438 SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST THE JEWS.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS.

Register of Events.

THE Tractarian Agitators, both of Oxford and Cambridge, have, during the last month, received a marked rebuke, though from very opposite quarters. In the former University, the ELECTION OF DR. SYMONS TO THE VICECHANCELLORSHIP has been carried by no less a majority than 699!— the numbers being, in his favour 882, and against him 183. This humiliating defeat has been sustained by the Tractarians, notwithstanding the exertions which they have been more or less openly using at least since last July. We hope it may teach them a little more modestly to rate the estimate in which they are held by the country at large, and may put a check on the antics practised by many of the younger clergy, who, emerging annually from that University, endued with an ample share of ignorance and conceit, seek to insinuate the heresy of Oxford into the rustic parishes of England, by the agency of innovating forms and ceremonies, totally opposed to the fundamental system of our beloved church; and thus, with the absurd idea of magnifying their office,' effectually depress in the minds of pious, or even merely sensible people, that great luminary of the world at largeTHE PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

One of the most amusing features in the Oxford struggle, has been the course adopted by that extraordinary personage-the REV. DR. HOOK, VICAR OF LEEDS. We suppose it is impossible to ascertain among what class of divines Dr. Hook wishes to be numbered-so eccentric is the orbit in which he has hitherto moved. When Tract XC. was first published, he was about to take up arms against it; but, finding that it had been censured in the proper quarter-viz. the authorities of Oxford, he deserted the ranks of its opponents, and espoused the cause of its authors! Again, though he has often taken great pains to proclaim himself no Puseyite, when Dr. Pusey's obnoxious Sermon drew down the just censure of the University upon its author, Dr. Hook, as a fidus Achates, was ready to defend him, and in an inflated and flattering dedication of a Sermon to the Regius Professor of Hebrew-Dr. Pusey-availed himself of the opportunity to record his respect for the profound learning, the unimpeachable orthodoxy, and the Christian temper with which, in the midst of a faithless and pharisaical generation Dr. P. had maintained the cause of true religion, and preached the pure unadulterated word of God;' speaking at the same time of Dr. P's truly evangelical Sermon on the Eucharist, by which he had put to silence the ignorance of foolish men!' Once more, Dr. Hook was prepared to go to Oxford to vote against Dr. Symons; but finding that he was not likely to be joined by a sufficient number to succeed in depriving that gentleman of the Vicechancellorship, he changes his mind, at the eleventh hour, and stays quietly at home, for no imaginable reason-as we understand his letter-but that he did not like to be in a minority with his former friends the Tractarians! Surely it would require another Theseus to trace the course of this eccentric divine, through the inextricable labyrinth in which he pursues his devious way. We confess ourselves utterly incompetent to the task.

It appears that the CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY have lately elected, as an honorary member of their body, COUNT MONTALEMBERT, a zealous Papist in the French Parliament, and renowned for nothing else but his warm advocacy of the apostate church of which he is a member. The admiration, however, of the Camden Society for its supposed Popish ally, is, (unfortunately for it) not reciprocated by the French Count! He has addressed them a letter which must be anything but grateful, especially as coming from an imagined friend. One or two sentences are all with which

our limits allow us to present our readers. They are as honest, as they are forcible; and the rebuke contained in them is as well deserved, as it is ludicrously drawn down. I protest against the usurpation of a sacred name (Catholic) by the Camden Society, as iniquitous; and I next protest against the object of this Society, and all such efforts in the Anglican Church as absurd.' "There is a place in the Catholic Church for public penitents; but there is no place for proud sinners, who would shake off the chains of isolated error, without confessing their guilt, or that of their forefathers.'. . . . ‘One thing is quite certain; that individuals and Churches cannot be both Catholic and Protestant.'-If the Church of Rome, when she maintains that out of her pale there is no salvation, and that she alone has the power of governing the Christian world, is not infallibly right, then she is infallibly wrong; she is founded on imposture or error, and in either case cannot be a true Church.'

We have some difficulty in persuading ourselves of the genuineness of this document. So just, manly and cutting is the rebuke, that we should have imagined the members of the Camden Society would have too much Jesuitry to allow it to meet the public eye, if it has been really addressed to them in anything like a private manner. At all events it is exactly the strain in which they ought to be addressed; and we shall be happy to find that they are not so far advanced in the tactics of Ignatius Loyola, as we fear they are in other doctrines and practices of Popery.

The VISIT OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH to this country, and the reception he has met with here, as well as the tone in which that reception is spoken of in his own country, are all circumstances gratifying in themselves, and calling for thankfulness to Almighty God, at this particular æra of European history. We trust that these exchanges of mutual friendship and hospitality between the monarchs of the rival countries, will produce very happy effects in quieting down the spirit of animosity which has actuated too many of our neighbours on the opposite side of the channel; and that all may be overruled for the accomplishment of the vastly important prayer, to which we before alluded, “Give peace in our time, O Lord.

Notices and Acknowledgements.

We are much obliged by the communication of 'A Teacher,' and the promise of a series of Articles for insertion in our Periodical. We quite approve of that which has been already sent us, but we think the papers more suitable for 'The Teacher's Visitor,' edited by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson, which was commenced last May. The Manuscript will be returned, if requested, either to our Publishers, or to any other quarter pointed out.

It would be a gratification to us to be informed, in confidence, of the real name of 'E. B.,' the much lamented contributor of an excellent paper to this Magazine. Any particulars with regard to her illness and death would also be thankfully received, either for insertion, or as private documents.