COLLECTANEA. THE QUEEN. Every reader is aware, probably, that on the 27th of June a weak-minded fop, who formerly held a commission in the army but has recently been living a life of idleness, his father being a gentleman of large property, had the audacity to strike the queen on the forehead with a riding cane, while she was sitting in an open carriage with three of her children, in Piccadilly. The editor of the Patriot has availed himself of this opportunity to write some very just remarks which we feel pleasure in transferring to our pages. "Our beloved queen will perceive how conspicuously this untoward circumstance calls forth the loyalty of the nation. These spontaneous outbursts of sympathy and indignation which are superior to all formal expressions of public sentiment, will by their warmth, promptitude, and universality, convince her majesty that her incomparable conduct is fully appreciated by her subjects. Her high station makes her a conspicuous mark for hostile shafts; but the unexceptionable manner in which she fills it, mingling the meekness of the woman with the dignity of the queen, ceases not to attract around her throne and person the shield of sincere affection and universal admiration. Our history as a kingdom presents no parallel to the consummate and almost severe propriety with which queen Victoria observes the rules of her peculiar position. Always accessible to her responsible advisers, ever punctual in the discharge of her sovereign duties; as studious of retirement and of the simple pleasures of a rural life as the most shrinking private lady in her realm, and yet never omitting any suitable occasion of meeting the gaze and mingling in the society of her subjects; neither losing the woman in the queen nor the queen in the woman, her majesty at once evinces how well she must have profited by the careful instructions respectively suited to her gentle sex and her lofty state, and how susceptible a pupil it was the happiness of her royal mother and the honour of Lord Melbourne (we may add Lord Palmerston) to train and instruct." REV. E. HENDERSON, D.D. At the annual meeting of the constituents of Highbury College, June 18th, the eminent services of the Rev. Dr. Henderson were adverted to, in expressions of profound respect, in connexion with his retirement from professorial duties. It having been incidentally mentioned that the Doctor had prepared for publication a translation of the Prophecies of Jeremiah, and of the Book of Lamentations, with a commentary, critical, philological, and exegetical, it was proposed by the ministers then present who had studied under him, in testimony of their gratitude and esteem, to free the author from the pecuniary risk of publication, by securing as large a number of subscribers to the volume as possible. Many, doubtless, of different denominations will gladly unite in this good work of showing respect to one so eminently deserving of it, and of adding so useful a book to the stores of our theological literature. ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS. This Dr. Tischendorf has now an edition of the Codex Amiatinus in the press, founded on his own collation of the MS., and on that of Dr. Tregelles, made during his stay at Florence in April and May, 1846, and communicated by him to Tischendorf. Latin MS. is one of the greatest importance, and it is probably the best monument of Jerome's version in existence. It appears to have been written before the middle of the sixth century. The edition of the Latin New Testament, published by Fleck, with (professedly) the various readings of this MS. is wholly unworthy of reliance; there are at least fourteen hundred readings thoroughly inaccurate. We understand that Dr. Tregelles has compared these readings one by one with the MS. The collection, as published by Fleck has greatly misled Lachmann, who had no other collation of this manuscript available for his use.--Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature. AUTHENTICITY OF STREET LITERATURE. A popular writer of publications produced in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials has furnished the following details of his art to the Metropolitan Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle:-"The little knowledge I have I have picked up bit by bit, so that I hardly know how I have come by it. I certainly knew my letters before I left home, and I have got the rest off the dead-walls and out of the ballads and papers I have been selling. I write most of the Newgate ballads now for the printers in the Dials, and, indeed, anything that turas up. I get a shilling for a Copy of verses written by the wretched culprit the night previous to his execution.' I wrote Courvoisier's sorrowful lamentation : I called it, 'A Woice from the Gaol.' I wrote a pathetic ballad on the respite of Annette Meyers. I did the helegy, too, on Rush's execution; it was supposed, like the rest, to be written by the culprit himself, and was particularly penitent. I didn't write that to order-I knew they would want a copy of verses from the culprit. The publisher read it over, and said, 'That's the thing for the street public.' I only got a shilling for Rush. Indeed, they are all the same price, no matter how popular they may be. I wrote the life of Manning in verse. Besides these, I have written the lament of Calcraft the Hangman on the decline of his trade, and many political songs." LITERARY MEN IN FRANCE AND IN ENGLAND. M. Guizot was born at Nismes in 1787; was a journalist in the time of Napoleon; and was wholly devoted to literature till 1816. He then became distinguished as a politician, and was prime minister of France when the Revolution of 1848 hurled Louis Philippe from the throne. He is once more a private manan-happier, perhaps, and as useful. In England, the man of letters seldom wins wealth-never power. He is invariably regarded here as an impracticable The largest acquaintance with the past, the readiest power of observing the present, the widest benevolence, the most inflexible integrity are no passports to worldly honour or greatness. It is better, we believe, that it should be so. There are enough second-rate intellects in the world to carry on the great game of expediency.-Knight's Half Hours with the Best Authors. man. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. If the widows who received grants from the Magazine this time last year will send their addresses to Mr. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury, he will forward to each of them the same sum as was voted to her then. The cases of other applicants must stand over for the present, but will be considered at a future meeting of the proprietors. No successor to Mr. Penny in the treasurership is as yet appointed. health rendered it impossible for him to fulfil his intention of being in his place in the House of Commons, to oppose Mr. Locke's motion for the renewal of postal labour on the Lord's day, and that subsequently it has obliged him to be absent on several important occasions. We refer to a will soon have opportunities of viewing an Our friends in Southampton and Exeter interesting work of art which has been for a short time exhibited in London, and has previously afforded pleasure to multitudes in picture of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Edinburgh and Glasgow. the Romans, which gives an impressive view of that terrific scene, and such a representation of the country and its edifices as assists the imagination greatly, in its endeavours to realize the facts of evangelical history and the ensuing manifestation of divine justice. The painting is by David Roberts, Esq., R A., in tinted colours, 42 inches by 27, is in hand, and we are pleased to learn that an engraving which it is hoped will be ready for delivery in about twelve months from the present time. The prospectus is issued by Messrs. Hering and Remington, publishers to her majesty. the A Peace Congress is about to be held in Germany, in pursuance of a resolution adopted last year, after the meeting of the same kind in France, and it is expected that a large delegation of influential men from other side of the Atlantic will attend, coming over in a vessel lent for the purpose by the government of the United States. The delegates and visitors from this country are to leave London, for Frankfort-on-theMaine, where the sittings are to be held, by a special train on Monday evening, August 19th, and proceed by way of Dover and Calais for Cologne, whence they are to proceed up the Rhine by a special steamer. The article on Schism in our last was accidentally sent out without due examination, and was miserably incorrect. 1 Cor. ix. 18 should have been 1 Cor. xi. 18; iva should have been iva; vŋw should have been ύμιν; ακονῳ should have been ακούω. One advantage, however, may accrue from the accident; a reader who is not conversant with such matters may see from these specimens how easy it was for a copyist of Greek manuscripts inadvertently to multiply various readings." The Rev. Joshua Russell of Lewisham Road Chapel, Greenwich, and the Rev. John Leechman of Hammersmith, are about to visit India at the request of the committee of the Baptist Missionary Society. The design of their mission will be explained in the Herald; but it is within our province to add that it is arranged that Mr. Russell's congregation should have the advantage of Dr. Hoby's services during their pastor's absence, and that a succession of acceptable ministers from different parts of the country may be expected to visit Mr. Leechman's friends at Hammersmith. At his return, we trust that he will find a spacious and convenient place" of worship ready for his reception; that in which he has laboured being about to be taken down immediately, in order to prepare the way for the erection of a much larger one on the same site. Our readers will partake of the regret with which we learn that the state of Mr. Peto's The Circular Letters from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, which we have just received, show very remarkable additions to the churches in these counties. The 126 churches in these two associations report a clear increase of 6,310 members; an average of fifty per church! WESTERN AFRICA. DECEASE OF REV. W. NEWBEGIN. Our chronicle of missionary intelligence for this month is again afflictive. It has pleased the All-merciful to summon from his labours our esteemed brother, Mr. Newbegin. Recent letters from him had led us to the hope that he had well nigh surmounted the debilitating effects of the climate, and that there were before him some years of exertion in the cause of the Redeemer. Our hope is destroyed. Western Africa again mourns. The promising field is deprived of its husbandman. And our faith is again summoned to submission, and to say, The Lord's will be done. Our readers will look on the sketch of Bimbia with mournful interest as they read the details which are below. It is with feelings of gratitude we refer to the kindness evinced to the bereaved widow by Governor Becroft and Mr. Lynslager, and to the prompt assistance rendered, both to Mrs. Newbegin and the church at Clarence, by the Rev. H. M. and Mrs. Waddell, of the United Presbyterian Church Mission at Calabar. The following letter from Mr. WADDELL, dated 4th of May, will put our readers in possession of what is known to us of this sorrowful event. It is with feelings of poignant grief that I her safe keeping, comfort, and welfare. Mr. address you, as secretary of the Baptist Mis- Lynslager's house being necessarily too sionary Society, being here most unexpect- much frequented to admit of her having the edly and unhappily on the business of your quiet and retirement which was indispensable Society. On the 26th ult. I received, at for her recovery, though no attention had Old Calabar, by the " Dove," two notes, one been wanting on his part or that of his exfrom Governor Becroft, who had just re- cellent wife, which it was possible for friendturned to this island, and the other from Mr. ship, and respect, and benevolence to give, McShane, surgeon of H. M. S. Phoenix, our first care was to have our widowed sister both dated 21st ult., and both on the same up to the mission house, where we were insubject-namely, informing me of the death formed accommodation had been provided of your missionary, Dr. Newbegin, in cir- for us. This without much trouble we cumstances of the most painful description, effected, and to our great satisfaction she and of the very unhappy state of Mrs. New- enjoyed that night more repose than she had begin in consequence of her heavy affliction; done for ten days or a fortnight before. and requesting, in urgent terms, that some Our hopes of her speedy recovery have not, of the ladies of our mission at Calabar might however, been sustained by subsequent imreturn with the "Dove," and aid in affording provement, and I fear that her distressing to our bereaved sister that Christian sympathy malady cannot be effectually removed till and aid which only those of her own sex and she enjoys that care at home which in this station could bestow. There being unhap-country it is quite impossible to secure for pily no missionary of either sex, nor any her. It will be absolutely necessary to send white lady remaining on the island, nor any her home to England by the first oppornearer than our families, who could render tunity, which we hope will not be more disthe necessary assistance in this extremity, tant than a month hence, when a ship from Mrs. Waddell and I did not hesitate to answer the call made on us, and on the day following left Calabar in the "Dove," and reached Clarence three days afterwards. I shall not describe the condition in which we found our dear unhappy sister. It was sufficiently deplorable. I must, however, state that every possible care had been taken of her, and every possible attention paid to her by Mr. Becroft, Mr. McShane, Mr and Mrs. Lynslager, in whose house she was for the time staying, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, as well as by the members of the church, all of whom showed the most lively concern for Calabar will be going home, having an excellent surgeon and master on board, and one of the ladies of our mission, Mrs. Edgerley, as a passenger, or by an earlier vessel if possible. The following are the particulars that I have learned concerning the sickness and death of our late brother Newbegin. On the 21st March, ten days after Mr. and Mrs. Saker and Miss Vitou left this place for England in our Calabar mission schooner, Mr. Newbegin came over from Bimbia to Clarence to minister to the church here. On 2nd April he returned to Bimbia. On sab The bath, 7th, he was sick, and could conduct | into their affairs, and give them such instruc only part of the public services. During the tions and consolations as their circumstances ensuing week his sickness increased. Tues-required, for they seemed as sheep without a day, 16th, he was carried on board the shepherd, and looked to me as to an elder "Dove," with the design of seeking medical brother or father, for sympathy and direction advice. Accompanied by Mrs. Newbegin in their sadly bereaved condition. and the assistants Trusty, Williams, and minutes of our meeting, and another to be Johnson, he reached Clarence Cove, bnt held to-night, will be copied out and sent to finding not the aid there which he required, you. the schooner, without coming to anchor, put In conclusion, my dear sir, I beg to exto sea again, and directed its course towards press my earnest desires that your Society Old Calabar, in the hope of obtaining the may very speedily be able to repair the assistance which his case required from the desolations which have been made in your ship surgeons there. In this hope all on mission. It cannot long subsist in its preboard were doomed to the saddest disap- sent state. Every month's delay inflicts an pointment. Scarcely had the "Dove" injury which many months will hardly repair. reached the mouth of the Calabar river, I hope that Mr. and Mrs. Saker may soon when our brother breathed his last. Of return, and with them at least one or two course the idea of proceeding up the river to more well prepared and well proved men, the shipping station was abandoned, and who, not alarmed by the ravages of sickness once more the mission vessel was put to sea, and death hitherto among your brethren in and steered back again to Clarence. The this field, will come out prepared for the second day thereafter, namely Friday, 19th worst yet hopeful of the best, and willing to ult, it was off the Cove, having the corpse live or die as may please God, if they may on board, but being unable to get in, made a contribute in any degree to advance the insignal of distress to a steamer, which hove interests of Messiah's kingdom in these regions sight, and approached the cove. This was of Satanic delusion and utter darkness. H. M. S. Phoenix, having on board H. M. consul-general for these coasts, Mr. Becroft, which took the "Dove" in tow, and brought her into harbour. The same evening the body was respectably interred amidst the unfeigned sorrows of the whole population. The exact nature of our late brother's complaint I have not ascertained. There was not much fever, but he vomited unceasingly, and his bowels could not be effectually moved by any means employed. He was sensible, however, to the last, and during the day before his death gave instructions to the assistants with him for the performance of their duties after his death, which he knew to be approaching. Yesterday I held a meeting with the deacons of the church here and the teachers from Bimbia and Cameroons, to act as one of your own missionaries would do were there one spared in this emergency-to inquire It is not likely that Mrs. Waddell and myself can remain here over a week or two. The attention due to our own family and mission duties at Calabar require our return so soon as the state of Mrs. Newbegin and of your mission affairs admit thereof. Every aid in our power to both we shall gladly render, as an incumbent Christian duty. I remain, my dear sir, Most sincerely yours in Christian bonds, HOPE M. Waddell. P.S. May 4th. I am happy to state before closing this letter, that a great improvement has taken place in Mrs. Newbegin's mind in the course of the last twenty-four hours. She has slept, and awoke refreshed and calm, though bewildered at the horrid dreams of the last two weeks. Her perfect recovery seems now certain and near. Some few additional facts are presented in the minutes of the church meeting. Minutes of a meeting of teachers and dea- | United Presbyterian Church at Old Calabar, cons of the Baptist Mission on the west president. coast of Africa, Clarence. Held, Fernando Po, on Wednesday, 1st May, 1850. This meeting has been held for the purpose of considering the present state of the mission on this coast, which it has pleased God to afflict by sundry painful providences. Mr. Saker, missionary here, together with his wife and child, and accompanied by Miss Vitou, sailed from this port on the 12th March last, in the mission schooner " Jane," belonging to the Presbyterian Mission at Old Calabar, bound for England, the mission here being then left in charge of Dr. Newbegin, missionary, who took up abode at |