loving obedience. May God preserve those who remain from being perverted and drawn aside.

An occasional paper has been lately published by the Pastoral Aid Society, in which it gives a cheering account of its past and present operations. Since 1836, it has rendered assistance to 581 of the clergy; and 253 incumbents are at present receiving assistance from it! The charges of these clergymen extend over a population amounting to one eighth of the whole of England and Wales, about 2,000,000 of souls. But many applications are compelled to be rejected, or laid by for a time, in consequence of its limited income, £20,000 per annum. The society has pledged itself to give £500, towards maintaining the Southwark clergy; of the destitution of which parish, we gave some statistics a few months ago; and £4000 additional would only cover its expenses. We trust that it will be liberally supported.

Lord Ashley, at a meeting of operatives in Manchester a short time ago, gave notice of his moving on the first night of next Session his ten hours Manufacturers' Bill. An intelligence which was received with great approbation.

We have but little space for foreign news this month. We regret to state that a serious affray between the New Zealanders, under the turbulent Heki, and our soldiers has taken place. 53 of the latter were killed and wounded. Christianity and war are very discordant terms. We trust, however, that tranquillity will be at length restored.—The king of Prussia, in a recent address to the citizens of Berlin, his capital, has manifested great indignation at the New German Reformation under M. Ronge, and the supposed sympathy which they (the burghers) shew towards it. But no dictates of a monarch, however despotic, can now, we think, stay its progress. The discovery of a widely ramified and well concocted plan of infidelizing Germany (even more than it has been of late) has been just discovered at Neufchatel. Its members are mostly German operatives, who travel from their country to Switzerland, professed atheists, and who have bound themselves in a secret Propaganda Society to spread their tenets, which are also political as well as religious, amongst their countrymen in Germany. We are glad to say that the ringleaders have been banished from the Swiss Confederation.

END OF VOL. III.

FOSTER, PRINTER, KIRKBY LONSDAle.

TEACHER'S VISITOR:

JANUARY-JUNE,

1846.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM CARUS WILSON, M. A.

RECTOR OF WHITTINGTON,

AND INCUMBENT MINISTER OF CASTERTON.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

SEELEY, BURNSIDE, AND SEELEY, FLEET STREET.

FOSTER, KIRKBY LONSDALE.