. 1" is the Title-page; "p. 2" contains nothing; "p. 12" a ridiculous extract. It is really about nine pages. There is an addition in this second issue (p. 6) of Roman Catholic statistics; the number of Churches and Priests is very much exaggerated. We must protest against "Roman" Catholics being called "Catholics." Does Mr. Gibson reject the term? DIARY OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. WHILE on this point, though I do not wish to advert to any controversial topics, or to intrude political subjects into my diary, still I may be allowed to say, that in my opinion, the efforts of the Government to soothe the discords, and to bring into harmony those conflicting interests which had hitherto prevented the spread of education in this country, entitled them to the highest honour. It is not for me to say what may be the amount of success that may attend their efforts in this direction, but if they succeeded in spreading the light of education among the masses of this country, they would do more towards the maintenance of the prosperity of this country than had been effected by the most glorious victories which our history records. Depend upon it, that in proportion as you inform the National mind, as you extend the blessing of an enlightened education amongst the people, the more you strengthen the foundation of the national prosperity. The efforts which are now making to extend education, encourage us to look forward to days of honour and prosperity for this country, which would cast into the shade all that had gone before. The triumphs of peace were far more worthy, they were far more enduring, than the triumphs of war; and I am led to hope, that this country will henceforward maintain her place amongst the the nations of the earth, less by the manifestations of her military strength than by her moral power, her superiority in knowledge, and her pre-eminence in science, and by the general diffusion mong the people of those religious principles which elevated man and fitted him for the position in life, he was called upon to fill. We cannot have a more conclusive proof of the advantage of educating the people, than the effect that has been already produced by the Ragged Schools. In the last report of the Ordinary of Newgate, it was shewn that since the establishment of these institutions, there had been a considerable decrease in the number of Juvenile criminals. Here then was a proof of the advantage of education amongst the lowest class of the community, and wherever you could trace its effects, whether in the higher or the lower classes, the same result would be apparent; that the greatest good you could do to man was to confer upon him the blessing of religious and moral instruction, such, was the character given, of the education afforded, in the Commercial Travellers' Schools. FROM the children, we will turn to the parent, and before we proceed any further, give a sketch of the Commercial Traveller, who, is, in point of fact, a trader, yet rules he as a professional man – in the society in which he moves; they are a set of men in themselves social and obliging; genius of Denison! father of the Society of Travellers, inspire me! as thy good company often tended, to instruct, to edify, and to amuse me. The Commercial Traveller, the man of the road, the hero of samples and patterns, is a person of great utility, of great capacity (in his line,) and in general of great information; and as many may be said to be the sinews of trade, as well as of war, so is the Commercial Traveller, as an artery through which that trade is conducted and conveyed; a kind of aqueduct, through which it flows, to the remotest provinces. He undergoes greater fatigues, greater risks, and greater anxieties than any other professional, (not even excepting the pickpocket, the surgeon, and the dramatist ;) but he is less appreciated (excepting the lawyer and the hangman). HUMANITY, consideration, industry, perseverance, and a copiousness of persuasion, as well as of manners, are the leading characteristics of the Commercial Traveller. He is more humane and considerate to the beast which he rides, than the soldier or the statesman. (To be continued.) NOTICES. The Idol Demolished by its Own Priest; by James Sheridan Knowles, Post 8vo. A. & C. Black, Edinburgh: is a powerful and very successful attack upon Cardinal Wiseman's Lectures on Transubstantiation. It is a circumstance ominous of the fearful apostacy of the Roman church, that her champions invariably assume the infidels' arguments when they venture to argue with Protestants, not only on the revealed will of God, but on the peculiar, and sometimes heathen dogmas of their own church. With great tact and considerable effect Mr. Knowles has shewn up and annihilated many of the Cardinal's infidel arguments; but above all he has pursued him with unrelenting perseverance, and fe rreted him out of all his subterfuges, misquotations, and wilful perversions of Scripture. As the papal church has put an extinguisher on the Scripture, their people only know it by citations in their catechisms;-these are frequently mutilated to serve a turn and the Cardinal has availed himself most liberally of the trick of suppressing or stopping short at such texts, or parts of texts, as would either expose his arguments to danger or which would quite overthrow them. Mr. Knowles has admirably shewn up these suppressions, and short comings; and he has unmistakeably shewn that the Cardinal has truly demolished his own Idol with his own hands. Mr. Knowles says, indignantly, at page 196, "You supplant Christ. For His yoke you substitute your own yoke; for His teaching, your own teaching; for His sacrifice, your own sacrifice; for His meekness, your own exaction; for His lowliness, your own domination! In a word, you supersede christianity with priestcraft!" The Church of Rome was once glorious and faithful; and S. Paul tells us, that her faith was spoken of throughout the whole word; nevertheless, he prophetically warned her that she should be cut off, if she should become "high minded" that is proud; and has she not become high-minded? her fall has been lamentable and gradual, from the exeellence of faith to absolute idolatry. All her sins and iniquities were consummated at Trent when every preceding corruption was ratified and others superadded, with the additional sin of the fulmination of curses loud and deep against all faithful christians of every age. Her claim to the title of a Catholic church has become somewhat doubtful; and it is more than probable that S. Paul's. threat has already been fulfilled, and that she has long since been "cut off"; for her sins have reached unto heaven. The Council of Trent made her heretical; and cnt her off from the whole Catholic Church, east and west; yet, she labours under the fond delusion-the monomania-that she alone is the spouse of Christ; although He has rejected her as an adulterous harlot; yet she esteems herself the Catholic Church, although she is not a fourth part of it. "As they say in the North, "she'll end before she'll mend." The Two Mothers: 66 Rome," or "the Jerusalem which is above" is a penny Tract, by Dr. Mc Caul, the learned professor of Hebrew, in King's College, London. He shews in a popular manner that the apostle who wrote an epistle to the Church in Rome did not call her either a mother or a mistress of any church, far less of all churches; that none of the other apostles gave her these titles; but that one apostlę certainly did call her a "Mother of harlots." Perhaps it was the conciousness of the Apocalyptic Motherdom that induced the Synod of Trent to assume this inauspicious and lying title, in order to brow beat the world into a belief of it; for Rome is always either cringing and whining or else bullying. Transubstantiation. Wertheim. This is the Second Edition of a lecture by Dr. Mc Caul, from the text of Isaiah xliv, 15, being one of a course of Lectures, which was delivered in 1837, in reply to those preached by Dr. Wiseman, who is about the best controverted man now living; and when he turns into a clod of the valley, his recent defiance of both divine and human laws will save his name from absolute oblivion. He undertook the defence of this doctrine in a series of Lectures; but the contrast of the apostles conduct at Capernaum, when they understood Christ carnally, and at the institution of the Eucharist, when they understood Him spiritually, is absolutely fatal, to Transubstantiation. The Tract is very short, only 30 pages; but the subject could not have been better handled or more compressed. We recommend it to our friends for distribution, that it may counteract the insidious attempts of the Jesuits to poison the minds of their dupes. What is the Canon Law? A Tract, by the same author, shews what the Canon Law really is, which Dr. Wiseman has so recently introduced into England; and which supersedes the common and statute laws of the land we live in. Dr. McCaul says "In the first place then, if it be asked What is the Canon Law? the simple answer is, it is the Pope's Law, to which Emperors, Kings, and Nations, and National Laws, are called upon to give place, and to acknowledge as paramount to all imperial decrees and parliamentary enactments." This cheap Tract of only 22 pages ought to be extensively read and circulated; for on such a subject the public in general is profoundly ignorant. Rome or the Bible. 62, Paternoster Row. These are hand or posting bills adapted for circulation among the poorer classes. They are printed in two colours and in parallel columns; in the one column there are the authorised doctrines of the church of Rome, and opposite the texts of Scripture which condemn them. They are printed in a bold type on a 4to sheet, and may be had in packets of 25, 50, and 100, either sorted, or on the following subjects; 1-the Circulation of the Scriptures; 2-the sufficiency of the Scripture as the rule of Faith; 3-the Right of Private Judgment; 4-Prayer to the Virgin; 5-Divine Homage given to the Pope; 6-Equivocation and Deceit; 7-Intolerance and Persecution; 8-The State of the Departed after Death. As oft as God tells us of painful ways and narrow gates, and of Camels and of needles, all that is done to sharpen our industry in ', not to threaten an impossibility to any.-Donne. |