Interesting and Affecting Contrast "When bills of indictment were about being prepared against the persons charged with the murder of the Protestants at Macken, a little boy, only eight years old, son to Edward Scarlett, one of the poor men killed there, was brought on the council table to be sworn before ex+ amination by the Grand Jury, when the following were his answers to the questions put by Baron Pennefather :

"JUDGE Do you know the nature of an oath, child? Child-I think I do. Do you know what would happen to you if you swore a false oath ? God would be angry with me, and I would go to bell. What kind of place is hell? It is a bad place. Why do you say it is a bad place? Because the devil is there. And what would happen you, if you were sent to bell? I would be punished. Do you know what kind of place heaven is? I do it is a good place. What do you know about heaven? It is a good pluce, and God is there. What state would you be in, and what would happen to you if you went to heaven? I would be happy. If you told truth, and acted uprightly, what would be the consequence? When I would die I would go to heaven. Would you wish to go to heaven? I would. As you wish to go to heaven and be happy, you should tell the truth. (The child was affected, and holding down his head, in a low tone said) I'll surely tell truth. Who was it instructed you about heaven and hell, and in the consequences of doing wickedly? It was my mother. Did any one else instruct you? Yes, a Clergy. man. What kind of a Clergyman? A Protestant Clergyman. Your mother and the Clergyman instructed you well.

"A short time after, a girl between 13 and 14 years of age was brought on the táble to be sworn before she would be examined by the Grand Jury, on a charge against a person for violating her. The poor creature seemed to have been burbarously treated, and continued crying and sobbing during her examination.

"JUDGE Do you know the nature of an oath? GIRL-I do not. Do you know the consequences of swearing falsely? I do not. What religion are you of? I am a Roman Catholic. Did you ever hear there was a God? No. Did you ever hear there was a devil? I did not.

"Here a gentleman (we believe a Counsellor O'Reilly, who appeared to be taking copious notes of the proceedings) requested his lordship to allow him to ask the girl a few questions. His lordVOL. IX.

ship asked him for what object. The learned gentleman said, that as the girl stated she was a Roman Catholic, and had never beard of God, or of heaven, or hell, he could hardly credit it, and wished to put a few questions to that effect. His lordship said that if he had any objection to the mode in which the witness had been questioned, he would allow him ; or if he had none on that ground, any question be would suggest would be put to ber by his lordship himself. This was declined by the learned gentleman; and bis lordship then said he could not allow her to go before the Grand Jury or be sworn. After a few questions more from the Court, to which her answers were as unsatisfactory as to the former, the Roman Catholic Chaplain of the gaol was sent for, and the girl committed to his care until next day, for the purpose of instruc tion, when she was once more interrogated as follows:

"JUDGE Yon were in company with the Priest, and can you now tell me what you mean by taking an oath? To this the poor creature returned no answer. Were you told what telling a lie was? I was. Were you told the nature of taking a false oath? I was told if I would swear falsely I would go to hell. Do you know what kind of a place hell is? It is a bad place, and I would not be happy there. Do you know what would happen to you were you to go to hell? I do not. Did you ever hear of the devil? No, I did not; but I heard if I was wicked I would go to hell. Who did you hear it from? From my mother. Did you hear it from any one else? I did. From whom? I heard it from little girls. What did you hear them say? I heard them talking about being damned. Did you know what they meant? I did not. Did you ever pray? I did. To whom did you pray? To God. What kind of prayer did you say?

"To this question, notwithstanding she was frequently interrogated, she gave

no answer.

"JUDGE What did you pray for? I prayed for God to have mercy on me. As good a prayer as any of us could pray. If God had not mercy on you, what would become of you? I don't know. Do you know what would become of you if you would tell a lie? I would be damned and go to hell.

"His lordship then called for the Rev. Mr. Shiel, who said she had, in the course of her conversation with him, repeated the Creed and the Lord's Prayer; after which, and with seeming reluctance, 3 E

without prejudice. At Bath they tore them up, and called for water to wash their hands after touching them; yet as the Psalmist saith, "The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise ;" this violence has been subdued, and they are now, one and all, enquiring into the Gospel, and buying the Bible, to read the 9th chapter of Daniel. Mr. Cohen has been stopped twice in the street, to read the chapter and expound it; and this sensation has been excited by the following placard.

"TO THE JEWS.

"Read and understand. "If Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus, the Messiah must have already come, according to Daniel, chapter 9th. Why, therefore, do you exclude his writings from the portion read in the synagogue, if it is not because it is there said, 'The Messiah should come, and be cut off, before the destruction of the city,' and if he had not come, the city would now be standing in all its glory and pride, Hear, O Israel! be wise, and understand this. 'Seek ye out the Book of the Lord, and read.' Isaiah, xxxiv. 16."

A lecture has been established to be read to the Jews, on the ritual of the Jewish synagogue, by which it is proved, they cannot, if they believe their own service, have any plea for rejecting the Messiah, their prayer on the day of atonement, being offered up in the memorial of the Messiah. The course contains four lectures, which were read and approved of by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, who has been pleased to permit them to be dedicated to him, when printed. Several works have been sent to Miss Nevill, by Jews, for her to reply to; one in particular, on the passover, merits attention, as it is the authorized service of the German and Polish Jews, edited by Isaac Levi, and and does not contain one particle of the ordinance instituted by Moses. It contains the ridiculous service called "The Kid," of which "The house that Jack built," is a parody, but much too profane to send a translation of, to the editor of the Christian Examiner; and indeed the Jews are themselves ashamed to translate it, as the service beginning, "Who knows one-I know one, &c.

Mr. Tobias has been engaged as Scripture reader, and Mr. Joseph has offered himself for the same situation, at Norwich. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Tobias will proceed next month to London, and commence the lectures there. Their

journals are forwarded every month, and accounts are received of their progress, by letter, once a week.

The prayer-book, containing the liturgy of the Church of England, in Hebrew, with the rubric, in seven languages-modern Greek, Italian, French, Polish-Judeas, German, Spanish, and English, is now ready for the press, and will be published, when sufficient subscribers' names are obtained. Names are received by Curry and Co., Mr. Tims, and all the other booksellers in Dublin.

From the great press of interesting matter, the remainder of the report of the friends of Israel, is obliged to be inserted under the head of Foreign Intelligence.

Friends of Israel Society.-Continuation of the report for August.

Firckteigel

Prussian Poland. Letters have been received from her Serene Highness the Princess de Reuss, stating that the school of Firckteigel, opened on the 5th April, last, with 99 pupils. The school had been open a month, and the parents were so pleased with it, they requested to be received into an adult class, which was acceded to; and the Rabbi attends also, and since the school has opened, evinced himself favourable to the Gospel. The Princess writes-"This school has had a magical effect upon the Jews." One Jew only, distrusts it, and says-" it is a bad school, for it will make them all Christians." The children learn German, Hebrew, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, music, (i.e. psalmody,) and drawing, together with the elements of useful trades, needlework for girls, &c. &c., and all are well grounded in the Holy Scriptures. This school costs £45 10s. a year.

Mr. Foche writes word, that seven Jews were baptised together, at Berlin, last Easter; and has sent a return of the names of the converts, to Miss Nevill; and she has the pleasure to state, she bas had two personal interviews with the Prussian ambassador, while in London, and can assure her Christian friends, that every thing is in train for the permament establishment of the seven churches of Christian Israelites, in Prussia; and an episcopal constitution has been sent over, for the approval of the king and ecclesiastical council of Prussia.

Smyrna.-There is every prospect of a speedy revival of the church at Smyrna, and likewise of some of the other apocalyptic churches; the Levant com

pany baving promised £200 a year, to any minister appointed by the friends of Israel for that church; and a propol tionate sum for the others, whenever circumstances permit them to be revived. John Baptiste is employed in writing MS. copies of the portions of the He brew prayers and catechism sent him by Miss Nevill, for the use of his brethren at Constantinople.

ENGLAND,

The following is the substance of a charge, lately delivered to the clergy of the diocese of Chester, by bishop Sum

ner :

He began by requesting the clergy to consider him as their fellow-labourer, and by earnestly soliciting their co-operation in a spirit of conciliation and charity. He then directed their attention to the two great branches of their duty, as preachers of the word within the church, and ministers of it without, by means of parochial visitation. With regard to the first of these, he drew a just and forcible distinction between the legal and evangelical mode of expounding the Bible. He enforced upon his hearers the apostolical" determination of knowing nothing in their sermons but Christ, and him crucified." He painted strongly the unfruitfulness of merely enforcing moral truths, of merely representing vice as its own punishment, and virtue as its own reward; truths, which, however in controvertible, never yet converted one soul to Christ. He represented forcibly the absolute necessity of holding Christ as the only author of the way, the truth, and the life, and of dwelling upon the great and vital doctrines of justification by faith, sanctification by the Spirit, and salvation by grace and mercy alone. As subsidiary to preaching, he enforced the absolute necessity of catechising, by stating the evident and manifest impossibility of producing any great or perma pent effect upon ignorant and uninformed minds, by the means of a weekly lecture delivered from the pulpit. He then proceeded to treat upon the important duty of parochial visitation; in the course of which he magnified the office and duty of the ministry, by a beautiful and most pathetic representation of the difference between a converted and unconverted soul, in the humbler walk of life; between a peasant without the illuminating graces of Christianity, little elevated, in intellectual rank, above the beasts that perish, consulting only how to gratify his animal appetites; or a me.

chanic, under similar circumstances of irreligious ignorance, and under worse circumstances of temptation to sin, led by the passions of his corrupted nature into every species of vice and profligacy, and goaded by poverty to discontent and outrage; and the same men, changed by the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit, through the preaching of the word, and induced by the blessed hopes of the Gospel, to despise the pleasures and endure the afflictions of the world, in the assurance of that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, which is reserved for those who have patiently borne the cross for their Master's sake. This great and glorious work, he said, the clergy, under the blessing of Providence, were commissioned to effect, and this, he said, they must labour to do. This, in smaller parishes, he said, they might do, by the grace of God, unassisted and alone; and, in larger ones, by availing themselves of the assistance of the laity instancing those who were employed in the apostolical ages, particularly the deaconesses; an instance which, perhaps, from the vast enlargement of the church in these days, and the still greater difference of customs and manners, had better not be too closely imitated.

Church Missionary Society- The Rev. William Jowett left London, on his return to Malta, on Saturday the 19th of September.

SCOTLAND..

A gratifying sight to the admirers of a pure Apostolic Church in Great Britain, has recently been witnessed in the Northern Highlands of Scotland, which contain great number of Episcopalians, who have strenuously resisted all attempts on the part of the Kirk, to subvert their religious creed. In the triennial visitation of the Bishop of Ross and Argyle (the very learned and amiable. Dr. Law) to the remote parts of the diocese, for the purpose of holding confirmations, he was attended wheresoever, he travelled by crowds of both the ancient gentry and the lower classes of the community. In many places, the rude chapels were too small to contain his willing auditory, and he was hence, in several instances, obliged to read the service of the church, and perform the other devotional exercises in the open air, underneath the rocks; thus paralleling in simplicity the actions of the Primitive Apostles.

At an ordination held in the Cathedral Church, on Sunday last, by the Lord Bishop of Kilmore, the following gentlemen were ordained: Priests -the Rev. Messrs. Macartney and Ellison, for the Archdiocese of Armagh, and the Rev. Mr. Bagot, for the exempt jurisdiction of Newry. Deacons: Mr. Marshall, for Raphoe; and Mr. Delap, for the Curacy of Ballyconell, Diocese of Kilmore. The ordination sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Bagot.

At an ordination held on the 20th ult. in the Cathedral Church, by the Lord Bishop of Killaloe, the following gentlemen were admitted into Priests' Orders: Rev. Sir John Reade, Rev. James H. Allen, Rev. Mr. Brooke, Rev. Robert C. D. Robinson, Rev. Peter Bolton, Rev. Mr. O'Grady, Rev. R. Maunsell, Rev. Mr. Homan, Rev. Charles Carrol, Rev. Richard Milliken, Rev. Mr. Phillips, Rev. Mr. Abbot, Rev. Adderley Campbell, Rev. Mr. Irving; and the following into Deacons' Orders: Messrs. Small Beatty, Richard Martin, James C. Fitzgerald, William M'Loughlin, Richard Townsend Huddart, William Ratcliffe, Welbore Slator, Richard Moore, Brabazon Ellis, Joseph. R. Hamilton, John Conroy, Richard Smith, George King. The Ordination Sermon was preached by the Rev. Peter Bolton.

Thursday, the Rev. R. Maunsell, A.B., was instituted by the Bishop of Limerick to the Vicarage of Drebedtarsna, in that diocese, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Richard Harte; patron, the Rev. J. Duddell, as Prebendary of St. Munchin.

The Lord Lieutenant has appointed the Rev. W.Turpin to the living of Ballycommon, diocese of Kildare.

The new Church of Kilbeacon, near Mullinavat, in the County of Kilkenny, was consecrated on Thursday, by the Lord Bishop of Ossory. The building is a neat and commodious structure.

The inhabitants of Kilmacrenan Parish, in the diocese of Derry, have presented an address expressive of their unfeigned regret at the departure of the Rev. George M Neil to another parish.

Lord Rosse and the Rev. R. Hume, Rector of Birr, have made au exchange of the site of the old Glebe-house, offices, and Glebe land in that parish. Lord Rosse gives in return eleven acres of ground.

It is said, that the new Ecclesiastical Law Commission will be composed of Lord Stowell, the Bishops of London, Lincoln, and Gloucester, Sir John Nicoll, Dr. Lushington, and others.

On Wednesday, the 4th of October, the Committee of the Synod of Ulster, appointed to conduct the conference with the Remonstrants, met in Belfast, to make the final arrangements for a sepa ration. As the Remonstrants had. not prepared a full list of those Ministers and Congregations who intend to withdraw, the business was deferred till the 15th instant. No final arrangement has yet been made in regard to the Moral Philosophy Chairs.

The Bishop of Norwich ordained, on Sunday, the 27th ult., at the Cathedral in that city, seventeen gentlemen to the Order of Deacon, among whom was Mr. G. N. Hely Hutchinson, A.M., Caius College, Cambridge; and fourteen gentlemen to the Order of Priests, among whom was Mr. Richard Harte, A.B., Trinity College, Dublin.

The Lord Bishop of Lincoln ordained on Sunday, the 20th instant,at Duckdean, thirteen gentlemen to the rank of Deacons, amongst whom were Mr. Charles D. Radcliffe, and Lord Wriothesley Russell; at the same time his Lordship ordained twelve gentlemen to the rank of Priests, among whom was Mr. John Rogers, of Trinity College, Dublin.,

THE reports of the last month have been certainties, and we believe there is no doubt that the preliminaries of peace have been signed between Russia and

Turkey. The former has received indemnities, securities, and commercial privileges, and retains military possession of the conquered territory, until the