tion of the medical attendant) will see that his wishes are complied with. Or, if he should prefer it, he may send a certain sum of money only, and leave it to the discretion of the superintendent to lay it out for the sick person.

A benevolent individual may thus, without any trouble to himself, secure for a sick person a certain quantity of nourishment daily; such as a bason of broth or arrow root, a light pudding, &c., prepared in the best manner, and at the cheapest rate.

Such are the objects of this charity; and such is the way in which it is proposed to carry them out;subject to whatever modifications or alterations experience may suggest.

In a few special cases, and to a very limited extent, the sick will be supplied out of the funds of this charity with nourishment, and with the loan of articles &c.

The sum of £25 has been already contributed to this charity, in addition to about 30 pounds of arrow root, and 12 pounds of pearl sago. Further donations will be thankfully received by the honorary superintendents, or by the ministers of the parishes.

List of Articles to be had at the Office of the Industrious Aid Society.

A Bath Chair, with a person to draw it, is let out at 3d. an hour.

Every person wishing to borrow any of these articles must obtain a householder to be his security, subject to the approval of the Committee, and such person must undertake to be answerable for the weekly payments, and for the safe return of the articles uninjured, or the payment of the value; any sum which may have been already paid by the borrower being deducted from it.

The payments must be made weekly, in default of which the articles will be recalled, and the security required to make up the deficiency.

The Committee reserve to themselves the power of recalling any article whenever they may think it necessary, and require that all articles be returned clean to the office.

It is quite impossible to form any calculation as to the result of the late elections.

One thing, however, is manifest, amidst so much that is strange and mysterious; and that is, that the spell of party is at an end. Members will cease to vote at the dictum of a leader: measures will be regarded rather than men, and we shall comparatively cease to hear the statement with which we have been so often disturbed-"Such and such measures are against my judgment and conscience, but what is to become of the nation if such a leader goes out of office? and has he not advantages for judging of the merits of a question which we have not, and may we not therefore surrender our judgment to his?" The day is gone by for

this servility; private judgment is, at all events, set at liberty, and much advantage may be the consequence.

But what an anomalous and unprecedented position will the House of Commons present! No party can be dominant, for none can depend upon a majority.

The Ministry can only exist by sufferance. But the more bewildered we are in our speculations for the future, the more let us realize the relief and comfort of turning to Him in prayer and faith who has all hearts in his hands, and can turn them as seemeth best to his godly wisdom. What a blessing to have such a refuge in times of public as well as private anxiety!

There is One who can bring out of a chaos of political confusion and

heterogeneous material, an order of things better adapted for the upholding and extension of His own glory, and the real interests of our nation and the world.

Our very perplexity may be the needful forerunner to the manifestation of his own sovereignty and allsufficiency. God may be purposing great things for us, but may be best securing the conviction and acknowledgment that the work is his own, by previously bringing us into a

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As we are going to press, we have received the charge lately delivered by the Bishop of Ripon. We have only space to quote his Lordship's just reprobation of a mode of speaking and writing, in reference to the Romish Church, alas! too common amongst us.

"I am well aware that indiscriminate invective will surely recoil upon the head of him who uses it, and will rather disparage than strengthen the soundest cause. But there is a language which truth imperatively demands when we are dealing with the dangerous errors of the Church of Rome-and one cannot but lament that so many in the present day are to be found who, instead of using the language of those stern, masculine, and uncompromising protests that abound in the works not only of Reformers themselves, but also of so many learned Fathers of the English Church subsequent to

condition of helpless alarm. He must work so as to shew fully to the nations that he is the Lord, and that besides him there is no other.

Oh! if we can only become more of a praying people, we have nothing to fear. Prayer will secure an influence from heaven over men's minds which shall effectually curb the mischievous intents of the evil, and accomplish good far beyond any thing that we can conceive or wish for.

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the age of the Reformation, such as Jewell, Hall, Taylor, and Barrow, Bramhall, and Usher, and Bull, are prone to adopt a spurious liberality— a latitudinarian indifference, under the cloak of charity, which confounds right and wrong, truth and error, puts good for evil and evil for good, and seems to represent it to be matter of as little moment whether we abide in the Church of our baptism and ordination, or abandon it for the Church of Rome, as whether we quit or remain in a given diocese. I trust, however, that much has been done to check those secessions; and that recent events in this diocese, as elsewhere, will prove how dangerous it is to try how near we can approach forbidden ground without actually transgressing the limits proposed by the Church of England, and how necessary it is to confine ourselves to that line of teaching which she has clearly and expressly pointed out to us.

We have much pleasure in presenting our readers with some particulars of the life and character of the above venerable servant of Christ, gleaned from the excellent sermons preached on the occasion of his death by the Rev. John King, and the Rev. James Knight.

We extract the following memoir of Mr. Dykes from Mr. King's sermon:

He was born on the 21st Dec., 1761, which, being St. Thomas's Day, gave occasion to the name he received in baptism. During the season of boyhood and youth, he was remarkable for sprightliness and vivacity of mind; features, the traces of which old age itself failed to obliterate.

He was not originally designed or educated for the clerical office; and was, for a short time, engaged in the business which his father had pursued at Ipswich. But a serious illness, which threatened his life, awakened a new train of reflections and feelings in his breast. He saw as he had never seen before, the necessity of true religion, and mourned over his own want of it; he prayed for mercy, renouncing for ever his own righteousness, and desiring to be clothed in the righteousness of Christ. His prayer was heard; he NOVEMBER-1847.

And now his constitutional ardour became directed into a new channel, and addicted itself to the most noble pursuits. Attracted by the reputation of Milner, as a minister of Christ, and conscious of his own need of sage and enlightened counsel, he came over to Hull for the purpose of consulting that holy and devoted servant of Christ, respecting his future course. He consequently fixed his residence here, and vigorously commenced those studies which were necessary to prepare him for the university. He entered Magdalen College, Cambridge, in the year 1783 or 1784, where he associated with the Rev. Robert Jarratt, with Professors Farish and Jowett, and with the Rev. Charles Simeon, names worthy "to be had in everlasting remembrance."

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Having finished his academical course, he was ordained to the curacy of Cottingham, on the 21st Dec., 1787, and preached his first sermon in Hull, at St. Mary's Church, on the Christmas Day following. had frequent opportunities of preaching in Hull, and the neighbourhood, while holding the curacy of Cotting ham; and it was on these occasions that he gave evidence of the possession of those peculiar talents, which you have since learned so highly to appreciate. From Cottingham he removed to Barwick-in-Elmet, in the West-Riding of this county, to the curacy of which he was ordained priest in 1788, where his ministry was attended with considerable success. His stay at both these places was short; God having designed him for a much wider sphere of useful

ness.

On the 15th March, 1789, he was married to Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. Hey, of Leeds; and soon after was induced, probably under the advice of Milner, to entertain the project of building a church in Hull. The necessity for such a step was obvious; for in consequence of the recently constructed dock, and the increase of trade, the population of the town was becoming far too great for the two existing parish churches. But it required no small degree of energy to carry the design into execution. For

1. The extreme scarcity of precedents stamped it in the eyes of many with a visionary character. The tide of popular feeling had not yet begun to flow in its favour; and very few examples of a similar kind could be referred to, each of which had been attended with great expense and numerous discouragements.

2. A second difficulty with which he had to contend was, that no legal provision had yet been made by any parliamentary enactment or grant, or by any public subscription, to facilitate the building of churches; but, on the contrary, every step attempted to be taken by pious and benevolent individuals, to increase the number of churches, was more or less obstructed by existing forms of law, or by inveterate usages, grown up under a state

of things entirely different from that in which the country was now beginning to be placed."

3. It need not, and perhaps ought not to be concealed, that in the particular instance before us, an apparently insurmountable obstacle was presented in the opposition, raised by the local authorities, against the measure. The Corporation, as patrons of the living, sent to the Archbishop a formal protest against the undertaking, on the ground that the building of a new church ought not to be placed in the hands of any private individual; declaring at the same time, their readiness, at a suitable opportunity, to provide one out of their own funds. In this way they succeeded in postponing, for awhile, a work, of which they could not prevent the ultimate completion. The archbishop allowed them a whole year for their purpose; and finding that nothing was done by them, he immediately gave his sanction to the scheme of Mr. Dykes.

4. There was still the remaining difficulty of providing for the expense to be incurred, and of guarding against the danger of pecuniary loss to be sustained, in adventuring on a project so new, in which the projector could make no better provision for himself, than that of having his own life-interest in the church, which he was to build entirely at his own cost. Yet great as the risk was, he cheerfully incurred it, for the sake of promoting the spiritual welfare of mankind. It is true, that owing to his great popularity as a preacher, considerable profits were eventually made by the sale of pews; but these profits all fell into the hands of individual purchasers; while Mr. Dykes himself did not receive again, from this source, the amount he had invested in the building, by more than £500. The deficiency was afterwards made up to him by the liberality of private friends.

Thus the great mountain became a plain before him. Difficulties gradually yielded to his zeal and diligence. God smiled on his work, and raised up for him earnest, disinterested, and praying friends, who promptly seconded his efforts; and