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DAVID lIMINNEV: VUltoblarigko' Aos.Nolainten4ifi.We have' .ieee~neil from " Will WiiheiP and paid to thi Board of Domeatt% Nistionfh. tea dollars. THE Day , UNION PBAYERIMEETING iW now held in the ' Protestant Methodist church, Fifth Street: The k invitation is to'' all. tarry the' 'hour, - hide r an hour, or as, long as your oireumstanoes will permit Lmornare.—Rey, Marks is deliver ing, in the Central church, this , city,. a course of deeply interesting and{ instructive. Lectures, on Jerusalem , Palestine , and the' adjacent ecnntries, Theiio well worthy' the atterkon.il thereoinrauniti =I TXAMILANOS. —A Cooveption of -the friends of Temperance will-ber held in the Presbyterian church of ,Seltebotz,...Pe., 'on Thursday ) January 20thi qit 'lO • o'clock A.: M. Able addressee will be- delivered'.on the ocoreien. AcKriowmpaluEn.r. 7 --Mr 4ohn Culbert"- son, Librarian, acknowledges the following contributions to the, Board of Colportage : Mt. Proipect Church, Washington Presby tery, el j Little Beaver' Church; Litti? Beaver Presbytery, $6 00 A, New-Zilifwe ,Conte*plated. At a meeting , of the ''Directors of the Western Theological SeMinaiy, on'Tuesday, the 4th inst., ajroposition was Made, by a lady, through , a Alistinguished clergyman of. Ohio, to supply, thelitoard with .$6,000, ,for the erection of allow building on.the Semi-' nary grounds; to''be 'divided and 'fitted up foe studying rooms and dermitories for the students.' The offer was thankfully ac cepted, and a Conimitlee,!kppointe n d to carry into effect, withou t 404 1 the design, of the benevolent donor. , This liberality, we trust, will be an.ade guide stimulant to 'the churches to speedily, execute their priiiiese, as expressed by the Synods, of endowing, fully, the Fourth Pro... fessorship. The great increase ; la the num-,- bey of students renders the ,contemplated building an immedlite necessity. rtalso' givea full employment 'to' four Profes sors, and henc e urges upon the., churches the' speedy completion of the endowment which ' isfrequired-for their suatentation. i'olhe Our Oar liadi friends are kindly and earnestly requested to read, ,on . , our fourth • page, the/ appeal made* them by onr•London Coffee. pondent, and to 'ironiply with it most heir& ily and liberallyy. He r pis a very important . post in London. PreabYterianismthere, is not the religion of the rich or •thwpowerful. Our. brethren •in that . city , are- rather the poor, and relarge portion' of our Correspond ent's large congregation, are the 'transient.' But, to have a clinreh; induces more to , be come resident. The influence of our, 'Cor respondent, ins.lsustaining , and promoting true Hvarrgelical Presbyterianism; in .Lon don and in 'England, is 'very great; fond vibe does ricitf — Wiehlthit it Shalliloilish ?` Now, will not American Ladies cover the , American Table spoken ! of, bountifully, with their gifts ind rich-handy-work ? Wye trust they will.: ,, They` - will be doing • . good, and honoring:their country. ")! ' ! These whO s pCnnot: , eonTenieittly,scrid, , to George 4.),dtuari,p6 9. , can send to us, .and we will earefillly i t forward. Bend ~ soom The time of need approaches. ..• We 444 , gentlemen ' s kindness, in aid' the ' pastor ' favor We speolaki, •Enoburagement. We are; just now, receiving some fine list's of subscribers : From many of churches increased .numbers are coming. A .bnither called, this week,,with seventy.three aiames, being an increase of ten over 'last year. Another, in sending ' on his list; says : ft Please announce the reception of new subsoribers, from Ohio, and tell the whole world: to -take the Banner and , Advocate." We trued that our readers, pastors and el dere, especially,wily exert their influence` in our keep uP the eieelleuce of cur journal and ~,not to raise the price, ,re quires decided ,demonstrations of friendship; and as old - friends' and occasionally, one beiomes offended at our'` indeiendent course and our straight•forward and unflinch ing'fidelity, new ones are needed. We try to render it: &nano. to peotie for their money, and 'tofehurch. offleers for their toil on our behalf. What is the worth, in ya family, of, a well c onducted religions journid? What is the valve, in a congregation .of fifty or a hundred, well Stored papers, arriv lag weekly for's whole year,'ind year aftim Year T Who shall tell ? Just , look at' the increase of knowledge given; and the Qom fort imparted, and the" intelligence; and the benevolent emotions' indueed and fostered, and tinitheridity proMeie4, and the help to genera 4nefilon, and ginl,governmeu, A nd the aid heavenward, and then reckon up, if you can, tat:papal; value':-to-the familyand the eongiegationl to the` Church-41)&1'0re, and to the people of their charge. JINNI The British Quarterlies Foils considerable time past, we; imie been anxious to find room for a more length eneolAxtiole than , our 'column of llook_No. Saes usually contains, on the reissues by Leonard Scott & Co.; of 11/ackwood'S 3141-' wine, and the four leading British Reviews. From time to, time , we,have presented the headings 'of the 'different articles in these journals to our readers, with commendatory notices in - twhich':' the respective characters of these great' 'organs were displayed ; but there are so manyof our readers,- who either pass by the column of a newspaper which is devOtedio'new publications, or who, if • they, glance at the names of, the , books, pass on to ether subjects; from the suspicion , that the object of a Book Notice is to commend all and sundry of the publications that may find their way to an editor's table; that, we have wished to solicit the attention of a.. readers to a few thoughts on the surpassing merits of these publidations. The'seaton of the year is a suitable one, either for the formation of new clubs,or for individual subscribers to forward to the pub , lishers their addresses and their, subscrip 7 Lions. And:here we -confidentlystate dur firm *conviction, that as many of our rtiaders' as " will take'our advice, and either originate' a alrib,,pr become subscribers, on. their own'• behalf—and whew the• Reviews reach , thena, be at pains to read the different articles in 'a thoughtful find that we have placed them under a weighty obligation, by our suggestion, that they sheuld i study. these Unparalleled vehicles. of modern _literature-, We mean =to to utter no disparagement against our Om serial literature, .when we place "these Reviews on such,a)ofty pedestal. • Nor do we in -any way, depreciate the °apse ity of the 'American• mind.' little reflec tion Will ServiSlo'shOw our,readers why it is' that these organs which have nOw attained to „a ; venerable age, are, and must be, une qualled, either in the New orr in the Old World, whether we'taka our own:country, or France, Germany, Prussia, -or any Euro peari nation into the consideration. ' MEE For • centuries the, English mind has en joyed thelnealculable advantage of.animer one class of• endowed Schools, scattered over the country, where Classical Literature is cultivated with wondrous success ,ThAmps ters and Autors in these Seminaries, are Classical. iaholari of 'the kigheit oider: They are fimiliar with the whille curia Cali:an of Greek ,and Roman literCture. Many ,of them indeed are as familiar with, the learning of the - past, as they are with-the' subjects of the present age: In these In-c n ions e sons of rich ommoners who are to inherit the estates of 'their fathers the sons of wealthy merchants, whose means are almost fabulous; the heirs of Noblemen, who Fare to take.their place as Incitribbist -Parliarnent,or to be heard at the bar; • - or - to distinguish`themselves by flood or field, are, found,,congregated. They are not , sent, to these Institutions for some three: or four months, to obtain a smattering of -knowledge, and then t( run iiii`rePidly, through a College with a long Prospedis and a Faculty short of hands, r • d over-worked because of &tan. vial pressu On ,the, other ; hand, they, re main until , laving reaehed'the liighast form, they: are • drafted. off` either to Oxford •or Cimbridge, 'where'' their inental"culture''' is extended farther' still. Let our, readers now, consider what must, - be the effect of such training on the thou- Saida who hafelaiesuch sAsintidition,.and who aftinwards, find their Wei to the 'Bar the „Pulpit,, AM Senate, the Army, oi,the Navy, after >;a long additional , profesaional training: Consider, again, the 'thousands scattered overall the Empire, who ire:living: in alimintleisure,ind who haVe ilar training in early life; who are literary,. _ in •their tastes and habits, and who :will de., viand a literature of the highest ` order. The abupdamie of their means!enables them: to pay the most „extravagant .priges,,f6r l Pliant ; folios and,goodly quartos, as, welt for the more ordinary sizetiotdommon.place literature ) Then,Pgaini look- at the` stances of Great Britain, withlleitis' tory' rirreing down •over< so nsany!ages fromthe antiquity of the put; With its endless ' jeets:‘offamily kenealogy, political party,, refigionsadivisions77Antiquarian,,Parliemen ! , Wily,: Collegiate, Revolutionary, Royalist, and Roundhead,' rural life.ind eity , Misery;: With humanity every forth s and Condition,. from the princely ranli'aia yoYidafflueoS,of; the .Noblemolgwn • to thcsdegradation a pnd wants of the homeless .beggar; -with sher: Cob.; onies,'lgirdlingi 'the:earth, and her treaties'' bringing ''her` 'into political rellitiOn every `civilized.natian, rind then,whep the ; fact is super-added, that.this restless, agitat-, ing, bus Y-minded, progressive' and educatedi 'maple enjoy the utmost ireedoin of the press, anda healthy utterance of literary J ana political opinion, and; it would be passing, strange if the. everyday literature Of emoh a people' wire oravammon order. In : France,: the people have not` the !noney to'huy such a literature There is a want of scholastic tfaining to produce it, and ; , there is in, abienee, of that national freedom; the pba- Beni= ' ', 43f which,, will -alone:enable the' philosophic' mind to discuss thee — questions that bear on man's intellectual 'and moral welfare, for time and for , eternity Neither has , Germanyi with its: Universities and, profoundly learned mew, the healthful free dan and manifold stimulante, that are pos :nesse& by the British mind, to intellectual boldness and literary success. Neither Lae Aussie, nor any ether Edropean land. ; The Anglo.Baxon l or the Celtic 'element. 'among our ; people is in, no way inferior so far, as grasp or' power is:noncerned, to the 'itooknt the parent home..' , : But 'our antivity. Ans Ashen ) and it, must, mune, :a, different direction for a considerable We have' new 'States to found, and empires ' of freemen , to' create, by siibping the wildeiness, and 34kiei,the, deeeit Ple abode 'Of ,a'n Wight. tined aud energetic people. We our rivers to turn intojtighways, :and 'our rail roads testreteh front eiean-to ()Casa. We ,have 'dine to' keep our sons, 'fot . years,' T H K PRESBYTERIAN BANNER AND ADVOCATE. learning the rxdrrutiaa of Latin Prosody, and filling their reilidi‘with the graceful beauties of the Grecian: poets. There is work for them to do. They are called for by compan ions Who are battling with life, and whodeed their aid 'and' effort as coworkers in the onward struggle. They are, carried forward on the swelling tide. oftzt enornmusly,pro gressive civilization, and thud thai advancement has been, and must be, mainly physjog and social while,„ in .. .Evlnnd ri the odellition - of her people;' and theirscorinetionf with the-..provisions-.of the past,,,has made: her sons, in such vast numbers, men of learning, fitted for enlightening other lands on subjects that require ,the graces of high culture combined with profound thought. The working of the British Constitution, also, and the division of her people into political parties I and riligiods sects, favors 21 promotion of vigorous serial literature. While occurring publications and philosophi cal subjects generally.were to occupy a place i on "the Pages of the Edinburgh Review,, its originators intended mainly, by its brilliant, daring essays, to tell on theToryiron of , the day, and thuslo remove those governmental restrictions whichthey believed to jwoof of character with A the age. So, also, in the case of Blackzoood's "•'Magazine, ands the Quarterly Review; Poetry, Antiquarian subjeetS, kthics; Travels, the whole range of learning might, be introduced into their articles, but one thing never to be forgotten, was the, conservation of all that. was believed to be sound, and essential to the British Constitution. Progress theidreaded, dnless it was progress of a very Slow and safe order. If the Edinburgh was the impulsive steam enaine .the- embodiment' of an onward force that that wits moving, among therriesses, the latter, acted as the break, and the', fly-wheel thatiestrained or regulated all tendencies to irregular' of excessive' "motion But in all hie' lands, there be fband a 'class of minds disposed travel out of the beaten track, both-in politics, and ; religion. So it has , -been'-in Britain, and hence the it "'party' there hwie had their organ; and the whole fellowahip of letters despite its more than covertinfidelity,and insinuat ing Latitudinarianism, have been constrained ; to admire the power of the•Westatinster Re- view • Our readers who will reflect on, the Objects, to be loubserved 4 by'- such organs, Ism well: understand how itches come to pass,rthat the, brightest min& of Britain haire been andstill are the Oontributens to their pages. That a present member of the Cabinet is a Monthly, writer for Blackwood ; that's late editor of the :Edinburgh -leaves that literary , thione whiOh he adorned, to beeoinefOhancellor of Herltlejesq's Exchequer, and that a proprietor of the Westminster should, as coloniahSecretary, have.been entrusted with the destinies of= Britain'slfty or allay Colo nice, are suggestive of" reasons Why :the, Navy the Army, , the. Justiciary—all classes and interests in the Kingdom, , and in Chris-, iendoin—should aoknowleAge the power of these journals, in which snob mighty ques tions are discilised by glint Minds. Bo also, it easy to perceive how it comes ,to , pass, that such enormous sums as , contribu- : tors receive for , their.zessaysp are paid •by the promoters and Publishers of these jour.. nals. The questions -at issue, the conse quences, to, the ; , pohtical party if, Recess is attained, the importance* , of procuring , the' highest talent that money , can, command ;c these and other • considerations unite in . securing'a•liberal scale of remuneration un heard of in the world of letters until these' organs appeared. - We need not' detain our :reiders by3_de tailing the characters of these Reviews , Most ersons who glance at ` newspapers ;_' hem that the , old and , venerable Edinurgis is • the mouth , pieee of ithe Whig. party Lairsdowns, of . Brissells,' Sydney ' Smiths, and Brpughanis of the day. Opposed to c a nimPO;questions of ,Choral ' , "„4 tatrr • the Quarterly. has been, . and = still is, Pie= representative .of ="f the flee old .English; Gentleman; all of * • tha, olden thii"—the suPPeit4:' ef 'a strong goVetiunent in the State, and the, staunch unswerving friend of the Church. latterly, this journal has, taken - a