Science and Art. POMPEII.-One of the most curious LACTOPROTEINE.-This is the name of a new albumenoid substance, dis- and interesting discoveries for some covered in milk by two French gentle- years at Pompeii has just been made. men. It has hitherto been believed It consists of a large square marble that casein is the only protein com- block, upon which is carved an almanac pound in milk, but these chemists have with some extraordinary and interestnow shown that after this has been re- ing data. moved there remains a substance possessing many, if not all, the characters of albumen. BEN NEVIS.-A new survey has confirmed the claim of Ben Nevis to be the highest mountain in England. The height of Ben Machui is 4,295 feet, that of Ben Nevis 4,406 feet. A NEW SILKWORM has been found in very great abundance in a wild state on the lands of the Carrentine Mission, South America. The tree on which the worm is found is a species of mimosa; the cocoons are of an orange colour when fresh, but become pale through the action of wind and rain. The silk produced is very fine. TRACES OF LAKE DWELLINGS.-Dr. Liory has discovered the remains of habitations in the old bed of the Lake of Fimon, four miles from Vicenza. A number of flint implements, others made of bone, the remains of stags, and other animals which have disappeared from those parts, have also been discovered. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.-The thirtyfourth annual meeting of this body, which was held this year in the City of Bath, has just closed its sittings. The topics which have been discussed include the mineral springs of Bath, the antiquity of man, geology, museums, geography, domestication of animals. THE ALBRECHT GALLERIE, published at Vienna, has just reached its thirtieth number in folio of lithographic fac similes of drawings by old masters in the private collection of H. I. H. the Grand Duke Albrecht. A NEW METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STEEL and homogenous metal has been devised by Mr. Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester. THE FARNESE COLLECTION of statues, bassi-relievi, and detached frescoes, has been purchased from the ex-King of Naples by the British Museum for £4,000. CHANTREY'S "SLEEPING CHILDREN." -The thousands who have admired Chantrey's master-piece in Lichfield Cathedral will regret to hear that the marble gives signs of premature decay, and that already the figures are pierced in various parts with small holes similar to those made by worms in old wood. MR. LEIGHTON has in hand three pictures which will probably be exhibited at the next Royal Academy exhibition. The first is a subject taken from the Iliad: Helen going with two attendants to the Scæan Gate of Troy to see her husband and kinsfolks before the duel between Menalaus and Paris. The second is from the Psalms, David sitting on the roof of his palace and gazing at the hills, "Oh that I had wings like a dove," &c. The third is a genre subject, a woman and child, the later holding a basket of flowers. PROFESSOR DONATI, the astronomer of Florence, announces the discovery of a new comet, the third this year, in the constellation of Leo Minor. STATUES IN EDINBURGH. — Two statues, one to Allan Ramsay, the poet, and the other to John Wilson, the famous Christopher North of Blackwood, are about to be erected in Princes-street Gardens. TRAJAN'S COLUMN.-Copies of the bas-relief of Trajan's Column at Rome, brozed by the galvano-plastic process, have been placed in the Galerie Napoléon of the Louvre. EROSION OF LEAD BY INSECTS.-The insect which bored the French bullets in the Crimea was not known in Russia, but is said to be common in Jura, in France, and in Germany and Sweden, as well as England. It is a wood insect, and usually attacks silver firs and pines. It is the larvæ of the insect which thus proves so destructive. The mandibles of some of these creatures consists of a a saw, toothed and cut like a file. Literature. THE NEWBURYS.* the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things." If "An honest man's the noblest work of God," OUR grandfathers would have knitted their brows at the idea of a Christian reading a novel; much more of him we have no hesitation in saying that such writing one what would they have said a character may, and will, always be to his being made its hero? But we live greatly elevated and ennobled by the in a different day. The public, religious possession of true religion: and calmly and otherwise, has long been accustomed surveying such a representation of excelto see almost every historical portrait, lence, replete in the well-proportioned political maxim, and even moral lesson, development of manly abilities and virpresented to it in the dress of fiction. tues, of intellectual and moral culture, Setting aside the legion of fictitious narand social graces, and all enriched with ratives of a specifically religious tone, the "gifts of heavenly grace," the imparwhich have followed in the wake of "The tial critic is compelled to confess that "a "Christian is the highest style of man." Dairyman's Daughter" and "No Fiction," and which generally hold a second-rate Upon the whole, then, we see no reaposition in point of literary excellence, son to look with disfavour upon fiction scarcely any author of the first eminence as applied to the delineation of religious in this walk of intellectual labour has character. For that reason we hail with refrained from employing his easel upon satisfaction the appearance of the modest religious character; sometimes finding in volume, whose title stands at the head of its foibles and inconsistencies a favourite these lines. It is an attempt to sketch theme for ridicule, which, whether just the circumstances, the trials, and the or not, would be sure, with a large class moral and religious peculiarities of Bapof readers, to be popular, and sometimes tists, as they were found in England two recognizing, with the impartiality which hundred years ago. As our readers are naturally belongs to minds of a masterly aware, the work has been before them in order, the inimitable dignity and sweet- a series of papers already given in this ness which is alone attainable by the due journal. To detail the plot of the story combination of superior endowments and afresh is therefore, on our part, quite genuine piety. Few more exquisite de-needless. Suffice it to say that the scope lineations, whether for power or tender- of the narrative includes some of the ness, enrich the enchanted pages of the most stirring and momentous events of author of Waverley than some of his porthat most eventful time: taking us in suctraits of the Covenanters, pursued by the cession through the battle of Naseby, the bloody footsteps of Claverhouse, or of the plague, and the great fire of London. In Puritans of the time of the Common- his hasty pencillings of these great wealth. How could we dispense with his national tragedies, the author has not asIronsides, or ever forget Jeanie Deans? sumed the pomp of the historian, but has And if, in later days, the genius of fiction, judiciously limited himself to such sidewith characteristic inconstancy, has views and episodes as the consistency of changed her temper towards us, and in his story required. His strength seems the pages of Dickens and Thackeray to have been expended where, according sported in a mockery of caricatures to the title of his book, it was due, upon which are her own creations, and made the personal conduct and spirit of sincere Christians in times so trying to principle itself merry with "extinct Satans," we need scarcely fear that such effigies will and so sure to test the elements of charbe mistaken for the portraits of honest acter. In this task we think he has and sensible Christians, whose upright-with the modest appearance of his volume, achieved success, quite commensurate ness and intelligence sufficiently defend their own position, while they "adorn The Newburys: their Opinions and Fortunes. A Glimpse of Baptists in England two centuries ago. By Edwin Goadby. London; E. Marlborough and Co., Ave Maria Lane. and full of the promises and tokens of greater things to come. Many of his scenes are instinct with truth and pathos, and powerful in their dramatic effect. The correctness of the chronological pro say, that in doing this by a calm and able reproduction of historical facts, and embellishing that by an expansion of fiction strictly faithful to nature and to logic, Mr. Goadby has abundantly enti honours the subject, and the subject honours the author. We say all honour to them both. If there is a point where pride is pardonable, we think it is in the glow which mounts into a man's face when he thinks of the virtue of his ancestors. While scamps and boobies, with self-satisfied industry, trace "their blood Through all the scoundrels since the flood," be it ours to proclaim that perties of the tale, as to dress, fashions, | insatiable monsters and hardened villains customs, and modes of speech, is admi- in whose shoes they stand. Again, we rable; especially in a first essay of historical romance. The author evidently feels the inspiring power of the subject he handles, and dilates with just and natural admiration upon the qualities of those illustrious heroes of truth and free-tled himself to our thanks. The author dom, upon whom we look with reverence and pride as our moral, as well as natural, ancestors, and whose fame we ought never willingly to let die. Mr. Goadby has rendered his tribute of homage where it is most justly due. We thank him for it. His book ought to be given to our children, lent to our friends, and diligently studied by ourselves, as supplying a rebuke which our degeneracy sadly needs, and an example of the "gospeller in armour," whose valour shines a noble beacon to his followers of the present day. The best of those followers may But there is a higher genealogy in which be aptly described as "faint yet pursu- by loyal obedience we may claim kining." The general apathy of free reli- dred. It is the line of those worthies gionists shames us. How many dissenters who are "faithful in their generation." seem almost ashamed of their position? Our day has its duties. Let us rememWho seems to remember that the intelli- ber them. In this spirit-stirring tale gence, freedom, and piety of England are Mr. Goadby has done his part in summainly due to the holy zeal of persecuted moning our attention to the deeds of Bects? And who is found proudly and valour which have lightened up with eagerly teaching his children what a noble glory the days gone by; be it ours to heir-loom it is to be descended from men profit by the call, and no longer neglect who have defied popes and emperors the lamp that has been committed to our abroad, abolished priestcraft and tyranny hands, lest it expire in darkness. O. M. at home, trampled down idols and laughed at superstition, till the blue savages who yelled at Cæsar's landing have become the free-breathing lords of "The first gem of the ocean, the first isle of the sea." The notion of hereditary piety may be promptly dismissed in the pages of a Christian periodical which ever has been, and, we trust, ever will be, inexorably evangelical. We stand firm as the poles for our cardinal doctrine, that religion is a personal thing, and that "if thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scorn, thou alone shalt bear it." But we do not forget the promise that "after the fathers shall come up the children," and we think we are justified in pointing the eyes of an affectionate posterity to those models of ancient excellence, who have left us so grand an ensample that we should follow their steps." Traitors and renegades we shall have in every generation; and it may not be useless to hold up even to them a mirror which displays the figures of the "Not all the blood of all the Howards Bunyan is becoming popular in Germany. Several German versions of the "Pilgrim's Progress" already exist; and now the "Holy War" is being translated and published at Eisleben by the Christliche Verein.-Enoch Arden, Tennyson's new volume of poems, is amazingly popular. The publishers, we are told, cannot keep pace with the demand.The publication of extracts from Archbishop Whately's Common-place Book has awakened a good deal of interest among his numerous admirers. One of the most characteristic pieces in it is, an examination of some flaws in "Robinson Crusoe," by which the archbishop ingeniously shows that the book is not founded on fact. He calls attention to two facts of a very remarkable kind in Selkirk's history of which no use is made by De Foe. Altogether the volume is, in our judgment, full of the shrewdness for which Whately was proverbial. Intelligence. BAPTIST UNION. AN AUTUMNAL SESSION OF THE BAPTIST UNION will be held at Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 12th and 13th. The Rev. J. P. Mursell, of Leicester, will preside; Rev. J. H. Hinton will conduct the devotional ser Rhodes, of Bradford, be a committee to promote the interests of the Foreign Mission in the Yorkshire and Lancashire district. Rev. R. Horsfield to be the secretary, to correspond with the general secretaries, &c. The Conference met to transact its Rev. R. vices; Rev. G. Gould, of Norwich, is regular business at 2. 30 p.m. engaged to introduce the subject of Hardy, of Queensbury, by request of "Romanism and Scepticism viewed in the Allerton friends, presided, and led relation to Baptist principles;" Rev. our devotions. J. P. Chown, of Bradford, will open a The reports from churches were then discussion on the important question, received, from which it appeared that "Church work in large towns," Rev. seventy-seven had been baptized and W. Underwood, of Chilwell College, three restored since last Conference, and "The present position of General Bap- eleven remained as candidates. tists;" Rev. W. Brock, D.D., is to preach on one of the evenings, and a public meeting will be held on the other. Our Churches. THE YORKSHIRE CONFERENCE assembled at Allerton, Aug. 30, 1864. In the morning a public meeting was held in the chapel to consider the pecuniary difficulties of the Foreign Mission, in accordance with the wish of the Association recently held at Boston. The Rev. W. Gray, of Birchcliffe, opened with prayer; Mr. S. White, of Allerton, presided; and the following resolutions were adopted : 1. That we perceive with extreme humiliation and distress the present condition of our Foreign Mission, and hear with dismay that one missionary has already been recalled, and the intimation that the very existence of the Mission is threatened. 2. That we earnestly urge each church in this Conference to assist in the removal of the oppressive debt, to the amount of one shilling per member at least. 3. That we solemnly and prayerfully determine to increase the annual income of the Mission. With this design, resolved 4. That the Revs. R. Horsfield, R. Ingham, T. Gill, J. Alcorn, B. Wood, and Messrs. Woodson, of Leeds, and The doxology was then sung, the minutes of the previous Conference read, and the following attended to: 1. The committee for Dewsbury reported through its secretary, Rev. J. Wood, a first-class preaching room had been engaged in a very eligible position in the town of Dewsbury at an annual rental of £40. Regular services had been commenced; several of our regular ministers had already spent a Sabbath each there; sixteen baptized Christians were already worshipping together there; congregations encouraging; and a Sabbath school was to be opened on the following Lord's-day. 2. That this Conference has heard with great pleasure of the hopeful efforts of their committee and of their esteemed Christian brethren at Wakefield-road, Dewsbury, to promote the glory of our divine Redeemer, and assure them, not only of their cordial sympathy, but also of their determination to co-operate with them in their blessed work so long as it shall be necessary. 3. That we, as a Conference, having heard of the vote of £15 for Dewsbury by the General Home Missionary Committee, hereby grant £25 from the funds of the Home Mission for the Yorkshire district, and thus provide the rent of room for one year. 4. That this Conference requests the churches of this district to allow their pastors to supply at Dewsbury in rotation for twelve months, and to find their own supply; the travelling expenses to be paid from the Conference fund. 5. That we make a collection forthwith in this meeting to replenish the Conference fund. 6. That we express our gratitude to the General Home Missionary Committee for their opportune grant in behalf of Dewsbury. 7. The thanks of the Conference were presented to the committee for Dewsbury, with a special recognition of the earnest efforts of their secretary, Rev. J. Wood, and they were requested to continue another year. 8. Rev. E. Gladwell, of Edgeside, Rossendale, reported that they were proceeding rapidly in the erection of their new chapel, the cost of which will be nearly £1,200. They expect the roof to be completed and on in a few weeks, and have obtained in subscriptions or promises over £400, including £50 from the Home Mission fund. Resolved, That £25, being the latter half of £50 promised towards our new chapel at Edgeside, be forthwith paid over by our Home Mission treasurer. 9. Rev. T. Gill and W. Salter were appointed to audit Home Mission accounts. 10. The committee of the projected "Loan Fund" for the Yorkshire district reported-In pursuing their inquiries they had corresponded with the secretary of the Baptist Building Fund, who had encouraged them to seek union with their Society, and to act as an auxiliary. Resolved, That the question of our uniting with the "Baptist Building Fund" be deferred to the next Conference, and that we request our committee in the meanwhile to continue their inquiries. 11. That the next Conference be held at Byron-street, Leeds, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1864; the committee on Mission arrangements in Yorkshire, and the committee for Dewsbury, to meet in the morning at halfpast ten; Conference business, afternoon; and public meeting in the evening. The Rev. C. Leigh, of Clayton, preached in the evening. T. GILL, Secretary. P.S.-The Conference was well attended considering the locality, and an earnest brotherly feeling manifested throughout the day. THE WARWICKSHIRE CONFERENCE was held at Nuneaton, on Monday, Sept. 12, 1864. Brother Allsop, of Longford, preached in the morning from Col. i. 28-"Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that Christ Jesus." we may present every man perfect in Brother J. F. Winks, of Leicester, presided over the business meeting of the afternoon. Reports were received from all the churches except two. Since last Conference twenty-four persons have been baptized; twelve now remain as candidates. After the reports of the churches were given, a long conversation was held upon the state of the funds of the Foreign Mission, during which several brethren expressed their strong attachment to the Mission, and determination to support it in its present difficulties. This conversation was associated with special prayer on behalf of the Mission. The next Conference to be held at Walsall, on the second Monday in January, 1865. The Secretary to preach in the morning. J. HARRISON, Secretary. THE MIDLAND Conference was held at Barton-in-the-Beans, Leicestershire, on Tuesday, Sep. 20. The day was unusually favourable, and the attendance was good. Rev. W. Chapman, of Melbourne, read the scriptures and prayed, and Rev. Giles Hester, of Loughborough, preached from 1 Cor. iii. 21-23. Rev. James Salisbury, of Hugglescote, presided at the afternoon meeting, and Revs. Watson Dyson, of Long Sutton, and J. Barnet, of Blaby, prayed. From the reports given it appeared that 89 had been baptized since the Whitsuntide Conference, that thirty-five remained as candidates for baptism, and that three had been restored to fellowship. After singing the doxology, the minutes of the previous Conference were read, and the following business transacted : pointed to attend to the case presented 1. Whitwick.-The Committee apby this church at the last Conference reported that £200 of the £300 required had been borrowed, that the responses to the circulars sent out to the churches asking for aid in obtaining the remaining £100 had been very few; that the secre |