to track his steps. The second search was successful. Our fervent apothecary, with his freight of tracts about him, was at length seized. "The said William was taken by the way, riding to Dieppe, and brought again to Rouen; and, being there examined, declared his faith boldly, and how he came of purpose to disperse those books in Rouen, and went to do the like at Dieppe." His sentence was the fire. But first his tongue was cut out; and being bereft of the power of speech, he was made to listen to the sermon of a Carmelite friar. "When the friar had ceased his sermon, this godly Husson had his hands and feet bound behind his back, and with a pulley was lifted up into the air; and when the fire was kindled, he was let down into the flame - where the blessed martyr, with a smiling and cheerful countenance, looked up to heaven, never moving nor stirring, till he let down his head and gave up his spirit. All the people there present were not a little astonied thereat, and were in diverse opinions some saying that he had a devil; others maintaining the contrary, saying, if he had a devil he should have fallen into despair. This Carmelite friar aforesaid was called Delanda; he was afterwards converted and preached the Gospel." Thus it was by voice and by book that the Gospel took its way over France. A noble forerunner this of the colporteurs of later times! The five students of Lausanne are worthy of record. On that university the shower seems to have in some measure fallen. These five young Frenchmen, from different provinces, had learned the way of life whilst busied in their studies. A common faith and hope drew them together. Then they remembered home and friends. They called to mind parents and relatives that knew not God. They came to a common resolution to return home in order to make known that salvation which they had found at Lausanne. They did so; but their time was brief. The enemy found them, and soon brought them to the stake. In the first bloom of opening youth they were called to martyrdom. Most joyfully did they die, witnessing for Christ, and bidding one another be of good cheer. No city, no village, no region, seemed to escape the falling drops. Everywhere throughout the kingdom the refreshing came down. On monasteries, on universities, on the palace and on the cottage, on the mountain and in the valley, the cloud seemed to rest, and from its ample skirts it shook the plenteous rain. Time would fail to tell the wonders then wrought in France. What results have been seen since these days? What have the sword, the fire, the rack, the gallows done? Is that kingdom to be visited again? Is vengeance or blessing to be the answer to the martyr-cry of two centuries? Has the blood of the saints watered or scorched the soil? H. B. REVIEW OF THE MONTH. NOTHING shows more strikingly the decline of the Papacy in Spain than the law lately carried in the Cortes, by a majority of 168 to 12, authorising the sale of ecclesiastical property. What may be the present value of the Church's possessions in Spain we do not know, but at the commencement of the century a fifth part of the arable land of the kingdom belonged to the clergy; and as, besides being badly cultivated, it paid no taxes, it was a double source of national impoverishment. The measure which has now appropriated to public exigencies this sacred soil we are not called on to discuss, but the fact that it was so easily carried shows how times have changed in the Peninsula. The Pope has recalled his nuncio, but the authorities betray no nervous.ness under threatenings which would once have made the "most Catholic" kingdom tremble. THE GOSPEL IN TURKEY. 215 For some years remarkable success has attended the missions of American Protestants among the Armenians of Turkey, and latterly there has been a great demand for the Christian Scriptures among officers in the Turkish army and among the Mahometan inhabitants of Constantinople. The excellent Dutch ambassador at the Porte, Count Zuylen de Nyevelt, says, "Humanly speaking, there is probably no place in the world so well disposed as Turkey at the present moment for receiving the Gospel. The Armenian Church is in great agitation, and as the Koran loses each day its prestige and authority in the eyes of the people, all souls in the least serious will have to make the choice between Protestantism and Catholicism, since strong and traditional antipathies separate them from the Greek Church." Efforts are now making by the French and English Governments to induce the Porte to declare the renunciation of his religion by a Mussulman no longer a capital crime. Should these representations succeed, as there is every reason to hope that they will, a better day will ere long dawn on Turkey. We have been much interested by an account in the American papers of the opening of a commodious place of Christian worship for the Chinese at Sacramento, California. At the first service there was a crowded attendance. From the third Report of the "Working Men's Educational Union," it appears that, in addition to 175 previously issued, they have during the past year published 75 diagrams for the purpose of illustrating lectures on such subjects as Nineveh, Missions, the Literary History of the Bible, and the Reformation in England. It is gratifying to find that not only have lectures on such subjects commanded large and enthusiastic auditories, even in regions as remote as Constantinople and the Crimea, but that in many instances working men have themselves been the lecturers, and have successfully ministered to the amusement and instruction of their companions. Acting on a principle which is likely to be followed in the public offices of our own country, the Government of India has thrown open its civil appointments to public competition. The first series of twenty has just been awarded. There were 113 candidates, who underwent an examination so planned that high attainments in languages, or in mathematical science, or in English scholarship, would ensure an appointment. Of the 113 candidates 73 were furnished by English seminaries, and of these 17 succeeded; 23 were furnished by Ireland, of whom 2 succeeded; 15 were furnished by Scotland, of whom 1 succeeded. Of the 19 candidates whom Oxford supplied, 8 were successful; of the 32 sent up by Cambridge, 6 succeeded. From the 1st of January, 1815, to the close of December, 1854, the number of emigrants who left the United Kingdom was 4,116,958,-an average of somewhat more than a hundred thousand a-year. But of this number as many as 2,446,802 have emigrated during the last eight years. highest number was in 1852, viz. 368,764. In the last seven years 7,520,000l. were transmitted to Ireland by emigrants to enable their friends and relations to join them in the new country. The gross revenue of the Post-office for the financial year was 2,689,9167. 9s. 10d. After deducting the expense of management the net revenue was 1,129,0517. 5s. 10d. Mr. Pepper is now exhibiting at the Polytechnic Institution a bar of aluminium produced by M. St.-Clair Deville in the private laboratory of the Emperor of the French. From its admirable properties-to which we have already called the attention of our readers ("Excelsior," vol. i. pp. 237, 238,) it is to be hoped that this metal, of which the ore is common clay, may soon be obtained in sufficient quantity for economic uses. The medals commemorating Queen Victoria's visit to Paris are to be worked off in aluminium, as well as in gold, platinum, silver, and bronze. 77 & 78 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. Spence and Buchanan, FROM GLASGOW, BEG to thank their customers for their liberal patronage during the past season, and intimate to the public generally, that as their chief aim is to establish a permanent connexion, their Buyers are instructed to select from the best manufacturers only such goods as can be confidently recommended, which in no instance will be sold at more than the lowest remunerating rate. 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