View of Public Affairs. For the greater part of our notice of Public Affairs for this month we are indebted to the Christian Advocate. BRITAIN. London papers to the 16th of April contain the most recent advices which we have seen from Britain. On the 1st of March Mr. Canning had so far recovered from his late severe indisposition, as to be able to bring the long-alked-of subject of the corn laws before parliament. The debate was adjourned to the 8th of March, when it was again called up by the chancellor of the exchequer : an amendment was proposed to the proposition which contained the radical principle of his plan; and, after a warm debate it was negatived, and the proposition as reported was adopted. The whole bill was passed on the 12th of April. The chancellor of the exchequer had deferred opening his budget till after the Easter holidays. On the 5th and 6th of March, the subject of Catholic emancipation was ably and eloquently discussed in the house of commons, on a motion, in favour of emancipation, by Sir Francis Burdett. The motion was lost by a majority of only four,-For the motion 272, against it 176. Had it passed the commons, there is no doubt it would have been negatived in the house of lords. When information of the termination of this business in Parliament reached Ireland, it produced what the English paragraphists call a great sensation, but no public disturbances ensued. Lord Liverpool was in a state of convalescence, but it was thought probable that he would never again appear in public life. Mr. Canning has been appointed prime minister in the place of Lord Liverpool, in consequence of which seven ministers of the cabinet, it would appear in dudgeon, have resigned, viz: The Lord Chancellor Eldon, the duke of Wellington, Lord Sidmouth, Lord Bathurst, Lord Westmoreland, Lord Bexley, (formerly Nicholas Vansitart,) and Mr. Peel. Mr. Canning in all probability will have the forming of his own cabinet, and as he is favourable to the Catholic emancipation, a new attempt for this object may be expected. The appointment of Mr. C. is very popular throughout the country, while the conduct of the exministers is strongly reprobated. It appears that from the 3d to the 8th of March, there had been a most unusual fall of snow in Scotland. Many lives were lost, and travelling for several days was almost entirely stopped. The drifts or wreaths of snow were, in some places, twenty feet deep. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.-It does not seem probable that open war will soon take place between these powers. We believe the civil war in Portugal is nearly, if not quite terminated. As to Spain, we pretend not even to conjec ture what she will do next: COLOMBIA. The political affairs of this extensive republic appear, from the last accounts, to be in a very unsettled and unpropitious state. It is again confidently stated, that Bolivar is aiming at the Dictatorship; and he and General Santander are said to be in open and avowed hostility with each other. MEXICO. In this republic also,civil dissentions have arisen. In one place a regiment of soldiers has revolted, opened prisons-armed the prisoners-arrested the governor, and created a junta of their own. UNITED STATES.-When we consider, in contrast with what we have stated above, the present peaceful and happy state of our own country-when we review its history from the period of its revolution to the present hour, we may see that to preserve order in a revolution, and to settle those who have been engaged in it in peace and quietness under free forms of government, is much easier when freedom has been their birthright and long possession, than page. Edinburgh Review, remarks Profane swearing, Faith, the Christian's life of 531 Intercommunion, on 23 Letters on the atonement, 88, 140, 171, 577 Theories of the atonement, 247 | Human life, Remarks on an article in the Edin- 536 248 340, 489 Strictures on the plan of inter- 343 Ignorance and superstition at Je- 195 India, account of a Suttee in Irish Catholicism, page. 337 297 428, 466 Letter, extract from a Harvey islands, 297 Jerusalem, ignorance and super- 24 83 287 272 Resolutions of the Irish Catholic Revivals of religion, 337 390 Methodists, 156, 294 Methodist clergy, support of 249 341 437 488 343 196 339 390 488 337 437 149 344 537 579 Pastoral letter, 149 Patronage, unprecedented, Progress of reformation in Ireland, 578 196 Sabbath schools in Albany, United Brethren, missions of the Benevolent societies, Bible society, Canada, African coast, 37, 437 38 tract society, SUMMARY OF RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. 394 | Malacca, France, page. 537 English home missionary society, 341 1040 India within the Ganges, converts, Ireland, Labrador, 38 39 36, 149, 200, 250, 300, 442 Domestic missionary society, 39 Dublin, 99 Dutch reformed education society, 487 251, 346 | 201 299 198 200 Otaheite, 442 Palestine, 98 148, 344 The Frech church, True reformed Dutch church, 442 346 Methodists, 149, 300, 582 New-South Wales, mission, Rome, page. 154 248 Surrinam, Reformed dutch education society, 487 The case of Morgan, The American tract society. United States, Theological seminaries of the Pres- 100 148 149 442 148 Sandwich Islands,36, 200, 250, 300, 345 99 200, 539 582 345 Wesleyville, Western Sabbath school union, 37 207 36 442 250 104 487 583 199 100 487 442 48 199, 391 100, 251, 346, 486 149 39 251 ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. page. Cambridge Presbytery, 251, 299 | Ohio Presbytery, VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 204, 394 Hayti, India, 102, 201, 252, 300, 346, 392, 348 Liberia, Mexico, 393 Netherlands, 395 Panama, 103, 204, 395, 584 Great-Britain, 102, 201, 252, 300, 346, 392, 444, 491 348 347 346 104, 584 108, 203, 300, 346, 393 346 584 Turkey, 252, 346 United States, 104, 204, 300, 395, 492, 539, 584 William Morgan, 540 300 Russia, 202 Sierra Leone, page. 252 392 |
