were in the most utter distress, each vieing with the other in despairing cries. Their mother came to them, but made no exertion to check their bursts of-I don't know what to call it. In the churchyard there were lots of children in various stages of fainting. One poor girl seemed quite dead, and I insisted on one of the old crones, who was piously looking on, to go for some water, or to attempt something to give her relief, but was told, 'It was no' a case for water; it was the Lord, and he would do as he liked with her. She was seeing something we didna see, and hearing something we didna hear.' She was lying on the ground, supported by her father. Indeed, the poor ignorant parents have been worked upon until they believe they are highly honoured by the Lord, by having such signs of the spirit manifested in their families. The service, if it may be called so, was in Gaelic.

A SPLENDID, BUT CURIOUS, GIFT. - The Times newspaper of July 31, 1840, has the following:- -"The Marquis of Hertford has forwarded the donation of a thousand pounds, and also the site for building a new Church at Lisburne." We wonder how the Noble Marquis 'forwarded" the site of land; whether through the penny-post or not.

LIBERTIES OF CHURCH AND STATE.-The lesson to be learnt from this surrender of the

liberties of Church and State (when Popery was at its height), is one which every Englishman may read in the causes in which it began. HAD THE SOVEREIGNS LEFT THE CHURCH HER FREEDOM, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO POPERY. There can be no revival of Popery in England, while the Church is free; but if wicked governors seize on the Church's goods, destroy her Bishoprics, or give them to false teachers and unworthy men-attempt, as the apostate Julian did, to deprive her of the power of educating her own children-and if the people love to have it so it can only end in the exaltation of some power which will defile the altar and cast down the throne. Let the Church be secured by the State in those rights which the law of Christ has given her let her be free, as other institutions are free, enjoying her property under the protection of equal laws-and the State and Nation that so protect her in her freedom will secure their own.-Churton's Early English Church.

ST. DAVID'S DIOCESE.-The Clergy of the diocese of St. David's have unanimously expressed their regret that a Bishop should have been appointed to that see who was ignorant of the Welch language. The Archdeacon Davies has been made the vehicle of this complaint.-Hereford Journal.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received "Clerk" (St. Asaph)" H. S."—"Mr. A. Harleston—“ Clericus”—“Rev. Mr. Morris" and "J. W."-The article on the "British Monasteries" will be inserted as soon as convenient. The inquiry from Kilybebyll Rectory, will be answered by us practically before very long.—Mr. Lucas's communication has only just reached us, with his second letter, owing to their being addressed to the Publishers, instead of to the Editor, as all communications ought to be; the article is under consideration.

If "M. A.' knew the difficulty we ourselves feel about the Review department, he would not blame us for the short notices we give of the books sent us for that purpose. If we were to enter fully into the merits of a single book, pointing out what we considered its errors or defects, or calling attention to its excellences, we should occupy more space than we can allow to the notice of twenty books. All, therefore, that we can do is to speak of the work under notice at the time in reference to the good or bad effects a perusal of it is likely to produce. This course cannot be more unsatisfactory to "M. A." than it is to ourselves; but what else can we do, unless we turn the Magazine into a Review, which was never thought of? as our object is from time to time, and with line upon line, and precept upon precept, to bring before the mass of the people, in every form that we can devise, those doctrines and arguments which have been till lately almost lost sight of, and which are absolutely necessary to the bringing the people back within the regions and under the influence of true religion and common sense, and (humanly speaking) to the preservation of the Church of Christ in this country. Our great object is to enlighten not such as "M. A.," who ought to know much more than ourselves already, but the great body of the people, who have been sadly neglected, and left a prey to any religious impostor who," to serve his own belly, by good words and fair speeches, deceives the hearts of the simple" (Rom. xvi. 18.). And the part of "M. A." is, therefore, to get the Magazine amongst "the people;" for them it is most necessary, for them it was intended, and for them, by its language and style, it is best adapted. Wherefore let "M.A." and every other Clergyman and layman circulate it and push it about, for by that good has been done, and, by the blessing of God, will continue to be done. Its sale is constantly increasing, and ought to be increased tenfold, if an estimate is to be made according to the need that exists for the sound principles which it advocates.

"A Churchman" ought to read no such weekly newspaper as that he mentions. And as the paragraph he encloses is taken from the " Record," of course no dependence can be placed upon its statements, which it is very clear are little else than ignorance and slander, and therefore unworthy of our notice. Our Correspondent is not correct in all he says about those Protestant Jesuits, the Wesleyans, who, in reference to the Church, profess one thing and practise another, or on the contrary, as it may suit their purposes. We will shew him in future how the matter stands.

Thanks to T. F. Oxfordshire, his extracts are always acceptable.

Will Mr. Hamlyn give us his address in full, and address his letters, not to the publisher, but to the Editor. We wish he had continued his quotation, as it amounts to nothing as it stands, and we have not all sorts of law books at hand.

A Lector's queries will all be attended to in time.-Will the encloser of the Persuasive to Unity favour us with his name in confidence?-To Mr. Lockhart's inquiry, we answer, that we believe that the Bishops of the Church in Scotland do ordain gentlemen who have never been at any college. We shall be glad to give the Portrait inquired about by " An Islington Subscriber," if we can manage to do so, all things considered. "A Constant Reader" has our best thanks for the "Hampshire Advertisers," and we shall take care of the facts, and use them in some way when opportunity suits.

Several articles in hand are delayed for want of room.

REV R. MONTGOMERY, M.A.

of Lincoln College, Oxford,

Minister of St Jedi's Burch, Glasgow

MEMOIR OF THE REV. R. MONTGOMERY, M.A., RECTOR OF
ST. JUDE'S CHURCH, GLASGOW, ETC. ETC.

THE distinguished individual whose portrait is prefixed to our present number, has now been sometime known as a poet of first-rate abilities and very superior attainments. He was born in the good city of Bath, in the year of our Lord God 1807. His father was a gentleman of Irish extraction, and of ancient and honourable descent, having been, we believe, a nephew of General Montgomery, whose military exploits rendered him conspicuous during the American war, and procured for him the enrolment of his name with those of other heroes who so nobly distinguished themselves at that eventful period. The grandfather of our poet was a merchant, who, amidst his speculations, was deprived by one of his relations of a large fortune which his family ought to have enjoyed, and by which his descendants might have escaped that comparative distress, and those cares and anxieties which narrow circumstances generally entail. His mother was the daughter of a gentleman bred to the profession of the law, and who was descended from a highly respectable family in Hampshire; and though a man of unassuming and retiring habits, he was much esteemed by all who knew him as an orator, a theologian, and a mathematician.

The subject of this Memoir was sent to school at an early age; and such was the constitution of his mind, that even when very young, and surrounded with children who might have been his companions, he felt himself alone. He joined not in their childish amusements -they suited him not; his thoughts were differently occupied, and his affections and feelings unlike theirs. They had kindred, and homes, and friends-while he had but few to love; and from them he was severed. In "Sketches and Souvenirs," published by Mr. Pocock of Bath, the editress thus relates her going, with others, to ask permission of Dr. A., his master, for him to spend the Whitsuntide holidays where she was also engaged to stay during that festival, "The permission was readily granted; and the now merry boy, laughing, jumping, and asking more questions than he gave time to answer, accompanied us to our destination. I was then half-way through my teens he had scarcely entered his; and well do I remember how I used my privilege of seniority to draw out the litle boy, who then puzzled me greatly-for he was only a child in appearance and merriment; but even then, his laughter was not mirth. 'How do you like school, Robert?' said I, when we had established ourselves on a tolerable footing of intimacy. I like study, but I feel school lonely, for I have no one there to speak to.'" He ultimately received, however, an excellent classic education, and was intended for some profession, and at one time was desirous of entering Magdalen Hall, Oxford, to prepare

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