surgeon, which is generally inaccurate, I enclose an extract from the will itself, which relates to the disposal of the remains, this being considered the most effectual mode of contradiction that can be given to the before-named misstate ments. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ONE OF THE EXECUTORS. Sunday, Feb. 4, 1827. "For the guidance and instruction of those whom I may appoint as the executors of this my last will, I do here set down what my wish is, concerning the disposal of my body :After my decease, I request to be placed in a very plain shell or coffin, with all possible despatch; that my friends and acquaintances be assembled as soon as convenient. Preferring to be of some use after my death, I do will, wish, beg, pray, and desire, that at the conclusion of such meeting of my friends and acquaintances, and at which I particularly wish those medical friends who have so kindly attended me through my long illness to be present, that the shell or coffin in which I may be laid, be placed in a plain hearse, with directions for it to be taken to Mr. Kiernan's, or some dissecting-room of an approved anatomical school, followed simply by the medical men in one or two plain coaches, and that they do there examine it to their full satisfaction, taking away such parts as may be of pathological utility. After which, that the remains be dissected, or made whatever use of the anatomical teacher at such school may think proper. "This I do as a last tribute to a science which I have delighted in, and to which I now regret that I have contributed so little; but if this example, which I have set, and design for my professional brethren, be only followed to the extent I wish, I am satisfied that much good to science will result from it; for if medical men, instead of taking such care of their precious carcases, were to set the example of giving their own bodies for dissection, the preju dice which exists in this country against anatomical examinations, and which is increasing to such an alarming degree, would soon be done away with, and science proportionably benefited as the obstacles were thus removed. Nay, so far do I think this a duty incumbent upon every one entering the profession, that I would have it, if possible, framed into a law, that on taking an examination at a public college for license to practise, whether physic, surgery, or pharmacy, it should be made a sine qua non, that every one taking such license should enter into a specific agreement that his body should, after his death, become the property of his surviving brethren, under regulations instituted by authority."-After this follows the distribution of the different parts of the body to the medical gentlemen who attended him in his last illness; such parts being those only which, from the particular studies of each, were supposed by Mr. Ellerby to have to such of them a peculiar interest; but it is totally incorrect that any future visitation is even alluded to, if this part of his will should not be carried into effect. We comply with the request of a friend in giving place to the following. Perhaps the picture is highly coloured, and yet we are assured that the labouring population of the English manufacturing towns is degraded beyond measure. We hope and trust no such population will ever disgrace the manufacturing towns of our own country; indeed, if the present system of education among the poor is continued-and our desire is, that it may be continued-it is almost impossible that the labourers in any department can become greatly depraved.-The article is taken from "Observations of an American in England," published in the Christian Spec tator. English Manufacturers. CHILDREN of both sexes, at the early age of six or eight years, are put in work-shops, where they are employed ten or twelve hours in the day. Many enter them before they have learned to read or write, and their labour is so constant, that they ever afterwards remain in ignorance; and those who are so fortunate as to learn to read or write their names previous to their appren ticeship, seldom make any considerable progress in after-life. They almost of course early slide into the vices, and contract the loose habits and principles of their older workshop companions; and while they become expert in their trade, also become adepts in all kinds of knavery and villany. Males and females, of which the number seems about equal, work in the same shops, glowing at the same benches, and perspiring at the same forges. I have seen groups of the sexes assembled round a forge, making nails. Females file gun barrels, and manufacture screws; and indeed almost all kinds of hard-wares are the joint productions of male and female hands. What a figure, think you, must a young girl make with her sleeves rolled up above her elbows, labouring with a file that will weigh two pounds! The evil tendency of such employments, and the indecent familiarity which arises from the promiscuous assemblage and employment of the sexes in the same rooms, without any check upon their conduct, are evident to the slightest observation; and the effects are as certain as the fixed laws of nature. The women become men in the female costume, and lose all that delicacy of feeling and softness of manners which belong to the sex, and which our countrywomen, even in the humbler stations of life, and the other classes of British females so eminently possess. But what is infinitely worse, they lose all virtue and shame. Standing in some of the populous streets here (Birmingham) at one o'clock, I have noticed the motley groups which issue from the courts and alleys at that time to get their dinners. One glance tells me how extreme is their degradation. Women push along through the streets with their bosoms half bare, and hands and faces besmeared with grease, iron filings, or japan. Some favourite beau equally squalid and coarse, meets a lass perhaps, and a disgustingly rude salutation takes place. Occasionally a couple of girls will square off in a boxing attitude, and show fight in true style of I have witnessed blows given and received in this way which would not be very pleasant for any one to bear. I have seen some right down battles fought by these female combat the game. ants, in which bonnets, caps, and gowns flew into strings like canvass before a tempest. Educated as I have been, in the strict schools of Connecticut, and accustomed to look upon females as beings of refinement and virtue, to whom the highest deference and respect were due, you may well suppose that I at first looked upon these screwmaking specimens of the sex with ineffable disgust. Custom has now rendered the spectacle familiar. As the natural effect of this state of things, you will not need be told that the populous manufacturing towns are thronged with a class of females which I cannot name. One half at least of adult females that work in shops, I have no doubt are creatures of this revolting character. Few of the workmen can ever be come master manufacturers. They are taught but one branch of an art, and, through their ignorance and stupidity, are never able to obtain a sufficient insight into the other branches to be competent to take charge of an establishment. A man who makes a lock, cannot make a key; and the man who fabricates the knobs to a lock, is ignorant of the other branches: and thus it is with most other articles. On this account they are fit only to be journeymen, and are obliged to live on wages. If their wages are increased, they perform less labour, and their surplus time is spent at ale-houses, or in barbarous amusements. They toil on year after year, perhaps under a hard master, earn a scanty subsistence, and at last die, and leave a family to inherit their poverty and ignorance, and to tread in the same steps. "The fourth point wholly pertaineth to them who impugn the present ecclesiastical government, who, although they have not cut themselves off from the body and communion of the church, yet do affect certain cognizances and differences wherein they seek to correspond amongst themselves, and to be separate from others .And it is truly said, tam sunt mores quidam schismatici, quam dogmata schismatica, there be as well schismatical fashions as opinions. First, they have impropriated to themselves the names of zealous, sincere, and reformed, as if all others were cold minglers of holy things and profane, and friends of abuses. Yea, be man endued with great virtues, and fruitful in good works, yet, if he concur not with them, they term him, in derogation, a civil and moral man, and compare him to Socrates, or some heathen philosopher; whereas the wisdom of the Scriptures teacheth us otherwise, namely, to judge and denominate men religious according to their works of the second table, because they of the first are often counterfeit, and practised in hypocrisy. So St. John saith, Thut a man doth vainly boast of loving God, whom he never saw, if he love not his brother, whom he hath seen; and St. James saith, This is true religion, to visit the fatherless and the widow. So as that which is with them but philosophical and moral, is, in the apostle's phrase, true religion and Christianity. As in affection they challenge the said virtues of zeal and the rest; so in knowledge they attribute unto themselves light and perfection. So likewise if a preacher preach with care and meditation, (I speak not of the vain scholastical manner of preaching, but soundly indeed, ordering the matter he handleth distinctly for memory, deducting and drawing it down for direction, and authorizing it with strong proofs and warrants,) they censure it as a form of speaking not becoming the simplicity of the Gospel, and refer it to the reprehension of St. Paul, speaking of the enticing speech of man's wisdom." "Another extremity is, the excessive magnifying of that which, though it be a principal and most holy institu tion, yet hath its limits, as all things else have. We see wheresoever in a manner they find in the Scriptures the word spoken of, they expound it of preaching; they have made it, in a manner, of the essence of the sacrament of the Lord's supper, to have a sermon precedent; they have, in a sort, annihilated the use of liturgies, and forms of divine service, although the house of God be denominated of the principal, domus orationis, a house of prayer, and not a house of preaching. Let them take heed, that it be not true which one of their adversaries said, that they have but two small wants, knowledge and love." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "An account appeared in The Morning Chronicle some days ago, of an extraordinary act of benevolence towards six deserted children, which having attracted the attention of Sir Francis Burdett, he caused inquiries to be made respecting the facts, and the following is an extract from the report made to him by the gentleman who instituted the inquiry: Having inquired the character of Mr. French, the butcher, in Great Quebec-street, and ascertained that it was respectable, I went to his house, and entered into conversation with him respecting the children he had taken into his family. Mr. French, a plain man, of few words, handed me into the parlour to his wife, who, he said, would give me all the information desired. Mrs. French, a most respectable and intelligent woman, told me, that the father of the children owed them (the Frenches) nearly 15001. Upon questioning her how he came to owe them so large a sum of money, she said, that her husband had become security to the amount of 1200%; that the father of the children ran away, and left them to pay the money; that the money was raised for this purpose from the sale of two houses, built by Mr. French, with the savings of a careful life. I then asked her how it happened, that she, under such circumstances, took the children in; and how it also happened, that her husband had agreed to it? She said, "We knew the children; it was no fault of theirs that their father had defrauded us; they were more miserable than can be described, and not to have taken them in would have been cruel in the extreme." She fed them, cleaned them, put aside their rags, clothed them in the garments of her own children, and lodged them in her own house. While conversing with this excellent woman, a tall gentlemanly person came in, and was introduced to me as the gentleman who had seen the children on the Dover road, and from him I learned the following particulars:- The father of the children deserted them at Bonne, on the Rhine, whence they made their painful way to Aix-la-Chapelle, and thence to Brussels, begging for food, and carrying the youngest child as well as they could this enormous distance. At Brussels, they were relieved by some English persons, who have there a subscription to forward destitute English to Ostend. At Ostend, the British consul put the unfortunate children on board a vessel, which landed them at Dover; here they arrived, sea-sick, and all but worn out with misery. The next morning the humane overseer of Dover put them in a coach for London; but he neither gave them food to eat upon the road, nor a farthing to purchase any. On the road, the gentleman, who was in the coach, heard that there were some poor children outside, cold and wet with the rain; he handed out his umbrella. At Rochester he saw the unfortunate and miserable children, and learnt from them that they had neither food nor money: he fed them, warmed them, heard their sad tale, and came on with them to London, where they arrived at ten o'clock at night. At the office where the coach stopped, the gentleman gave the coachman money to provide them victuals and lodging, which he undertook to do, the gentleman saying he would call VOL. XI. again at the office next morning: he, the brute, instead of performing his promise, handed the children over to the care of a black man, who sometimes jobbed about the office, and he left them at one of the most wretched of our wretched brothels. The people were, however, humane; and finding that the only person in London known to the children was Mr. French, they sent them to his house, and he took them in. Next morning the gentleman called at the office, when all the intelligence he could obtain was, that they had been given in charge to the black man: after several hours' search, the gentleman found the black man, and through him traced the children to the house of Mr. French, and here he found them. The children still remain in the house of Mr. French, who has eight of his own, the youngest of which is still in arms. Four of the orphan children go to the national school in Mary-labonne; the oldest, a youth, is variously employed; and one of the girls is af flicted with ague and fever.' "The extraordinary conduct of Mr. and Mrs. French cannot be too highly estimated; and as it would have been improper to have left such worthy people with so heavy a charge upon them, a subscription has been set on foot, which it is hoped may ultimately enable these very worthy people to provide in 'some way for the children whom they have rescued from destruction. Sir Francis Burdett gave 100%., and several other benevolent individu áls have also contributed liberally." "The following is a copy of the letter addressed to Mr. French by Sir Francis Burdett, enclosing the above sum: it does honour to his head and heart: Sir-Impressed with a due sense of your noble conduct, in receiving into your own family, another family of orphan children, who, but for you, or some one like must have probably perished; I beg your you-and where could he have been found? acceptance of the enclosed, both as a testimony of my admiration and esteem, and as contributing to your success in trade, and in some degree aiding your benevo lent purpose. I beg you will observe, Sir, that you are to employ my contribution for your own advantage; convinced as I am, that there can be no other way of em 20 AMONG the defenders of the pure Christian religion, whose exertions have been called forth by renewed attempts of Popery against the Protestant Church in these countries, we are happy to number the able and learned Dr. Miller. The various literary works by which this eminent man has benefited society, bear so clearly the stamp of genius; his historical lectures, particularly, contain so much useful information, and in teresting novelty of thought; and his "Observations," lately published, " on the Doctrines of Christianity, in reference to Arianism, and on the Athanasian Creed," are so excellent, that we opened his last publication, which now lies before us, with confident anticipa tions of its value. Our expectation has been realized. Our space must confine us to a brief and general description of the nature of the contents of Dr. Miller's publication. We refer our readers for more particular information to the valuable tract itself. The author, following a course, novel in the revived controversy with the Romish Church, proposes "to examine, as a question of history, the tradition alleged by the Church of Rome in support of its peculiar tenets, to investigate the opinions of those ecclesiastical writers, from age to age, who have been referred to in the controversy, and thus to trace the history of the plea.” (P. 1, 2.) The immediate occasion of Dr. Miller's publication was furnished by a resolution which certain Roman Catholics adopted in a meeting at Carlow in the last summer, and by an exhortation, which Dr. Doyle, titular bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, subsequently ad dressed to the Romish clergy of Carlow and its vicinity. The purport of the resolution, and of Dr. Doyle's exhortation, has," says our author, 66 been, not simply to assert that the revelation of our Saviour has been transmitted to us, partly by the sacred Scriptures, and partly by tradition ; and that therefore it is not sufficient for a Christian to seek in the Scriptures a knowledge of his religion; but to represent tradition as the indispens able interpreter of those Scriptures, and as giving authority to the meaning which it shall pronounce to be true." The result of Dr. Miller's examina. tion of the history of the plea of tradi. tion, for the details of which we must refer to his work, is summed up by him in the following words : "Such appears to have been the history of that tradition, which is now maintained by Roman Catholics in Ireland, as indispensably necessary to the just interpretation of the sacred writings. Apparently unknown to the apostolic Fathers, who might naturally be supposed to have been inclined to announce their possession of a deposit so important to the church, and so creditable to themselves; it is discovered, first, among the gnostic heretics, who, in the affectation of a superior knowJedge of divine things, had corrupted the simplicity of the Gospel with many inventions, which required some other sanction than the authority of the Scriptures. It was then adopted from them by two Fathers of the church, (Irenæus and Tertullian ;) but only to repel the arguments of those who had first pleaded against the Scriptures a spurious tra dition, and had then so falsified the records of Christianity, as to embarrass any inference from their genuine communications. When this use had been made of the argument, it seems to have been felt that such an appeal was incongruous and unnecessary, for it was immediately abandoned by the church, nor does it appear to have been resumed in the great controversy of Arianism by either party for the support of their tenets. After an interruption of almost two centuries and a half among the western Christians, and in Greece of the much longer period of |