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our finances, morals, and religion. The abolition of half of the National Debt is to effect the first, and a fresh arrange. ment of ecclesiastical property the last; and the morals, lying between them, will feel the benefit of their improvement.

Temporal Prosperity ensured to Mankind by the Practice of Christianity, &c. By J. S. Metcalfe. The author proposes to form a society called "The Practical Christian Union," founded on the maxim "do unto others as you would be done unto."

The Inward Call; a Charge. By Edward Denison, Bishop of Salisbury.—An impressive, able, and earnest discourse, which is well calculated to produce a deep impression on the younger clergy and candidates for Holy Orders, for whom it is designed.

The Parliament of England, from 1st George I. to the present time. By Henry Stooks Smith, 12mo.-The first volume

LITERARY

of this very useful work (which is also published in counties) is now complete. It contains the members of every Parliament for the counties and boroughs of Bedfordshire to Nottingham inclusive, with their politics, and the numbers polled at contested elections within the period mentioned in the title.

A Charge delivered at the Ordinary Visitation. By R. S. Wilberforce.-A very impressive and excellent charge, urging on the clergymen and the churchwardens the duty of endeavouring to enforce and to restore the better observance among the people of public worship.

Domestic Music for the Wealthy, &c. By H. I. Banister, reprinted from the Musical World.-Very amusing letters these, and, to musical professors and amateurs, something better than amusing. They contain also a short account of the lives of the great musicians, as Haydn, Handel, &c.

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Bishop PEARSON's Adversaria Hesychiana. 2 vols. 8vo. 168.

Persecutions of Popery; Historical Narrative of the most remarkable Persecutions occasioned by the Intolerance of the Church of Rome. By FREDERIC SHOBERL. 2 vols. 8vo. 218.

The Epistles of St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr, on the Baptism of Heretics; to which are added, the Extant Works of St. Pacian, Bishop of Barcelona. 8vo. 128. (Library of the Fathers, vol. 17.)

The Object, Importance, and Antiquity of the Rite of Consecration of Churches : with copious Notes, and an Appendix, containing the Consecration Services of Bishop Andrews and Archbishop Laud, and the Forms of Consecration adopted by the Convocations of 1712 and 1715, &c. By E. C. HARINGTON. 8vo. 78.

The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of

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Lives of the English Saints, No. 5, St. Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, and St. William, Archbishop of York. 38.

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Facts and Fictions, Illustrative of Oriental Character. By Mrs. POSTANS,

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Rebecca Nathan: or, a Daughter of Israel. 58.

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Zoology; being a Sketch of the Classification, Structure, Distribution, and Habits of Animals. By WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D. F.R.S. 8vo. 10s. 6d. (Popular Cyclopædia of Natural Science.) Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. SS. Erebus and Terror. Part 2-Fish. By Dr. RICHARDSON. Royal 4to. 10s. The Favorites of the Flower Garden, arranged according to the Natural System of Botany, and illustrated by numerous steel engravings, woodcuts, &c. G. FRANCIS, F.L.S. 78.

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Science.

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The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy. From the Time of Constantine to the 15th Century with an Introduction and Text. By H. GALLY KNIGHT, esq. Vol 2, folio, 41 plates, with descriptive letterpress. 51. 58.

The Churches of Yorkshire. Vol. 1. royal 8vo. 308.

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A Collection of Anthems used in Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, the Temple Church, and the Collegiate Churches and Chapels in England and Ireland. By JOHN CALVERT, late Choir Master of the Temple Church. 8vo. 148.

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Preparing for Publication.

A History of the Island of Barbados, from the earliest period to the present time, compiled from Public and Private Records, Printed Works, &c. containing a distinct Account of each Parish, with Genealogical Tables of the respective families now or formerly resident there, Biographical Notices of the most distinguished Individuals, Agricultural and Ecclesiastical History of the Island, Engravings of Churches, Houses, Monuments, Portraits, &c. By W. D. BRUCE, esq., descended from and representing some of the most ancient families in the Island. In one volume, royal folio.

The Natural System of Architecture, as opposed to the Artificial System of the Present Day. By WILLIAM PETTIT GRIFFITH, Architect, F.S.A. Royal 8vo.

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A necessary complement has been made to the International Copyright Act of the present Session, reducing the duties payable upon such books, prints, and other works of art, published abroad, as shall have previously obtained her Majesty's grant of Copyright, by order of council, pursuant to the provisions of that Act. The order in council would, of course, be inoperative, so long as the duties were prohibitory; and this short Act was needed, to give life to the privilege which the former might confer. The Act con. tains a further clause, rendered necessary by the last, referring to countries whose books and prints we are, by treaty, bound to receive on the same terms as those of the most favoured nations,-and empowering her Majesty, by order in council, to command their admission on the new scale of duties enforced by this Act. The following is the schedule of the reduced duties:

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