the town of Fare, in Huahine, and placed the ruined island under their wretched protectorate.

On the 17th of January, at two o'clock P. M., Captain Bonard landed his troops at Huahine, and burnt the town of Fare, the station of Mr. Barff, and the principal settlement in the island, containing upwards of 140 good houses, all of which were sacrificed, with the exception only of the missionhouse and chapel, and one or two other buildings. The trees and fences were cut down in every direction, and every kind of property was abandoned to indiscriminate destruction and plunder.

On the following day, 400 French soldiers were landed from the Phaeton steamer at a harbour on the north-eastern side of the island, and marched to Maiva, an out-station of the Mission, whither the poor natives had fled to escape impending slaughter. To save their wives and children from destruction, they bravely faced the well-armed, disciplined, but degraded troops of France, and fought, as reported by their enemies, for forty-eight hours. The French had twenty-one killed and forty-five wounded, while the natives lost only two men and one woman.

Murder of native Evangelists at the Isle of Pines.—In a former number reference was made to the imminent peril to which the native missionaries stationed in the New Hebrides were constantly exposed, as well as to the actual murder of the devoted men labouring on the Isle of Pines. The particulars of this tragical event were then but indistinctly known, but the Rev. Messrs. Murray and Turner, who visited the group in the John Williams during the last year, have supplied the following affecting narrative:

We found that the teachers had been killed by the poor deluded people among whom they had laboured. This mournful event transpired, as nearly as we could ascertain, about the month of February or March, 1843. The occasion of it was the same as that which led to the temporary suspension of the Tana mission-the idea so generally entertained by the natives of these islands, that foreigners introduce disease among them.

On the day it happened, both the teachers, Samuela and Apela, with the daughter of the former, a girl about seven or eight years of age, had gone to their plantations, which were some considerable distance from their dwellinghouse, to do a little work, and take some food home. Apela and the girl left first, to return home. Samuela remained behind, intending soon to follow with some fire-wood. The former were met on their way by an armed party, and murdered. Their bodies were thrown into the bush by the way-side, that they might be concealed from any one who might pass. The party rushed on the place where Samuela was at work. He was immediately despatched; and the merciless party proceeded to the house where there yet remained one of the mission-family.

The wife of Samuela had remained at home, probably to watch their little property. The blood-thirsty party were soon at the house. Nasana, the leader, entered and proposed to the widow, who was not aware that anything was wrong, to become his wife. This, she replied, she could never consent to be, as it was contrary to the will of God. She sought out some property, however, and offered it to him, probably observing him much excited, and suspecting that all was not right. Instead of receiving the gift, he gave a shout, and the savages rushed in upon the poor defenceless woman, and put her to death. They wound up the dreadful affair by dividing among themselves the little property that belonged to the teachers, burning the house, and apportioning the bodies among the different districts of the island. The bodies of Samuela and his wife were cooked, and those of the other victims were sunk in the sea. Thus ended this tragical event-thus fell our poor teachers by the hand of those for whose welfare they had long laboured and prayed.

IX.

CRITICAL NOTICES.

I. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Vols. I. and II. By J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D., President of the Theological School of Geneva, and Vice-President of the Société Evangelique. Translated by H. WHITE, B.A., PH. D. The translation carefully revised by Dr. D'Aubigné, who has also made various additions not hitherto published. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1846. fcp. 8vo.

To the

We do not propose to enter into the discussion of the delicate question of literary morality and etiquette, with respect to rival translations of foreign works. It is an ascertained fact that, whatever objections may be urged, publishers will use the liberty which the law of copyright gives them, to enter on the speculation of cheapening such translations. operation of this principle we owe, first, some very cheap, and we will add, very excellent translations of D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation; and secondly, the appearance of this cheap, standard, and authorised translation. Messrs. Oliver and Boyd, being the sole proprietors of the fourth volume, have resolved to publish the whole work at a price which, considering the admirable style in which it is got up, and the advantage of the author's revision, is extremely low; namely, three shillings each for the first three volumes, and five shillings for the fourth. Dr. D'Aubigné has written a preface expressly for this edition, in which, among other matters of far deeper and more permanent interest, he gives the following important imprimatur to the present edition:-'I have revised this translation line by line, and word by word; and I have restored the sense wherever I

did not find it clearly rendered. It is the only one which I have corrected. I declare in consequence, that I acknowledge this translation as the only faithful expression of my thoughts in the English language, and I recommend it as such to all my readers.'

II. Autobiography of the late WILLIAM JONES, M.A.

London: John Snow. 1846.

Edited by his Son.

This is an interesting and somewhat remarkable work, considered as the production of a man in his eighty-third year. The author was brought prominently before the public three years since by the offer of a poor brothership of the Charter-house, which he declined, on conscientious grounds, as a dissenter from the Church of England, and by the mark of favour subsequently bestowed on him, in a grant of money, by annual payments, from our Sovereign Queen Victoria. This circumstance induced some of his personal friends to urge him to commit to writing the more remarkable passages of his personal history; and to these incidents we owe the publication before us. No class of our fellow-subjects has been uniformly more entitled to royal consideration than Protestant nonconformists, who have ever presented to the house of Hanover the loyalty of principle and affection; but rarely, however, have they obtained even the scraps of princely beneficence. In the case of Mr. Jones, whose life had been devoted to the advancement of Christian literature, and whose declining years were rendered sorrowful by poverty, the act of queenly bounty was as well merited as it was generously bestowed. He was born in Denbighshire in 1762, was converted to God in early life, and became an Antipædobaptist of the strictest sort. He commenced business as a bookseller in Liverpool, and afterwards came to London, where he finished an honourable

career of usefulness, in January of the present year. For a long time he was an elder, or co-pastor of a Scotch Baptist church, and occasionally attracted considerable notice as a preacher by courses of lectures on theological and ecclesiastical subjects. It was, however, as an author that he was most acceptably known. He originated and edited more than one periodical, wrote a Biblical Encyclopædia, a course of Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, and another on the Apocalypse, a History of the Albigenses, a volume of sermons, and several other works. His style is easy, perspicuous, and vigorous; and his sentiments, on most subjects, are such as commend themselves to our approval. His life contains comparatively few incidents of general interest, but it reveals a hearty love of truth, an earnest plodding industry worthy of imitation. We believe that this autobiography will be perused with advantage by Christians of many denominations, and with peculiar profit by young men who are struggling with difficulties while aiming at usefulness in the church of God, as they may here be instructed in the secret of triumphing over great discouragements, by prayerful perseverance in the path of providential guidance.

III. Traditions of the Covenanters; or, Gleanings among the Mountains. By the REV. R. SIMPSON. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone; London: Groombridge. 1846.

The burns and braes of Scotland are full of pleasant traditional memories, which gush along with the music of story-haunted waters. The land of Bruce and Wallace, dear to patriotic minds, is still more precious in recollections of martyrs who suffered and died in the cause of Christian truth. In no part of that country did the fires of persecution rage with a fiercer flame, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, than in the locality of Sanquhar, from which these ‘Traditions' are gleaned The town was famous in Covenanting times for the declaration which the Cameronians published at its cross, and the entire district was a scene of tragical interest, at certain periods of the oppressive reign of the Second Charles. Mr. Simpson has done good service to the cause of Christian truth and liberty by collecting these anecdotes and working them up into their present attractive form. It was due to the memory of men who have been ridiculed and caricatured by Sir Walter Scott, that a truthful representation of their conduct and sufferings should be given to the world, and here it is. We have read these sketches with much pleasure, and heartily recommend them to the attention of young people especially, who will find in them an illustration of the adage, Truth is strange, stranger far than fiction.'

IV. The Hill of Zion. By the REV. T. WATSON, M.A. London: Nisbet and Co.

1846.

Taking for his motto the stanzas of our Nonconforming bard Dr. Watts, The hill of Zion yields

A thousand sacred sweets,

Before we reach the heavenly fields,

Or walk the golden streets;'

which we esteem as liberal and commendable on the part of an episcopal clergyman, Mr. Watson has written an interesting treatise on experimental and doctrinal truth. It is said to embrace the first and last things illustrative of the present dispensation.' While it is somewhat difficult to make out the drift or design of the author, we have been pleased with many of his remarks, and think the book likely to be useful to such as are ignorant of the method of acceptance with God through Jesus Christ. Its chapters are impregnated with a hatred of Popery, and breathe sentiments in harmony with the notion of the millennial reign of Christ on earth.

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CONGREGATIONAL MAGAZINE.

SEPTEMBER, 1846.

I.

THE CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS.*

THE origin of the catacombs, their employment as a Christian cemetery, the martyrs entombed in them, the symbols used in them, the offices and customs of the ancient church, and the origin of Christian art, are the subjects discussed in this deeply interesting volume. No review can do justice to its pages, except by having recourse to the pictorial illustrations with which it abounds. But if our only object were to show the striking inconsistency of the church of modern Rome with the primitive church in the catacombs, a very few extracts would suffice. The disentombment of Pompeii did not more fearfully verify the depravity of pagan Rome, as described by the apostle Paul in the opening of his epistle to the Romans, than the exploration of subterranean Rome demonstrates the departure of papal Rome from the faith once delivered to the saints.

The subterranean galleries which penetrate the soil surrounding the city of Rome, after having for four centuries served as a refuge and a sanctuary to the ancient church, were nearly lost sight of during the disorder occasioned by barbarian invasions. As the knowledge of their windings could be preserved only by constant use, the principal entrances alone remained accessible; and even these were gradually neglected and blocked up by rubbish, with the exception of two or three, which were still resorted to, and decorated afresh from time to time. In the sixteenth century, the whole range of catacombs was re-opened, and the entire contents, which had absolutely untouched remained during more than a thou

*The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains. By Charles Maitland, M.D. London: Longman, Brown, and Co. 1846.