bly, to remove to his heavenly rest, Rev. Eliphalet W. Gilbert, D. D., the late Permanent Clerk of this body; therefore,

Resolved, That we record in our minutes our testimony to his great worth, his sound piety, and his unselfish regards for the interests of the whole Church, as well as fidelity in discharging the duties of his office; and that, while we deplore his loss, we desire that this unexpected bereavement may be felt by us all as a solemn admonition to be ever prepared for the coming of our Lord.

Resolved, That the Stated Clerk be directed to send to the family of Dr. Gilbert, a copy of these resolutions."

It is peculiarly interesting to us, that the three Associate Editors of the Review were appointed to draw up this testimonial.

EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF FRANCE.

A letter was received from the Synod of the United Evangelical Churches of France. The letter was read and a reply forwarded. Both letters were ordered to be inserted in the Appendix, and Dr. Stearns, of Newark, N. J., who is travelling in Europe, was appointed a delegate to meet the Synod, at Mazamet, Department du Tarn, in August next.

We now draw to the closing scenes, and as we do so, we feel how difficult it is to describe them, so that our friends who were not present may understand the spirit of that great occasion. No one who was there, we are quite sure, will ever forget them.

Resolutions had been offered by Mr. Griffith, looking to the immediate completion of the Church Erection Fund, when

Rev. Grosvenor W. Heacock, of Buffalo, rose to speak in their favor. He said he should now go most cordially.for the fund; he felt himself associated with a band of brethren who were honestly laboring for the upbuilding of Christ's Church. They might differ in opinion, but it was such difference as be longed to brethren in Christ. He felt that he should return strengthened in heart, strengthened in his attachment to the Church, determined to act for its welfare. His people would coöperate with him. He could present to them such a report as that they would rejoice to do all they could for this noble cause and every other in which our Church was engaged.

Mr. Tiffany, of Indiana, then delighted the Assembly with a real western speech. He said that when any one wished to manifest a friendly spirit towards the inmates of a log cabin in the West, he drove a nail into the end of the building, and hung up his hat on it. We.mean, said he, to drive a nail into every one of the hundreds and thousands of churches that may be built, in all time, by this fund, and hang our hat on every one.

Mr. Mitchell, of Virginia, spoke for the South. They had had fears and misgivings, but now they felt themselves among brethren. They could now return and urge upon every church to contribute of their best ability to this fund. The North and the South, the East and the West, could meet together and rejoice in the confidence of brethren.

After the adoption of this paper, Dr. Parker offered the resolutions of thanks to the families of Philadelphia, the Trustees of the Church, and others who had promoted the comfort of the Assembly, and to the Moderator.

Dr. Beman rose to second the resolutions. He remarked that he could do so with the more freedom, because Philadelphia hospitality was no new thing to him. He had first enjoyed it in 1822, and he had been a member of eleven Assemblies here. He could testify with a full heart, that Philadelphia had now earned her name-brotherly love. I did not, he said, come here at this time, willingly. My Presbytery pressed me into the service. But I thank God that I came. We all have reason to be grateful that we are here. We have seen the hand of God. He has granted us a delightful family union. There has been no dictation; we have had no fear of each other; we have expressed our feelings freely and in love. We have disappointed all the croaking prophets, who have predicted the fall of our Church. We have transacted a vast amount of important practical business, without a note of discord. We go from hence as I never saw an Assembly separate. And now we shall continue and exist as a Church, as long as God has occasion for our efforts in the great work of saving the world.

Dr. Brainerd responded in behalf of Philadelphia. I could not, he said, allow the Assembly to separate without expressing our feelings, and especially those of the families who have endeavored to compensate you for your absence from home, by

creating other homes for you. They reciprocate every feeling which has been expressed by Dr. Beman. The effect of the meeting of this Assembly upon the city has been most happy. The wisdom, the kindness and the piety of the Assembly have been the theme of conversation, and the impression has found its way into the public press. Even where there had previously been little kind feeling, where there had been perhaps too much disposition to watch us with an eye scarce friendly, there have sprung up feelings of a different nature. You have commended yourselves to all men. And, Mr. Moderator, Philadelphians have rejoiced to see you here occupying the position to which the assembled Presbyterian Church has, by acclamation, called you. To this city you gave the dew of your youth, and the first freshness of your manlier powers, and to you is owing in no small degree that public sentiment which here sustains us now. Faithful as you have always been to our cause, never swerving an instant from those high principles we have upborne amid so much contumely and misrepresentation, we rejoice to gather in affection around you as your children in the Lord, and to crown you now with the highest honors of our Church.

The Moderator, appearing as if deeply moved, said that he had feelings that he could not trust himself to express. He claimed no merit but sincerity, no desert except what came from an honest desire to serve our beloved Church, and its Lord. He was aware that, from a want of familiarity with business, he had committed errors, and he had been greatly indebted to the Assembly for its indulgence. He had never, he said, under any circumstances, experienced purer enjoyment in the exercise of brotherly love, than since this Assembly had convened. He could only bless God and say, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity."

All present rose and sang the hymn, "Blest be the tie that binds," and the Moderator, with prayer, and the Apostolic Benediction, dissolved the Assembly, and directed another, chosen in like manner, to convene in the city of St. Louis, on the third Thursday of May, 1855.

Thus ended the great Assembly of 1854. God grant us many such!

LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

Bishop Ridley's MS. reply to Bishop Hooper's "Book to the Council against the use of those Habits, which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministry," 1550, is about to be published by the Parker Society, in the second volume of the Writings of Bradford, edited by A. Townsend. The work of Bishop Hooper is not known to be in existence.

The two following works are announced in the "Notes and Queries" as wanting a publisher. 1. "A Syriac-English Lexicon to the New Testament and the Book of Psalms," arranged alphabetically, with the derivatives referred to their proper roots, and a comparison of the principal words in the cognate languages. 2. "A Syriac-English Grammar," translated and abridged from Hoffmann's larger work.

Mr. Joseph Mayer, F. S. A., of Liverpool, having purchased the "Faussett Collection," is about to publish a volume entitled, "Saxon Antiquities from the Kentish Tumuli," edited by M. C. Roach Smith; the subscription price is two guineas. Notes and Queries.

A number of documents illustrating the Cromwellian period, is said to have been discovered in the Lambeth Library. Of their character or value no account has yet been given.-Condé's valuable "History of the Arabs in Spain," translated by Mrs. Jonathan Foster, in 3 vols.; the first has appeared in Bohn's Library. The twentyeighth volume of the Surtees Society Publications is, "The Pontifical of Egbert, Archbishop of York," 732-766, now first published from a MS. in the Imperial Library, Paris.-H. G. Liddell has in preparation a History of the Roman Republic, from the close of the Second Punic War to the death of Sylla, in two volumes.

Edward Greswell, B. D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has just published an important chronological work. "Origines Kalendariae Italicae; Nundinal Calendars of Ancient Italy; Nundinal Calendar of Romulus; Calendar of Numa Pompilius and of the Decemvirs; Irregular Roman Calendar and the Julian Correction. With Tables of the Roman Calendar, from U. C. 4 of Varro, B. C. 750, to U. C. 1108, A. D. 355." 4 vols., 8vo., £2. Also, "Preliminary Address of the Origines, &c., with some further observations." These

works are published at the University Press, Oxford, by John Henry Parker. Mr. Greswell is the author of the "Fasti Temporis Catholici," 5 vols., 1842.-At the same press has been issued a new edition of the "Synodus Anglicana," by Edmund Gibson, D. D., afterwards Bishop of London, edited by Edward Cardwell, D. D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall. 8vo., 5s. 6d.

Kingsley's "Lectures on Alexandria and her Schools," delivered in Edinburgh, in one volume, 8vo.-F. A. Neale, "Islamism, its Rise and Progress.' 2 vols., 8vo.-Mr. Madden announces as nearly ready, "A Turkish Grammar, Reading Lessons and Vocabulary," by W. B. Barker, Professor of Arabic, Turkish, &c., at Eton College. Memoirs of Rev. James Weithecht, late missionary in Bengal, of J. J. Gurney and of Amelia Opie, have been recently published.Messrs. Griffin & Co., announce a new "General Biography."

L. Wiese, "German Letters on English Education," which is reviewed in the " Studien und Kritiken," the third number for 1854, in highly commendatory terms, has been translated into English by W. D. Arnold, and published by Longman. 209 pp., 4s. 6d.-Rev. John Forbes, LL. D., "The Symmetrical Structure of Scripture; or Scripture Parallelism exemplified in an Analysis of the Decalogue, the Sermon on the Mount," &c.-Rev. J. B. Marsden, author of the History of the Puritans, in two vols., is engaged upon a "History of the Various Denominations of the Christian World" from early times.

Dr. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery of Pictures in Berlin, has enlarged his well known work, "Art and Artists in England," into three volumes. "The Treasures of Art in Great Britain, being an account of the chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures and Illuminated MSS." It contains an account of twenty-eight collections in and near London, of nineteen in other parts of England, and of seven in Scotland, in addition to those described in his former work. This work will be the standard handbook on the subject.

The second volume of George Finlay's "History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires," contains from 1057 to the Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, and from 1204 to the Capture by the Turks under Mohammed in 1453.-Bernard William Mac Cabe, "Catholic History of England; its Rulers, Clergy and Poor before the Reformation, as described by the Monkish Historians." The third volume of this work, from Edward the Martyr to the Norman Conquest, has been published. It is by a Roman Catholic, and a work of diligent research, letting the old monkish writers tell their own tale.Ewald's introductory volume on the "History of the People of Israel," is to be published by Mr. Chapman, with additions and