The apostolical descent has served but small purpose, when the church in whom the "sacred line," is not denied to be unbroken, has lost her crown of twelve stars for want of Apostolic practice, and is seen "drunken with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus." The Roman Catholic Church is so marked by the spirit of prophecy, that it is impossible for her to escape conviction. The Church is seen being elevated by the two wings of a great Eagle into her seat IN THE "Wilderness," to be preserved 1260 years. At the end of this period Satan is again allowed to persecute her-and in the mean time he had used her as an instrument to persecute her righteous seed-next we have her described as seated upon many waters, (i. e.) peoples and multitudes, nations, and tongues. Then she is seated upon a beast having seven heads and ten horns," the symbols of the Western Empire. "The seven heads," says the angel, are seven mountains upon which the woman sitteth." Thus we have "The seven-hilled city," marked as the place of her abode, and that there should be no possible mistake, the angel describes the Woman as identified with Rome, by saying "the woman which thou sawest is that great city which REIGNETH over the kings of the earth." In St. John's time, Rome was most emphatically "that great city," for at that time none other reigned over the kings of the earth.

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May God in his mercy open the eyes of our deluded countrymen of the Oxford School, to see these great truths, that they may attend to the voice which St. John heard from heaven, "saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Rev. xviii. 4.

As Christians, let us all cease to regard forms and ceremonies, which can in themselves have no saving efficacy. And uniting against all apostacy, recognise at the same time, as brethren in Christ, all who bear the true impress of Apostolical descent by "keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ," under whatsoever name they are called.

In the hopes that this letter may tend to correct error and forward the cause of true religion, it is sent for insertion in your valuable Magazine. If you consider it worthy of notice, you will oblige by giving it space.

I am,

Yours faithfully,

E. H.

[WE cannot say that we wholly concur in the view here taken; we consider Popery to be NO CHURCH AT ALL, but a nefarious system of political roguery and deception, so framed as to wear the semblance of religion, in order to hold that power over men's minds without which the thraldom of their bodies is insecure. We hope something farther may be elicited from competent hands, by the insertion of our friend's letter. We know his learning, his piety, his zeal, and usefulness in the cause of truth; and if in any thing we differ, it is only where all will shortly be made clear by the Lord's fulfilment of his own prophetic word.-ED.]

THE FACTORIES.

WE are sometimes asked, what particular grievances do the poor Factory-children labour under now. A notion prevails that some efficient protection is afforded them by acts recently passed. We recommend to such querists a perusal of the following Police Report, extracted from the columns of a provincial paper bearing date March 19, 1842.

We would direct their attention to the following points as set forth in this report :

1st. The complete subjection of every child to the tyrannical caprice and cruelty of every hireling over looker.

2nd. The utter uselessness of mere arbitrary rules, however benevolently framed, of which the aforesaid overlookers may plead ignorance, or with impunity transgress them.

3rd. The mockery of such a fine as five shillings, for so wantonly, and an act of punishment for such an offence as no human being would ever dream of numbering among any class of offences: which fine would probably not have been imposed but for the peculiarly humane feelings of the Magistrate, whose remarks, so far as they go, are strikingly just. But those same feelings operated for the guilty equally as for the innocent, and induced such a commutation of the penalty as would, in the case of a private individual have amounted to compounding.

4th. We know that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, when the sufferers venture to complain, they are thrown out of work, though we have no evidence to shew that it is so in the present instance.

We just lay hold on this as one of a most numerous class of instances, to elucidate what we mean when speaking of the white slavery system of the mills.

"A respectable-looking young man named Jonas Booth was charged with assaulting Mary Haigh, a delicate little child of about twelve years of age. She said she worked at Mr. Ambler's mill in Shaw Lane, Ovenden, at which Mr. Booth was an overlooker, and the assault consisted in "setting her up," that is, making her hold a brush above her head for an hour and forty minutes; and when her arms began to be tired and dropped a little he hit them up again. Her sister proved the case; she said it occurred on Tuesday morning. She herself worked in another room of the mill, but the hands kept coming up and telling her what Booth was doing to her sister; and "she bided as long as she could," but at last went down and saw her little sister "set up." In defence Booth said the girl "had committed some offence" for which she was turned away, but her father wanted her to come to work again, and therefore she was accepted on condition that she was first punished for what she had done. A Mr. Thomas, the bookkeeper, had set her on the steps, and given her the brush because she was a delicate child, and he thought could not hold the maul which was generally used in this punishment. He admitted that she stood there above an hour, but said it was her own choice, she might have

come down, if she would have submitted to him and gone on her knees to beg pardon; but she would not. She was put up at a quarter past six and stood there till after seven. (The sister said it was until about twenty minutes to eight.) He denied knocking her arms up when they flagged, but admitted he took hold of the arm and made her hold it up. The magistrates gave Booth a very severe reprimand. To "set up" a delicate child for even an hour was a piece of very great barbarity, which neither Booth nor his master had a right to practice on any working person in the mill. As for ordering the child to go down on her knees to beg his pardon, it was a very impudent thing indeed. Working people were never intended to go down on their knees to beg pardon of any body. When they did kneel it was for a different purpose. The sooner, therefore, that practice was discontinued in the mill, the better it would be. The magistrates did not sit there for the purpose of saying anything that could lead either children or servants to be refractory, but they must be required to do what they have to do in reason. The father of the child and the constable of the township both testified that Mr. Ambler, the millowner, had declared that Booth had kept the child up too long; a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes was the time he allowed. The father also begged the magistrates to hear the "offence" the girl had committed. She had been seized with an internal complaint while in the mill, and had gone out for a few moments only, and entirely on that account. And for this she was to be punished. He had a wife and eleven children living; and he could assure their worships he had hard work "to