A Biblical Lexicon of two thousand five hundred Names of Men and Places in the Bible; being a Spiritual Interpretation and laying open of the Untranslated Hebrew and other Characters. By SAMUEL COZENS, F.L.R.S., Minister of the Gospel, Langport, Somerset. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 18mo., pp. 180. Suggestive Hints towards Improved Secular Instruction, making it bear on Practical Life. Intended for the use of Schoolmasters and Teachers in our Elementary Schools. By the Rev. RICHARD DAWES, A.M., Vicar of King's Somborne, Hants. Second Edition. London: Groombridge. 18mo., pp. 164. Popular Education: An Antidote to Juvenile Delinquency, and a great Security of National Virtue. By THOMAS and FRANCIS BULLOCK, Under the Patronage of her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable Lord Ashley. London: Partridge and Oakey. 18mo., pp. 211. BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS. The Christian Philosopher Triumphing over Death. 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An Essay on the Mediatorial System. By WILLIAM LEASK, Author of "The Footsteps of Messiah," "Views from Calvary," &c., &c. London: B. L. Green. 8vo., pp. 346. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. Continued from Page 780. We are informed that at Bildeston, near Hadleigh, in Suffolk, there is a baptist church, having a new and commodious chapel, but destitute of a pastor. They are described as a "kind, worthy people," and it is thought that a minister not dependent for support, of Calvinistic sentiments, and favourable to open communion, might find there an important sphere of usefulness. Further information may be obtained from Mr. J. Osborn, one of the deacons, who resides in the village, or from the Rev. C. Elven of Bury, who takes a lively interest in their welfare. The English Churchman and the Guardian, papers which advocate the views of those members of the establishment who are called Tractarians, now argue openly for "the readjustment" of the relations of the church with the state. The former says, "From beindifferent, or even hostile, and the church ing and ally and patron, the state has become has to adapt herself to her altered position." "It may seem a bold saying, but it is a most true one, that we have no guaran tee whatever that all the bishops on the bench may not be heretics, or even worse." The Christian Times has published an extract from a speech made by Sir Robert Peel in 1847, showing that the history of Scotland may be appealed to with great force in favour of the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland. It adds, "To this goal we have no doubt the thoughts of the two old political parties of this country anxiously tend, with the vain hope of laying the demons of fire and sword which now threaten every province of the sister island. No events of marked importance, with respect to the continent of Europe, have come to our knowledge this month, but items of information unfavourable to civil and religious liberty are brought by almost every claim. TO THE MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS OF THE BAPTIST DEAR BRETHREN, MISSIONARY SOCIETY. AFRICA again needs your aid, sympathies, and prayers. Trials of a most afflictive kind, though not without many alleviations, have befallen your mission. Many as were the proofs of the Divine blessing that seemed to sanction its commencement, and have marked its continuance, it has had from the first to struggle with the fatalities of an African clime. Again and again has the mission band been weakened by disease and death. And now we have to lament, from this cause, the announced return to England of our brethren Merrick and Yarnold. Of the seven missionaries who in 1844 were toiling in this field, two only remain, Clarke and Prince have been constrained to give up the work through personal or domestic suffering. Alexander Fuller now enjoys the heavenly reward of his devotion to the cause of Christ. Sturgeon has entered into rest after a well wrought day of toil. And Merrick, worn down with disease and nigh unto death, in company with Yarnold, so recently sent to their help, is seeking restoration in the invigorating climate of England. Newbegin and Saker only are left of all the European brethren, to bear, emphatically, the heat and burden of the day. To these trials must be added, the return to Jamaica of some of those whose negro descent it was supposed would allow them to pass unscathed through the scorching heats of Africa. Only seven continue to aid our brethren. That aid is generally efficient and most valuable. While, however, there is so much cause for grief and apprehension, at the same time there is much more to encourage you not to relax in your exertions and your prayers, and in our judgment to render it the duty of the churches and disciples of Christ to strengthen the weakened band, and with renewed energy carry on the work of the Lord. "It is a field the Lord has blessed." Concurrent with these trials have been the marks of Divine approbation. The auspicious formation of the mission cannot yet have escaped recollection. You can remember the intense feelings of pleasure, the universal acclamations of joy, and the fervent prayers, that accompanied the announcement of your Committee's resolve to convey to the shores of Africa that same gospel of the blessed God, which had been so signally successful, through the mercy of the Most High, among the banished and enslaved ones of that dark land, in the islands of the West. Shortly after the exploratory landing of our brethren, Clarke and Prince, in Fernando Po, they were called to witness the tear of penitence, and to rejoice over some of the children of Ham turning to the Lord. Within less than five years of that memorable visit, the church at Clarence consisted of 79 members, 210 inquirers, 350 Sunday scholars, 100 day scholars, and an average congregation of 450 persons. The sum of £250 had been contributed towards the erection of a house for worship. Stations were also formed at Bimbia, Cameroons, and Old Calabar. Translations, and preaching in the native language, were carried on by our brother Merrick, and inquirers from among the degraded Isubus turned their gaze towards the rising Sun of righteous ness. The year 1846 was the first year of sorrow and trial. Mr. Thompson and Mr. Sturgeon were called to their reward. Four of the Jamaica teachers returned; and the health of all was more or less affected. For a time the mission at Clarence seemed drawing near to its extinction, from the threatened expulsion of our brethren from the island by the government of Spain. "The constitution of |