crafty though childish devices Popery holds her empire over untold millions: that it is a mighty ally to the flesh, where it wars against the Spirit: and that if by such externals Popery can again entrap the admiring' spectators' of these outward things, she will presently have a mighty weapon to wield against the true flock of Christ-the grand object of her malignity since first she tasted the cup that will keep her to the end of her appointed course" drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

Let no one affect to suppose that we apply these strong terms to any body of still professing Protestants; we charge them with nothing more than an unconscious instrumentality in the hand of that Romish power--church we will never call it—which when its cunning ends are answered by thus leading the people of England back to the externals of its own idolatrous forms of worship, will chain them to the stake for rejecting-as we surely trust they wouldthe spiritual abomination itself.

Here follows the paragraph: our readers may make their own comments.

'CONSECRATION OF CHRIST CHURCH, SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE.-On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the new church of Skipton, in Craven, was consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon. The morning service was said by the incumbent of the new church, and the lessons were read from the lectern by the Rev. Hammond Roberson. The Rev. W. Heald, vicar of Birstall, was the preacher. After the morning-service, the bishop consecrated the crypt and the church-yard. This church, built to meet the wants of an increasing population, and therefore an object of interest to all

churchmen, is also an object of interest from the restoration of primitive order which appears in its interior arrangements. The chancel is one-third the whole length of the church, and is reached from the floor of the nave by an ascent of four steps. On the north side of the topmost of these four steps stands the pulpit; on the south the lectern, whence the lessons are read. In the centre of the topmost step stands a fixed faldstool, holding the Book of Common Prayer turned towards the altar, so that the officiating clergyman, in saying all the morning and evening prayer, kneels on the step with his face towards the altar. The sentences and exhortations are read and said from a low desk on the lowest step, looking towards the people. Half-way down the chancel on another step stand the altar rails. The altar itself is of stone, finely carved to correspond with the architecture of the church-the early English style. It is covered with a crimson cloth, the fringe of which hangs only an inch or two over the edge, leaving all the carving uncovered; on it stand two massive wooden candlesticks, highly carved and richly gilded. In the south wall, within the altar rails, is fixed the primitive credence, on which to place the sacred vessels and sacramental elements previous to oblation. It is of carved wood, and covered with a cloth like that on the altar. The font stands under the tower, at the west end, which is open to the church. It is large enough for immersion, and is used by means of the water drain, which was made in all the original fonts, as in this. It is perhaps not generally known that the use of a basin (however ornamentally made in stone ware or otherwise) is peremptorily forbidden by the canons of the church of England; those of

1571 desiring expressly that in all churches shall be used fons non pelvis,'' the font not a basin ;' and those of 1603 (canon 81) saying, 'We appoint that there shall be a font of stone in every church and chapel where baptism is to be ministered; the same to be set in the ancient usual places-in which only font the minister shall baptize publicly.' The cover is of carved wood, a canopy set on early English arches; and it rises up off the font into the tower by means of a balanced weight above. The incumbent of the church is the Rev. Daniel Parsons, lately curate of Longton, in the Staffordshire Potteries, before Longton was dismembered from the rectory of Stoke-uponTrent. The admirable arrangements in the church, by which the officiating clergy are enabled to obey the rubric, and return to the ancient discipline of the Church of England, are the results of the able superintendence of Christopher Sedgwick, Esq. of Skipton Castle, without whose labours and money the town would probably have failed in raising the church at all.'

Since the foregoing was in type, we have been told that an attack on usalike uncalled-for and abusive,' has appeared in the Church Magazine.' We have not seen it: the only number of that periodical that ever came in our way happened to contain a tirade against the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, at once so spiteful and so silly that we never wished to see more of it. We are content and happy to be abused in such company. But what have we done to merit this honourable distinction? We have merely declined, and counselled our Christian sisters to decline, that process of blindfolding to which the dis

ciples of Puseyism must submit. We discerned in its earliest manifestations the germ of popery, and shrank from the preliminary step of giving our bibles into the hands of frail erring mortals like ourselves, to have this leaf torn out, that leaf doubled down, and another commented upon as authoritatively as though the Holy Ghost, who originally inspired it, had made a new and exclusive revelation to these men, whereby to unveil its hidden meaning, which we, at the peril of our souls, were to receive with equal veneration and submission as we receive the first. All this plainly menaced a return to the confessional, from which Christian ladies would, on many accounts, rather be excused; and because we proclaimed our convictions and asserted our common right, yea duty, of bringing these modern apostles and their dogmas " to the law and to the testimony," which clearly condemn them, we were rebuked as contumacious schismatics, by sundry of the periodicals under the control of Oxford adherents, besides receiving a few letters of pungent reprimand, all, of course, anonymous. These things fully confirmed our original impression; and now, even since we sent the former remarks and extract to press, we have seen enough of the two recently published additional volumes of Froude's Remains,' to convince us that our very worst surmises fell far short of the reality of what these gentlemen aim at. The following few heads culled at random, may serve to afford our readers a glimpse of the prospect opened to a church where such bare-faced popery is taught by a body of her ordained ministers, unreproved, or at least as yet unrestrained by their ecclesiastical superiors. Next month, God permitting, we will resume the subject,

accepting as encouragements whatever reproofs, scoffs and insults our brethren of the press may see good to level at us. Dr. Wolff says, 'Ladies should never be reviewers,' but his publisher thinks otherwise; as, in addition to the two copies of the Journal for which we subscribed, a third was sent us, for the express purpose of being reviewed in the Christian Lady's Magazine, which we, as obliged to speak of it in some sort unfavourably, have honestly returned. Why should not ladies, writing for ladies, notice books intended for ladies? Do our theologists desire so to "lead captive silly women," that they should not even be warned of their danger? But we hasten to lay before our readers a few brief notices of some remarkable assertions in these new volumes of Froude's Remains-and in the preface, an official fulmination from the Oxonian vatican.

Thomas à Becket, they maintain, was a saint and a martyr; and in his death exhibited evidence of possessing that peace which God alone can give.

Every child knows that Thomas à Becket died in rebellion against his king on behalf of the papal supremacy in England.

The reformed church of England, they say, has given birth to Two martyrs, an archbishop and a king; and that both these blessed saints died for episcopacy.

We thought the reformed church of England—reformed under our young Edward—had given birth to above three hundred martyrs during the short and bloody rule of Mary; but we suppose John Foxe is now in the English Index Expurgatorius.' The execution of Laud was a most unjustifiably wicked act. His suspension from office was clearly necessary to the maintenance of our ecclesiastical Protestantism, but every Christian must abhor the butchery of a man