fidence in God, in those lines; but coming sorrows were also foreshadowed on his mind, and he wrote as desirous of preparing those who love him for the worst. Up to this time, he was every where confirmed in the assurance that Stoddart and Conolly were alive.

He reached Bokhara, and thenceforth all is mystery and doubt. Letters were written, but some of them evidently with a scymetar over his head; others, apparently, not under coercion, but by stealth, and in distrust and agitation. In June he was daily expecting orders for his execution; though still, as it seemed, at liberty to go abroad, under a strong guard: on the first of August he penned a brief and touching appeal to the monarchs of Europe, not on bis own behalf, but on that of the many Persian slaves sighing in cruel captivity around him; and short private notes to some tenderly beloved were couched in terms indicating alike an expectation of, and a preparedness for, the final stroke.

But his life has been one of almost unparalleled dangers, and of escapes, or rather deliverances, so marvellous that we cannot, we must not give over hoping and praying. That some very important end is to be accomplished by this mission we dare not question, for the hand of providential guidance was visible throughout; and our dear brother himself, both before his departure, and up to the moment when his last agitated sentence was penned, never ceased to express that conviction. It is not our province to canvass the conduct of those who govern in our foreign or other offices: an account of their stewardship they must surely render; but not to us. Neither can we know, or calculate the extent

responsibility resting on them, commanding as they do and freely using, every public, and every private and confidential source of information that England possesses. There is deep, dark mystery hanging over the cruel fate of Stoddart and Conolly, not to be cleared up, perhaps, till the day of the revelation of all things. One fact alone is certain, that the two British officers were abandoned to their fate by the government, or successive governments, in charge of this country; and that the friends who came forward to their rescue, especially Captain Grover and Dr. Wolff, took on themselves the fulfilment of a most sacred duty, which but for them would have been left undone, to the eternal shame of England.

Our God is a revealer of secrets: there is no darkness nor shadow of death where wickedness can hide itself from HIM; nor is there any eye save His that can penetrate the depths of this intricate web. To Him all things are naked and open; and by Him all can be made clear to the whole world. We beseech our friends to unite in hearty supplication on this subject to pray, first, for the deliverance of our dear brother Wolff, and his safe restoration: to pray that IF the original objects of this anxious enterprize do yet survive, or either of them, the same mercy may be extended to them: and under any circumstances to implore a revelation, by whatsoever means the LORD is pleased to use, of all the treachery perpetrated or connived at, that the stain of this innocent blood may not cleave to any but the guilty.

Captain Grover, finding that there was no redress, no help to be obtained from the English government, undertook a voluntary mission to St. Petersburg in the hope that the Czar might be induced to interpose

his powerful mediation with the barbarous Ameer. If he gains the imperial ear, and is allowed to plead in his own manly way, the cause of his friend, we shall entertain an expectation of success; but alas for that cause, if he falls in with the diplomatic machinery that works in all governments, more or less, as a wall of separation between monarchs and the free exercise of their highest and noblest prerogatives! Our only safe appeal is to the King of kings; and to Him the voice of faith never appealed in vain.

Since the foregoing was written, another communication has been received by Lady Georgiana Wolff from her dear husband, which, though still involved in some perplexity, awakens a strong hope that he was about to obtain deliverance. It affords farther encouragement to pray earnestly, as for one whom the Lord yet reserves to pursue his appointed work : while it still leaves us under exciting solicitude for his safety. He had received presents and the promise of an escort out of the dominions of the barbarian king: but his audience of leave had not yet been granted: and the fetter of a capricious tyrant was still in fact around him. We await with intense anxiety the next communications.

EXTRACT FROM THE REVIEW OF

SEWELL'S CHRISTIAN MORALS

IN THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

(A Periodical of very superior character.)

'IT must have been observed that writers of the Tractarian, or Puseyite, or British Critic school, are driving hard to bring things to the issue, which the system of the Church of Rome has always been anxious to press the issue, namely, which perils and commits all upon the alternative of implicit submission to clerical dominion, or an entire renunciation of revealed truth. It is an attempt to raise the old cry of the Church against the philosophers. Certainly Tractarianism was born or hatched in the lucky hour. Taking advantage of the rebound, in the spirit of the age, from liberalism in politics, and still more from what, in morals, gave popularity to Paley, and in religion turned the preachers of the cross, into "the apes of Epictetus," as Bishop Horsley characterizes them-this new modification of anglocatholicism hit upon the propitious time for shewing a more excellent way. The previous generation was impatient of mystery, and would have all things plain; the present is to a large extent a convert to the opinion that "there are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy;' and that the infinite, with which it is man's glory to

be conversant, is not so easily gauged in all directions as was once thought, by ingenious systematizers and plausible theorists.-The hour was

come, and the men.'

'It was all the more so, because a revival of Evangelical feeling had previously taken place, which it might use as its precursor while gradually insinuating itself into its place. A work was in progress, among all classes, even the highest, of a spiritual and heavenly character, which the enemy could counteract only by simulating and mimicking it, or by diverting it into a side channel. He must work on this occasion in his character of "spiritual wickedness in high places." Spiritual truth must be met by spiritual error, and accordingly it is not a little lamentable to observe how, in a large portion of the community, the Evangelical revival seems to have done nothing more, than create a certain discontent with old secularity, and a taste for something spiritual and new, such as Tractarian earnestness can meet and satisfy, without the same demand of personal conversion, and the same sense of personal responsibility, which the Evangelical doctrine of the cross and the Spirit of Christ so unsparingly enforces.'