tection and blessing on behalf of the Bishops, Clergy, and people of our fatherland in this their time of need. "The protest adopted in Oxford, manly and firm in its language, and at the same time temperate in its spirit, seems to me to be a document well suited to the crisis; and it is to be hoped the example may be followed in the other dioceses of the United Church of the British empire." The Banner of the Cross announces another loss to the American Church in the death of the Rev. Dr. Jarvis. The following notice bears the impress of the familiar initials G. W. D. : "Scarcely has the grave closed over the remains of the beloved Ogilby, when the Church is called to renew her grief by the grave of the venerable Dr. Jarvis. It was a great thing to possess, in two men, such treasures of learning, enforced by the highest principles, and adorned by every Christian grace. How mysterious the Providence, which, within two months, withdrew them both from among us! What riches must be his, who can spare from his Church such men! Truly he is a God that hideth Himself! "Dr. Jarvis seemed to be among our oldest Presbyters. The son of the venerable Bishop of Connecticut; admitted early to Holy Orders; the companion and assistant of his father, even before he was ordained; and, ever since, the companion and assistant of older men, he seemed to us all much older than sixty-five. There was in him a gravity of person, a solemnity and a fulness of wisdom, that sustained this impression. The present writer undertakes no detail of the useful and honourable life of Dr. Jarvis. His acquaintance with him was through a period of more than thirty years. It was his privilege to be his pupil; and the debt of love, contracted then, could never be repaid. Dr. Jarvis was then the rector of St. Michael's Church, Bloomingdale; and the very model of a country parson. He became one of the four professors in the General Theological Seminary; and none who sat at his feet as pupils will ever cease to remember, with grateful pleasure, the fulness and accuracy of the scholar, the assiduity and suggestiveness of the teacher, the blandness and dignity of the gentleman. Brought up among books, and living in the atmosphere of his large and wellselected library, it was his delight to pour from his own fulness into the minds of the young. And those whom he taught as pupils he conciliated and secured as friends. Dr. Jarvis has held some of the highest places in the Church. In the General Convention he always exercised a wide and wholesome influence. At the instance of that body he undertook to prepare a history of the Church; and had published two volumes, and made extensive preparations for the remainder of the work, when he was called to his rest. To the whole Church it is an irretrievable disappointment. It may be doubted if he has left one so well qualified for that high and responsible enterprise. But it is not for us to doubt or to distrust, when God has spoken. Let us rather thank Him that He has lent us so long the talents, the wisdom, the learning, the courtesy, the dignity, the purity, the piety, which must ever consecrate, to all who knew him, the memory of Dr. Jarvis. The present writer has known him as few knew him, and loved him even better than he knew him. Kindly will he cherish his memory. Humbly will he emulate his excellence. Fervently will he pray that he may follow him, as he was the follower of Christ. 'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."" The Baptist Coloured Church at Buffalo has suffered a large diminution of its members in consequence of the Fugitive Slave Law: "One hundred and thirty of the communicants, as we are informed by the pastor, left the place from fear of arrest on the charge of being fugitive slaves, and have passed over to Canada. The Methodist Church, in the same place, has lost a considerable number of its members from the same cause. There is said to be amongst these more disposition to make a stand and to evade and resist the law than among their Baptist brethren. Somebody had advised them to arm themselves and defend their liberty. The Baptist pastor, however, told his people that he found in the Gospel examples which justified running away, but no examples which warranted fighting. The Coloured Baptist Church at Rochester, which formerly numbered one hundred and fourteen communicants, has lost them all except two since the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law. The pastor, a native Kentuckian, was the first to flee, and the whole flock followed him. The Coloured Baptist Church at Detroit has lost eighty-four of its members from the same cause. They abandon their homes and their occupations, sell such property as they cannot conveniently carry with them, and seek refuge in Canada." It was generally reported that Dr. Hughes, Romish Archbishop of New York, was to be made a Cardinal, but no such appointment has taken place as yet. Dr. Eccleston, Romish Archbishop of Baltimore, died on April 26th. His funeral, which passed through Philadelphia, was attended by his clergy in full costume, and the President of the United States, with his ministers, and the diplomatic body, formed part of the funeral procession. WEST INDIES.-Lord Harris has determined upon carrying out a course of Government secular instruction at Trinidad, totally irrespective of religion. At a council held on the 2nd of April, the Governor laid before the board, in a message, an outline of his plans, which, to carry into effect, the Attorney-General would follow up by a series of resolutions. They are simply the machinery for normal schools of three grades (primary, superior, and collegiate), to afford the rising generation instruction in languages, grammar, geography, arithmetic, science, and morals; every thing but religion, which latter is to be ignored because of the community being divided among Christians, Mahommedans, Gentoos, and Heathens, and the Fetish. As Lord Harris cannot consent that the Bible should be "considered a banished book," an unobjectionable selection is to be made, as his lordship in no way yields "to the notion that, as the word of God, the whole of it may not be consulted by all for their religious instruction." At an earlier part of the proceedings, the Attorney-General presented a petition from the Wesleyans, praying for an annual grant of 2001. for educational purposes, which, he gave notice, he should move the consent of the board to at their next meeting, M. Laherpeur, the newly-appointed bishop of the See of Martinique, just erected by the Pope, has arrived at St. Pierre, Martinique, and been received by the authorities with great ceremony, INDEX OF THE REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE CRITICISMS, Achill, Dingle, and Askeaton, Missions Albertus Magnus, his treatise "Of ad- Amari's History of the War of the Sicilian Ancient British Church, Antiquities of VOL. XV. no certain mention of Christianity in Baker, Rev. Arthur, his "Plea for Ro- Butler, the Very Rev. Richard, his Pre- Calendar of the Anglican Church, the, Carter, Rev. F. F., his "Pattern showed Ll ness and hope for the Church of Eng- Christianity, Edict against, in China, 233. regarding it, 282-284; as seen by the Cultus Anima, or the Arraying of the Dallas, Rev. A. R. C., his missionary Dancing and Wrestling, useful as diver- Debary, Rev. Thomas, his Notes of a Residence in the Canary Islands, 411; Early English Princesses, Lives of,-by |