MADAM,

A PROPOSAL.

YOUR zealous benevolence, especially manifested towards the Irish and the Jews, and in the firm stand you take against Popery, leads me to hope that you may now come forward with all your heart, and in the strength of God to conduct an attack against that bold and awful infidelity which seems to be the most prevalent evil of the present times. It lurks in the outskirts of protestantism, it inflates the stately fabric of popery, it unveils its own mishapen and odious form in the socialism of Owen.

Every one near the locality of the late insurrection acknowledges it to be the result of the want of religious instruction which lays open the minds of the lower classes, and especially of those among them who have received a mere literary education, to the machinations of designing men.

Such a local want wherever it exists should be met by all those who for their own emolument assemble the population in unwholesome masses, and by all who, for their heavenly Master's sake, desire to promote the happiness of men. Among the various means by which this object may be furthered, is the extensive dissemination of appropriate tracts. One of Mrs. Hannah More's biographer's says, 'Songs and tracts had been to a great extent influential in

the corruption of the lower orders of France, and the same machinery was now (1795) worked by the revolutionists of England. It seemed therefore wise to employ this kind of weapon against the cause it had hitherto been principally instrumental to support. While hesitating as to the expediency or probable utility of the design, she had a conversation at Bath with the Bishop of Dol, who afterwards fell by the guillotine. 'Penny papers' said he, 'might have saved France, and so I told the King. This at once decided and encouraged her. Penny papers unquestionably contributed to the salvation of England, and none were more blessed to that object than those of Hannah More. (Thompson's Life of H. More, pp. 151-2.) The cheap Repository Tracts were published 1795-8., being issued at the rate of three every month, some being written by two of Mrs. More's Sisters and by literary friends. The publication was sustained by subscriptions, and promoted by committees. Again in 1816-17, when a committee was formed in London for the dispersion of writings calculated to counteract the prevalent delusion, she added to those already published, a few tracts more especially adapted to the immediate exigency.' Many of Mrs. More's tracts and songs were at that time translated into Welsh. And again in 1819, when the country was in a state of great excitement: 'she collected into one pamphlet all her political tracts and ballads, with some adaptations that they might find a more extended circulation among the classes whom they were written to benefit.' Ibid. p. 298.

It appears to the writer that many of those political tracts &c., might once more be so modified as to run a new course of usefulness in 1841. And that

a new series of Narratives, Dialogues and Ballads, bearing upon the infidel theory of the Socialists, and exposing the practical mischiefs of Chartism, might, by God's blessing, prove extensively useful in counteracting those satanic machinations which are rendering our free and happy land a heaving volcano of horror and misery. Many able writers might doubtless be found willing to aid so good a cause with literary contributions-if some persons who possess sound judgment and piety joined to wealth and influence, would form themselves into a committee in London to raise subscriptions and promote the circulation of Tracts for 1841.' Some of these tracts might likewise be directed against Popery and worldliness, and to the general increase of Christian information.

Trusting to your own zeal for God's glory to excuse the trouble I may give you by this humble attempt to promote it, I am,

Madam,

Your constant Reader, and
Occasional Correspondent,

T. W.

THE RESURRECTION.

"He is not here he is risen."-MATT. XXVIII. 6.

THE morn was in brightness arrayed, When, they who believed on His word, Went forth to the grave where He laid, To seek for their crucified Lord.

The spices, the grave-clothes were there,
The stone where He rested His head;
While angels celestial and fair,

Sat, guarding the sanctified bed.

But vainly they look for their Lord,
The grave was no longer His prison ;
Attend to his messengers' word,

"Behold He's not here-He is ris'n."

Yes, mounting from death's awful gloom,
Triumphant the conqueror rose,

He burst the strong bars of the tomb,
And vanquished for ever His foes.

He died for our sins on the tree,
He rose, we are justified too,
Salvation, eternal, and free,

He brings, O believer, to you.

FOREIGN BARBARITIES.

THERE is, we believe, a very general impression prevailing, that to be properly perfected in the medical science young men must visit Paris; where also, science in other branches is supposed to flourish with such pre-eminent advantages, that a man who has not availed himself of them, labours under a sort of inferiority among those who have. On this ground, many a careful mother is reconciled to sending her son, many an affectionate sister sees with complacency her brother depart, to become a sharer in those professional or other advantages. In some cases, the females of the family accompany its youthful member to reside for a time in Paris; and by so doing to secure to him the shelter of a home-the continuance of those domestic sweets and domestic decencies that in France are even scoffed at.

Now we are resolved to bring before our Readers, -and we earnestly intreat them to spread it as widely as they can among their acquaintence-a little specimen of what they covet for their male relations. A very little glimpse it must indeed be of a single branch of such abominations as the mind could not bear to dwell upon, even could the heart conceive them. This article we met with in' a London Newspaper, inserted among other pieces of interesting intelligence, without note or comment. Thus it runs :