square Rooms, in aid of the funds of the Hahnemann
Hospital, Bloomsbury-square. The various articles
exhibited for sale consisted chiefly of works of industry
in the different departments of the art of fancy needlework,
contributed by lady friends of the institution
(both in the metropolis and the provinces), who had
either themselves derived benefit from the Homœopathic
system, or had been convinced of the soundness
of the principles on which it is founded, and were
desirous to extend its operation. The stalls were presided
over by the Countess of Wilton, the Viscountess
Newport, Lady Robert Grosvenor, Mrs. Leslie, Mrs. Barnaby,
Mrs. Everest, and other ladies of distinction.

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts celebrated its hundred and fiftieth
anniversary on the 17th, by a jubilee commemoration in
St. Martin's Hall. Prince Albert, who presided, opened
the proceedings with the following address, which made
a great impression:—"My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen
—We are assembled here to-day in order to
celebrate the third jubilee of the foundation of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
incorporated by royal charter, and one of the chief
sources of the spiritual aid which the Established Church
affords to our extensive Colonial dependencies. We are
not commemorating, however, an isolated fact which
may have been glorious or useful to the country, but
we are thankfully acknowledging the Divine favour
which has attended exertions which have been
unremitting during the lapse of one hundred and fifty
years. We are met, at the same time, to invoke the
farther continuance of that favour, pledging ourselves
not to relax in our efforts to extend to those of our
brethren who are settled in distant lands, building up
communities and states where man's footsteps had first
to be imprinted on the soil, and wild nature yet to be
conquered to his use, those blessings of Christianity
which form the foundation of our community and of
our state. This society was first chartered by that great
man William the Third—the greatest Sovereign this
country has to boast of; by whose sagacity and energy
was closed that bloody struggle for civil and religious
liberty which had so long been convulsing this country,
and there were secured to us the inestimable advantages
of our constitution and of our Protestant faith. Having
thus placed the country upon a safe basis at home, he
could boldly meet her enemies abroad, and contribute
to the foundation of that colonial empire which forms
so important a part of our present greatness: and honour
be to him for his endeavour to place this foundation upon
the rock of the Church! The first jubilee of the society
fell in times when religious apathy had succeeded to the
over-excitement of the preceding age. Lax morals and a
sceptical philosophy began to undermine the Christian
faith, treating with indifference, and even with ridicule,
the most sacred objects. Still this society persevered in
its labours with unremitting zeal; turning its chief
attention to the North American continent, where a young
and vigorous society was rapidly growing into a people.
The second jubilee found this country in a most critical
position. She had obtained by the peace of Amiens a
moment's respite from the tremendous contest in which
she had been engaged with her continental rival, and
which she had soon to renew in order to maintain her
own existence, and to secure a permanent peace to
Europe. Since the last jubilee, the American colonies,
which had originally been peopled chiefly by British
subjects who had left their homes to escape the yoke of
religious intolerance and oppression, had thrown off
their allegiance to the mother country in defence of
civil rights, the attachment to which they had carried
with them from the British soil. Yet this society was
not dismayed, but, in a truly Christian spirit, continued
its labours in the neighbouring North American and
West Indian settlements. This, the third jubilee, falls
in a happier epoch, when peace is established in Europe,
and religious fervour is rekindled, and at an auspicious
moment, when we are celebrating a festival of the
civilisation of mankind, to which all quarters of the globe
have contributed their productions and are sending their
people—for the first time recognising their advancement
as a common good, their interests as identical, their
mission on earth the same. And this civilisation rests
on Christianity—could only be raised on Christianity—
can only be maintained by Christianity; the blessings of
which are now carried by this society to the vast
territories of India and Australasia, which last are again to
be peopled by the Anglo-Saxon race. While we have
thus to congratulate ourselves upon our state of
temporal prosperity—harmony at home and peace abroad—
we cannot help deploring that the Church, whose
exertions for the progress of Christianity and civilisation
we are to-day acknowledging, should be afflicted by
internal dissensions and attacks from without. I have no
fear, however, for her safety and ultimate welfare, so
long as she holds fast to what our ancestors gained for
us at the Reformation—the Gospel and the unfettered
right of its use. The dissensions and difficulties which
we witness in this, as in every other Church, arise from
the natural and necessary conflict of the two antagonistic
principles which move human society in Church as well
as State—I mean the principles of individual liberty,
and of allegiance and submission to the will of the
community, exacted for its own preservation. These two
conflicting principles cannot be disregarded—they must
be reconciled. To this country belongs the honour of
having succeeded in this mighty task as far as the state
is concerned, while other nations are wrestling with it.
And I feel persuaded that the same earnest zeal and
practical wisdom which have made her political
constitution an object of admiration to other nations, will,
under God's blessing, make her Church likewise a
model to the world. Let us look upon this assembly as
a token of future hope; and may the harmony which
reigns among us at this moment, and which we owe to
having met in furtherance of a common holy object, be,
by the Almighty, permanently bestowed upon the
Church."—The Bishop of London, in moving a resolution
of thankful acknowledgments to Almighty God,
expressed his trust that the successful issue of the Great
Exhibition of Industry will tend to remove the antipathies
which too frequently exist between the inhabitants
of neighbouring countries.—Lord John Russell sketched
the rise of large and populous communities founded by
the British people in America and Australia; and
observed, that to the Englishman there can hardly be a
more sublime contemplation than that the pure and
simple language of the Bible, in its English form, is the
book in which millions in this age, and many more
millions in succeeding ages, will seek comfort on every
subject which can, most interest them here and hereafter.
Earl Grey moved a resolution, that it is incumbent on
the Church of the mother-country, so long as it shall be
necessary, to assist in providing for her emigrant children
the ministrations of religion. Mr. Sidney Herbert,
in seconding this motion, observed, that emigration from
this country is becoming enormous, upwards of half a
million of persons having left our shores within the last
two years.—The Bishop of Oxford moved a resolution
affirming that the best hope of foreign missions is in a
native ministry.—Sir Robert Inglis, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Earl of Harrowby, and the Bishop of
Tennessee, spoke to other resolutions bearing on special
objects of the society. A laudatory tribute to the Chairman
from the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of
the society, and a reply by the Prince, closed the
speeches; and the meeting separated with the
archiepiscopal benediction.

Cathedral services at Westminster Abbey and St.
Paul's formed a portion of the religious celebrations of
the jubilee. The service in the Abbey took place on the
16th, and that in St. Paul's on the 18th. In St. Paul's,
full choral service was given by the members of the two
Metropolitan choirs and the choirs of the Chapels Royal
at St. James's and Windsor. A great many foreigners
were present.

In the evening of the 18th, the Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress gave a grand entertainment to about 170 of
the members of the Propagation Society, in the
Mansion-house. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops
of London and Oxford, and several other prelates, were
present.

At the annual meeting of The Law Amendment Society
on the 18th, Lord Brougham read the following very
important extract of a letter from Lord Denman, on the
effect of the county courts in superseding the higher