Exhibitioners; and Messrs. West, of Lincoln College, and Hannam, of St. John's College, have been elected Scholars. In Convocation, the sum of £900 was voted from the University Chest, for the extra repairs and furniture required for the rooms in the Clarendon Building. DEGREES CONFERRED. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY, Rev. Edw. Bouverie Pusey, Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Grand Comp. Rev. D. Veysie, Censor of Christ Church. MASTERS OF ARTS. R. C. B. Clayton, Brasennose Coll. Grand Rev. W. M. K. Bradford, Magdalen Hall. Rev. C. H. W. Alston, St. Mary Hall. BACHELORS OF ARTS. William Henry Bloxsome, Wadham Coll. R. Lloyd, Brasennose, incorporated from W. H. H. Beach, Oriel Coll. Grand Comp. ELECTIONS. CAMBRIDGE. The Rev. Harry Longueville Jones, M.A. and the Rev. George Urquhart, B.A. of Magdalene College, have been elected Fo ndation Fellows of that society. George Stovin Venables, B.A. Scholar of Jesus College, in this university, has been elected a Fellow of that society. William Dixon Rangeley, and John Newton Peill, have been elected Foundation Fellows of Queen's College. Charles Davidson, B.A. of Christ College, has been elected a Fellow of that society, on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines. The following gentlemen of Trinity College have been elected Scholars of that society: : Hon. Frederick Henry Yelverton Powys, (grandson of the late Lord Lilford,) Emmanuel Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. George James Cubitt, Caius Coll. BACHELOR IN PHYSIC. John Okes, Sidney Coll. Grand Comp. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Michael Nihell Bovell, Trinity Coll. Thomas Dennett West, St. Peter's Coll. Francis Du Boulay, Clare Hall. Rev. William Sloman Rowe, Queen's Coll. William Acworth, Queen's Coll. John Knight, Queen's Coll. Edward Robert Lascelles, Catharine Hall. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, May 7, Professor Sedgwick, the president, being in the chair. Several presents were announced to the society; among the rest a box of Brazilian insects from A. Badger, Esq. of Trinity College; the volume of the Cambridge Observations for 1831 (the 4th volume) presented by the Plumian Professor; the Transactions of the Geological Society, of the Society of Arts, and other books. A paper by Sir John F. W. Herschel, fellow of the society, was read, containing a description of a machine for solving equations. A notice was also read of a visit by W. H. Yates, Esq. of St. John's college, to the magnetic mountain of Sipylus near Magnesia, in Asia Minor; the mountain from which the magnet is said by Pliny to have derived its name. After the meeting, Professor Sedgwick gave an account, illustrated by maps, of the physical geography, and the history of the Bedford Level. It was stated that originally the river at Lynn drained only the eastern part of the district, bordering on this low fenny region, and the waters of the country about Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough, as well as the more remote parts of the neighbouring counties, were discharged by the mouth of the river at Wisbech. About 1280, the Ouse, between Ely and Lynn, was relieved by a cut from Priest-houses to Rebeck, discharging the waters of the Cam and Ouse into the Brandon river. The consequence of this was, that not only the waters of the Cam and Ouse, but also those of the Nen and Welland, found their way to the sea at Lynn-the two latter rivers pouring their waters backwards through the inosculating branches, by which they had formerly descended to the sea below Wisbech. Thus the mouth of the Lynn river became the vent of nearly all the waters of the Bedford Level. Various attempts were made by Bishop Langton and others (in 1292,) to remedy the inconvenience which thus arose by pouring additional waters into the Lynn river; but these produced a still greater evil in flooding the country along the course of the Ouse, and were finally abandoned. In 1490, Bishop Morton protected the country below Peterborough by the leam or dyke which still bears his name. The greatest change, however, which has occurred in this region, was produced by the old and new hundred-foot drains, executed by the Earls of Bedford about 1630 and 1650. These discharge, by direct and short passages, the waters which formerly ran round from Earth by Ely to Denver's sluice; and in doing this the undertaking was entirely successful; the effect having been, for instance, almost entirely to obliterate the river which formerly ran from Earith to Streatham, and there joined the Cam. One consequence, however, of this operation was, that, during great inundations, that portion of the drainage which ran down the hundred foot cuts got the start of that which descended down the more tortuous course of other rivers, and overrode the waters of the Cam; which in such cases, were caused to run up the country, in some cases for a considerable time. Various other circumstances and facts were mentioned respecting the ancient and recent history of these districts, with the operations of engineering connected with them; as for instance in 1720, when Denver sluice burst, and the waters ran up the Ouse for twenty days. Finally, some remarks were added, respecting the materials accumulated in the fens their relative Levels-and the possibility of clearing them from water by cuts which would entirely supersede the necessity of water-mills and other artificial means of drainage now in use. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Review of Mr. S. Turner's excellent work on the "Sacred History of the World," and of Mr. Muston's "Recognition in the World to Come," if possible, in our next. "Constant Reader," "W. L. B." "P. S." and the "Report of Society, &c." have been received. "Percunctator," in our next. We beg to thank "K. K." for his friendly hints. Some of them are impracticable; some, as to "Literary," not "quite correct;" others shew a lapsus memoriæ; see Vol. XI. 338. and all, had his address been known to us, we think we could have satisfactorily explained. At "Resignation Bond," p. 302, in our last, we beg our readers to make reference to Vol. IX. 449, 706. The work of Dr. Henderson is not forgotten. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. JULY, 1832. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. I.-Recognition in the World to come; or Christian Friendship on Earth perpetuated in Heaven. By C. R. MUSTON, A.M. Second Edition. 12mo. Pp. 424. London: Holdsworth and Ball. 1831. We have been pleased with this little volume. The spirit of piety, which pervades its pages, is truly commendable; and the general matter of our author is conveyed in a style of great neatness and perspicuity. Nor will it be thought an equivocal proof of his talent, that, upon the whole, he has treated a topic, peculiarly calculated to kindle the fire of enthusiasm, with considerable prudence. Where the enraptured visionary would indulge in dreams of merest idleness, our author has professed to rely upon the evidence of Holy Writ, and "his chief concern (as he tells us in his preface, p. v.) “has been to write according to the oracles of God." He has endeavoured to treat the doctrine which respects the extension of human consciousness into the future world, "in connexion with the nature and grand designs of Christian fellowship, and with the permanent laws and Whether we shall be permitted to reelements of human nature." cognize the friends whom death has torn from us, in the mysterious region which is beyond the grave, is a question which comes home to the bosom of every man who has felt the sympathies of friendship, or wept over the bier of departed worth. To know something of the land whither he is hastening;-to see, though but darkly, the house of many mansions, where he is taught to expect the rich recompense of his reward;-to trace the windings of those "rivers of pleasure," which make glad the city of God, the waters of which it shall be permitted him to drink in the midst of the Paradise of heaven; is a privilege which may well employ the studious Christian, and minister abundant food to his inquiries. It is, indeed, our duty to weigh the circumstances of our future destination, and so to "set our affections upon things above," as to strengthen our faith in the VOL. XIV. NO. VII. 3 E glorious promises of our Redeemer, and to fix our hearts permanently upon the eternal and invisible things, so far as they are revealed for the comfort and edification of believers. It is especially to be remembered, that there are certain prescribed limits, within which our researches into the world to come must be jealously kept; and that he, who would discourse wisely on the hidden mysteries of the future, must assume for his motto, and adopt for his pattern, the pious maxim of the judicious Hooker,— "That little of heaven, which we darkly apprehend, we admire; the rest, with religious ignorance, we humbly and meekly adore." The condition of the departed in heaven, upon which enthusiasm is ever wont to dilate, "with a wide particularity," (according to Paley) is but sparingly touched in the pages of inspiration. "The future happiness of the good, and the misery of the bad, which is all we want to be assured of, is directly and positively affirmed, and is represented by metaphors and comparisons, which were plainly intended as metaphors and comparisons, and as nothing more. As to the rest a solemn reserve is maintained." (Paley's Evidences, Pt. ii. c. 2.) "What those external enjoyments will be, which will make a portion of our future bliss, in what particulars they will consist, we are not informed, probably for this reason, because our faculties, in their present imperfect and debased state, the sad consequence of Adam's fall, are not capable of receiving the information." (Horsley's Sermons.) "We can here form no adequate idea of that happiness which is prepared for the righteous in another life. Indeed it is to be a happiness, raised so far above our comprehension, as well as conjecture, that no description of it can be attempted by ourselves without presumption." (Dr. Eveleigh's Sermons, Vol. II. Sermon X.) What! shall we then forbear to tread upon this forbidden ground? If the light vouchsafed be dim, are we, therefore, to shut our eyes? Though it do not yet fully "appear what we shall be;" is it, therefore, denied to us to examine, by the rays of the Sun of Righteousness, who brought life and immortality to light, "the realities of a future world," when it must be confessed, by candid inquirers after truth, that "the elevation of our souls depends much upon the strength, expansion, and purity of their conceptions respecting their final and anticipated condition?" With regard to that condition, we are not left destitute of some general knowledge of no inconsiderable importance. It is, under these circumstances, incumbent upon us to gather what little information we can from the pages of inspiration, relative to our state hereafter; and amongst the subordinate motives to Christian * Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1. Fol. Edit. p. 5. piety, and the subordinate sources of Christian consolation, we are not unwilling to rank our mental recognition in the world to come, and the perpetuation of our friendships in heaven. We, therefore, open the volume before us with all alacrity; and we must say, in justice to our author, that by a happy concentration of many scattered rays, scarcely discernible by an ordinary eye, and feeble in dispersion, he has thrown a pleasing light upon the subject which he has undertaken to discuss. Having indulged in some "introductory remarks," (chap. i.) Mr. Muston teaches his readers in the second chapter of his little volume, that "the hope of re-union in another world is accordant with the general apprehension of men." He then (chap. iii.) instructs us in the nature of "Christian friendship," and states that, The basis on which it rests is that vital union to the Saviour, or relation to him, which belongs to all believers, and in virtue of which there exists amongst them a community of feeling, principle, and privilege.-P. 56. The fourth chapter introduces us to the proper subject of his inquiry, viz. What is the scriptural evidence that Christian friendship, with its accompanying recollections and characteristic pleasures, will be extended beyond the present life? Our author has divided this chapter into five sections, after the following order: Sect. I. On the Certainty of a Future State. II. On the Local and Common Destination of the Righteous. V. The Future Existence of Specific Affection. We dismiss from our pages the consideration of the first and second sections before us, and enter at once upon the third, which embraces the characteristic topic of the work upon our table, "the certainty of future recognitions." This is the cardinal point on which the question hinges. For although we are assured that good men will meet hereafter, and will be united into a perfect and indissoluble society, still their existing friendships must evidently be limited to the present life, if they shall have no remembrance of them, or no knowledge of each other beyond the grave.-P. 80. But it seems that we are not yet sufficiently prepared, in the judgment of our author, for the consideration of the scriptural evidence to the point under review; and, accordingly, he would fortify our minds by some preliminary remarks. He, therefore, descants in metaphysical refinement upon the topics of consciousness and identity, both mental and corporal. We are free to acknowledge that we have read this inconsiderable portion of the volume, thus brought to the notice of the public, with little satisfaction; and we are persuaded that we shall find many to sympathise in the disappointment which we have experienced from the intrusion of these metaphysical niceties, between the conclusion to which we are anxious to arrive on the |