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Even in Spain there are gleams of light. A bill for the sale of ecclesiastical property has been passed through the Cortes of that country, and signed by the Queen, "with many tears," according to the Constitutionnel. In regard to the general policy of either of these bills, we will not give a positive opinion; but that the spirit which must have existed widely before they could be passed, has obtained in those countries, is calculated to rejoice the hearts of the friends of civil as well as religious liberty.

Per contra, Austria has concluded a Concordat with Rome, by which the power of the latter is immensely increased. Practically the effect may be good. If the powers of spiritual darkness and civil oppression are to league together, a league may be formed of a different kind, and one which will not rest in its onward course till it gains a complete triumph.

NECROLOGY.

In closing our record for the period of which we have treated, let us gather together the names of such prominent men, whose connection with religious and ecclesiastical matters give them an especial claim on our notice, as have died during its continuance. We should especially record the loss of one of England's leading divines, Julius Charles Hare, Archdeacon of Lewes; of the Rev. William Jowett, the early Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to the Mediterranean; of the Rev. John Hill, late of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, one of the most prominent laymen of the Church of England, the representative of Oxford for a long series of years; of the Rev. I. I. Blunt, the Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, (to whom was lately offered the Bishopric of Salisbury ;) and the Rev. Dr. Gilly, Vicar of Norham, author of a work on the Vaudois.

We forbear to record the names of others, but we may add two items; one the death of Leang Afah, the Chinese Evangelist, the first fruit of Protestant missionary labor in China, whose name is associated with those of Morrison and Milne; and the other that the friends of the eminent and useful J.

Angell James, of Birmingham, recently held a Jubilee in commemoration of his fifty years' service as Minister of Carr's lane Chapel in that place, and resolved to erect a Chapel near his residence, to cost £4-5000, in honor of the event. The event itself is noteworthy, as also the happy idea of so commemorating it most appropriate to a Christian people, who acknowledge the blessings of the Gospel by imparting it to others.

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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW,

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CHURCH REGISTER.

APRIL, 1856.

No. II.

A REVIEW OF THEORETICAL GEOLOGY.

BY MARTYN PAINE, A.M., M.D., LL.D.

INTRODUCTION.

"I have made the earth and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded."—ISAIAH.

"The growth of new systems out of old ones (or chaos), without the mediation of a Divine Power, seems to me apparently absurd."-SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

"If worlds are limited, the outside would gravitate towards the middlemost without a Divine Power to conserve it."-IBID.

“And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die."—"And of every living thing of all flesh shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female."-"Two every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive";-"to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth."-MOSES.

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"As the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. For, as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying

Ver. III.-11.

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