precision to language; and the general principles by which we ought to be guided in all our inquiries into the meaning of the Sacred Scriptures. No one has been more fortunate in making an exposition of these laws and principles than the writer of this review. They will be found interspersed through all his works; and as he grounds all his criticism on first principles, and rejects every canon, how extensively soever recognized by the learned, that does not contain its own evidence, he has been able successfully to oppose those who would teach that the meaning of Scripture is vague and undefined, and cannot be determined with definite certainty.

We have no doubt that this review will strengthen the impression which Mr. Bagot has already made, and we trust that it may enable some Unitarians themselves to perceive the sophistry by which their unscriptural system is supported.

NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRESBYTERIES.

THE following distribution of the Two Hundred and Thirty Congregations, under the care of the General Synod of Ulster, into Twenty-four Presbyteries, was drawn up and sanctioned by the Synod, at its meeting in Londonderry, on the 27th of June, 1834. The Presbyteries are to continue to act as at present constituted, and to hold such meetings as may be necessary, until the first of September next; they are appointed to meet, for the first time agreeably to the new arrangement, in the places specified in the following list, on the first Tuesday of September, the senior Minister present to be the Moderator at that meeting; and should any case, at present pending in Presbyteries, remain undetermined after the first of September, the former members may continue to act together until such case may be issued.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND. [We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the following circular, lately issued by the Sunday-School Society for Ireland, on behalf of the diminished funds of that most excellent Institution. We know of no Society that has stronger claims upon the liberality of the Christian public, and we hope that the present appeal will not be made in vain.] 16, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin, 25th June, 1834.

DEAR SIR,

THE Committee of the Sunday School Society, finding that the demands on them for assistance are increasing to an extent, which their present resources are insufficient to meet, and that in consequence of some unfavourable circumstances, the income of the Society during the last year has been considerably reduced, feel compelled by a sense of duty, to submit the subject to your kind consideration, and to request your co-operation in relieving them from their present embarassments.

The Committee, aware of the various local expenses which the establishment and support of Schools must necessarily impose on their friends in Ireland, have ever been reluctant to press upon their benevolence the wants and claims of the Society; but at a period like the present, when increased necessity for exertion in spreading Scriptural education, is met by diminished pecuniary ability to promote this object, the Committee feel that they would not discharge their duty to the important trust reposed in their hands, did they not lay before their friends and fellow labourers the difficulties in which they are at present involved, leaving the result to the Lord, in whose work they believe the Society to be engaged.

In urging on your attention the importance of the present subject, the Committee are naturally led to allude to the rapid advance of the system of Sunday School Instruction in Ireland. In the year 1810, there were but 2 schools and 87 Scholars connected with the Society, whilst in the year 1833, they had increased to 2746 Schools, attended by 210,135 Scholars, and 20,156 Gratuitous Teachers. The Committee would likewise allude to the approbation borne to the Society, by the" Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry;" to the concurrent testimony in its favor, by all engaged in the work of Sunday-School Instruction; and above all, to the moral and religious improvement manifested wherever the influence of the Society has prevailed. These subjects have, from time to time, been adverted to in the Reports and Publications of the Society, with which you are probably acquainted; and we doubt not that your own experience and observation are confirmatory of their truth. The Committee would thankfully observe, that under all the existing discouragements, the Lord has continued to vouchsafe a blessing to the labours of the Society. The increase during the past year has amounted