from this institution, incalculable benefit. We view it as an immense engine for the achievement of infinite good; and we think Mr. Brougham was, therefore, amply justified in declaring, that "the fabric they had erected, they all felt would be an eternal pillar, consistent with the best interests of mankind; and handing down their names, would recal the founders of the university to the gratitude of posterity." The conquests of science are the noblest of all conquests; and we heartily agree with Mr. Brougham, in thinking that the passing events of the day are insignificant indeed, compared with the great work in which he was yesterday engaged.

The laurels which Mr. Brougham will derive from his incessant efforts to diffuse instruction and intelligence among the people of England, will be "fresh when those of the mere politician will have been long faded.

Mr. Brougham took occasion to give an idea of the mode of communicating instruction which it was proposed to adopt. "Instead of the lecturer giving a single lecture of an hour each day, it was proposed that each professor should lecture an hour each day, and that he should, during another hour, examine the pupils successively, to ascertain if they had comprehended the lecture, and if he had made himself understood. A third hour was to be employed, at least three days each week, if not six, in discussions, to which such pupils should have access as chose to push their studies, and they should attend the levees of the professors, who would have the power of dispensing the highest titles and honours which a sovereign could confer on a subject-he meant the power of helping the pupils in their labours, and directing the higher studies of those who felt disposed to examine into the operations of nature. The professors should, in these meetings, more fully explain to the ambitious students the prodigies of science, and encourage them, not only to learn whatever was already known, but they should put them in the proper path to become discoverers themselves."

Mr. Brougham paid a happy com

pliment to Cambridge, while deprecating the foolish attempt which had been made to cause it to be supposed, that the establishment of a university in London was an act of hostility to the two existing universities. The Marquis of Lansdown, himself a student of Cambridge, alluded also with great judgment and good feeling to this subject. It is, in fact, an insult to the members of the two universities, to suppose for a moment that they grudge the benefit of education to a large class of their countrymen, unable to obtain it from them. But such mean illiberal jealousies cannot exist among men of science and learning. Learning enlarges the mind, and purifies the heart. Besides, even in a commercial point of view, all learned institutions must benefit by the diffusion of the desire to obtain liberal knowledge.

It would be strange, indeed, if a seat of learning were to suffer from the more general diffusion of the desire to learn.

Laying the Foundation Stone of the London University.

ORDER OF THE CEREMONY.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex arrived on the ground, where the foundation of the London University is constructed, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and was received by the Stewards and Council; who proceeded with his Royal Highness to the spot where the stone was to be laid.— The stone was then raised by the machine, and Dr. Maltby came forward and delivered a prayer. The coins were placed in the stone, during which time the band played. The stone was then lowered, and fastened in the usual way. Dr. Lushington addressed his Royal Highness, thanking him for his attendance on the occasion; and his Royal Highness in return addressed the proprietors. He hoped that the present institution would contribute to the increase of learning and knowledge, and trusted that it would powerfully co-operate with the other universities, and have a tendency to remove some of the impediments which were hitherto found to check the spread of useful knowledge. The ceremony was wit

By the good Providence of the great and blessed God, the Eternal Creator of the world, (and may his favour grant prosperity!) in the eighth year of the reign of George the Fourth, King of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, the illustrious Prince Augustus Frederic, Duke of Sussex, Patron of all the Liberal Arts, and Grand Master in England of the very ancient order of Free and Accepted Masons, laid, with his own hand, the first stone of the University of London, amidst the plaudits of surrounding citizens and brothers, on the 30th day of April, 1827.

This work, long and ardently desired, and adapted to the wants both of the metropolis and the country, has now at length been begun, in the year of our Lord, 1827, and of the World,

5827.

The names of the eminent men who form the council are: Bernard Edward Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John Viscount Dudley and Ward, George Baron of Auckland, the Hon. James Abercrombie, Sir James Mackintosh, Alexander Baring, H. Brougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, Benjamin Shaw, John Smith, William Tooke, Henry Warburton, Henry Waymouth, John Whishaw, Thomas Wilson, William Wilkins (architect.)

The Tunnel under the Thames.

Mr. Brunel, jun., and Mr. Gravat, his colleague, not satisfied with the usual means of ascertaining the nature of the strata of earth which they were about to encounVOL. XI.

ter, on Saturday last determined to descend, by means of a diving bell, at the spot where the excavation is now carrying on. At seven o'clock, all the arrangements having been completed, Mr. Brunel, jun., and Mr. Gravat, entered the ma chine, and were lowered amidst the anxious anticipations of the surrounding visitors. The usual signals were given, and promptly answered; and after remaining about twenty minutes under the water, and completing the object of their visit, the subaqueous adventurers returned, and

were received with the high testimonies of

approbation and good feeling by the surrounding group. It was stated, on very good authority, that the result of this descent, on which occasion additional borings took place, was so satisfactory, that no reasonable apprehension of final success could possibly exist. Throughout the whole of Sunday, those borings were continued, and, at one period of the day, Messrs. Brunel and Gravat were under

the water upwards of three hours.—English paper.

The Scriptures translated into the Armorican Language.

AT the celebration of St. David's Day, at Brecon, (Wales) the Rev. T. Price stated, that, two or three years ago, he had the honour of setting on foot a collection for the purpose of translating the

Scriptures into the Armorican language.

At that time there were many who doubted the practicability of the object, and asked where a translator could be found? But while such persons were doubting and hesitating, the work was commenced and actually accomplished; and, in the course of the last month, the translation of the New Testament was concluded in the language of Armorica, and was in progress through the press.-Lond. Christ. Observ. April, 1827.

The Kent East Indiaman.

Our readers will remember the affecting narrative of the loss by fire of the Kent East Indiaman, and the support and consolation which true religion afforded to some of the sufferers on that melancholy occasion, as exhibited in Major M'Gre gor's deeply interesting and Christian reroborated by the following circumstance cital. This statement is affectingly cor"A bottle," says à Barbadoes Journal;

"was picked up on the 30th September, at a bathing place to windward of this island, by a gentleman, who, on breaking it, found the following account of the fate of the ship Kent, contained in a folded paper, written with pencil, scarcely legible-The ship Kent, Indiaman, is on fire : Elizabeth, Joanna, and myself, commit our spirits into the hands of our blessed Re

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deemer his grace enables us to be quite composed on the awful prospect of entering into eternity. J. W. R. M'Gregor, (in a cypher) 15th March, 1825. Bay of Biscay. On the back is endorsed, John M'Gregor, esq., Commercial Bank, Edinburgh."-Ibid.

Sandwich Islands.

In the account lately published of the voyage of Captain Lord Byron to the Sandwich Islands, after a statement that the greater part of the people have already professed, or will soon profess, the Christian religion, the following incident is recorded: :-"Kapiolani, a female chief, of the highest rank, had recently embraced Christianity; and, desirous of propagating it, and of undeceiving the natives as to their false gods, she resolved to climb the mountain, (a volcanic mountain, with a burning crater of prodigious extent,) descend into the crater, and by thus braving the volcanic deities in their very homes, (the prevailing belief was, that the gods of the islands resided in these fires,) convince the inhabitants of the islands, that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate deities existed only in the fancies of their weak adorers. Thus determined, and accompanied by a missionary, she, with part of her family, and a number of followers, ascended Peli, (the mountain :) at the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many of her followers and companions lost courage, and turned back; at the second, the rest earnestly entreated her to desist from her dangerous enterprize, and forbear to tempt the powerful gods of the fires. But she proceeded, and on the very verge of the crater, caused the hut we were now sheltered in to be constructed for herself and people. Here she was assailed anew by their entreaties to return home, and their assurances, that if she persisted in violating the houses of the goddess, she would draw down on herself, and those with her, certain destruction! I will descend into the crater,' said she, and if I do not return safe, then continue to worship Peli; but if I come back unhurt, you must learn to adore the God who created Peli.' She accordingly went down the steep and dif. ficult side of the crater, accompanied by a missionary, and by some whom love or duty induced to follow her. Arrived at the bottom, she pushed a stick into the liquid lava, and stirred the ashes of the burning lake. The charm of superstition was at that moment broken. Those who had expected to see the goddess armed with flame and sulphureous smoke, burst forth and destroy the daring heroine, who thus braved her in her very sanctuary, were awe-struck when they saw the fire remain innocuous, and the flames roll harmless, as though none were present.-

They acknowledged the greatness of the God of Kapiolani; and, from that time, few indeed have been the offerings, and little the reverence, offered to the fires of Peli."-Ib,

For the Christian Journal. Episcopal General Theological Seminary. THE Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, met in this city on Tuesday, the 26th ult., and adjourned on the 29th; the trustees attending, in the intervening period, the examination of the students, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 27th and 28th, and the Commencement on Friday, the 29th.

There were present at the board four bishops, from Pennsylvania, New-York, New-Jersey, and Connecticut-nineteen clergy, from five states-and thirteen laymen, from four states-seven states in all being represented.

Information was communicated, that a scholarship society had been formed in St. Thomas's church, New-York, the funds amounting to eight hundred dollars. The funds of the scholarship forming in NewJersey amount to about one thousand eight hundred dollars. Other accessions have been made to the funds of the seminary; but, owing to the expense incurred in erecting the building, there is still a deficiency in the required annual income.

The seminary building is nearly complete; and parts of it have, for some time, been occupied by one of the professors, and by several of the students. The whole will be in readiness by October next.

The examination of the students, and the exercises at the Commencement, were, as usual, highly satisfactory, and bore evidence of the zeal, diligence, and fidelity of both the professors and the students.

The following is the order observed at the Commencement :

A procession was formed at the residence of the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, and walked thence to St. John's chapel in the following order: Janitor-StudentsFaculty and Librarian-Wardens and Vestrymen of Churches-Officers of Education and Scholarship Societies auxiliary to the Seminary-Trustees-Clergy-Bishops.

As the procession entered, a Voluntary on the Organ-Introductory Devotions by the Presiding Bishop—Singing, last four verses of the 122d Psalm, with the Gloria Patri-A Dissertation on "The Nature and Extent of the Inspiration of the Scriptures," by Edward W. Peet, A. M., of Connecticut-A Dissertation on "The Importance of Correct Views of the Nature and Attributes of God," by William A. Curtis, A. B., of New-York-A Dissertation

on "The Liturgy," by Hiram Adams, of New-York-Anthem by the Choir-A Dissertation on "The Miracles of Christ," by George L. Hinton, of New-York-A Dissertation on "The Advantages of the Historical Interpretation of Scripture," by Samuel Fuller, jun., A. M., of NewYork-A Dissertation on "The Book of Job," by John W. Curtis, A. B., of NewYork-Presentment of the First Class, by the Faculty, to the Presiding Bishop, for receiving their Testimonials-Address by the Right Rev. William White, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania-Testimonials given-Singing, five verses of the 56th Hymn, beginning at the 2d verse, with the Gloria Patri-Concluding Devotions by the Presiding Bishop-Voluntary on the Organ.

We understand that the proceedings of the board will be published; as will also the interesting address delivered at the Commencement by the venerable presiding bishop.

Persons producing satisfactory evidence of their being candidates for holy orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, with full (that is, including literary) attain ments, agreeably to the 8th canon of the General Convention of 1820,† will, on ap. plication, be received into the seminary.

All others will be admitted who produce satisfactory evidence of religious and moral character, and a diploma from some college; or, if they have not been through college, stand a satisfactory examination by the faculty, on the general principles of Natural and Moral Philosophy, and Rhetoric; and in the Latin and Greek languages, on the following works, or such others as shall be considered an

*The following was the Anthem :Solo-How beautiful are the feet of them

that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

Quartette and Chorus-Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world.

Duetto-How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings of salvation, that saith unto Sion, Thy God reigneth.

Full Chorus-The Lord gave the word.Great was the company of the preachers.

This should be particularly noted in the certificate, as the mere fact of their being candidates for orders is not sufficient.

equivalent substitute :-Sallust, Virgil's Eneid, Cicero's Orations, or De Officiis; and the Four Gospels, Xenophon's Cyropedia, and the first three books of Homer.

Every candidate must enter the third or lowest class, at the commencement of the fall session; or stand a satisfactory examination on the studies which have been pursued by the class into which he seeks admittance.

The board at the seminary is two dollars and fifty cents per week.

The Editors of the several episcopal periodical works in the United States are. requested to insert the above notice in their respective magazines and papers.

Sunday School Union.

THE annual meeting of the Board of Managers of the "General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union," was held at St. Paul's chapel, on Thursday evening, the 28th of June, 1827, at which were present the venerable and Right Rev. Bishop White, president, Bishops Hobart and Croes, and a number of clerical and lay managers from five or six different states. The REPORT of the executive committee, required by the seventh article of the constitution, was presented and read. This docu ment (which, we understand, gave great satisfaction) will be published in a pamphlet form. In a future number, we shall probably furnish our readers with extracts from this interesting paper. In the mean time, we would take occasion to say, that the receipts from all sources have been nearly eleven hundred dollars—that several of the works recommended to be used are now in the hands of the stereotype founders, and will be put to press with all possible expedition. Our distant friends are, perhaps, but little aware of the labour and difficulty in getting all the preliminary arrangements made for such an institution. We make this remark with reference to the supposed delay on the part of the executive committee, who, we are happy to assure them, have been as faithfully employed as was at all consistent with the many other private and professional duties which necessarily claimed their attention.

St. Paul's Church, Troy, New-York.

of a new edifice to be erected in Troy, for THE ceremony of laying the corner stone the use of the episcopal congregation known by the name of "St. Paul's Church in Troy," was performed on the 26th of April, 1827, by the Rev. David Butler, the venerable rector of said church, with appropriate religious ceremonies. In the cavity of the corner stone, made for the purpose, a glass vase was deposited, containing the Holy Bible, and Book of Cominon Prayer, enclosed in leather and cover