Liverpool, by the recital of his recent tour in the Holy land, and the hope held out by Mehemet Ali, that he would facilitate the return of the Jews to Palestine and then we knew that, in some way, the Lord would bring them under the teaching of the gospel, and gather them into his fold. But not for a blood-stained paynim tyrant was the glory reserved of even opening a way for the return: No-England, favoured, pardoned England was chosen for the work: led on to it by the most Christian king that ever shed lustre on the crown he wore. Prussia and Englandthe Eagle and the Lion-take the lead. Prussia first, for, saith the Lord, "Them that honour me I will honour ;" and never perhaps was the Lord so singularly honoured by the public unreserved devotion of a Royal Servant to his name and cause, as at the inauguration of Frederick. To him of right—a right derived from the free promises of God's grace-belonged the praise and the honour of being foremost in the glorious work: and that England was chosen to take the second part, "Not unto us, O Lord! not unto us, but unto thy name, be the praise."

We were summoned to the chapel; the service proceeded, as far as the end of the morning prayers; and then it was a beautiful sight, to see that truly venerable Archbishop advancing to the Eastern end, where he sat enthroned within the rails of the communion table, (in Popish days called the altar) while his two chaplains stood near, and around were seated the Bishops of London, Rochester, and New Zealand. There were no trappings: no glitter, save from the massive gold salver that rested on the table, preparatory to the communion. No pictures, no stained glass, no tinsel fringes, or embroidered mysti

cisms: plain crimson drapery hung round the table, where a fair white cloth covered the bread and wine, and the same subdued depth of crimson, approaching to purple, enfolded the episcopal chairs, where, beautifully contrasted with the trumpery of Rome, the snowy lawn and crape relieved the black silk and satin of the Bishops' habits. There was something at once so grand and so simple, all things were done so decently and in order, that nothing was left to desire, so far as appearance went; excepting that I could have wished to banish the great candlesticks which stood upon the table; and to which I only contrived to reconcile myself by thinking of old Matthew Henry's beautiful remarks on Rom. xi. "If the putting out of their candle was the lighting of yours, by the power of God, who brings good out of evil, much more shall the continued light of your candle, when God's time is come, be a means of lighting theirs again." God's time is now come. The material candles on that table were not lighted; but the light of the gospel was shining there; and the light of holy honour burst again upon the head of the Jew.

After the Nicene Creed, the great business of the day, and of the age, commenced. In one of the stalls, undistinguished, save by the simple clerical gown and bands that he wore, sat a clergyman, whose calm countenance indicated a mind at peace, free from the agitation of self-seeking anxiety, the flush of pride, or the flurry of ambition. None but his personal friends would have recognized in him the object of every heart's emotion, but for the intense feeling that wrought in the sweet countenance of the young Missionary Bishop of New Zealand, when, selecting an

Epistle rarely read at a consecration on account of its length, he gave with unspeakable effect Paul's address to the Ephesian Church, Acts xx. 17-33; and when reading that touching appeal of the Apostle, "I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel; yea, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me," he fixed such a gaze of affectionate testimony on the dear Brother to whom the words were so remarkably applicable, that no one could avoid following the direction of his eye.

Then ensued the sermon: it was preached by the benefactor of Israel, the noble, disinterested Mc'Caul: the man who beautifully realized the exploded fable of Nolo Episcopari, and put from him the mitre of the metropolis of the world that a Jew might wear it. He took for his text, Isaiah lii. 7. "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good; that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! The discourse was masterly: first answering the puerile or malignant objections raised against this work of God, then setting forth, boldly and broadly, the sure promises of the Lord-the coming glory of Israel. This done, two officers of the Chapel led into the vestry the honored servant of Jehovah, and a movement was perceptible in the whole congregation; not a change of place; nor of position, scarcely; but an evident thrill of joyous, yet awe-struck expectation. May the Lord help me to remember the scene while I live! There were men there, who had hazarded their lives among foreign and strange people, in Africa, in Arabia, all over the globe, seeking out the lost sheep of

Israel, over whom God was now appointing a shepherd. There were men who had devoted their money, their time, their talents, their health, to the earnest pursuit of the same cause at home: the workers of that vast and complicated machinery which has been in motion for years, in London, seeking the welfare of Israel; men too, who had undertaken many a fatiguing journey in pulpits and on platforms to rouse, if it might be, the dormant embers of Gentile gratitude into a flame of zeal for Israel. There was the representative of the beloved king of Prussia, he to whom the mighty plan of his royal friend was unreservedly committed, and who, with the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, and knowing that he could do all things through Christ who strengthened him, had in four months' time achieved this magnificent work. Noble Prussian! our hearts acknowledged you as a brother, and revered you as a chosen vessel to bear God's mercy unto His own, own Israel ! Beside him was one whom the King of kings delighteth to honor, a representative of the aristocracy of England: would God they all resembled him! who, having devoted himself wholly, and without reserve, to the despised cause of the most depressed, degraded class in the land-the slaves of a free country-the cruelly-wronged factory children; and having declined the highest honors that can be put on subjects rather than incur the possibility of fettering himself in the unwearied movement of benevolence, or compromising even by implication that cause to which he has wholly given himself, “to deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also and him that hath no helper," was chosen to labour in this holy and triumphant undertaking, and to share

a blessing, the richest that mortal man can conceive. There they stood together, the Chevalier Bunsen, and Lord Ashley to the Lord was known what they had together achieved for his sake: from the Lord they received the fulness of that hour's joy.

And now from the vestry the Pastor of Israel came, habited in a coarse, scanty surplice; such at least it looked, in strong contrast to the full robes of the Bishops. He was conducted, outside the railing, opposite to the Archbishop, at whose desire the judge of the Ecclesiastical Court read aloud the Queen's mandate: and by it the Reverend Michael Solomon Alexander was appointed Bishop, in the Anglican Church, over SYRIA, CHALDEA, EGYPT, and ABYSSINIA, a diocese that embraces every foot of ground guaranteed of God to Abraham; with much moreroom enough for the ten tribes to dwell in. This being read, and the oath taken which binds Israel evermore in alliance with us against Popery, by the solemn declaration of the Jewish Bishop "that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within THIS realm,”—-the litany and other prayers were fervently repeated by the Archbishop; the prescribed questions asked and answered: and the elect Bishop once more retired.

There was a dead silence: we all stood, and some among us even then trembled lest any interruption might occur, to stay the act which seemed too great for us to realize. Her Majesty might be obliged to summon even then the instant attendance of the principal actors in it, to witness the expected event: Satan who had striven with unexampled energy to