nal, very much to his satisfaction, and which promises to be much to his pecuniary advantage." He adds, that "an arrangement has also been made with the editor of the Democratic Review, by which the past editor of the Boston Quarterly Review is to be a regular contributor to its pages, and by which he is to be permitted to select his own topics of discussion, and to discuss them in his own way, as freely as if it were his own Journal." In execution of this arrangement Mr. Brownson has already commenced in the pages of the Democratic Review an exposition of his system of philosophy. The last number of the Boston Quarterly is entirely occupied with a review of Mr. Parker's "Discourse on Matters pertaining to Religion," which is examined "book by book, and in some instances chapter by chapter," the writer being directly at issue with Mr. Parker on most of the points which he considers, entertaining, as he "suspects," "radically different conceptions of Christianity," and declaring that he "can conceive nothing more superficial and unsatisfactory than his statements, unless it be his own past Protestant declamations."-Mr. Brownson, we learn, preaches every Sunday to a congregation, not yet organized into a religious Society, but meeting for worship in Ritchie Hall in this city.

NOTICES OF DEATH OF DR. CHANNING IN GREAT BRITAIN.-The late arrivals from England have brought us many proofs of the estimation in which Dr. Channing was held abroad, and the deep sorrow which was felt on receiving the intelligence of his death. The Editor of the Christian Pioneer, published in Edinburgh, says: "Eulogy, on our part, of this preeminently great and good man, this faithful citizen, this practical disciple of the Saviour, were a vain labor. He is honored and reverenced by the thousands and tens of thousands whose minds his writings have enlightened, whose hearts they have tended to purify, whose pathway of life they have brightened, whose trust in the Father of mercies they have deepened, whose hope of immortality they have rendered firm and abiding. The newspapers of Great Britain, of every party, have vied with each other in expressions of admiration of the character and labors of Dr. Channing. In most of the pulpits of our denomination services in reference to the melancholy intelligence have, we believe, been conducted." The Bible Christian, of Belfast, Ireland, closes a memoir of his life in this manner: "From the importance of his services in the cause of religion and humanity, when living, his death will be deeply and extensively felt as an almost irreparable loss. * * * Let us rather rejoice with heartfelt gratitude for what we have gained by his life, than mourn for what we have lost by his death. * * * Let us, who have been his cotemporaries, remember his services and cher

ish his memory; and grateful generations yet to come, while they study those monuments of his genius which will ever endure, will emulate the virtues and venerate the name of William Ellery Channing." The Editor of the Christian Reformer, published in London, introduces several pages of notices copied from American publications with these words: "The decease of this admirable man has produced a deep sensation in England as well as America. We shall hereafter, we trust, be able to give a full memoir of him. In the mean time, we shall insert from time to time such notices of the deceased as we can gather from the periodicals of both countries and other sources."

The General Committee of the. British and Foreign Unitarian Association held a special meeting on the 8th of November, "to take into consideration some tribute of respect to the memory of the late Rev. Dr. Channing," at which resolutions were passed, which have already been reprinted in this country, expressive of the grief awakened by the tidings of his death; the admiration in which they, in common with a large portion of the British people," held "his great and extraordinary talents," which they "rejoiced in seeing devoted to the sacred cause of Freedom, Humanity, and Christian Truth, which he supported and adorned no less by his virtues than by his splendid intellectual endowments;" and their gratitude to Him "who in the course of his Providence qualified and disposed this distinguished philanthropist to embrace and defend that form of the religion of Jesus Christ which Unitarian Christians derive from the holy Scriptures."

By many of the Unitarian ministers special discourses were preached, several of which have been printed. A friend writing us from Bristol says: "In most of our churches funeral sermons have been preached in honor of his sacred memory, and at Lewin's Mead [chapel] the pulpit and desk are hung with mourning, and are so to continue for a month from the period when the sad intelligence of his death reached us.” We have received discourses preached in Little Carter Lane, in Essex Street, and in Little Portland Street Chapels, in London, by Rev. Dr. Hutton, Rev. Mr. Madge, and Rev. Mr. Tagart, and in Bristol, by Rev. Mr. Armstrong ; besides which we see advertised sermons by Rev. Mr. Aspland of Hackney, Rey. Mr. Robberds of Manchester, Rev. Mr. Kell of Newport, and Rev. Mr. Lewis of Cheltenham. We shall take occasion to notice these hereafter.

It is gratifying to find that a purpose which has for some time been contemplated, of providing a cheap edition of Dr. Channing's writings for English readers, is sure of accomplishment. Rev. Mr. Maclellan, formerly of Edinburgh, and now of Bridport, has been much interested in obtaining a subscription for this object, and from the subjoined letter addressed to the editors of the Unitarian periodicals already quoted, it

appears that he has not labored in vain. There are many English editions of separate pamphlets from Dr. Channing's pen, some of which are sold at a very low price; but the only two complete (foreign) editions of his writings, with which we are acquainted, are that published by Messrs. Hedderwick of Glasgow, in five volumes, beautifully printed, and sold for about thirty shillings sterling; and that published in Belfast in one large 8vo. volume, and sold for nine shillings. From Mr. Maclellan's note it appears that the edition for which he has made arrangements, printed, as we understand, from the same plates as the last mentioned, will be furnished to subscribers for less than four shillings, or about ninety cents. The specimen which we have seen presents a neat and clear page.

"PEOPLE'S EDITION 99 OF CHANNING.

"Sir, Your numerous readers will doubtless be gratified to hear that the total number of subscribers to my Channing now amounts to 2800, and that the work is actually in the press.

I have entrusted its execution to those spirited publishers, Messrs. Simms and McIntyre of Belfast, who have come forth, in the most generous manner, to aid me in the realization of my project.

The book itself will be struck from the same stereotype plates used by them for their beautiful 2 vol. edition, lately published. The size will be demy 8vo—the type, long primer; it will contain about 1120 pages, and will be supplied to subscribers at 3s. 9d., sewed in a printed wrapper; or in cloth boards, with gilt title, for 8d. additional. Should I decide on prefixing a Memoir, 4d. more must be appended to the price; i. e. to those who take the memoir; to others the cost will be as I have stated.

The work will, I trust, be ready some time in January; so not a week is to be lost by those who still wish to subscribe: as before, I must decline all orders for less than ten copies.-I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT E. B. MACLELLAN."

Bridport, 11th Nov. 1842.

EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA, W. I.—A gentleman formerly of Boston, who has recently returned from a residence in this island, and who is on the point of establishing himself there in one of the largest silk establishments probably in the world, gives a very encouraging report of the results of Emancipation. After long experience, after having had to wrestle with prejudices so common in New England against the colored race, he does not hesitate to pronounce the free blacks of Jamaica the best peasantry he has ever seen. Their docility, fidelity, orderly habits, and general propriety of conduct are all that could be desired. The price of labor averages about a quarter of a dollar à day,

and they seem anxious to be employed. But a very pleasant feature among them is the eagerness after knowledge. The school reports of Kingston prove the black pupils to be more capable or more assiduous than the white. You can get a colored boy to do any thing for you by offering him instruction. It has been difficult to get them to leave their books at night and go to their rest, when they found themselves where this once unknown privilege could be enjoyed. They enter with zest into the use of religious opportunities. We wish a better class of missionaries could go amongst them. The population is 450,000.

PROTESTANT SISTERS OF CHARITY.-A correspondent of the Boston Recorder, Rev. Mr. Baird, we suppose, in an account of the late anniversaries of Protestant Societies in Paris describes an institution, which seems to us calculated to retain the benefits and avoid the evils of similar establishments in the Romish Church, from which the idea was evidently borrowed, and therefore to promise much usefulness. We quote his words.

"Sunday afternoon there was an interesting service, which was attended by many of the pastors, and by many of the most influential French Christians in Paris. It was a sort of dedication of the House for Protestant Sisters of Charity which has been lately opened near to the Barriere de Charenton; which is on the eastern side of the city, and not far from the village of Charenton, so famous for being the place where was for a long time the only church for worship for the Protestants of Paris and its environs, and where many persons were killed in the year 1621. Your readers will be surprised to hear of an order of Protestant Sisters of Charity, or Deaconesses as they sometimes are called. But they must not confound this movement with any thing like Puseyism. It is nothing of that sort. But it has long been felt, that Protestant women of piety and devotedness were needed to look after the Protestants who might be sick at the hospitals. They are needed to look after the sick at home, as well as to hunt up the children of the poor. In these old countries something of the kind is needed. At any rate the experiment is an interesting one. A house and garden have been bought, every way suitable for the object, and properly fitted up. Seven pious unmarried women, of good report, have entered this establishment-not under a vow of celibacy, or even an engagement to spend their lives in it; they have liberty to leave it whenever they please. They have a Lady Superior, to whom they render a general obedience. Their dress is of black, save that of the head, which consists of a white cap and veil. The prospect is, that this movement will lead to the formation of Houses of Protestant Sisters of Charity in many places in France. Already there is one in Strasburg, under the name of Deaconesses. The service to which I have alluded consisted of prayers, addresses, and the singing of hymns. It was both appropriate and edifying."

It is impossible for any person who takes much notice of the varieties of human action, not to have perceived among different individuals whose opportunities have been pretty nearly alike, that some have a turn and faculty for making themselves useful, in which others are even singularly deficient. It is truly surprising what a tact and readiness the former have in turning to account all their natural ingenuity, and how skilful they grow in process of time, by dint of mere application, in matters where others would have been utterly at fault whose native endowments were not less or perhaps greater than theirs. What I now refer to often makes itself very strikingly manifest in the way in which people pass those intervals of time, when their common and intended avocations are interrupted or suspended-the manner in which they spend their rainy days. It would seem as if the withdrawing of sunshine had some secret power by which to stupify the mind and diffuse torpor over the body, if one were to judge from the waste of such periods in the lives of many persons. They show no want of disposition to apply themselves on ordinary occasions, but discover a strange inability to do any thing out of the usual course of their out-door labor. When driven in by stress of weather or similar causes, they appear to have no thought of any resource but slug