have rekindled the feelings which were exhibited a few years ago, when the Remonstrant Synod was compelled to form a separate organizatiou. In Scotland attention is not likely to be drawn to Unitarianism, in the way either of inquiry or of aggression, while the struggle in the Church continues. Our friends in England have met with a severe bereavement in the death of Rev. Henry Acton of Exeter. He was one of the principal advocates of our faith in the West of England, and since the death of Dr. Carpenter no one has been more eminent. His illness was very short. In the midst of apparent health he was seized with paralysis, and died on the 22d of last August, in the forty fifth year of his age. "Strong in the religious views he entertained, and filled with the Christian's hope, he quietly and without a struggle surrendered himself into the hands of his God and Father." He left a destitute family, for whose benefit we are glad to observe a subscription has been raised in the Exeter congregation and among their other friends, which "at the date of the last report was upwards of £900." In Ireland also our churches mourn the loss of one of their highly esteemed ministers, in the death of Rev. William Porter of Newtonlimavady, in his seventieth year. "He was the first Moderator of the Remonstrant Synod," which seceded from the General Synod of Ulster in 1830; "and held the office of Clerk to the same from the year 1831 till his death."—We may take this opportunity to correct a mistake which occurred in our notice of the Sunday School Celebration in Bristol, England, (in the present volume of the Miscellany, pp. 191, 192,) which our correspondent reminds us may create some scandal on that side of the water. The festivities which we described were not held on Whitsunday, but on Whitmonday. CONCLUDING NOTICE.-With our present number we close this publication; not however because it has not met with sufficient encouragement or sufficient approbation. Our subscription list has steadily, though slowly increased, and we have been gratified with the expressions of satisfaction in the character of the Miscellany, which have reached us from various friends. But it has been thought that a change might be made, which would be productive of more good than results from the present arrangement of the larger journals of our denomination. A negotiation has therefore been effected, by which the Christian Examiner and the Monthly Miscellany will be united, under the title of the CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The general character of the work will be the same as has belonged to the Examiner from its commencement, but it is intended that there shall be a somewhat greater variety in the contents. It will still be strictly a religious journal, and will aim at exhibiting the application of Christianity, as understood by Unitarians, to the thought, sentiment and movement of the present time. Retaining in many of its articles the form of a review, it will yet enter into discussions of theology and morals on a larger plan than might be suggested by a particular book, and will also contain short articles designed particularly to elucidate or quicken the religious life. Notices of books and other publications of a religious nature issuing from our denomination will be given, in the hope of furnishing a complete record under this head. A brief department of Intelligence will be added to each number, as a register of ecclesiastical events of general interest to our churches; together with a very short obituary record. It will be seen therefore, that some of the features which have distinguished the Miscellany will be introduced into the new journal, without sacrificing any of the essential merits of the past Examiner. We cannot but hope that the present subscribers to the Miscellany will welcome the Examiner and Miscellany in its place. The price is rather higher, and the time of publication less frequent, but as the Examiner always has been, and we trust will continue to be, a journal of a much higher order of merit than the Miscellany, we conceive that these reasons need not prevent those who have taken the latter work from transferring their names to the new list. A proposed addition to the number of pages which have hitherto been given in the Examiner, for which we refer to our Publisher's advertisement on the cover, will likewise render it, if bulk only be considered, more valuable than the Miscellany has been. It has been thought desirable, at the same time, to publish a very cheap monthly magazine, of a religious character, which might meet the wants of those persons who can take only such a work. The first number of such a magazine will therefore be issued on the first of January. It will contain short articles upon Christian truth and the Christian life, in explanation of Scripture or illustration of duty, with a sermon in each number, and a department of intelligence. It will be much smaller than the Miscellany has been and will be furnished to subscribers at a dollar a year. As the past editor and the publisher of the Miscellany will have a connexion with both these journals, it cannot be supposed that there will be any competition between them for public favor. They are intended for different classes of readers. The first number of the Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany will appear as early in January as possible, that its future publication may correspond with the commencement of the year. The present number of the Miscellany has been delayed by our anticipation of the arrangements which we have here announced. MISCELLANY. Affliction, Benefits of, 218. Christ compared with his Times, Christian Life, The, Not an Easy Dante and Swedenborg, 224. Difficulty of the Religious Life, Goodness of God, The, 153. D. D., Notices of the late, 166. Ministry at large, The, 229. 38. Notes on Scripture, 44. Palfrey's Lowell Lectures, 20. Past, The, The Present, and the Poetry of Manufactures, The, Pursuit of Pleasure, The, 275. Scottish Church, Disruption of Theological Disingenuousness, 39. Thrush, Thomas, The late, of Trinity, The, Not a Doctrine of Uncertainty of the Ministerial Unimproveable Religion, An, 38. SERMONS. Secret Sins. By Rev. Jonathan Christ our Wisdom and Right- Death in the Lord. By Rev. Hymn, 213. of, 270. Poet's Hope, The, 98. Poetry for the Collation, 9. Illinois Prairies, A Recollection Sabbath morning at Pascagoula, Matthew xxvii. 25, 31. Mississippi, To the, 334. A, 158. Song, 9. Song of the Poor Gardener, 201. NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. American Tract for the Times, Damon's Address at Consecra- Farley's Sermon after Interment of Mr. H. Leeds, 181. Frothingham's Sermon after nion with the Unseen, 363. Hillard's Phi Beta Kappa Dis- Huguenots in France and Amer- Lincoln's Sermon on Evils of Martineau's Discourses on the Miles's Discourse before Anc. Neander's History of Christian Religion and Church, 240. Priestley's History of Corrup- Thayer's Sermon on Our Faith, Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Whitman, Memoir of Deacon, Address of Irish Unitarians to American Education Society, 59. District Unitarian Associations Irish Unitarian Society for Dif- Massachusetts Abolition Socie- ty, 64. Massachusetts Sabbath School Medford Missionary Society, and Meeting for Western Colleges, Meeting in behalf of Congrega- Bristol, England, 191. Vesuvius, Ascent of, 253. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. Rev. Joseph H. Allen-Rox- Rev. Frederick Huidekoper,— bury, Mass., 370. Rev. A. C. L. Arnold-Nashua, as an Evangelist—Meadville, Rev. John Pierpont jr.-Lynn, Rev. Joseph C. Smith-Groton, Rev. John Weiss jr.-Water- DEDICATIONS. Charlestown, N. H., 373. Walpole, N. H., 55. |