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1834, a grant of 4,000l.; and after that year no further grant is to be expected. These are the circumstances under which the society are called upon to determine, without loss of time, what steps shall be taken in their future correspondence with the dioceses of Nova Scotia and Quebec.

"On reference to the accounts of the society, it appears that, in the year 1831, the number of the established clergy in British North America was 148, and that the salaries paid to them amounted to 25,635.; that the parliamentary grant amounted to 15,500l.; and that the remaining sum of 10,1351. was supplied from the funds of the society. It appears also that this expenditure of 10,1357. was independent of 5,000l. paid by the society, in various sums, to catechists and schoolmasters, and for the building of new churches in the colonies.

"It appears, on the other hand, that the whole annual income of the society, arising from subscriptions and donations, and the interest of money vested in the public funds, and applicable to its various objects in North America and India, amounts to about 12,000l.; and that all excess of expenditure beyond that sum has been met in each year by a sacrifice of capital. Seeing therefore, that, even if the society were disposed to devote any larger portion of its funds to North America, than that which is now expended there, it is impossible to do so without speedy ruin of the finances, the committee are of opinion, that the future payments to the North American clergy must of necessity be regulated according to the reductions made in the parliamentary allowances. Nor do they state this necessity without a serious regret for the difficulties which many exemplary men will necessarily suffer from the diminution of their incomes.

"With respect to Upper Canada, it appears from letters of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, transmitted to the society by Viscount Goderich, that provision has been made by the government for the established clergy in that province. The committee therefore recommend, that after the year 1834 no further payments be made to them from the funds of the society.

"The committee recommend that the grants of the society be, after sufficient notice, entirely withdrawn from the stations of Quebec, Halifax, and St. John's, Newfoundland, where it is reasonable to expect that the clergy may now be maintained without assistance from the mother country.

The committee recommends that reductions in the society's annual expenditure, to the amount of 2,500l., be made by diminishing the sums now paid to catechists and schoolmasters, and to scholars and exhibitioners at King's College, Nova Scotia; and by withholding the grant which has been voted for several years towards the maintenance of that institution.

"The committee recommend, that, after the year 1834, 1007. be annually paid out of the funds of the society to each clergyman who now receives an allowance of 2001. a-year, and who shall not be able to maintain himself on colonial resources; it being understood, that as colonial resources shall become available for his maintenance, a proportionate sum shall be withheld from him, and expended in opening and maintaining new missions, and furthering the great objects of the society, which the supply of more ample means will enable them to effect.

"The committee recommends, moreover, that a proportionate reduction or advance of salary be made in other cases according to their respective urgency. "It seems desirable that, whatever may be the arrangements which the society may think it right to adopt, they be communicated forthwith to the North American bishops and clergy, and that each clergyman be required to limit his drafts upon the society to the amount which may be specified in the communication.

THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. BISHOP OF MARONIA.

SUCH favourable accounts have been given of the approach of the Catholic (or rather the Anti-Catholic) Magazine towards something like common decency of language, together with the certain fact that so respectable a person as Dr. Wiseman sent articles to it, that one has been induced to let it come into the house again. And-really the number for this month, although it does not confirm the good accounts, excuses the conductors of the journal. There is a letter to the Bishop of Exeter by a person who styles himself Bishop of Maronia (is this a Dr. M'Hale?), who is obviously the model on which the conductors of the Anti-Catholic Magazine form themselves. The tone and the temper are indeed right Anti-Catholic, while the style is right Billingsgate, or rather Billingsgate aiming at dignity. If bishops write in such a style, what will priests do? The Domini and the Fures change hands here, for one might fairly expect that age might quell malignity, and station inspire some sense of decorum. The Bishop of Maronia's letter is an excellent specimen of what a catholic bishop's letter should not be. Its author probably thinks it an excellent specimen of what a Roman catholic bishop's letter should be. Its contents are pretty much as follows-that all protestant bishops are, and always have been, hypocrites-that they are all slaves of men in power—all flatterers-that not one of them cares for anything but gain, and pomp, and luxury that they are so foolish that Roman catholics wish them to stay in the House of Lords in order to make the house laugh at them-that the Bishop of Exeter, in particular, is a person, the exquisite folly of whose speeches always provokes ‘general merriment'—that protestantism is the enemy, and catholicism the friend of enlightenment and liberty. The changes are rung on these topics through many mortal pages. As to replying to a person who is so blinded by passion as to believe this, or who writes it without believing it, it would indeed be an idle task. But one thing it is worth while to notice-viz., the light thrown by such letters on the Roman catholic spirit of these islands. When foreign Roman catholics dispute with us, they may be bitter, but they are decent, and their arguments relate to doctrine and discipline. With too many English and Irish Roman catholics, there is one subject far nearer to their hearts-the loss, not of the predominancy of their church, but of its riches. The one topic of reviling of the protestant bishops is money, money, money. The one cuckoo-note is "You care for money, and you have got money; we have lost the money, but we are too good to care for it. Roman catholic bishops despise money-they love poverty, while protestant bishops love only pelf." Such a cry might provoke attention in a new world. It can only provoke laughter in the old, while (to say nothing on this occasion of the remarkable love of the Roman catholic church for liberty and light) men have certain calculations before them respecting the value of the sees of Spanish bishopscertain visions of kneeling soldiers and prostrate people before the servant of servants, as with his peacock's tails before him he is carried up St. Peter's in a pomp before which the pageantry of temporal princes vanishes to a shadow-certain remembrances of the former income and the state of Archbishops of Paris and of Saltzburg. To grasp the honours and profits of this world with a tenacity which yields only to physical force-and when they are forced from you, to declare that you hate and despise them-and then to hate with a yet more bitter hatred those who succeed to the possession of these objects of detestation and contempt, is a course which can provoke only one feeling. The Bishop of Maronia can hardly know what this feeling is, but there are gentlemen and men of sensibility among his party. Can they not restrain such puerile ebullitions of passion and spleen? Let them be assured that every protestant catholic, while he differs from him, respects the Roman catholic bishop who bears the loss of his high estate with that dignity which belongs to a Christian, nay, even to a gentleman-bears it, in a word, without repining, without alluVOL. IV.-Nov. 1833.

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sion to his loss, without bitterness. But all must laugh at the scolding bishop who has no way to shew his carelessness about money than writing everlastingly about it, and insisting on it that every body else is as anxious for pelf as he-good man-is not!

EDUCATION SCHEMES.

THE reader's attention is requested to the following Treasury Minute. He is entreated also to observe, that by an order in consequence of an Address from the House of Commons, which was never heard of till the returns were coming in, (and then only, it is said, by the missending of one of the said returns,) queries about the schools of this realm were sent, not to the clergy, but to the overseers of every parish. Admirable returns from country parishes, no doubt, they will usually be! But, at all events, one point is secured. They will not be favourable to the church. Of course, in a number of very small parishes, no regular schools are or can be organized. So then we shall see a formidable return, in figures, of the terrible delinquencies of the clergy, on which the Morning Chronicle will dilate for six months. On the other hand, wherever half-a-score children are taught at a chapel, we shall see trumpeted forth the great doings of the dissenters for education. The reader is likewise entreated to look to the new Report of the British and Foreign School Society. This Magazine pointed out last year that this society states that from having been patronized by infidels and political partizans, it has past into the hands of persons of decided piety. And the meaning of this was, as appeared from its correspondence, that it was very much in the hands of active dissenters. Of course the Reports in this society are all in favour of the exertions of dissenters, and, though they cannot openly attack the church, contain very intelligible lamentations as to the neglected state of the people. This, by the way, is in the face of proof, that nearly a million of poor children are in a course of education by church efforts. Considering who are the friends of this society, and considering the other particulars here mentioned, can any one doubt that there is some notable scheme on foot for a general plan of education, taking the children out of church hands? Now here is plain intelligible ground. When any such step is taken, let every churchman, who knows what Christianity is, be prepared to resist such intolerable persecution (there is no other word) at once, and manfully.

(Copy of Treasury Minute, dated Aug. 30.)

"My Lords read the Act of the last session, by which a sum of £20,000 is granted to his Majesty, to be issued in aid of private subscriptions for the erection of schools for the education of the children of the poorer classes in Great Britain.

"The Chancellor of the Exchequer feeling it absolutely necessary that certain fixed rules should be laid down by the Treasury for their guidance in this matter, so as to render this sum most generally useful for the purposes contemplated by the grant, submits the following arrangements for the consideration of the Board:

"1. That no portion of this sum be applied to any purpose whatever, except for the erection of new school-houses, and that in the definition of a school-house, the residences for masters or attendants be not included.

"2. That no application be entertained, unless a sum be raised, by private contribution, equal, at the least, to one-half of the total estimated expenditure.

"3. That the amount of private subscription be received, expended, and accounted for, before any issue of public money for such school be directed.

"4. That no application be complied with unless upon the consideration of such a report either from the National School Society, or the British and Foreign School Society, as shall satisfy this Board that the case is one deserving of attention, and there is a reasonable expectation that the school may be permanently supported.

"5. That the applicants whose cases are favourably entertained be required to bind themselves to submit to any audit of their accounts which this Board may direct, as well as to such periodical reports respecting the state of their schools, and the number of scholars educated, as may be called for.

“6. That in considering all applications made to the Board, a preference be given to such applications as come from large cities and towns, in which the necessity of assisting in the erection of schools is most pressing; and that due inquiries should also be made before any such application be acceded to, whether there may not be charitable funds or public and private endowments that might render any further grants inexpedient or unnecessary.

"In these suggestions my Lords concur.'

THE ARCHBISHOP'S CONFIRMATIONS.

(From a Correspondent.)

THE general confirmation recently held by the Archbishop of Canterbury, throughout his diocese, was in all respects highly satisfactory. His Grace's arrangement for visiting a great number of places prevented a multitudinous assemblage anywhere, and thus materially contributed towards the full success of the laudable and judicious efforts, which were made both by the ministers and by the lay-officers of the respective parishes, to secure good order and universal propriety of demeanour. The solemn rite seemed to be well understood and reverently regarded by the youthful members of the church, who were more immediately interested in it,—as well as by their friends, who were enabled, often without quitting their own homes, generally without going to any inconvenient distance, to witness the edifying scene. In many instances, the accompaniments of architecture and music were not wanting, to heighten the effect of this beautiful service; yet in the unornamented church of the retired village, where the tones of the organ were never heard, the same impressive service, by its own touching simplicity, exerted an equally beneficial influence. Such is the character of the offices of our pure and apostolical church! They contain within them what may gratify the senses, engage the imagination, and delight the taste, wherever a fit opportunity for such indulgence is afforded,-but their essential excellence is of a far higher order, and consists in their power of bringing home to every heart the truths and precepts of our holy religion. Where else in the Christian world shall we look for the same happy temperament of public worship? The whole number of persons confirmed was 9580; and when it is considered that of these a very small proportion exceeded the age of 25, and that a large majority fell very far below that age, it will hardly be denied that, within the county of Kent, there must be found a prevailing attachment to the institutions and ordinances of the established church among the young of all classes.

LABOURERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.*

1st.-The Labourers' Friend Society does not recommend the investment of capital in land, either in shares or any other form, except so far as it may be deemed expedient by parishes, or local associations, to rent a suitable quantity to carry their plans into effect, or to comply with the "Act of the 1 & 2 of William the Fourth, for the relief and employment of the poor."

The Editor is very sorry to find that this excellent Society is suffering for want of funds.-It deserves every encouragement.

2nd. Home colonization, or the settling a pauper population in any part of the country, for the cultivation of waste or other lands, is not the plan recommended by the Society.

3rd. The Society recommends the letting to the labourer so much land only as he can cultivate with the aid of his family during his leisure time; consequently, not sufficient to make him a small farmer, or in any way independent of his regular labour.-The question of the preferableness of small or large farms, comes not within the Society's province.

4th.-The Land Allotment System does not tend to the formation of a cottier population, similar to that which exists in Ireland; the quantity of land being limited to that which he can cultivate during his leisure hours, and the rent not exorbitant, but the sum paid by the neighbouring farmers.

5th. In recommending spade-husbandry, the Society confines its remarks to the effects of voluntary labour on the small portion of land proposed as an allotment, without reference to the question of profit and loss on a large scale, or of its applicability to agriculture in general.

6th. The Society does not encourage the removal of labourers from one parish to another, but proposes rather to benefit them wherever they are found, to attach them to the soil, and to equalize the supply of labour to the demand.

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7th. The system recommended by the Society is founded on the basis of profit to the labourer, not charity or almsgiving. It assumes there is a surplus of labour; and that, in some parts of the country, the labouring man cannot obtain such full and constant employment as is adequate to his subsistence it proposes, by allotting to him a small quantity of land, to find him profitable occupation for that part of his time which his employer does not require; and thus by furnishing him with the means of raising a proportion of his most wholesome food in the most economical manner, he is made, by his own exertions, independent both of the parish, and of the charity of his neighbours.

THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY.

THERE is a paper in this periodical for October which is really calculated a faire fremir. A father takes his boy round London, and tells him the history of all he sees. So fearful an exhibition of malignity-incarnate cannot be found elsewhere. There is no person and no thing which this humble being does not hate. He hates bankers' clerks, because their parents chuse them to be gentlemen instead of shoe blacks, and exults that so many of them pay for their situations by dying of consumption. He hates all the men who serve in shops in London, because they ought to leave this country and colonize some other. He hates the Duke of Bedford, because he is a duke and has money, and exults in the approaching ruin of him, and men like him. He hates the United Service Club, and says, that sucking slaughtermen meet there to gamble, drink, and snuff up carnage, and that the only comfort is that they are slaves, and wear a livery, and are kicked and cuffed by the aristocracy. He hates the whole race of Guelph, because they are royal, and says, that it is only not better to get rid of them because they now can do no harm. George IV. was a cruel, selfish, detestable, vindictive tyrant; the Duke of York such a wretch that people dare not set up his statue on the column built for it; and the present miserable Guelph quite contemptible, and fond of doing popularity, and having boys hurra after him. The reforming king is the great object of his contempt, and the reforming whigs of his hatred. He hates Temple Bar because heads of traitors were once put up there. He hates the vicar of St. Martin's, because he has a good house at the public expense, Dr. Richards having muni