Obliged by the failure of health to give up his parliamentary career, Mr. Colquhoun, upon his partial recovery, became the prime mover or able coadjutor of a society for the education of the masses upon sound Protestant principles. He became also chairman of the Irish Church Missions; a manager of the National Club, especially in its incidental promotion of great social and religious objects by its special gatherings; and latterly of the Church Association, established to counteract the Ritualism which has sprung up in our Church, of which the avowed object is to assimilate the services of the Church of England to those of the Church of Rome, and especially to re-introduce the Romish Mass in the place of the Lord's Supper. The Council of the Church Association have thus borne witness to the value of Mr. Colquhoun's services in that Society:— "They desire to record their very deep sense of the loss they have sustained, and of the obligation the Association owes to their late chairman, for all his self-denying and devoted labours in behalf of the cause in which they have been engaged. The Council are fully persuaded that much of the success which has attended their operations is to be attributed to the influence which their late chairman exercised, and the minute and discriminating attention which he bestowed on all the work of the Association since its commencement. They recognize the single-hearted zeal for the truth of God's word and for the maintenance of the principles of the Reformation in our beloved Church, which he manifested on all occasions; and they would record their sense of the great ability and Christian spirit displayed by him, when acting as chairman at their public Meetings, at the assembling of the Conferences, and at all the deliberations of the Council, at which he presided with the greatest regularity."

Mr. Colquhoun was a frequent writer in this magazine for many years past. In the present year the first Number contains, in the first Article, his vigorous and comprehensive thoughts on the reform of our Church. Some years back he contributed several articles on the character and labours of William Wilberforce and his associates, thus following in the wake of Sir James Stephen in his famous review upon the Clapham sect." the Clapham sect." Mr. Colquhoun entered more elaborately into biographical notices of individuals; and, as he had not been personally acquainted with any one of the worthies he described, the general accuracy and discrimination of character which he displayed was perfectly wonderful. These articles have since appeared in a separate volume.

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We should have been glad to have presented our readers with a worthy sketch of the career of this truly Christian statesman and philanthropist, but must content ourselves with a very few particulars.

Mr. Colquhoun's father's original name was Campbell. He assumed the name of Colquhoun upon succeeding to an estate in Lanarkshire. He was Lord Advocate for Scotland from 1807 to 1816, and afterwards Lord Registrar of Scotland, which gave him the rank of a Privy Councillor, and an ample income. He married the daughter of the Rev. Wm. Erskine, a Scotch Episcopal Minister in Perthshire.

Mr. J. C. Colquhoun was educated at the High School, Edinburgh

and soon after his father's death in 1820, entered Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1824 as a 1st class man in Classics. After leaving Oxford, he resided for a short time in the South of France, with his excellent mother and sisters, who, like himself, were in delicate health. In 1826, he married a daughter of the late Lord Lilford, a sister of the present Bishop of Sodor and Man. In the year 1831, he entered Parliament as Member for Dumbartonshire. It was the first Reformed Parliament, and he was returned by the Radical Reformers as their representative. Though a Tory by hereditary and family connections, he had been carried away by the hope of the great social and political benefits which the advocates for Reform put forward. But he soon found that the hope was delusive, and that his new political connections were indifferent to what he had ever regarded as the highest national interests, namely, the maintenance of the Protestant religion. He began gradually to withdraw from his Radical associations. He had entered upon his political career with characteristic enthusiasm, and published a "Reform" pamphlet, bearing a significant and somewhat democratic title, which Sir Robert Peel quoted some years afterwards as a retort upon Mr. Colquhoun's attacks upon his policy. Hence Mr. Colquhoun incurred from both sides the charge of political flexibility; and he scarcely remained long enough in Parliament, or identified himself sufficiently with the religious questions which have of late years been agitated in the House of Commons, to achieve for himself an individual reputation. In 1834, he lost his seat for Dumbartonshire, and remained out of Parliament for three years. In 1837, he was restored by the Kilmarnock Boroughs, which he represented till 1841, when he was defeated in a contested election. In 1842, he was returned for Newcastle-under-Lyme, and retained that seat till 1847, when the state of his health obliged him to retire from parliamentary duties. Thus he sat in the House of Commons for nearly twelve years, although not continuously, and "achieved a high reputation as a speaker of considerable talents, of ample information, and of no ordinary degree of eloquence." Thus writes an early and attached friend who sat for some time with him in Parliament. He adds,"His characteristic flexibility was manifest on several important questions. As a young man he was strongly opposed to Catholic Emancipation. In 1829, previously to his entering Parliament, he changed his opinion with many others in the wake of the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel; but afterwards he confessed that he considered his change to have been a mistake. Having first opposed, he afterwards tendered his assistance to Lord Ashley in his Factory Bills. His influence and popularity in Scotland seemed to point him out as a leader in the settlement of the Free Church question, but his well-intentioned efforts in this direction embroiled him temporarily with Drs. Chalmers and Candlish, and others of their party, in angry controversy, and were in the end fruitless. Such circumstances in some degree deprived him of political weight. But, however he may have shifted, whether rightly or wrongly, his ground on secular questions, he was always true to his religious principle, that of a sound Protestantism, and ever steadfast in main

taining it, both in private and in public, in the face of all opposition, and in defiance of obloquy, by various efforts, both in and out of Parliament, in which he has hardly been surpassed by any of his contemporaries."

After his release from Parliament, Mr. Colquhoun published some interesting volumes on the earlier witnesses for Protestant truth in France and Italy. These volumes prove his admirable powers as a writer, which we notice because his rapid composition and his habit of dictating to an amanuensis, betrayed him into occasional inaccuracies in his more fugitive productions. Had his life been spared, he would have undertaken a work of peculiar interest. Lord Roden's papers would, by that nobleman's express wish, have been placed in his hands, comprising his Lordship's correspondence, during a long life, with the leaders and others of the different political and religious parties in Ireland. Work seemed necessary to the very life of his peculiarly active mind; in the intervals of such employment, his spirits were apt to flag. More especially would this have been the case after the death of his wife, which preceded his own by only a few months; who, as both an intellectual companion and a tender wife, notwithstanding protracted illness and suffering, had been "the sun-light of his home." Thus he wrote in a letter to a very intimate friend, in reference to his wife's death, and only three weeks before his own. The letter also exhibits such touching proof of that deep humility which was the marked feature of his Christian character, that we cannot withhold it from our readers. "I dare not speak of much comfort-gleams of hope I have, but my faith is weak, if it deserves the name at all. Nothing but Christ's gracious character, and His dear promises of pardon for the past and help for the future, give me any hold: but to these I cling. I have derived comfort from some books of our Scotch writer Dr. Macduff, especially 'Memories of Genneseret,' which bring the tender human sympathy of our Saviour vividly before us; and his Morning and Night Watches' I would take as the expression of my prayers; but from such faithful prayers I am as yet far removed."

THE RIGHT REV. THOS. GOODWIN HATCHARD, D.D., LATE BISHOP OF MAURITIUS.

THE Right Rev. Thomas Goodwin Hatchard, D.D., was the only son of the well known and highly respected publisher in Piccadilly. He was, with the Rev. W. C. Mathison, late Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, dux of King's College School, under the late Dr. Lonsdale (afterwards Bishop of Lichfield) and Dr. Major. He graduated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1840, and proceeded M.A. in 1842; was ordained by Dr. Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, deacon in 1840, and priest in 1841; and was for twenty-eight years one of the most active, faithful, consistent, and esteemed clergymen in the same diocese. His first curacy was at Windlesham with Bagshot, in Surrey, and he soon afterwards accompanied the Earl Mountcharles on a two years' tour in the Mediterranean. In Palestine he became intimate with the family of Dr. Alexander, the Anglican

Bishop of Jerusalem, and married Fanny, his eldest daughter. In 1846, he was collated by Bishop Sumner to the Rectory of Havant, where he made full proof of his ministry, preaching and ministering to his flock with affectionate diligence and earnestness, till 1856, when he was removed by his Bishop to the Rectory of St. Nicholas, Guildford. Here he lived and laboured thirteen years, leaving no slight or transient memorials of his ministry both in the hearts of his people and in the many parochial institutions and fabrics which he founded or fostered for their benefit. He at once established an evening service in the church, the services of which were always conducted under his direction with the greatest solemnity and heartiness. He carefully observed all the festivals of the Church, and had frequent celebrations of the Lord's Supper; so that, while he was well known, by his preaching and otherwise, as a man of distinct and decided Evangelical views, no one could deny that he was a good and a thorough Churchman. His flock, amounting to about 1800, were most diligently visited and affectionately tended by himself and his excellent wife. Over the young he watched with peculiar interest, raising new and admirable school buildings, in a great measure at his own cost, for their benefit. It was his delight to visit these, when his radiant face and genial and loving greetings were always hailed with delight by teachers and children. No minister was ever more careful or diligent in preparing the young for Confirmation. Not only did he care for his own parish, but the schoolmasters and mistresses of the neighbourhood will long remember the happy and profitable gatherings which they had frequently under his hospitable roof. He set on foot a Provident and Clothing Club and a District Visiting Society, himself working on the principle of periodically visiting every house in person, especially during the winter season, when he took round to each family their savings with the premium thereon for the last year. Indefatigable in raising the position of the working classes socially, morally, and religiously, he was one of the principal founders of the Surrey County Hospital; himself being a most liberal contributor, and by his active exertions providing a great number of the beds therein. By his means, the Queen was induced to present a marble bust, by Theed, of the late Prince Consort, to the Hospital. Bishop Hatchard was a man of large heart and genial spirit; of most conciliating manners and disposition. Remarkable for his hospitality, and occupying one of the prettiest and most convenient Rectories in Surrey, and fulfilling the office of Rural Dean with judgment and courtesy, he was a centre of union to the clergy and lay gentry around Guildford. In February, 1869, he was consecrated Bishop of Mauritius. Soon after, he surrendered his parish, to the great regret of his parishioners, friends, and neighbours. On July 21st, with his beloved wife and four children (leaving two more at home), he sailed for his Diocese. Here he encountered difficulties and trials, but addressed himself with zeal and self-devotion to his work, and was gradually drawing all hearts about him, and making his presence and power to be felt, when it pleased God suddenly to call him from an earthly to, as we trust and believe, a heavenly mitre. He departed this mortal life

expressing that simple but firm faith in his Redeemer's merits which had always distinguished him. He was followed to his grave in Mauritius by crowds of persons of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, who wept tears of unfeigned sorrow over the mortal remains of this good, kind, and faithful Bishop, and manifested the most considerate and tender sympathy for his cherished wife and children, to whom he had ever been the most loving husband and father. J. S. U.

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

Dictionary of Chronology. By W. H. Overall, F.S A., &c. London: Tegg. 1870.-This was once a small book: it is now a large one. In the earlier editions subjects were classed under certain heads; now the only order observed is the alphabetical. This is a decided improvement, except in certain cases, to which we shall allude. The contents are copious, and of a most heterogeneous character. It is in many respects a very valuable book of reference; not only supplying dates, but also items of information sufficient for ordinary purposes. As the compiler invites criticism, we will proceed to point out several particulars in which it seems susceptible of improvement. We think it, then, much to be regretted, that, whereas the compiler has judiciously enough, under the heads of Battles, Fires, &c., comprehended many, the book swarms with multitudes more which might equally well have found place in the alphabetical catalogues of such events. Much space would have been thus economised. In the case of battles, if, in addition to name and date, there had been added combatants, taking care to place the victors first, and also the names of generals, and exact locality, much valuable information might have been clearly presented in a tabular form, thus: "Albuera (Spain), May 16, 1811-English and French-Beresford and Soult." As it is, ordinary readers would seek in vain through the volume for the names of commanders, and be much puzzled to know where the battles took place. As instances, we may refer to Ingour, Khart, Margus, Möckern, &c. Moreover, it might have saved the compiler from inserting as two battles Arbela and Gaugamela. In the matter of Fires, also a classified arrangement would again have been far more convenient. same remark applies to Orders of Knighthood; the Order of the Ship and Double Crescent, of Sincerity, of the Swan, of the Warfare of Christ, &c. &c., should have been ranged in a table, thus: "Swan, Sept. 29, 1440-revived Dec. 24, 1843-Prussian." So also as regards Shipwrecks.

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Again, in reviewing the work, we have often been much puzzled to know upon what principle prominence has been given to certain persons and statements, while others far more deserving notice are scarcely noticed at all. For instance, half a page is devoted to an