place, under favourable auspices, it may be hoped that the future history of this church will detail the prosperity flowing from the blessing of God on patient continuance in well-doing.

August 18th, Mr. Richard Alliott of the College Homerton, and of the University of Glasgow, was publicly ordained assistant minister of the church and congregation, Castle Gate, Nottingham. The Rev. R. Alliott, J. Gawthorn, J. Jarman, Start, conducted the service. Three additional deacons were, at the same time, set apart to their office.

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On Wednesday, 20th August, the Rev. Samuel Bellamy, late of Highbury College, was ordained pastor of the church and congregation of George's Street Chapel, Leeds. The ordination took place in Queen Street Chapel; the Rev. Benjamin Byron, of Lincoln, commenced the service by reading and prayer; the Rev. W. Eccles, of Hopton, asked the usual questions, and offered the ordination prayer; the Rev. Thomas Scales, of Leeds, delivered an able introductory discourse, on the principles of nonconformity; The Rev. R. W. Hamilton, of Leeds, gave a solemn and impressive charge to the minister, from 1 Tim. iv. 15. "Give thyself wholly to them." In the evening, at George's Street Chapel, the Rev. B. Byron, of Lincoln, addressed an appropriate sermon to the church, from Isaiah xxx. 29. The Rev. Messrs. Calvert, Rawson, Hudswell, and Bayley, engaged in the various other devotional parts of the services.

In the above chapel, which has been purchased by the combined liberality of Thomas Wilson, Esq. London, and of a few friends connected with the Independent Churches in Leeds, Mr. Bellamy's prospect of success is highly encouraging.

On Thursday, August 21, the Rev. Robert Kemp, (late of Staplehurst, Kent,) was publicly recognized as the pastor of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge. The Rev. T. Shirley, of Seven Oaks, read the Scriptures and prayed; the Rev. J. Slatterie, of Chatham, described the nature of a Christian church; the Rev. S. Gurteen, of Canterbury, proposed the questions; the Rev. E. Jinkings, of Maidstone, offered solemn and fervent prayer for a blessing to rest upon the union; the Rev. Dr. Harris, Theological Tutor of Highbury College, delivered a very faithful and affectionate address to the minister and congregation; and the Rev. John Finley, of Tunbridge Wells, concluded the solemn and interesting services of the morning by prayer. The Rev. Thos. Sharp, M. A. of Woolwich, preached in the evening; and the Rev.

William Davis, of Hastings, preached on the preceding evening. The Rev. Messrs. West, of Town Sutton; Broady, of Bessells Green; Lewis, of Chatham; Mole, of Tunbridge Wells; and Harris, of Penthurst, conducted the remaining devotional services.

DEATH OF MRS. EWING, WIFE OF THE REV. GREVILLE EWING OF GLASGOW.

It is with feelings of no ordinary sorrow, that we record the death of this truly excellent and estimable individual. Most of our readers will have been apprised ere this time of the distressing circumstances under which it occurred. On Wednesday, the 10th of September, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing, accompanied by Miss Cathcart, who has long lived with them, and Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart, brother and sister of the latter, who had recently come to this country from Jamaica, went, in an open carriage, to see the falls of the Clyde. By some accident, which is variously accounted for, the carriage was overturned, and all the party were more or less hurt. Mr. Ewing's collarbone was broken, Mr. Cathcart severely injured, and his wife and sister considerably bruised. Mrs. Ewing was the severest sufferer. Her leg was broken, and though the greatest attentions were paid to her at Braxfield House, to which the party were conveyed, and by the medical aid which was procured, after languishing in great pain for four days, she entered into the joy of her Lord, on Sabbath, the 14th of last month. Her death, we understand, was improved in Nile Street Meeting-house, on the following Sabbath, by the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, when his own church, as well as that of Mr. Ewing, was present to express its sympathy, and to unite its prayers on this painful occasion. We are happy to learn, that Mr. Ewing and the rest of the sufferers are likely to recover, and that the former has been mercifully supported under this trying occurrence.

Thus, by a mysterious and painful dispensation, have the church of Christ, and a large circle of attached friends, been deprived of one of the brightest ornaments of the Christian profession, whom it has been our privilege to know. Mrs. Ewing was the daughter of the late Sir J. Maxwell, of Pollock, the sister of the present Baronet of that name, and aunt to the member for the county of Renfrew. Though placed in circumstances of affluence, and of great temptation, she was led, at an early period of life, to receive the gospel, and by the grace of God, she was enabled eminently to adorn its doctrines for a long course of years. The firmness of her

To execute a work on the life and times of the celebrated Antereformer, whose character and exertions do so much honour to the land of his birth, has been no easy task. The remote period to which John De Wycliffe (for thus Mr. Vaughan shows his name ought to be written) belonged, approaching nearly to five hundred years, necessarily involves many interesting facts in great obscurity, and throws an entire oblivion over a multitude of others. Much of the information which exists, is locked up in the barbarous latinity of the period, or in the still less intelligible vernacular of the country; while both are to be found only in masses of manuscripts, often badly written, partially eaten by moths, or greatly defaced and injured by time. Even these documents are of difficult access. They are to be found only in the great public libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, from which they are not allowed to escape, even for a day; so that a prolonged and diversified residence at the several seats of learning seems required, in order to the execution of an undertaking which embraces

some of the most interesting events that preceded the Reformation, both in England and Continental Europe. That Mr. Vaughan has contrived to surmount most of these difficulties, is evident from his work; how he bas done so, is to us matter of considerable surprise. His diligence must have been indefatigable, and his labour immense, before he could bring into a manageable shape, the valuable materials which he has wrought up in so interesting a manner in the volumes before us. It is true, a life of Wycliffe, by Lewis, had appeared a hundred years ago; and Mr. Baber had prefixed to his edition of the Reformers' New Testament, a Memoir of his Life and Writings, compiled with considerable care. But both these works left many facts unexplored, and many views of Wycliffe, and his times, in the same obscurity in which they had long been concealed. Till now, to work worthy of being called a Life of Wycliffe had appeared. Whether this reflects honour on the country our readers may determine. Whether it is to the credit of the Church that it has been executed by a Dissenter, is for the