that "parents are to refrain from putting into the hands of their children," and that we are to be indebted to the Board of Irish Education for a safe and proper edition of it for their instruction? Sir, there is not a man who values the honour of our Church, whose heart must not burn with feelings of grief and shame at a statement such as this. We do not protest against individuals, but against errors—not against men but against principles, and when a principle of Popish superstition, such as this, is set forth before the nation, the higher the authority from which it emanates, the louder and the loftier shall be our protest against it. We value and we respect as we ought, the dignities and offices of men, but it is only calculated to bring them into degradation and contempt when those who fill them stand upon the little molehill of their earthly elevation, to lift their puny voice against the authority and the glory of the God of Heaven.

It is asserted that "an outcry had been raised against the first number of the selections made by the Society, before they were published, the proof sheet having been surreptitiously procured from the printers, and it was said that in those selections they had introduced a passage sanctioning the worship of the Virgin Mary."

Now, Sir, if this sentiment had been uttered in the House of Lords, it would seem perfectly unaccountable on any principles of ordinary candour, to any man acquainted with the facts; it would seem like an attempt to evade the charge, by casting an imputation of dishonesty on those who procured the sheet, and of falsehood on those who brought the accusation. I did not see that sheet, Sir, but I know that the gentleman who made the charge knew nothing of it till it was placed in his hands, and I know that it was not procured surreptitiously, but fell accidentally into the hands of the gentleman who got it. Mr. Carlisle made this same cry, and wrote a pamphlet on it too, which was industriously circulated in England, complaining, forsooth, as if this passage only appeared in a proof sheet, but ought not to be charged on the extracts as published; whereas, this very passage came out with a title changed in the selections, and it was not said to sanction the worship of the Virgin Mary, but it

was proved to do so-proved beyond the power of the Commissioners, not only to refute, but even to attempt to answer the charge; they could not, and they are unable to do so. If the Archbishop of Dublin can find one of the Commissioners to answer that charge, he shall be instantly refuted; and now I say, Sir, not only that their vote sanctions the worship of the Virgin Mary, but since I find that the Board tolerates, as is openly acknowledged, the use of the books in the Roman Catholic depository, to be admitted into the religious instruction of the schools, I say this, that they sanction the most abominable idolatries and superstitions that ever disgraced a people calling themselves christians, and I charge the Board of Education with patronizing the worst and most abominable antichristian delusions that can blind the human intellect, and destroy the human soul; and if they will undertake to disprove this charge, since it is complained they were not allowed to plead their cause in Exeter Hall, and since it is said that the Church of Ireland is factious in opposing this Board-and since, respect for his Grace's office forbids such an appeal to the Archbishop of Dublin, in the name of the Church of Ireland, let Mr. Carlisle, and Mr. Anthony Blake, meet a clergyman of the established Church and a clergyman of the Scotch Church, or an Irish Lawyer in Exeter Hall, and let the Popish principles of their constitution, and their Popish extracts, and the Popish superstitions of that depository, which they sanction, be brought fairly to the light, and I will venture to assert, that there is not a man that shall ever have the hardihood to call himself a Protestant Minister, and stand up to tell the British nation that the public money should be devoted to such an abominable purpose. Now, Sir, this is plain language, such as befits the subject. Let us see will the Board of Education venture to meet it, then, Sir, the nation shall see where political faction and crooked policy; and Christian fidelity and truth are to be found. "He that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

But, it is said, "it is rather hard to assume that mutilated selections would receive the sanction of Protestant commissioners, who had received their education at three Protestant Universities-the Archbishop of Dublin, who had heen educated at Oxford-Dr. Sadlier, who had been educated at Trinity College, Dublin-and Mr. Carlisle, a Presbyterian clergyman." With respect to an education at Oxford, I suppose it is meant that this is a pledge that the proper principles of the Protestant religion inculcated at that University, are to afford a security in the Archbishop of Dublin against the invasion of those principles in the Board of Education. The argument, Sir, is a strong one, and would be a good one if it did not happen to be refuted by that which is proverbially acknowledged to be worth a thousand arguments, namely, a fact; that fact is this, and I lament to have it to write-that the Archbishop of Dublin, as President of a College at Oxford, delivered from the pulpit, and published from the press, a body of well arranged and well digested truths, which were consonant as far as they went, with the principles which ought to be inculcated in that University; but the very next year his Grace accepted the Archiepiscopal mitre in this unfortunate country, and undertook to carry into effect for the Prime Minister of England, a system which the year before, he had himself publicly denounced-and justly and unansweredly denounced, as a compound of Popery and Paganism, at Oxford. The detailed comparison of his Grace's sentiments, and of the Board, are fully before the public, they remain unanswered, and unanswerable, and it is rather hard to impute to us as an ebullition of faction in Ireland, the adherence to those principles, which his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, had published as the principles of the Protestant Church at Oxford. Is it faction, Sir, that we cannot conveniently accommodate the policy of my Lord Grey, by surrendering our religion and our Bibles at his Lordship's behest? Is it faction, Sir, that we cannot profess one set of principles one year, and shift them like a scene in a comedy, to please a Prime Minister, the next? If not, Sir, then I pledge myself on behalf of the Church of Ireland, that when the Archbishop of

Dublin shall reconcile even to the semblance of convertency the principles which he published at Oxford in one year, with those which he undertook to bring into action in the Metropolitan See of Ireland the next, under the policy of Lord Grey, that every Bishop and every Clergyman in Ireland, will unanimously join him in that Board of Education, which till then, on his Grace's own authority, as an opinion, we shall denounce as a compound of Pagan ignorance, and Popish superstition.

It has been bitterly complained of, that persons were excluded from the public meetings, to petition against the Board, who were not friendly to the object for which they were convened. This statement to my certain knowledge is incorrect-the Archbishop of Dublin himself, received a formal notification of the meeting on the subject in Dublin, and his Grace did not chose to avail himself of the privilege afforded him.

It has been also made a subject of bitter lamentation, that “an agitation is going on in Ireland, which insults the Roman Catholic population by the application of such epithets as Idolaters,' 'superstitious believers,' ' mutilators of the Scriptures,' &c. Look, Sir, I pray you, to what a lamentable pass the Protestant religion is arrived-but one or two short years ago, the whole body of the British Senate, Archbishops, Bishops, and all the Peers of the realm, called, in the most solemn manner, the God of Heaven to witness the idolatry and superstition of the Popish church; and now an Archbishop of the Protestant religion, whose duty it is to testify against this, and to labour to reform these unhappy people, is represented as gravely complaining to these very Peers, that Ireland is agitated. How ?-Because men are found to say, what they every one themselves had sworn!!! As to the Peers-is this a compliment to their conscience, or their understanding ?-as to Irelandalas, poor country! when those who ought to be the pillars of the truth, take part with the ministers of superstition, to complain that truth is spoken, and to mutilate and suppress the Word of Life, which they ought to teach and preach even to the death--what prospect is there of your improvement-what hope can be indulged of your salvation!

But we are called on to sympathize with the sufferings of those who are engaged in the maintainance of this system, and who have to complain of the moral assassination of their characters." And we are told of the melancholy instance of a Presbyterian minister who was deserted by his congregation, because he approved of the Board of Education. As to this minister, Sir, I grant, he is to be pitied, less, however, for his fate, than for his crime. I rejoice to hear of the fidelity of his congregation-it is time for a congregation to abandon their minister, when he deserts the Word and the authority of his Creator. As to the reproaches that are cast on the Protestant commissioners, it is readily admitted, that for these they are deserving of compassion. If men are reproached for the cause of truth, and in the path of duty, supported by the Word of their God and the testimony of their conscience, it is their privilege, according to that Word, to "rejoice, and be exceeding glad," and therefore, so far from complaining, we see the apostles of our blessed Lord, " rejoicing that they were worthy to suffer shame for his name," and we are called on to sympathize, not their sorrows, but their joys. But when men suffer under the just, indignant rebuke of truth, for destroying the cause of God and of his Word, then, indeed, they are truly to be pitied-no Scripture to support no hope to cheer-no testimony of conscious integrity, that is ratified by the authority of God, to uphold them, when they have sacrificed the glory of the eternal World to some contemptible expediency, or some criminal policy of this when they have thrown away

the substance to grasp at the shadow, however fatally injurious the result of their conduct to their fellow creatures, it is universally to be allowed, that they are objects of deep commiseration, as it regards themselves. Pity must not presume to arrest the rod of justice; but justice cannot forbear to mingle her tears with those of pity.

How are the miseries of their condition aggravated, when the calumnies of which they complain, are derived, not from their enemies, but from themselves? Who ever thought of imputing to the Protestant commissioners, that any one of them would actually dare to set forth the Popish principle, that the Bible was not fit to be put into the hands of our children? Who ever thought, however criminal we considered the policy of the Board, that any one of them actually held an opinion of the Bible, in common with the blasphemies and superstitions of Dr. Doyle, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Maguire ? Alas! Sir, how hapless is the condition of the culprit, when the miserable admissions of the defence, outnumber even the counts of the indictment? How hapless is escape from the terrible severity of censure, when the melancholy confession of the truth sets even detraction itself at defiance? With the hope, Sir, that your Magazine shall long afford a pledge of what Oxford and Trinity College ought to maintain, with respect to the Word of God,

I remain,

Your Friend and Servant,

PHILO VERITAS.

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Canada! we never meet that word, without feeling a rush of combined sensations to our heart; we know whether pleasurable or otherwise. A flowery scene rises before our eyes, and all the witchery of that noble land comes like a summer gleam across our soul. Yet not unmingled with pain do we experience these feelings, the memory of friends, driven from this once happy land, now settled in peace with their families, but for ever lost to us, comes to our mind, and then we turn to the mighty operations in the state, which have thus exiled so many thousands of our brethren from their English home, and in long and gloomy train uprise our wrongs and sufferings but we will not continue the picture, we do not intend to be learned in this month, and we have no need to be gloomy or desponding, so drawing a veil over our sketch, let us turn to subjects more immediately connected with our title, and fain are we to say, that he must be a thorough crying philosopher, who can read some of these "Canadian Tours," &c. without hearty laughter. But the causes of this mirth are by no means the samé in all. At one time we take up a volume written by some blockhead of scribbling notoriety, and at his dull vague theories we cannot help laughing, and anon we get some semi-political essay, which, with its crude fantasies, is only prevented from being mischievous by its utter inanity; there we sit, and laughing view the hubbub created by the follies promulgated by the Martineau class, who with a smattering of technical terms," Corn, currency, capital," and all the cant of trades' unions, waste, paper, pens and ink, and their own time-the least valuable of the lot--and come before the public as writers on population and

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Enough of these; let us turn to the other fund of laughter, of which the present volume affords no mean specimen. On comparison with other works written on this very popular subject, the reader will find that, although you may laugh with Tiger Dunlop and Mr. Magrath, yet you much more frequently laugh at the writers who, in the words of Hall take walk and make book." (But who differed, oh, ye gods, from his volumes?) Who can restrain a guffaw when we find descriptions of scenery which had been voted indescribable? But putting all these aside, and leaving them to their probable fate, let us show what may be really profitable or amusing reading for the public. Of the latter class may be ranked such men as Howieson, Stuart, Evans, and many others, who profess little further than giving a book of travels, and who do that well; but with the former class, the profitable, we have more immediately to do now, and this is divided into two subdivisions, that comprising information for the majority of emigrants, the poorer ranks of settlers, and that which, as in the work before us, is addressed more directly to the higher grades of persons. Of the former of these, we have abundance, and we have in a former number, treated of such, but of the latter, we had none, until this present volume was sent before the public. It was a great deficiency, and has been amply filled up. It had been allowed on all hands

that it was a desideratum, that those of the higher rank about to emigrate, should obtain information. The works published gave ample instructions to those who could live on meal and potatoes, but to the civilized family it was an unbuoyed channel, and they who sailed it were on all sides liable to fraud, accident, and expense; in proportion, therefore, to the want of the information hitherto, should the public appreciate it when offered them.

This volume comes before the public under peculiar circumstances; it is not the work of any one pen one part of the letters are from a family, settled for some time; the rest from the mem bers of the Editor's family, who sailed from Ireland, and thus we have the circumstantial detail of the voyage and land journeys at the same time that the farming operations of the located family are laid before us. Now although we are spared the dull dry account of a Canadian diary, and are not burdened with "trees cut and girdled, ditto burned," &c., yet we have enough to shew what the requisite proceedings actually are.

We said that more than one pen had been employed in this work, and to this does it owe much of the very pleasing diversity of style, and we turn from the tender regrets of the lady to the manly hopes of the gentleman, and again to the rich and vivid sporting letters of Mr. Magrath. We have also more than once recognised our old friend Martin Doyle. The first letter contains an account of the expenses incurred in the voyage and the journey through the country to the settlement, the total for which, for nine individuals, is only £135; then we have lists of provender, not bad in their way; then the expenses in the Bush, as the uncleared forest is called, including stock of all kinds; in short, it appears that this lot of settlers were located, for little more than £400. We shall not offend the ladies' eyes with the list of gentlemen's apparel, but nevertheless, it is very useful for them to know what sort of materials may fall beneath their delicate fingers, which must do all work, from making a fire to sewing a new collar on the Sunday

shirt. Some excellent advice to go out with a wife, and not for one; they must be scarce commodities there, and a young widow with a parcel of brats,-which here are the plague, but there are the pride of life,-would surely meet encouragement. Some hints on the voyage, as not to put yourself to a month's additional tossing, by engaging a berth in a cheap vessel, with as good sailing qualities as a beef barrel, but to get one of the prime liners from Liverpool, where the bill of fare is such as tempt us to go only for amusement, wines, including claret and champaigne, and board and bed for thirty-five pounds. Marvellous!

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The second letter is highly useful and interesting, and gives a most graphic account of the raising a log house, which after all is no bad roost. We suppose the settler at York, U. C., and paying a visit to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to enquire what lands are to be disposed of:

"Being there informed that he can purchase certain lots of wild land in an unsettled part of the country, at from five to ten shillings an acre, he next proceeds to inspect their situation and quality. And with this view he travels in a publie conveyance as far as is practicable, say 15 miles, and hires a waggon to carry him from thence to the settlement nearest the

land he wishes to inspect, ay five miles, and there procures an intelligent person acquainted with the township, lots, &c. to act as his guide, with whom he sets forward for the land on foot; and finding that instead of performing the remaining ten miles, and of reaching it, as he may will, perhaps for the first time in his life, have expected, in a few hour's walk, he be obliged to dispense with the luxury of a good bed, and dispose himself to rest as he best may, upon one composed of the boughs of the hemloc in the small shantyt of a new settler.

"On getting up next morning, not perfectly refreshed: after drinking his tea without the agreeable accompaniment of cream, or even milk, he proceeds with his guide, who, instructed by the index posts of the surveyor of the township, at length exclaims "this is the lot;"--when, the weary emigrant, seating himself upon a log, and looking round him, ponders

* A tree of the fir kind.