to put such an imputation of such inconsistency upon them. Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum. They never will, they never can consistently stop, till we consent to raise our 60 or 70 millions of income in the proportion of 7d. in the pound, on an income of one year, and of 19s. 5d. and one third of a penny in the pound on the permanent annuitant,—33 millions a year on Schedule A. instead of 24, as now-9 millions and a quarter on Schedule C., instead of three quarters of a million as now, and then we shall nearly have arrived at the consummation of A PROPERTY TAX' founded on PRINCIPLES OF 'PERFECT JUSTICE!'
Note to Art. II. in last Number.
WE regret to find that some expressions in an Article on the Ionian Islands, in our last Number, which referred to Mr. Bowen, have been understood in a more serious light than was intended, and have been thought to reflect unduly upon that gentleman. We have, since the publication of our Article, seen copies of letters addressed to Mr. Bowen, in Nov. 1851, by Sir Henry Ward, the Lord High Commissioner, and Mr. Dusmani, the Secretary of the Commission of Public Instruction, in which they express their approbation of Mr. Bowen's conduct during the time that he filled the office of Rector of the University of Corfu. We will only add our belief that Mr. Bowen's eminent classical attainments well qualify him for the post which he now worthily fills, in one of the principal colleges of the University of Oxford.
No. CXCIX. will be published in July.
Alison, (Sir A.), review of his 'History of Europe, from the Fall of 'Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852,' 269-his 'History' mainly a rechauffée of confuted theories and untenable views, ib. — Sir A. Alison the Colonel Sibthorp of literature, ib.-his choice of subject and manner of handling it alike injudicious, 270-his fair treatment of an opponent, 271- general inaccuracy and want of merit evinced in the History,' ib. -extract proving the author's clumsy and ungrammatical mode of expressing himself, 272-his needless and slovenly repetitions, 272-3-want of accuracy in statistical statements, 273-4 his trite and puerile reflections, 274-6, and extracts unlucky in his classical citations, 275, note-what the task of a historian is when read aright, 276-7-Sir A. Alison's Preliminary Chapter, 277— his favourite crotchet-the decline of England since her return to cash payments in 1819, 277-8-fallacious arguments in support of his views, 278-9-a few facts for the Author to consider before his next edition, 279-80 discreditable assertions respecting the Monetary Acts of 1819, 1844, and 1845, 281-his views on the increased pressure of taxation since 1815 confuted by the statistics of Mr. Norman and Mr. Porter, 282-4—his lamentations over the 'modern exodus,' 284-its cause erroneously stated to be Free Trade, 284-5, and extract—the failure of the potato, and the dis- covery of Australian gold, the two events principally promoting emigration, 285-6-increase of employment, and greater abundance and cheapness of food, since Free Trade has been established, 286 -emigration from Ireland, 286-7-emigration from the United Kingdom to Australian colonies, 287-Sir A. Alison's unfavourable view of the Reform Act, 287-8-his just remarks on the great Chartist demonstration of April 10. 1848, 288, extract-probable result thereof had it occurred during an unreformed Parliament and a prohibitive tariff, ib.-Sir A. Alison's grand new discovery- that the steam engine and machinery have no influence in cheap- ening the production of food, 289, and extract-untenableness of his views as to the mortality of manufacturing towns, 289-91-and as to the supposed consequences resulting from the adoption of Free Trade and a sound system of currency, 291, and extract- their effects upon the cultivation and value of land in England and Ireland, 291-2, and note-cultivation of wheat not declining, ac-
cording to Sir A. Alison, but increasing, 293-his melting away' of our mercantile marine, altogether a fallacy, 294-his fears lest England's commerce should pass into the hands of foreigners equally groundless, 294-6-education and civilisation, according to Sir A. Alison, not the blessings generally supposed, 296-7, and extracts and notes-statistics of crime, 297-300-proportions of population respectively dependent on agriculture, and on manu- facturing and commercial pursuits, 300-1-the History' a perfect museum of obsolete opinions-a veritable 'old curiosity shop,' 301 -his opinion of representative institutions, 302-3, and extract— his remarks on the battle of Algiers, Voltaire, and the Encyclo- pædists, 303-5, and extract-Miss Martineau's History of England during the Thirty Years of Peace every way far superior to Sir A. Alison's, 305-the time not yet arrived when such an eventful period can be properly viewed and treated, 306-Sir A. Alison's multifarious chapter, Progress of Literature, Science, the Arts, ' and Manners in Great Britain after the War,' 307-want of judgment displayed therein, 307-8-his fondness of personal in- trusion, 308 his astounding remarks on the merits and cha- racteristics of the works of Walter Scott, Moore, Campbell, Coleridge, Wordsworth, &c., 308-9-his blunders as to Paley, Buckland, Sedgwick, Sydney Smith, and Macaulay, 309-his new discovery-Geology confirmatory of Scripture, ib.—his entire misapprehension of Mr. Hallam's style, 310-his arbitrary selection and rejection of authors and actors, ib.-his entire ignoring of branches of art and science, and of their most distinguished orna- ments, 310-1-remarks on the inflated and frothy style of his History,' 312-extracts proving the justice of the condemnatory stricture, 312-3-concluding observations, 313-4.
Bunsen's Hippolytus and his Age, review of, 1-the work interesting both from its subject and the distinguished name and position of its author, 2-Refutation of all Heresies,' edited by Miller, 2-3— not the work of Origen, but of Hippolytus, 4-5, and extracts— Baur's historical hypothesis regarding the late origin of the Gospel of St. John, 5-6, and extract-extract from the preface to Mr. Cureton's Ignatius,' 7-reply to Archdeacon Churton's Strictures on Ignatius, 8-9, and extract—Mr. Bunsen on the opinion in Ger- many on the Armenian version, 9-11, and extracts-Apostolic Constitutions in Syriac, 11-2-German criticism and Ġerman research, 12-3-defence of the German Evangelical Church, 13-5, extract-authorship of the treatise against all heresies, 15-6, and note-arguments against Origen's being its author, 16-7—and in favour of Hippolytus, 18-20, and extract-Zephyrinus and Callistus, 21-history and character of Pope Callistus, 21-2, extract—' Hip- 'polytus' own Confession,' 23—Mr. Bunsen on reason and authority in matters of faith, 23-4, extracts-Hippolytus on the Book of Psalms, 24-5-contradictions met with in the Fathers, 26, extract— The Philosophical Research,' or 'Aphorisms and Fragments,' 26-7,
extract— Historical Fragments on the Life and Consciousness of 'the Ancient Church,' &c., 27-8-Hippolytus on the authority of the Holy Scriptures, 28-9, extracts-nature of the Christian sacri- fice, 29-the Apostolic Constitutions,' 29-34, and extracts—litur- gies of the Ancient and Reformed Churches, 34-7, and extracts— more space much needed in library of British Museum, 37-Bun- sen's Apology of Hippolytus addressed to the People of England,' 38, extract his opinion of our government and institutions, 38-9, extracts his remarks on the probable reception which his work will meet with, 40.
Cathedral Reform, review of works relating to, 152-debate upon Lord Blandford's motion to bring in a Bill for the abolition of deans, ib.—many eminent scholars to be found among the deans, 153-Lord Blandford's Bill, ib.-Mr. Sidney Herbert's Letter to the Dean of Salisbury, 153-4, and note and extract-the grounds for the abolition of deans considered, 154-5, and note-church sinecures, 156-7-a thorough reform of cathedrals inevitable, 158 -revenues of cathedrals, 159-60—the 43rd canon of 1603, 161, note-what a cathedral should be, 161-2-officers of a cathedral, 163-4, and notes-cathedral service, 165-cathedrals as they are, ib. -cathedral libraries, 165-6, and note-cathedral revenues, 167-8- Act of 1851, 168-parochial character of a cathedral, 168-9— cathedral worship, 169-70, and note-cathedral education, 171-2— Mr. Selwyn's views on the subject, 173, extract-extract from "History of Reformation,' A.D. 1540, 173, note-stalls for arch- deacons, 174-residence of canons, 175-6-minor canons, 177- Mr. Jebb's protest against the hardships inflicted on minor canons, ib., extract—Mr. Barry on allowing the clergy the free use of cathe- dral libraries, 178, extract—a few words about the lay clerks, cho- risters, and almsmen, 178-9-Mr. Barry on the advantages of every cathedral being freely accessible, 179-80, extract and note—such oaths only should be administered as are binding both in spirit and letter, 180-1-suggestions for carrying out a system of cathedral reform, 181-2.
Church of England, the, in the Mountains, review of works relating to the state of, 342-Macaulay's sketch of the condition of the clergy between the Restoration and the Revolution, 342-3-a faithful representation of the present condition of the Cambrian and Cumbrian clergy, 343-4-inadequacy of the parochial endow- ments, 344-poverty, though not necessarily a degradation to the preachers of the Gospel, yet an actual cause of their degradation, 344-5-the small value of the tithe in mountain countries further reduced by spoliation, 345-6—the poverty of the clergy in the districts under notice partly caused by the accumulation of rich benefices in a few favoured hands, 346-7—injurious consequences thereof, 347, and note-the mass of the inferior clergy of the diocese of Carlisle and of the principality of Wales generally sons of small farmers or shopkeepers, 348, and note-probable course
of a Welsh lad brought up to the ministry, 349-51-mode of obtaining a living in the diocese of St. David's, 351-disposal of Church patronage, 352, and note-low position in society held by the Welsh clergy, 353-injurious effects thereof, 354-5-their former intemperate and low habits, 355-6-shameful condition and desecration of Welsh places of worship, 357-8, and note-low state of education, 358-9, and note-the clergy in the mountains of the north of England little if any better off than their brethren of Cambria, 359-60-marked feature in which the two differ, 360- Griffith Jones, Daniel Rowlands, and other dissenters from the Welsh Church, 361-2-numerous Sunday schools of the Welsh dissenters, 362, and notes their pynciau, 363-disgusting exhi- bition of religious enthusiasm-jumping,' 364-general want of chastity amongst the Welsh, 364, note-the Welsh clergymen and their parishioners not bound together by any tie of mutual sym- pathy, 365-general alienation of the congregations in consequence, 365-6-difficulties the Church of Wales has to surmount in the prevalence of two languages, 366-7- the immense size of the parishes another cause of its inefficiency, 367-8, and note—general carelessness (excepting the Rhymney Iron Company) of the large mining and manufacturing proprietors as to providing their work- people with adequate religious instruction, 368-9, and note- progress made notwithstanding by the Church of Wales in the last few years, 369-70-the eighteenth century preeminently the age of ecclesiastical dilapidation, 370-disgraceful condition of Welsh places of worship, 370-1-increase of pupil teachers in the Welsh Church schools, 372, and note-improvements effected in the Mountain clergy of the North of England, ib.-active co-operation of the present bishops. 373-4-suggestions for further improve- ment, 375-the raising the income of every parochial clergyman to not less than 2001. per annum, ib.-incorporation of the College of St. Bees into the University of Durham, and establishment of exhibitions and scholarships therein, 375-6-necessity of stricter discipline being maintained, 376-7-and a better system of or- ganisation, 377-the carrying out of these desiderata not attended with much difficulty, 378-9.
Derby Ministry, fall of the, review of works relating to, 240-position of parties in the new Parliament of November 4., ib.-the struggle between Free Trade and Protection virtually at an end, ib.-Mr. Disraeli's speech on Mr. Villiers' motion of Nov. 23., 240-1, notes— proper course for Ministers to have taken, 241-course actually taken, 242-Mr. Villiers' motion lost, 243-Lord Palmerston's amendment carried, ib.-words of the amendment, 244-Mr. Disraeli's Budget, 245-6, and notes-propositions of the Budget, 247-8-principles of the Budget, 248-52-reduction of the malt tax, 252-4, and note-reduction of the hop duty, 255-6-alterations in the income tax, 257-proposition for enlarging the area of the house tax, 258-9-division on the Budget, 259-61, and note-
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