for the use of families, 2 vols. 8vo. by John Fawcett, A. M. Rector of Scaleby, and Curate of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle; An Appeal to Men of Wisdom and Candour, in Four Discourses, preached before the University of Cambridge, in November, 1815, by the Rev. Charles Simeon, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; also, a new edition in octavo, of his Four Discourses on the Excellency of the Liturgy, to which is added, Christ Crucified, a Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge; A Key to the Old Testament, or a summary View of its several Books, by the Rev. Henry Rutter;-A new edition of the Rev. J. Scott's Inquiry into the Effects of Baptism, with an Appendix, which may be had separate, and a Defence of the Principles of his Inquiry, in Reply to the Rev. Dr. Laurence.

We are happy to perceive, that while the advocates of sedition and irreligion are assiduously circulating their pestilent and poisonous productions among the lower classes of the community, the friends of truth and good order are not idle. The revered author of the CheapRepository Tracts has resumed the pen which rendered such signal service to the community at a former period of rebuke and blasphemy," and has produced several pieces admirably adapted to counteract the noxious influence of the efforts to which we have alluded. These pieces have been printed in a very cheap form, and may be obtained for distribution in any numbers, either of the publisher of this work, or of Mr. Evans, Long-lane, Smithfield. We recommend this object to the attention of those whom God has blessed with the means of doing good. Several small tracts of a beneficial tendency have also been published by Mr. Seeley, 169, Fleet-street, expressly with a view to counteract the mischievous attempts that are made to delude the poor at the present season of distress, and in the hope that the loyal throughout the kingdom will endeavour to promote their circulation.

The trigonometrical survey of Great Britain, under the directions of the Ordnance Board, proceeds without interruption. The maps of about three-fifths of England and Wales are already complet ed. In the course of the summer, the British surveyors are to be joined bytwo emiment French Academicians, with a view

of connecting the trigonometrical surveys of the two countries, and thus not only attaining a greater degree of geographical accuracy, but obtaining, perhaps, a more satisfactory solution of the problem respecting the true figure of the earth. The French gentlemen ap pointed to attend Colonel Mudge are M. Biot and M. Arago.

Four new and hitherto non-descript species of deer, are now exhibiting in the King's Mews Riding-house. They have been brought from the Upper Missouri country in North America.

A stone is said to have been lately found at Pompeii, on which the linear measures of the Romans are engraved. Chimney Sweeping.

The Committee of the Society for preventing the necessity of employing climbing boys in sweeping chimneys, congratulate the public on the satisfactory results of the meeting held in June last at the Mansion-house. The attention of the public and of parliament has thereby been called to the subject. In the mean time, the Committee are using every effort in their power to diffuse the knowledge, and induce the adoption, of the method of cleansing chimneys by mechanical means, which they think may in every case be safely and effectually substituted for infantine labour, the total abolition of which is the prime object of the Society. The practice itself they justly consider as abhorrent to the best feelings of human nature, especially when it is recollected, that children of four years old and upwards, who are its victims, can have no option as to embarking "in this horrid trade." Many of the persons engaged in this trade have agreed to use the mechanical means pointed out by the Society, the Society on that engagement furnishing each of them with a complete machine at half its cost. It is a remarkable fact, that the practice itself, which is now sought to be abolished, is not more than a century old even in this country. It has only been introduced within the last twenty or thirty years in Edinburgh, and during the same period has been gaining ground in the United States. But with the exception of Paris, where it has been partially adopted, it is said to be wholly unknown on the Continent of Europe. The existing act of parlia ment imposes penalties on masters for employing servants or apprentices under eight years of age; for not causing

them to wear a cap with the name and abode of the master engraved on a brass plate; for suffering them to call in the streets before seven in the winter or five in the summer, or after noon at any time of the year; for not allowing them sufficient food, washing, lodging, apparel, &c.; for not causing them to wear clean dresses and attend worship on the Sabbath; or for forcing them to climb a chimney actually on fire. Not only every constable, but every humane person, should interfere when they witness the violation of any of these enactments, and carry the boys before a magistrate. The tract circulated by the Society details a great variety of cases of severe sufferings sustained by climbing boys.

Several debates have lately taken place in the East-India Court of Proprietors, on the subject of their college in Hertfordshire. Many charges have been advanced, of which the tendency is to bring that semiuary into disrepute, and to prepare the way, either for a great change in the system, or for the entire subversion of the institution. The proposition founded upon these charges was rejected by the Court: and on a review of the case, we have no difficulty in saying that it was properly rejected. Under the present circumstances of our Indian empire, it seems to be generally admitted, that the civil servants of the Company ought to be qualified, both by knowledge and good principles, for the various offices of the state. This object cannot be attained without an appropriate institution: and the establishments at Hertford and Calcutta, if placed under proper regulations, are well suited to the purpose.

The great argument against the college in this country, is derived from the alleged irregularities of the students. We much fear, that, after every precau tion, irregularities will still be found at all places of public education: and how ever desirable it may be to introduce a system of absolute perfection, no system has yet been devised which is calculated to realize the hope. Some of the reasons which have been advanced in

condemnation of the East-India College, would be quite as conclusive against all our public schools, and both of our universities.

We find, however, that the plan upon which the college was founded was, in one material point, liable to great objection. We cordially approve of the institution; we highly commend the sys tem of instruction adopted in it; and we give full credit to the Court of Directors for their judicions selection of a principal and professors: but there was, in respect to the discipline, an original and radical error, which could hardly fait to be productive of very serious mischief. In all other seminaries of education, the paramount authority is vested in the persons who immediately superintend them: these persons have power to punish delinquents even by expul sion: and it is obvious, to every welleducated man, that without this power regularity and order cannot be maintained.

Inferior punishments, unless rendered effective by the fear of expul sion, are childish and contemptible. In the East-India College, the Directors alone were till lately the dominant body. However flagrant might be the outrages of the young men, and however systematic their violations of order, in no case could the offender be removed except by the determination of the Court; of that Court, which often consisted of the near relatives or guardians of the delinquents themselves, and always of their patrons; and which, in more instances than one, restored and sent out to India the very persons whom its own sentence had formally expelled. Hence arose, of necessity, a spirit of insubor. dination. It was created and cherished by the system; and although the power of enforcing discipline has at length been conceded to the gentlemen of the institution, so tardy has been the concession, so violent is the animosity against the college which seems to exist among some members of the East-India Company, and of course so prevalent among the students will be the opinion of its instability, that the effects of the old system will probably long be felt. The recent debates are, on some accounts, very likely to increase the evil: and we shall never look upon the institution as permanently established, till the students shall possess the entire conviction that no interest in Leadenhall-street will shield them from the punishment of their demerits. To those

MISSIONS OF THE UNITED BRE

THREN.

We have been requested, and with that request we very readily comply, to insert the following appeal to the public in behalf of the Missions of the United Brethren. Did we suppose that any thing we could say would strengthen their claims to the benevolent regard of our readers, we should certainly have enlarged on the subject. But, fearful of weakening the force of Mr.Latrobe's statement by any addition of our own, we shall content ourselves with expressing a hope that bis confidence in the liberality of Christian Britain will not prove to have been misplaced.

ADDRESS, &c.

In the year 1814, it is well known that the accumulated distresses of the Continent affected all classes and descriptions of persons. The same calamities were severely felt in all the settlements of the United Brethren in Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Russia, and considerably diminished the contributions both of the Brethren's congrega. tions, and of friends participating in the welfare and support of their missions among the heathen. Under these circumstances, an appeal was made to the religious public, by some very respectable persons in England, who became acquainted with the embarrassments under which this important concern laboured. That appeal was not made in vain, and the Committee, to whom the general management of the Brethren's missions is entrusted by their synods, feel how much they owe to the kindness and liberality of the numerous well-wishers to the spread of Christianity among the heathen, who very nobly stepped forward on this occasion, and, by their generous donations, contributed in a great measure to remove the existing difficulty. In this work of charity, benefactors of various denominations were united, exhibiting a most encouraging proof of the power of that Christian love which binds together the hearts of the people of God in support ing the cause of their Redeemer, how ever distinguished by various names and forms.

The present Address is occasioned by a similar necessity, and is in like manner encouraged by friends not of the Society, who are acquainted with the proceedings of their missions, and with the great difficulty of maintaining them. This indeed amounts almost to an impossibility, unless it shall please the Lord to incline the hearts of those to whom He has imparted the power, again to afford their generous assistance. The effects of that dreadful war, by which the Continent was wholly impoverished, trade annihilated, and even the common necessaries of life in many instances withdrawn, are still felt by most classes, so as to render them unable, as formerly, to direct their attention to subjects beyoud their own personal existence; while the settlements of the Brethren, though by God's mercy. spared from total destruction by fire and sword, were so much exhausted, from being continually made the headquarters of different armies, that they were plunged into debt, and their usual sources of income, for some time, nearly dried up. The exertions of individuals, however, and of the congregations col lectively, have not been wanting; and, though greatly reduced in means, they have done what they could to assist in preventing any relaxation in the prosecution of the work. Yet, with every exertion, it is impossible to meet the great and accumulated expenditure of the past years. The sum of about 4,0001. which, by the unexpected liberality of our brethren and friends in England, was collected in 1814 and 1815, was indeed a relief for which we cannot suffciently thank the Lord, who thus disposed the hearts of so many benefactors to favour the Brethren's missions; but as the circumstances which then occasioned the deficiency remain unaltered, the Committee is again under the necessity of making their case known, and expressing a hope that their petition for help will not pass unre. garded.

To shew how extensively the church of the United Brethren is employed in attempts to propagate the Gospel in the heathen world, and how long they have. maintained their numerous missions in