June 22nd, 1850, in the thirty-sixth year of her age. She professed Christ when young, delighted to serve him during the remaining years of her life, and triumphed in him in her death. Her last words as she reclined in the arms of her devoted husband were, "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice!" Her death was improved on the following Wednesday by the Rev. Samuel Williams of Nantyglo from Zech. ii. 13, "Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord;" the words which she had chosen for the occasion. The attendance at the service was unusually large, the spacious chapel being too small for the multitude come together to testify by their manifest sorrow their esteem for her many excellencies, and their conviction of the loss sustained by her removal. In a letter to a friend her dear husband said, "Considering my loss, I am wonderfully supported. minister ever had a better wife; and it consoles me now to reflect that I so esteemed her while she lived. I thank God that I was allowed her company so long; and her father and mother, while submissive to the will of God, should also feel thankful that they were favoured with such a daughter." No REV. T. WRIGHT. On July the 2nd the Rev. Thomas Wright, minister of the gospel for nearly forty years, and twenty-three years the devoted pastor of the baptist church, Says Hill, Herefordshire, was suddenly called by his Lord and master to exchange the scene of conflict for the rest of heaven. W.......Dr. Cox, J. H. Hinton ......... 2.10 2.10 2.10 P.........J. T. Brown, T. Philips......... 2.10 2.10 M.........W. Roberts, J. Webb....... 2 10 2 10 2.10 2 10 20 20 2 0 £208 0 The widows to whom these grants have been made are requested to send their addresses to the Rev. Dr. Murch, 57, Torrington Square, London, on the receipt of which he will transmit to them the sums voted. COLLECTANEA. THE QUEEN. Every reader is aware, probably, that on the 27th of June a weak-minded fop, who formerly held a commission in the army but has recently been living a life of idleness, his father being a gentleman of large property, had the audacity to strike the queen on the forehead with a riding cane, while she was sitting in an open carriage with three of her children, in Piccadilly. The editor of the Patriot has availed himself of this opportunity to write some very just remarks which we feel pleasure in transferring to our pages. "Our beloved queen will perceive how conspicuously this untoward circumstance calls forth the loyalty of the nation. These spontaneous outbursts of sympathy and indignation which are superior to all formal expressions of public sentiment, will by their warmth, promptitude, and universality, convince her majesty that her incomparable conduct is fully appreciated by her subjects. Her high station makes her a conspicuous mark for hostile shafts; but the unexceptionable manner in which she fills it, mingling the meekness of the woman with the dignity of the queen, ceases not to attract around her throne and person the shield of sincere affection and universal admiration. Our history as a kingdom presents no parallel to the consummate and almost severe propriety with which queen Victoria observes the rules of her peculiar position. Always accessible to her responsible advisers, ever punctual in the discharge of her sovereign duties; as studious of retirement and of the simple pleasures of a rural life as the most shrinking private lady in her realm, and yet never omitting any suitable occasion of meeting the gaze and mingling in the society of her subjects; neither losing the woman in the queen nor the queen in the woman, her majesty at once evinces how well she must have profited by the careful instructions respectively suited to her gentle sex and her lofty state, and how susceptible a pupil it was the happiness of her royal mother and the honour of Lord Melbourne (we may add Lord Palmerston) to train and instruct." REV. E. HENDERSON, D.D. At the annual meeting of the constituents of Highbury College, June 18th, the eminent services of the Rev. Dr. Henderson were adverted to, in expressions of profound respect, in connexion with his retirement from professorial duties. It having been incidentally mentioned that the Doctor had prepared for publication a translation of the Prophecies of Jeremiah, and of the Book of Lamentations, with a commentary, critical, philological, and exegetical, it was proposed by the ministers then present who had studied under him, in testimony of their gratitude and esteem, to free the author from the pecuniary risk of publication, by securing as large a number of subscribers to the volume as possible. Many, doubtless, of different denominations will gladly unite in this good work of showing respect to one so eminently deserving of it, and of adding so useful a book to the stores of our theological literature. ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS. This Dr. Tischendorf has now an edition of the Codex Amiatinus in the press, founded on his own collation of the MS., and on that of Dr. Tregelles, made during his stay at Florence in April and May, 1846, and communicated by him to Tischendorf. Latin MS. is one of the greatest importance, and it is probably the best monument of Jerome's version in existence. It appears to have been written before the middle of the sixth century. The edition of the Latin New Testament, published by Fleck, with (professedly) the various readings of this MS. is wholly unworthy of reliance; there are at least fourteen hundred readings thoroughly inaccurate. We understand that Dr. Tregelles has compared these readings one by one with the MS. The collection, as published by Fleck has greatly misled Lachmann, who had no other collation of this manuscript available for his use.-Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature. AUTHENTICITY OF STREET LITERATURE. A popular writer of publications produced in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials has furnished the following details of his art to the Metropolitan Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle:-"The little knowledge I have I have picked up bit by bit, so that I hardly know how I have come by it. I certainly knew my letters before I left home, and I have got the rest off the dead-walls and out of the ballads and papers I have been selling. I write most of the Newgate ballads now for the printers in the Dials, and, indeed, anything that turns up. I get a shilling for a Copy of verses written by the wretched culprit the night previous to his execution.' I wrote Courvoisier's sorrowful lamentation : I called it, 'A Woice from the Gaol.' I wrote a pathetic ballad on the respite of Annette Meyers. I did the helegy, too, on Rush's execution; it was supposed, like the rest, to be written by the culprit himself, and was particularly penitent. I didn't write that to order-I knew they would want a copy of verses from the culprit. The pub. lisher read it over, and said, "That's the thing for the street public.' I only got a shilling for Rush. Indeed, they are all the same price, no matter how popular they may be. I wrote the life of Manning in verse. Besides these, I have written the lament of Calcraft the Hangman on the decline of his trade, and many political songs." LITERARY MEN IN FRANCE AND IN ENGLAND. M. Guizot was born at Nismes in 1787; was a journalist in the time of Napoleon; and was wholly devoted to literature till 1816. He then became distinguished as a politician, and was prime minister of France when the Revolution of 1848 hurled Louis Philippe from the throne. He is once more a private man-happier, perhaps, and as useful. In England, the man of letters seldom wins wealth-never power. He is invariably regarded here as an impracticable man. The largest acquaintance with the Fast, the readiest power of observing the present, the widest benevolence, the most inflexible integrity are no passports to worldly honour or greatness. It is better, we believe, that it should be so. There are enough second-rate intellects in the world to carry on the great game of expediency.-Knight's Half Hours with the Best Authors. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. If the widows who received grants from the Magazine this time last year will send their addresses to Mr. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury, he will forward to each of them the same sum as was voted to her then. The cases of other applicants must stand over for the present, but will be considered at a future meeting of the proprietors. No successor to Mr. Penny in the treasurership is as yet appointed. health rendered it impossible for him to fulfil his intention of being in his place in the House of Commons, to oppose Mr. Locke's motion for the renewal of postal labour on the Lord's day, and that subsequently it has obliged him to be absent on several important occasions. We refer to a will soon have opportunities of viewing an A Peace Congress is about to be held in Germany, in pursuance of a resolution adopted last year, after the meeting of the same kind in France, and it is expected that a large delegation of influential men from the other side of the Atlantic will attend, coming over in a vessel lent for the purpose by the government of the United States. The delegates and visitors from this country are to leave London, for Frankfort-on-theMaine, where the sittings are to be held, by a special train on Monday evening, August 19th, and proceed by way of Dover and Calais for Cologne, whence they are to proceed up the Rhine by a special steamer. The article on Schism in our last was accidentally sent out without due examination, and was miserably incorrect. 1 Cor. ix. 18 should have been 1 Cor. xi. 18; iva should have been ἵνα ; ύηιν should have been viv; aкovo should have been akovo. One advantage, however, may accrue from the accident; a reader who is not conversant with such matters may see from these specimens how easy it was for a copyist of Greek manuscripts inadvertently to multiply The Rev. Joshua Russell of Lewisham Road Chapel, Greenwich, and the Rev. John Leechman of Hammersmith, are about to visit India at the request of the committee of the Baptist Missionary Society. The design of their mission will be explained in the Herald; but it is within our province to add that it is arranged that Mr. Russell's congregation should have the advantage of Dr. Hoby's services during their pastor's absence, and that a succession of acceptable ministers from different parts of the country may be expected to visit Mr. Leechman's friends at Hammersmith. At his return, we trust that he will find a spacious and convenient place" various readings." of worship ready for his reception; that in which he has laboured being about to be taken down immediately, in order to prepare the way for the erection of a much larger one on the same site. Our readers will partake of the regret with which we learn that the state of Mr. Peto's The Circular Letters from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, which we have just received, show very remarkable additions to the churches in those counties. The 126 churches in these two associations report a clear increase of 6,310 members; an average of fifty per church! WESTERN AFRICA. DECEASE OF REV. W. NEWBEGIN. Our chronicle of missionary intelligence for this month is again afflictive. It has pleased the All-merciful to summon from his labours our esteemed brother, Mr. Newbegin. Recent letters from him had led us to the hope that he had well nigh surmounted the debilitating effects of the climate, and that there were before him some years of exertion in the cause of the Redeemer. Our hope is destroyed. Western Africa again mourns. The promising field is deprived of its husbandman. And our faith is again summoned to submission, and to say, The Lord's will be done. Our readers will look on the sketch of Bimbia with mournful interest as they read the details which are below. It is with feelings of gratitude we refer to the kindness evinced to the bereaved widow by Governor Becroft and Mr. Lynslager, and to the prompt assistance rendered, both to Mrs. Newbegin and the church at Clarence, by the Rev. H. M. and Mrs. Waddell, of the United Presbyterian Church Mission at Calabar. The following letter from Mr. WADDELL, dated 4th of May, will put our readers in possession of what is known to us of this sorrowful event. It is with feelings of poignant grief that I her safe keeping, comfort, and welfare. Mr. address you, as secretary of the Baptist Mis- Lynslager's house being necessarily too sionary Society, being here most unexpect- much frequented to admit of her having the edly and unhappily on the business of your quiet and retirement which was indispensable Society. On the 26th ult. I received, at for her recovery, though no attention had Old Calabar, by the "Dove," two notes, one been wanting on his part or that of his exfrom Governor Becroft, who had just re- cellent wife, which it was possible for friendturned to this island, and the other from Mr. ship, and respect, and benevolence to give, McShane, surgeon of H. M. S. Phoenix, our first care was to have our widowed sister both dated 21st ult., and both on the same up to the mission house, where we were insubject-namely, informing me of the death formed accommodation had been provided of your missionary, Dr. Newbegin, in cir- for us. This without much trouble we cumstances of the most painful description, effected, and to our great satisfaction she and of the very unhappy state of Mrs. New- enjoyed that night more repose than she had begin in consequence of her heavy affliction; done for ten days or a fortnight before. and requesting, in urgent terms, that some Our hopes of her speedy recovery have not, of the ladies of our mission at Calabar might however, been sustained by subsequent imreturn with the "Dove," and aid in affording provement, and I fear that her distressing to our bereaved sister that Christian sympathy malady cannot be effectually removed till and aid which only those of her own sex and she enjoys that care at home which in this station could bestow. There being unhap-country it is quite impossible to secure for pily no missionary of either sex, nor any her. It will be absolutely necessary to send white lady remaining on the island, nor any her home to England by the first oppornearer than our families, who could render tunity, which we hope will not be more disthe necessary assistance in this extremity, tant than a month hence, when a ship from Mrs. Waddell and I did not hesitate to Calabar will be going home, having an exanswer the call made on us, and on the day cellent surgeon and master on board, and following left Calabar in the "Dove," and one of the ladies of our mission, Mrs. Edreached Clarence three days afterwards. Igerley, as a passenger, or by an earlier vessel shall not describe the condition in which we found our dear unhappy sister. sufficiently deplorable. I must, however, state that every possible care had been taken of her, and every possible attention paid to her by Mr. Becraft, Mr. McShane, Mr. and Mrs Lynslager, in whose house she was for the time staying, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, as well as by the members of the church, all of whom showed the most lively concern for It was if possible. The following are the particulars that I have learned concerning the sickness and death of our late brother Newbegin. On the 21st March, ten days after Mr. and Mrs. Saker and Miss Vitou left this place for England in our Calabar mission schooner, Mr. Newbegin came over from Bimbia to Clarence to minister to the church here. On 2nd April he returned to Bimbia. On sab |