THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

QUARTERLY

THEOLOGICAL REVIEW

AND

Ecclesiastical Record.

VOLUME III.

LUME!

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CONTENTS

OF

N°. V.

ART. I.-1. Speeches delivered at two different Catholic Meetings
held in Cavan, one consisting of the Clergy, and the
other of the Laity, with Resolutions relative to the
Nomination of a Coadjutor to the R. C. Bishop of Kil-
more, &c.

2. A Series of Letters addressed to the Right Rev. Farrel
O'Reilly, R. C. Bishop of Kilmore, &c. By the Rev.
Michael Reilly, P. P. of Kilmore.

3. Hindooism in Ireland! or, a Succinct Account of the
celebrated St. Patrick's Purgatory at Lough Derg, and
a similar Station lately established at Coronea in the
County of Cavan.

4. Authentic Report of the Speeches and Proceedings of
the Meeting held at Cavan on the 26th January, 1827,
for the purpose of forming a Society for promoting the
Reformation; to which are added Notes, &c. By the
Rev. N. J. Halpin, Curate of Oldcastle.

5. The Ninth Report of the Commissioners of Irish
Education Inquiry.

6. A Charge delivered at the Visitation of Thomas El-
rington, D.D. M.R.I.A. Lord Bishop of Leighlin and
Ferns in June, 1827. .

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II. The History of the Church of Christ, particularly in its

Lutheran Branch, from the Diet of Augsburgh, A.D.

1530, to the Death of Luther, A.D. 1546; intended

as a Continuation of the Church History, brought down

to the Commencement of that Period, by the Rev. Joseph

Milner, M.A. Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull; and the

very Rev. Isaac Milner, D.D. F.R.S. Dean of Carlisle.

By John Scott, M.A.

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HI. A Treatise on the Origin of Expiatory Sacrifice. By

George Stanley Faber, B.D. Rector of Long-Newton. 72

IV. History of the Commonwealth of England: from its Com-

mencement to the Restoration of Charles the Second.

By William Godwin.

V. Bibliotheca Parriana.-A Catalogue of the Library of the

late Rev. and Learned Samuel Parr, LL.D. Curate of

Hatton, Prebendary of St. Paul's, &c. &c.

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VI. 1. Letters from the East, written during a recent Tour

through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Syria,

and Greece. By John Carne, Esq. of Queen's College,

Cambridge.

2. Travels in Mesopotamia, including a Journey from

Aleppo, across the Euphrates to Orfah (the Ur of the

Chaldees), through the Plains of the Turcomans, to

Diarbekr in Asia Minor; from thence to Mardin, on

the borders of the Great Desert, and by the Tigris to

Mousul and Bagdad; with Researches on the Ruins

of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia.

By J. S. Buckingham.

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VII. Sermons, chiefly Practical. By the Rev. Edward Bather,

M.A. Vicar of Meole Brace, Salop.

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VIII. 1. Mœurs, Institutions et Cérémonies des Peuples de

l'Inde. Par M. l'Abbé J. A. Dubois, ci-devant Mis-

sionnaire dans le Meissour, Membre de la Société

Royale Asiatique de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande,

de la Société Asiatique de Paris, et de la Société Litte-

raire de Madras.

2. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of

Calcutta, at Calcutta, the 27th of May, 1824; at Bom-

bay, the 29th April, 1825; at Colombo, the 1st Sep-

tember, 1825; and at Madras, the 10th March, 1826;

at the Primary Visitation of the Right Rev. Father in

God Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta. 181

IX. 1. A Sermon preached at Bombay, on Whitsunday, May

22d; at Colombo, September 18th; and at Calcutta,

on Advent Sunday, November 27th, 1825, in Aid of the

Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

in Foreign Parts. By the Right Reverend Reginald

Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta.

2. The Glory of the Church in its Extension to Heathen

Lands: a Sermon preached in Aid of the Incorporated

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign

Parts, at St. George's Church, Madras, on Whitsunday,

May 14th, 1826. By Thomas Robinson, M.A. Domes-

tic Chaplain to the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta. . . 216

X. On Education. A Sermon, preached in the Cathedral

Church of Wells, at the Anniversary Meeting of the

Bath and Wells Diocesan School, on Tuesday, Oct. 9,

1827. By George Henry Law, D.D. F.R. & F.A.S.

Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.

XI. A Sermon preached in St. John's Church, Antigua, on

Sunday, July 1, 1827, for the benefit of the District

Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian

Knowledge. By Thomas Parry, M.A. Archdeacon of

Antigua; Rector of St. Philip's, Antigua; and late

Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

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