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In the Press-A work of Biblical Criticism on the Old Testament, by the late Bishop Horsley;-An Inquiry into the Nature of Benevolence, principally with a view to elucidate the moral and political principles of the Poor Laws, by J. E. Bicheno, Esq.;-Algebra of the Hindoos, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, translated from the Sanscrit, by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq.;-A translation of the Heidelberg Catechism;-A Tribute of Sympathy, addressed to Mourn ers, by W. Newnham, Esq.;-A Six Weeks' Course of Prayers, for the Use of Families, by the Rev. W. Smith;-An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations: including a comparison of the Ancients and Moderns, in regard to their intellectual and social state, by Mr. Bigland; -The Harmony of Scripture, or an attempt to reconcile various Passages apparently contradictory, by the late Rev. Andrew Fuller.

The Rev. T. Cloutt, Penton Row, Walworth, proposes to publish by subscription, in five vols. 8vo. at 10s. 6d. each volume, Sermons and Treatises of the Rev. Richard Baxter.

Names are received by the editor, and by the following booksellers: Baynes, Blanchard, Conder, Ogle, and Williams.

In our last volume, p. 255, we announced a Polyglott Bible, in one vol. 4to. or four pocket volumes, by Mr.

Bagster, No. 81, Strand, as in the press, and gave at the same time a full account of the plan of the undertaking, to which we refer our readers. The first part, containing the Pentateuch, is now ready for delivery.

The second Number of the new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus, has been published; price, to subscribers, small paper, 17. 1s.; large, 21. 2s.

A new Daily Evening Paper, called The Guardian, will appear on the Second Monday in May; which professes to pay increased attention to Reports of Parliamentary Proceedings, and to give admission to nothing which may in the slightest degree invade the purity of morals, or violate the sanctity of private character. Its principles are avowedly those of Opposition; or, in other words, those of Mr. Fox. The Guardian professes to defend the oppressed; to denounce abuses; to protect the Constitution from encroachment; and to promote the cause of liberty and improvement in every part of the world, a peaceable policy towards foreign nations, rigid economy of our resources, severe justice against public delinquents, and reform of the representation. It will also be the " open and zealous advocate of those principles, which are held by the friends of the abolition of the Slave Trade, and which every day proves more and more to be essential to the safety of our colonies, as well as to the honour and character of the mother country."

The following is an Account of the official value of the Exports from Great Britain, during the last three years: Total.

British. Foreign. 1814, 36,092,167|20,499,347|56,591.514 1815, 44.053,455 16,930.43960,988,894 1816, 36,714,534 14,545,93351.260,407

The Norfolk Agricultural Society has called the attention of those who feel themselves interested in the welfare of cottagers, to the following extract from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, under the word "Apiary," as to the "various methods detailed of procuring honey and wax from the hives without destroying the bees themselves.” "The most economic mode of attaining these ends deserves more attention as a national object, than it has in general received in this country. It appears, from the returns of the Custom-house, that England pays annually to the North of Germany from 40,000l. to 50,000.

sterling, for the wax and honey which are imported from thence, and which might very easily be raised by a more extended and judicious cultivation of bees at home. Greater attention to this useful appendage to the cottage would not only be productive of commercial advantage, but would tend to improve the condition of the lower order of peasantry. It is not generally known, indeed, what profitable returns may be obtained at a trifling expense of time and labour, by very simple processes. Mr. Huish, who has lately published a valuable practical treatise on the management of bees, has made a calculation, from which he infers, that even supposing the first cost of a swarm to be one guinea, which is the price in the places where they are sold the dearest, the cottager is almost certain, by proper care and management, of clearing, in five years, a net produce of nearly 601. and of having, besides, at the end of that period, ten good stocks of bees in his garden.

The amount of money expended in law-suits, removal of paupers, journeys,

and expenses of overseers of the poor, &c. in England, for the year ending 25thTM March, 1815, was 287,6951. 4s 3d.

It appears from an abstract of the returns made to the Secretary of State, from the different parishes and places within the Bills of Mortality, that the total sum raised by Poor-rates, or other local rates, for the year 1816, ending the 25th of March, within these limits, was 489,3201. 16s. 14d. The following is the mode of expenditure :—Maintenance of the

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ciations had not yet been formed, by visiting the societies already in existence, and by promoting the formation of new ones, wherever it appeared practicable and important. Throughout the whole of his journey, which exceeded seven thousand miles, he every where met with the most kind and marked attention; and had the happiness of finding that the Society, in proportion as it became known, received a prompt and active encouragement from persons of every description.

Travelling by way of Novogorod to wards Moscow, he arrived at Twer, a large and populous city, containing twenty-seven churches, and found both the governor and the archimandrite will ing to circulate information respecting the Society, and to form a local association, which, it was expected, would take place as soon as the Archbishop Seraphim arrived from St. Petersburg.

He reached Moscow about the middle of April. It was rapidly rising from its asbes: new buildings appeared on every side, and many of them were characterized by great elegance and splendour. The Bible Society was in a highly prosperous state; and he found the Georgian New Testament just printed off, forming one of the most beautiful editions hitherto issued by any Bible Society whate

ver.

He writes, May 3d-

"I have this day had the very great pleasure of attending the third anniversary of the Moscow Bible Society. The meeting was held in a large hall of the newly rebuilt palace of the late Metropolitan Platon, and, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, was numerously attended, and graced by the presence of the first men in this city, both clergy and laity, The Archbishop Augustin pronounced a most animating and appropriate speech, in which he dwelt, with much eloquence and feeling, on the desolated state of this metropolis when the Society was first founded, and on the great efforts which, by the blessing of God, it had been enabled to make, to compensate, with the treasures of Revelation, the losses which so many then sustained; to feed the fatherless and widows, bind up the broken hearted, and administer comfort to the afflicted, by the distribution of that spiritual food, balm, and consolation, with which the holy Scriptures abound. He displayed, in striking colours, the wonderful love of God to our generation; who, when infidelity, with all its train

of iniquities, and wars, and confusion, and desolations, had deluged the land of Christendom with the blood of its inhabitants, was pleased, amidst this awful scene of human wo, to raise up shining witnesses to the truth, by the establishment of Bible Societies in so many dif ferent nations, and to crown their exertions with such distinguished success, in disseminating the glorious Gospel of mercy and peace. The speech of the Archbishop made, visibly, a deep impression on the numerous audience, and prepared their minds to listen with attention to the detailed report of the committee."

From the report presented at this meeting, it appeared, that applications for copies in the Slavonian language were numerous and pressing. The bishops of several districts had ordered considerable numbers for supplying their respective flocks; and in addition to some hundred copies before bestowed, for schools in the provincial towns, a new vote was passed for more than three thousand Testaments, to be employed in the same manner. Supplies were also promised to the institution, at Moscow, for the education of the young nobility; in which establishment, remarks the above-mentioned Report, "the Directors have laid it down as a principle in the education of the noble youths committed to their care, that their education shall be founded on the saving knowledge of the Christian faith, which only is capable of enlightening the mind, directing the will, and purifying

the heart."

Among other letters received at this anniversary, were two from the Archbishop of Tobolsk and the Bishop of Irkutsk; in which, these prelates express, on behalf of themselves and their flock, their most ardent feelings of gratitude to the Society, and their confident opinion, that much religious good would result from such benevolent exertions. "Is not this," Mr. Pinkerton remarks, "glorious intelligence from the innermost recesses of Siberia? Oh, what wonderful things our Redeemer is working in the earth!"

In addition to the above-mentioned, and other distributions, the Moscow committee had undertaken a second edition of ten thousand Bibles and Testaments, in the Slavonian language; and five thousand Georgian Bibles had also been agreed upon, in addition to the Testaments to which we have before

alluded. The total of the Society's plans during the three years of their establishment, including those editions which, though projected, had not yet gone to press, amounted to thirty thousand Bibles and Testaments in the Slavonian and Georgian languages; and their income during the preceding year, added to the receipts by sale of copies, was 33.484 rubles. The meeting closed with the Te Deum, and the most animated expressions were heard of astonishment and pleasure at the progress of the holy cause in which the members were engaged.

Mr. Pinkerton arrived at Tula, not without great difficulty and fatigue, on account of the badness of the roads, from the melted snows and spring rains. He immediately concerted with the Bishop Simcon the plan of a branch association, and in a few days witnessed a meeting of three hundred of the first persons in the city to effect this object. The bishop ably and piously advocated the cause of the Society, and nearly three thousand rubles were immediately subscribed. The town contains 40,000 inhabitants, and the province 900,000. The bishop, whose diocess includes 847 churches, is stated to be a learned and liberal man, and a worthy scholar of the late revered Metropolitan of Moscow, Platon, in whose school, we are happy to find, the greater part of the present bishops and archbishops of the Russian church were educated.

The next letter is dated Voronez, the seat of a Bible Society, nearly one thousand miles in the interior of Russia. The inhabitants of the province amount to 300,000 souls; and the committee had agreed to establish an association in each of the thirteen district towns. The number of subscribers at Voronez was upwards of 3,000, and appeared to be considerably on the increase. Mr. P. was kindly entertained at the house of one of the secretaries, a Russian merchant, who informed him that, when a youth of about twenty years of age, he had the misfortune to drink deeply of the infidel philosophy of the last age, and that for many years he lived without religion altogether; but that, at last, it pleased God to open his eyes, solely by the reading of the Bible, and that since that time, the word of God had become a real treasure to his heart, and to his house. So indefatigable has this most zealous and excellent man been in searching the Scriptures, that he has

composed a Concordance of almost all the books of Scripture, in manuscript, in six volumes, folio. No work of this kind was ever so complete in the Russian language; and on this account several of the bishops are about to use means for getting it revised, and put to the press.

At New Tcherkask, the capital city of the Don Cossacks, Mr. P. obtained a hospitable reception from the Hettman General, who related the measures which had been already taken for forming a Bible Society for his countrymen, and which waited only the arrival of the chief commander, Count Platoff, for their ultimate organization. The sphere of the projected institution is very important, and comprehends, at least, 640.000 souls.

In a manner equally successful, Mr. Pinkerton proceeded along the eastern verge of Europe, giving information, or establishing societies in various places at which he arrived. At an humble Tartar village, called Abitochnai, much interest was excited, and the governor, Count de Maison, charged himself with the distribution of six hundred copies of the Scriptures, to be supplied from St. Petersburg, in order to make, at least, a beginning among 34,000 Nogay Tartars, under his government, in this extensive steppe. Mr. P. in his further travels, crossed and recrossed the ancient Scythia Minor, conveying information, and preparing the way for the distribution of four thousand copies of the sacred Scriptures, among Greeks, Tartars, Germans, Russians, and Armenians. He found the Kaffa (or Theodosian) Bible Society in prosperous circumstances, and very grateful to England for her exertions and assistance. The committee urgently requested two or three hundred copies of the Hebrew New Testament, as the numerous Jews in that quarter were beginning to make religious inquiries.

At Sympherpole, (or Akmechet,) the chief city of the peninsula of Taurida, a moral wild, containing 200,000 Mahomedans, and 100,000 Christians and Jews, a respectable and efficient society had been established. All the chief authorities, civil and ecclesiastical, gave their active assistance. Above one third of the subscribers are Mahomedans, with five Caraite Jews. Mr. P. adds:

"The late wars and commotions on the earth, with the present wonderful exertions to spread abroad the holy