the 27th of November, 1734, says that, "in a country town a large stable was at once removed off its foundation, and instantly carried quite across the highway, over the heads of five horses and the man that was then feeding them, without hurting any one of them, or removing the rack and manger, both of which remained for a considerable time, to the admiration of every beholder." Dr. Gifford, in the same sermon, gives an account of "several remarkable deliverances. One of the most remarkable instances of this kind occurred at a house in the Strand, in which were no less than 14 persons :"Four of them fell with a great part of the house, &c., three stories, and several two, and though buried in the ruins, were taken out unhurt; of these three were children; one that lay by itself, in a little bed near its nurse; another in a cradle; and the third was found hanging (as it were wrapped up) in some curtains that hitched by the way; neither of whom received the least damage. In another place, as a minister was crossing a court near his house, a stone from the top of a chimney upwards of 140lbs. weight, fell close to his heels, and cut between his footsteps four inches deep into the ground. Soon after, upon drawing in his arm, which he had held out on some occasion, another stone of near the same weight and size, brushed by his elbow, and fell close to his foot, which must necessarily, in the eye of reason, have killed him, had it fallen while it was extended." In the Poultry, where two boys were lying in a garret, a huge stack of chimneys fell in, which making its way through that and all the other floors to the cellar, it was followed by the bed with the boys asleep in it, who first awaked in that gloomy place of confusion without the least hurt. So awful a visitation produced serious impressions on the government, and a day of fasting and humiliation was appointed by authority. The introductory part of the proclamation issued by queen Anne for that purpose claims attention from its solemn import : "Whereas, by the late most terrible and dreadfu! storms of wind, with which it hath pleased Almighty God to af flict the greatest part of this our kingdom on Friday and Saturday, the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh days of November last, some of our ships of war, and many ships of our loving subjects, have been destroyed and lost at sea, and great numbers of our subjects serving on board the same have perished, and many houses and other buildings of our good subjects have been either wholly thrown down and demolished, or very much damnified and defaced, and thereby several persons have been killed, and many stacks of corn and hay thrown down and scattered abroad, to the great damage and impoverishment of many others, especially the poorer sort, and great numbers of timber and other trees have by the said storm been torn up by the roots in many parts of this our kingdom; a calamity of this sort so dreadful and astonishing, that the like hath not been seen or felt in the memory of any person living in this our kingdom, and which loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of us and our people: Therefore, out of a deep and pious sense of what we and all our people have suffered by the said dreadful wind and storms, (which we most humbly acknowledge to be a token of the divine displeasure, and that it was the infinite mercy of God that we and our people were not thereby wholly destroyed) we have resolved, and do hereby command, that a general public fast be observed," &c. This public fast was accordingly observed throughout England, on the 19th of January following, with great seriousness and devotion by all orders and denominations. The Protestant Dissenters, notwithstanding their objections to the interference of the civil magistrate in matters of religion, deeming this to be an occasion wherein they might unite with their countrymen in openly bewailing the general calamity, rendered the supplication universal, by opening their places of worship, and every church and meeting-house was crowded. "It may not be generally known, that a Mr. Joseph Taylor, having experienced a merciful preservation during the 'great storm,' in 1703, and being at that period a member of the (Baptist) church meeting in Little Wildstreet, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, instituted an annual sermon, to perpetuate the recollection of that affecting occurrence, leaving in trust a small sum to be thus annually expended.' The above announcement is prefixed to a sermon preached in the before-mentioned chapel, in the year 1821, by the Rev. George Pritchard. The annual sermon at that place has been regularly preached, but Mr. Pritchard's is the last printed one. It has an appendix of "remarkable facts, which could not so conveniently be introduced into the discourse." The late Rev. Robert Winter, A. M. (afterwards D. D.) preached the sermon of 1798, which was the last published one preceding Mr. Pritchard's Mr. Joseph Taylor was a bookseller in Paternoster-row. He left 407. for the purpose mentioned, to which the church added 57., and purchased 501. three per cent consols, which is now standing in the name of three trustees, who pay the minister For the sermon Clerk Two pew-openers, 2s. 6d. each £ S. d. 1 0 0 0 2 6 £1 10 0 [We were ignorant of this annual commemoration until informed of it in 1825, by our friend Mr. Paxon, of Gray's Inn Terrace, whom we accompanied to Little Wild Street chapel, on Sunday evening, November 27, in that year, and heard the annual sermon, which was preached on that occasion by the Rev. Thomas Griffin, of Prescott-Street. On the evening of Sunday, Nov. 27, 1836, the "storm" sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Woollacott. In less than eight and forty hours afterwards there arose the tempest in London and all over England, which, for its fary and the great damage it occasioned during the few hours it lasted, is likely to be remembered during the existence of the present generation.] FEAR NOT. [From "The Choir and Oratory; or Praise and Prayer." By Josiah Conder.-1837.] "Fear not... I have the keys of the grave and of death." Rev. i. 17, 18 Oh, cling not, trembler, to life's fragile bark: It fills-it soon must sink. Look not below, where all is chill and dark; Of that wild waste; but look, oh! look above, Cling not to this poor life: unlock thy clasp The world receding soon will mock thy grasp; Take the blest breeze of heaven, and upward flee, Oh, fear not Him who walks the stormy wave: Trust thou in Him who overcame the grave, The powers of hell. Heed not the monster grim ; Look not so fondly back on this false earth: Say, would the worm forego its second birth, That gives it wings to try a world unknown, But thou art not alone: on either side To trust our Maker with the soul he gave, Into His hands commit thy trembling spirit, Oh, give him love for love, and sweetly fall Higgins, Printer, Dunstable. THIS term more strictly conveys the idea of reproachful and opprobrious censure; but it is commonly employed in the sense of false accusation and calumny. To utter scandal is generally understood to mean an attack on the character of another in his absence, either by an open and explicit charge, or a sly and obscure insinuation, and in this way we intend to use the word on the present occasion. Such a course of conduct is so exceedingly common, and so pernicious, that it cannot be too much exposed and repre hended. With the faults of others, in many cases, we have nothing to do; unless they are evidently injurious to ourselves or others;- unless they are violations of the laws of society at D |