and, for a long time, will continue to be, considered among the best that any botanical writer has published. It is, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that we notice the publication of a translation of his celebrated Organographie Végétable, which contains a most minute and particular description of all the organs of plants. The work before us is beautifully got up, and contains nearly thirty plates, illustrative of the text. can strongly recommend it as the best work on the subject which has appeared in the English language.

We

Cambridge Collection of Hymns for the use of the Church of England, Families and Sunday Schools. 18mo. London: Dalton.

WE have seldom been called upon to review what may properly be called children's books: but, as it is our endeavour to direct the taste, and nothing is so important as to give to the young a right taste and to cultivate it, we think it our duty to make a few observations on the little work which has been put into our hands. We have another reason for doing this, which is, that as one principal object of ours is to promote the advancement of useful knowledge, a little work like the present, which we think will very probably have an extensive use, and which not only will be read, but, in most instances, be committed to memory, must have a very considerable influence on the minds of many. We remember, also, that the minds of the young are particularly open to impression. And it is for the young, to direct their minds and to improve their hearts, that this little work is intended.

Every effort made for the young, must, therefore, receive our approbation, if it be made judiciously, and in what appears a good practical manner. On the whole, we think well of the little work before us, and will venture to recommend it to families and Sunday schools. It carries upon its front an appearance of a Church book; and a notice is taken of the festivals of the Church, which is important, both in leading the youthful mind to take an interest in those festivals, as well as to improve their use. We find a considerable number of hymns for particular occasions; some for a sick child, others for a child recovering from sickness, and many others.

We think that this should certainly be the plan pursued in a hymn book for children: advantage should be taken of particular occasions and circumstances, both then to engraft instruction suitable on the mind, and also then to endeavour to produce religious impressions. Of course it will be difficult to find suitable hymns for every occasion and circumstance; many of those, however, which are chosen in this little volume are very good. We are aware, however, that tastes very much differ; and, that every selection of hymns must contain some which each individual, according to his taste, would wish changed for others. And, as this is the case with every selection of hymns which we have known, it will also be the case with the one now before us. On the whole, therefore, we approve of this little work. But we do not add more, as most parents and clergymen would look a little volume of this sort through before they put it into the hands of their children or introduced it into their Sunday schools; and its price, in its cheapest form, of four pence, is so insignificant that it can stand in the way of no person in the purchase of the book.

A Tour in Connaught, by the Author of Sketches in Ireland. Dublin : W. Curry, jun., &c.

THIS is a very entertaining volume to the admirers of the picturesque; and to the religious inquirer it will be found full of interest. He describes the scenes of riot, debauchery, and pugnacity, which occur at different places on the anniversaries of their patron saints. At the stations and holy wells the most disgusting scenes occur, and that, too, under the direction of their priests. At the old church where the body of a certain fabulous St. Kiernan is deposited, the wretched Papists collect particles of clay which they suppose are the remains of that saint, and carry home, dissolve it in water, and drink the horrible mixture" as a means of grace, or as a sovereign remedy against diseases of all sorts!" The agreeable author describes the arrangements and progress of the missionary settlement in the island of Achill, and, as giving some excellent reflections and profitable advice suggested by the conduct of the Popish priesthood, we extract it:

“But what an audacious set the priests are! I declare I have no patience with them-here are they assuming in Dublin, and all over England and Scotland, such a bland, and soothing, and liberal aspect, and then come and even ask our Protestant bishops to give them money to build their chapels; yes, and conservative lords and squires are found giving sums, and those large ones, to build chapels. A Protestant landed proprietor has given a large territory to the monks of La Trappe. Moreover, if a man refuses to aid them in building schools, chapels, and convents, he is pointed at as a bigot-may be he is ?—well, but look at the proceedings of these most exacting and expecting, and very bland priests, in the west. Here comes a Protestant clergyman, altogether unconnected with Church property of any sort, not drawing one penny from the "blood-stained tithes," but depending on the voluntary system, as much, and infinitely more than the priests themselves; and he takes from a Protestant landed proprietor a piece of ground in a totally neglected island, and there he opens schools, into which he dont drive, he merely invites children; he sets about an approved system of culture, encourages industry, discourages drunkenness and disorderly conduct, as far as possible requires that all within its influence should abstain from violence, injustice, or breaches of the peace, and lo! because he has the impertinence to molest the priest's owlish, silent, solitary reign, they are to be cursed, hooted, stoned, pitchforked, and thrown into bog-holes, and a man calling himself a priest of Jesus is found, and that openly, saying, that he has encouraged his followers to do these things. I really consider these such unwise proceedings on the part of the Romish clergy, that I might suspect, if I did not know the singleness of purpose of Mr. Nangle, and those associated with him, that the most Rev. Father, Dr. M'Hale, was bribed by him, to resort to such absurd opposition, to serve the cause of the settlement, and at the same time bring their own intolerant system into disgrace with all sober men. At all events the arch-prelate has given Mr. Nangle the benefit (and it is a great one) of a persecution.

"And now, gentle reader, I will give you a bit of advice, which you may follow or not, just as it pleases you. When next a pair of bland, glozing, supplicating faces, stand at your door, asking you for some aid to build their chapel, school, hospital, or convent, just put a report of the

Achill Mission into their hands, and ask them how their church can carry thus two faces under one hood; the face of a ramping roaring lion in the west, and elsewhere that of a pretty playful lamb, wagging its tail, while it is sucking you and fattening on you?

"I am glad I have done with the subject. It would have given me pleasure to record liberal rather than illiberal acts; it would have pleased me more to have to say that Popery, where it can, is not the cursing, banning, biting, inquisitorial thing that it was in the dark ages; but when I see the logic of the cudgel, the stone, and the bog-hole resorted to, at present I cannot, even if my book never sold, forbear expressing my indignation.

"I would willingly, if I could, confine my accusation of intolerance respecting the Achill Settlement to Dr. M'Hale and his subordinate clergy, but I cannot do so, when I find not one single Roman Catholic voice raised throughout the empire against the penal proceedings of the Achill priests. Suppose, for an instant, that a Romish settlement were commenced in the Isle of Anglesea, and that the bishop of Bangor and the clergy of his diocess issued forth such commands and curses as have been promulgated against the Achill Protestants. What a commotion would not this raise-how the Protestant press of the empire would sound, and that justly, the tocsin of reprobation."

Reading Book for Female Schools. Groombridge, 12mo. cloth, pp.454.

The Reading Book is one of those which are published by direction of the Commissioners of National Education in Dublin. We can give it at least the negative recommendation of not being able to detect the hand of the jesuit in it. We looked over a summary of ancient and modern history which we found entirely guiltless of any reference to religion whatever. The selections in other respects seem to have been made with great care from some of the best authors and approved periodicals, and are taken from works of science and morality indiscriminately. There is a great portion of the book devoted to poetry, some of the selections in which are very beautiful, and are introduced alternately with the prose citations. We have no doubt but the reading book will be found very useful in female schools in giving an agreeable introduction to many of the sciences, and preparing the minds of youth for more serious study, in zoology, geology, and astronomy.

Both St. Paul (Hebrews, xi. 17) and Josephus (Book 1, c. 13) call Isaac the only begotten son of Abraham, although Ishmael is also mentioned. It is clear, to any perusing the Old Testament with attention, that a system is there revealed which has only been perfected by the events of the New Testament, and with a view of this system, the great subject of their different revelations, both the Apostle and Josephus call Isaac "the only begotten son;" that is, the only one with whom the system of revelation was connected, and in whose descendants the whole system was to be made perfect. H. B.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD.-On Thursday, Nov. 14, the following degrees were conferred.- Masters of Arts.--Rev. F. J. H. Reeves, Merton coll.; C. M. Collins, Exeter coll.; Rev. C. E. Harwood, Oriel coll.; Rev. J. S. Finch, Brasenose coll.; Rev. G. W. B. Wills, Wadham coll.; Rev. R. N. Maddock, Queen's coll.; Rev. W. W. Rowley, Queen's coll.; Rev. C. Burney, late demy of Magd. coll.; Rev. J. Rump, Trin. coll.; Rev. J. C. Harris, Worcester coll.; H. Holden, Balliol coll. Bachelors of Arts. -R. Champernowne, Christ Church, grand compounder; J. H. Waugh, Magdalen hall, grand compounder; William Gill, Magdalen hall, grand compounder; E. Peel, Brasenose coll., grand compounder; John L. Roberts, New Inn hall; J. White, New Inn hall; E. Trollope, St. Mary hall; R. Tomlins, St. Mary hall; C. Goodden, Exeter coll.; C. Sanbach, Brasenose coll.; J. Gordon, Brasenose coll.; E. C. Holt, Brasenose coll. ; W. Lempriere, Christ Church; H. A. S. Bence, Balliol coll.; J. A. Hamilton, Balliol coll.; P. L. Powys, Balliol coll.; J. H. Spry, Jesus coll.; D. P. Thomas, Jesus coll. ; R. Mence, Trin. coll.; R. T. Kent, Wadham coll.; R. W. Mayow, Magdalen hall; A. G. Newbold, Magdalen hall; F. Green, Magdalen hall; T. W. West, Magdalen hall; W. J. Wise, Fellow of St. John's coll.; R. A. Bathurst, Fellow of New College; C. Bedford, Fellow of New College; H. Sweeting, University coll.; C. D. Kebbel University coll.; J. A. Yatman, University college. In a convocation holden on Thursday, Nov. 21, the Rev. John Peat, M.A., of St. Peter's coll., Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem. At the same time the following degrees were conferred:Bachelor in Civil Law, by Commutation.-Francis Nicholas, Esq., Wadham coll., Masters of Arts.-Rev. Markham Mills, Christ Church; William Cope, Trinity coll. ; Charles Mitchell, Wadham coll.; Rev. John Sutton Utterton, Oriel coll. Bachelors of Arts.-Richard Dawson, Wadham coll., grand compounder; Stafford Henry Northcote, Scholar of Balliol coll.; Reginald Hobhouse, Balliol coll.; George William Hutchens, Magdalen hall; Edward Bradley Magdalen hall; William Kay, Scholar of Lincoln coll.; Matthew Anstis, Exeter coll.; William Henry Anderdon, Scholar of University coll.; George Ord Hughes, Worcester coll.; William John Bennett, St. Edmund hall (incorporated from Trinity coll., Dublin.) William Linwood, B.A., Student of Christ Church, Latin Scholar in 1836, and Ireland Scholar of the same year, has been elected to the vacant Boden Scholarship. On Thursday, Nov. 28, William Henry Jones, Commoner of Brasenose coll., and William Dyne, were elected Exhibitioners on Sir Francis Bridgeman's Foundation, at Queen's coll.

CAMBRIDGE.-At a Congregation on Wednesday, the 13th of November, the following degrees were conferred :-Doctor in Divinity.-The Rev. B. Chapman, Master of Caius coll., by Royal Mandate. Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. J. Chapman, Fellow of St. John's by Royal Mandate. Honorary Master of Arts.-Sir W. C. De Crespigny, Trinity coll. Masters of Arts.-R. Wood, H. Clarke, Caius coll. Bachelors of Arts.-J. B. Marriot, Corpus Christi; G. Neville, A. Woodward, Catharine hall; J. Limbrey, St. John's; C. G. Taylor, Emmanuel. The following gentlemen of St. John's College were, on Saturday last, elected Proper Sizers on the foundation of Dr. Dowman:-H. J. Bull, G. E. Tate, G. M. Gould, F. B. Scott, J. P. Beard, J. Miller, and W. G. Wilson. Matriculation, 1839.-King's, 2; Trinity, 106; St. John's, 90; St. Peter's, 18; Clare, 15; Pembroke, 14; Caius, 21; Trinity hall, 15; Corpus, 28; Queen's, 24; Cath. hall. 20; Jesus, 12; Christ's, 21; Magdalene, 11; Emmanuel, 17; Total, 241. Norrisian Prize Essay.-The subject for the present year is, "The Holy Scripture contains sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for Eternal Salvation through Faith in Jesus Christ."

The following is a correct summary of the present resident members of the university: Trinity, 418; St. John's, 354; Queen's, 107; Caius, 106; Corpus, 104; Christ, 93; St. Peter's, 83; Catharine hall, 87; Emmanuel, 75; Jesus, 66; Magdalen, 62; Pembroke, 60; Clare hall, 55; Trinity hall, 44; Sidney, 32; King's, 31; Downing, 13.-Total, 1825.

ORDINATIONS.

At an Ordination holden by the Lord Bishop of Ely, in the cathedral church of Ely, on Sunday, the 1st of December, the following gentlemen were admitted into Holy Orders:

Deacons T. F. Cooke, M.A., St. John's coll. Cambridge; J. Sparke, B.A., Clare hall, Cambridge; W. H. Bateson, M.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge; C. Grain, B.A., Pembroke coll. Cambridge; C. Thornton, B.A., Clare hall, Cambridge; R. Goodwin, B.A., Clare hall, Cambridge; W. A. Smith, B.A., St. John's coll. Cambridge; J. S. Watson, B.A., Trinity coll. Dublin (Lett. Dim. from Bishop of Bath and Wells); S. P. Robertson, B.A., Worcester coll. Oxford; R. P. Baker, B.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge, (Letters Dim. from Bishop of Lichfield).

Priests.-H. R. Bramwell, B.A., Christ's coll. Cambridge; J. Horner, B.A., Clare hall, Cambridge; John Smith, M.A., Christ's coll., Cambridge; V. Raven, B.A., Magdalene coll., Cambridge; Fred. Wm. P. Collison, M.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge; R. G. Young, B.A., Oriel coll., Oxford; J. R. Hutchinson, M.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge; T. W. Leventhorpe, M.A., Jesus coll., Cambridge; W. W. Willock, B.A., Magdalene coll., Cambridge; R. H. D. Barham, B.A., Oriel coll., Oxford; H. R. Smythies, B.A., Emmanuel coll., Cambridge.

The Lord Bishop of Rochester, on Sunday, the 10th of November, ordained within the chapel at Bromley Palace, in the county of Kent:

Deacons.-G. D. Parnell, B.A., Downing coll., Cambridge; C. Ackland, M.A., Caius coll., Cambridge; (by Letter Dim. from Archbishop of Canterbury). Priests.-T. P. Phelps, B.A., Worcester coll., Oxford; Ebenezer Collins, literate (by Letter Dim. Bishop of London, for her Majesty's Foreign possessions.)

PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. Ackland, to the Living of Queenborough.-Rev. Dr. Ainger, Prebendary of Chester, and Perpetual Curate of St. Bees, Cumberland, to be Rural Dean of the district. The Speaker has appointed the Rev. Gerard T. Andrewes to be Chaplain to the House of Commons.-Rev. L. F. Bagot, M.A., to the Rectory of Castlerising, with Roydon, Norfolk.-Rev. W. Baker, Vicar of Cherry Willingham, Lincolnshire, to be Chaplain of the Lincoln Union.- Rev. Henry William Johnson Beauchamp, M.A., to the Rectory of Monk's Risborough, with the Chapelry of Owlswick, in the county of Buckingham.-Rev. E. Bennett, M.A., to the Incumbency of the Chapel of St. John's, Littlehampton, Devon.-Rev. M. G. Beresford, M.A., Vicar General of Kilmore, to the Archdeaconry of Ardagh.—Rev. W. S. H. Braham, M.A., to the Rectories of St. George and St. Mary Magdalen, Canterbury.-Rev. John S. Brewer, M.A., has been appointed Classical Tutor and Librarian of King's College, London.-Rev. J. M. Brown, B.A., to the Rectory of Isham Inferior, in Northamptonshire. - Archdeacon Butson, to the Vicar Generalship of Clonfert Diocess. Rev. Wm. Cockeroft of Manchester, to the Head Mastership of Knutsford Free Grammar School.-Rev. John Davies, B.D., to the Rectory of Gateshead, Durham.-Rev. Thomas Davis, to the Perpetual Curacy of Roundhay, Yorkshire.Rev. Jackson Delmar, B.A., to the Rectory of Swalcliffe, Kent.-Rev. J. W. D. Dundas, M.A., to the Vicarage of Ramsbury, Wilts.-Rev. Edward Elder, M.A., to be Head Master of the Durham Grammar School.-Rev. John Ferrar, to the Curacy of Ballingtoy, Antrim: - Rev. H. E. Fryer, M.A., has been appointed, by the Duke of Richmond, one of his Grace's Domestic Chaplains.- Rev. James Garbett, M.A., to the Vicarage of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire. Rev. C. W. Gibson, to the Vicarage of St. Clement's, Cornwall.-Rev. J. H. Harding, B.A., to the Vicarage of Child's Wickham, Gloucestershire. Rev. H. Hardinge, B.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Woodbridge, Suffolk.-Hon. and Rev. Charles Amyand Harris, M.A., to the Rectory of Shafton, alias Shafton St. Trinity, with St. Peter and St. Lawrence destroyed, and St. Martin destroyed, in the county of Dorset.-Rev. P. H. Haughton, B.A., to be Assistant Minister of Bedford Episcopal Chapel, Bloomsbury. --Rev. Charles Hayes, to the Sunday Afternoon Lectureship of the parish of Wath-upon-Dearn, and to the Curacy of Swinton, Yorkshire.-Rev. John Hill, to the Perpetual Curacy of Barlby, Yorkshire.-Rev. W. Worth Hoare, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's, Staley bridge, Lancashire.-Rev. Canon Hobart, to the Mastership of St. Catherine's Hospital, Ledbury.-Rev. Hughes Hughes, to the