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In drawing these reflections on the character and conversion of Lydia to a close, it may be remarked that the reality of a change of heart ought to be ascertained, not by sudden emotions of terror and alarm, but by the fruits and results of the change. It was observed before, that as the Lord came to the jailor "in the earthquake," he came to Lydia in the "still small voice." Now if any of you, who are casting your eyes over these pages, have been going on in a headlong course of wilful sin, and are yet "setting your faces as a flint" against the calls of the Gospel, we deem it probable that if ye are saved, it will be "so as by fire." The voice of the Lord will speak in terror, ere Christ speaks peace to your souls. You may be thankful, if by any method of his providence and grace, the Lord shall bring you to "repentance unto life;" if the voice shall at last be heard, and listened to, and heeded. You may well endure through life the remembrance of the stern alarum of death and vengeance and coming judgment, which it sounded in your ears, if by any means you shall have been brought to the Saviour for pardon and the hope of life everlasting. But many humble Christians there are, who may be led astray into doubts and misgivings; they may "be made sad" by needless perplexities, when the Lord "would not make them sad," but would have them to "rejoice in Christ Jesus," if they deem their spiritual state unsafe because they have not experienced the great alarm and terror, which some have imagined to be needful in every case of conversion to God. Lydia, it should seem, knew not this terror, but was at once filled with "joy and peace in believing."

Search for the fruits of the Spirit. If ye have Lydia's simple trust in a Saviour's mercy, her spirit of prayer, her heavenly mindedness, her deep humility, her "meekness in receiving the engrafted word," as set forth to her by the lips of Christ's authorised ambassadors, then may ye humbly hope that your state is a safe one. But if your lives exhibit not these fruits of the Spirit, ye are in a perilous condition, though ye may say, "The Lord came with his converting energy in the vision of the night, or in the voice from heaven." "By their fruits ye shall know them."

Poetry.

NATIONAL BALLADS.-No. X. DETERMINATION TO RETAIN THE BIBLE.

BY MISS M. A. STODART.

(For the Church of England Magazine.)

Go to the lonely desert,

And preach unto the wind;

But Romish threats and Romish lures
Change not our stedfast mind.

We grasp the book we love,

The book our fathers read;

The light beams brightly from above,
Their pilgrim-steps which led.

False and apostate Church,

God bids us search his word;

And who art thou, that we should turn,

And slight our bleeding Lord?

The traveller, when he hears

The sound of coming storm,

Grasps firm his staff, and draws his cloak More closely round his form:

So we the book we love

Press closer to our heart, And in Christ's strength defy Rome's power That book from us to part.

Miscellaneous.

WONDERS OF CREATION.-Some animalculæ are so small, that many thousands together are smaller than the point of a needle. Leewenhoek says there are more animals in the milt of a codfish than men on the whole earth; and that a single grain of sand is larger than four thousand of these animals. Moreover, a particle of the blood of one of these animalculæ has been found, by calculation, to be as much less than a globe of 1-10th of an inch in diameter, as that globe is less than the whole earth. He states, that a grain of sand, in diameter but the 100th part of an inch, will cover 125,000 of the orifices through which we perspire; and that of some animalculæ, 3000 are not equal to a grain of sand. Human hair varies in thickness from the 250th to the 6000th part of an inch. The fibre of the coarsest wool is about the 500th part of an inch in diameter, and that of the finest only the 1500th part. The silk-line, as spun by the worm, is about the 5000th part of an inch thick; but, perhaps, a spider's line is six times finer, or only the 30,000th part of an inch in diameter, insomuch that a single pound of this attenuated, yet perfect substance, would be sufficient to encompass our globe. Speaking of odours, the author says, a single grain of musk has been known to perfume a room for the space of twenty years. How often, during that time, the air of the apartment must become charged with fresh odour! At the lowest computation the musk had been subdivided into 320 quadrillions of particles, each of them capable of affecting the olfactory organs. The diffusion of odorous effluvia may also be conceived from the fact, that a lump of assafœtida, exposed to the open air, lost only a grain in seven weeks. Again, since dogs hunt by the scent alone, the effluvia emitted from the several species of animals and from different individuals of the same race, must be essentially distinct, and being distributed over large spaces, must be subdivided beyond our conception or powers of numbers. The human skin is perforated by a thousand holes in the space of a square inch. If, therefore, we estimate the surface of the body of a middle-sized man to be sixteen square feet, it must contain not fewer than 2,304,000 pores. These pores are the mouths of so many excretory vessels, which perform the important function in the animal economy of insensible perspiration.Shaw's Nature Displayed.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The paper on Christinas was too late.

Our correspondent who has been good enough to forward us some hymns for Advent, will perceive that the first should have been sent in time for the November Part, which was published before his poems were written.

We must beg our friends to bear in mind, that papers intended for particular seasons, must be forwarded at least two months before-hand, to ensure admission.

We have again to say, that we receive far more verses than we can by possibility insert.

R. H. G. is requested to forward his name to the Editors. However valuable such communications may be, they cannot, for obvious reasons, be inserted anonymously.

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Poetry.

NATIONAL BALLADS.-No. X. DETERMINATION TO RETAIN THE BIBLE.

BY MISS M. A. STODART.

(For the Church of England Magazine.)

Go to the lonely desert,

And preach unto the wind;

But Romish threats and Romish lures
Change not our stedfast mind.

We grasp the book we love,

The book our fathers read;

The light beams brightly from above,
Their pilgrim-steps which led.

False and apostate Church,

God bids us search his word;

And who art thou, that we should turn,

And slight our bleeding Lord?

The traveller, when he hears

The sound of coming storm,

Grasps firm his staff, and draws his cloak More closely round his form:

So we the book we love

Press closer to our heart, And in Christ's strength defy Rome's power That book from us to part.

Miscellaneous.

WONDERS OF CREATION.-Some animalculæ are so small, that many thousands together are smaller than the point of a needle. Leewenhoek says there are more animals in the milt of a codfish than men on

the whole earth; and that a single grain of sand is larger than four thousand of these animals. Moreover, a particle of the blood of one of these animalculæ has been found, by calculation, to be as much less than a globe of 1-10th of an inch in diameter, as that globe is less than the whole earth. He states, that a grain of sand, in diameter but the 100th part of an inch, will cover 125,000 of the orifices through which we per- { spire; and that of some animalculæ, 3000 are not equal to a grain of sand. Human hair varies in thickness from the 250th to the 6000th part of an inch. The fibre of the coarsest wool is about the 500th part of an inch in diameter, and that of the finest only the 1500th part. The silk-line, as spun by the worm, is about the 5000th part of an inch thick; but, perhaps, a spider's line is six times finer, or only the 30,000th part of an inch in diameter, insomuch that a single pound of this attenuated, yet perfect substance, would be sufficient to encompass our globe. Speaking of odours, the author says, a single grain of musk has been known to perfume a room for the space of twenty years. How often, during that time, the air of the apartment must become charged with fresh odour! At the lowest computation the musk had been subdivided into 320 quadrillions of particles, each of them capable of affecting the olfactory organs. The diffusion of odorous effluvia may also be conceived from the fact, that a lump of assafetida, exposed to the open air, lost only a grain in seven weeks. Again, since dogs hunt by the scent alone, the effluvia emitted from the several species of animals and from different individuals of the same race, must be essentially distinct, and being distributed over large spaces, must be subdivided beyond our conception or powers of numbers. The human skin is perforated by a thousand holes in the space of a square inch. If, therefore, we estimate the surface of the body of a middle-sized man to be sixteen square feet, it must contain not fewer than 2,304,000 pores. These pores are the mouths of so many excretory vessels, which perform the important function in the animal economy of insensible perspiration.Shaw's Nature Displayed.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The paper on Christinas was too late.

We must beg our friends to bear in mind, that papers intended for particular seasons, must be forwarded at least two months before-hand, to ensure admission.

We have again to say, that we receive far more verses than we can by possibility insert.

R. H. G. is requested to forward his name to the Editors. However valuable such communications may be, they cannot, for obvious reasons, be inserted anonymously.

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence.

AUGUST 1839.

Ordinations.

By Br. OF WINCHESTER, at Farnham Castle, B.A. St. John's; C. Marett, B.A. Pemb.; Ε. Pizey, B.A. Queen's; A. J. Rogers, B.A. Jes.; T. J. Rowsell, B.A. St. John's.

Sunday, July 7.

PRIESTS.

Of Oxford -W. W. Blanford, M.A. St. Ed. H.; J. H. Butterworth, M.A. Exet.; R. Dalton, B.A. Univ.; H. J. Fellowes, M.A. St. John's; R. Fitzgerald, B.A. Exet.; J. H. Harding, B.A. Magd. H.; T. L. Iremonger, B.A. Ball.; T. Stevens, M.A. Oriel, Lett. Dim. Bp. Lichfield; W. H. Stevens, B.A. Worc.; J. S. Utterton, B.A. Oriel; G. Weight, B.A. Magd. H.

Of Cambridge.-C. B. Hue, M.A., A. R. Pennington, B.A. Trin.

Of Dublin.-F. W. Briggs, B.A. Trin.

DEAGONS.

Of Oxford.-T. R. Agnew, B.A. New; A. R. Campbell, M.A. Ball.; J. Lawreli, B.A. Mert.; H. Milne, B.A. Bras.

Of Cambridge.-G. E. Biber, LL.D., J. I. Hamilton, B.A., H. R. Julius, B.A., W. Kelk,

Erratum. In the list of Ordinations by the Bishop of Lincoln, at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, May 26, (in last Register), the name of R. Stephens, B.A. St. Mary's H., Oxford, ordained deacon, was omitted.

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PRIZES PROPOSED.

University Entelligence.

OXFORD.

Theological.-" Good works do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith."

The following subjects are proposed for the chancellor's prizes for the ensuing year, viz. :

For Latin Verse. -" Pestis Londinum devastans." For an English Essay.-" Do states, like individuals, inevitably tend, after a certain period of maturity, to decay?" For a Latin Essay.-" Miles Romanus quando primum, et quibus de causis, cœperit libertati civium obesse ?"

Sir R. Newdigate's Prize. - Not limited to fifty lines. "The Judgment of Brutus."

New.-H. Darnell and C. L. S. Clarke, sch. admit. fell. St. John's.-J. Bellamy and T. Garrard admitted fellows; E. West, P. Parnell, H. L. Mansell, and L. J. Bernays, elected schol. (all of Merchant Tailors' School.)

Wadham, June 30.-L. Evans, B.A., and Rev. E. Ww. Tuffnell, B.A., elected probationers; F. Tufnell, H. B. Bowlby, R. Trimmer, and L. F. Burrows, elected schol.

Jesus. Rev. D. Lewis, B.A., schol.; and Rev. L. Jones, M.A., elected fell.

CAMBRIDGE.

St. Peter's, June 29.-B. Smith, B.A., St. Pet., and P. Freeman, B.A., Trin., elected fell.; Rev. H. Cotesworth, M.A., a Gisborne fell.

Gonville and Caius. Rev. B. Chapman, M.A., rec. Ashdon, Essex, and formerly fell., elected master; and Rev. C. Eyres, M.A., elected a senior fellow.

PRIZES ADJUDGED.

June 29.-The members' prizes for Latin prose compositions have been awarded as follows:

For Bach. of Arts.-1. Edleston, Trin.; 2. Bailey, Trin. Subject: "Quænam commoda Britannia percipiat ex Coloniis transatlanticis." For Undergraduates: J. M. Neale, Trin. Subject-" Inter antiquorum et recentiorum eloquentiam comparatione factâ, utri palma sit deferenda." No second prize adjudged.

BARNABY LECTURERS APPOINTED.

Mathematical: W. Williamson, M.A., Clare. Philosophical: Rev. J. Fendall, M.A., Jesus. Rhetoric: Rev. G. Ray, M.A., St. Pet. Logic: Rev. R. Buston, M.A., Emm. Select Preachers. The following gentlemen have been elected select preachers at St. Mary's, y's, each for the month to which his name is affixed :

1839. Oct. The Hulsean Lecturer; Nov. The Rev. Η. Melvill, St. Peter's; Dec. The Rev. J. E. Browne, Queen's. 1840. Jan. The Rev. C. Lawson, St. John's; Feb. The Rev. T. Robinson, Trin.; March, The Rev. J. C. Hare, Trin.; April, The Hulsean lecturer; May, The Rev. C. Green, Jesus.

Christ's. - The following elections have taken place at this college: - The Rev. T. Walker, M.A., fellow on the foundation; C. Davidson, M.A., fell. on King Edw. Vith's foundation; and the Rev. E. A. Powell, fell. on Finch and Baines' foundation.

The Rev. R. W. Stoddart, M.A., of Jesus, and vicar of Hundon, Suffolk, has just been presented by the inhabitants of Solihull, near Birmingham, with an elegant silver tea-pot and cream-jug, in testimony of their esteem and gratitude for his late services as curate of that parish.

Chr.; 18, Mr. Upjohn, Regin.; 25, Mr. Dwyer, Corp.
Sept. 1, Mr. Sunderland, Cai.; 8, Coll. Regal.; 15, Coll.
Trin.; 22, Coll. Joh.; 29, Mr. Chapman, Chr. Oct. 6,
Mr. Brown, jun., Regin.; 13, Mr. Elliot, Corp.; 20, Mr.
Coates, Jes.; 27, Gommem. Benefact. Nov. 3, Coll. Regal.;
10, Coll. Trin.; 17, Coll. Joh.; 24, Mr. A. H. Barker,
Chr. Dec. 1, Mr. Dalton, Regin.; 8, Mr. Bagshawe,
Corp.; 15, Mr. Buston, Emm.; 22, Coll. Regal.; 29,
Coll. Trin.

Poster Comb.-Aug. 4, Mr. Reade, Joh. ; 11, Mr. Singleton, Joh.; 18, Mr. Pritchard, Joh.; 24, Fest. St. Bart., Mr. Stainforth, Joh.; 25, Mr. Moody, Joh. Sept. 1, Mr. Shield, Joh.; 8, Mr. Wharton, Joh.; 15, Mr. H. Marsh, Joh.; 21, Fest. St. Matt., Mr. Hill, Joh.; 22, Mr. J. Brown, Joh.; 29, Fest. St. Mich., Mr. Tucker, Pet. Oct. 6, Mr. Dowell, Pet.; 13, Mr. Ray, Clar.; 18, Fest. St. Luc., Mr. Molineux, Clar.; 20, Mr. Baily, Clar.; 27, Mr. Hall, Clar.; 28, Fest. SS. Sim. et Jud., Mr. Jonas, Clar. Nov. 1, Fest. Om. Sanct., Mr. Liveing, Pemb.; 3, Mr. Barnes, jun., Pemb.; 10, Mr. England, Pemb.; 17, Mr. Wall, Cai.; 24, Mr. Jackson, Cai.; 30, Fest. St. And., Mr. Sunderland, Cai. Dec. 1, Mr. J. S. Cox, Corp.; 8, Mr. Pullen, Corp.; 15, Mr. Steventon, Corp.; 21, Fest. St. Thom., Mr. Chapman, Corp. ; 22, Mr. Walsh, Corp.; 25, Fest. Nativ., Mr. Dwyer, Cor.; 26, Fest. St. Steph., Mr. Hose, Regin.; 27, Fest. St. Joh., Mr. Rangeley, Regin.; 28, Fest. Innoc., Mr. Upjohn, Regin.; 29, Mr. Brown, Regin.

Resp. in Theolog. Mr. Hodgson, Corp.; Oppon. Coll. Trin., Coll. Joh., Mr. Stuart, Chr. Resp. Mr. Beynon, Magd.; Oppon. Mr. Serjeantson, Cath., Mr. Wrench, Corp., Mr. Hanson, Cai. Resp. Mr. Brooks, Trin.: Oppon. Coll. Regal., Coll. Trin., Coll. Joh. Resp. Mr. Tooth, Trin.; Oppon. Mr. Berkley, Chr., Mr. Brooke, Cath., Mr. Thornton, Corp.

Resp. in Jur. Civ. Mr. Kindersley, Trin.; Oppon. Mr. Creswell, Emm., Mr. Venables, Jes.

Resp. in Medic. Mr. Wollaston, Cai.; Oppon. Mr. Price,
Emm., Mr. Lockley, Cai.

COMBINATION PAPER, 1839.
Prior Comb. August 4, Coll. Joh.; 11, Mr. Hopper,
The junior fellows have petitioned her Majesty that they may be permitted to marry.

DUBLIN.

DURHAM.

Appointments. The following gentlemen were nominated by the warden to their respective offices:

Rev. T. W. Peile, M.A., and Rev. C. T. Whitley, M.A., to be proctors for the ensuing year. The senior proctor, J. Thomas, B.C.L., and the Rev. J. Burdon, M.A., to be examiners at the first and second public examinations in arts. The professor of mathematics, the lecturer in chemistry, and Mr. T. Sopwith, to be examiners at the first and second public examinations in civil engineering.

FINAL EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF B.A.

EASTER TERM, 1839.

Examiners. The professor of mathematics; J. Thomas, B.C.L.; the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, M.A., fell. of Queen's college, Oxford, and Savilian professor of Astronomy; and the Rev. J. Carr, M.A., late fell. of Ball., Oxford.

CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

CLASS II. - Dwarris, B. E. CLASS III.: Thompson, T. C. CLASS V.: Brown, M.; Greenwell, W. CLASS VI.:

Bigge, J. F.; Robinson, C.; Wilson, M.E. CLASS VIII.:
Brooksbank, J.; Dacre, G.; Guise, G. C.; Jones, C. S.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF M.A., AND FIRST
EXAMINATION FOR STUDENTS IN THEOLOGY.

Examiners. The same as above.

CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

CLASS III.-Elliot, W. H.

Blair, J., B.A.; Boydell, E. N. V.; Campbell, L., B.A.; Dalton, T., B.A.; Douglas, A.; Duprè, S.; Heriot, G., B.A.; Hill, G.; Napleton, G.; Norval, W.; Pearson, J. G.; Sisson, W.; Thompson, M., B.A.

EXAMINATION IN THEOLOGY-EASTER TERM, 1839. Examiners. The professor of Greek; the Rev. G. Pear son, B.D., Christian advocate in the Univ. of Cambridge; and the Rev. J. Collinson, M.Α.

Bennet, W.; Mackenzie, W., B.A., Trin. Hall, Camb.; Shields, W. T.; Skene, W.; Skinner, J., B.A.; Stoker, H., B.A.; Tower, R. B., B.A.; Weightman, W.

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