nd the Bishop endeavours to smile even while he winces:

"He writes with just and due respect of the king and the present
constitution. This has come so seldom from that corner that it ought to
be the more considered. I will not give that scope to jealousy as to
suspect that this was an artifice; but accept it sincerely," &c.--The
Bishop of Sarum's _Reflections on the Rights, Powers, &c._. p. 4.

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

The following, may come under the list wanted by BALLIOLENSIS:

"The covenant itself, together with the act for erecting the high court
of justice, that for subscribing the engagement, and that for declaring
England a {626} Commonwealth, were ordered to be burned by the hands of
the hangman. The people assisted with great alacrity on this
occasion."--From Hume, Reign of Charles II., edit. London, 1828, p.
762.

On a copy of _La Defense de la Reformation, &c_., par I. Claude, a La Haye,
1683, I noted the following about thirty years ago as a striking passage,
but cannot now recollect from whence I took it. This book was condemned by
the Pope to be burned, on which circumstance the editor of an old edition
of it very appositely observes:

"Books have souls as well as men, which survive their martyrdom, and
are not burnt, but crowned by the flames that encircle them. The Church
of Rome has quickly felt there was nothing combustible but the paper.
The truth flew upward like the angel from Manoah's sacrifice, untouched
by the fire, and unsullied by the smoke, and found a safe refuge at the
footstool of the God of Truth."

G. N.

* * * * *

JEWS IN CHINA.

(Vol. viii., p. 515.)

The only people known as descendants of any of the ten tribes are the
Spomerim, or Samaritans; whose chief peculiarity is, that they acknowledge
as sacred only the five books of Moses: for, although other books held
sacred by the Jews are known to them, such books are not written in the
same ancient alphabetic character as those of the Samaritan Pentateuch. The
ten tribes were then taken captive B.C. 721 (2 Kings xvii. 24--41.). The
inference is, therefore, that all the books, from Joshua to Malachi
inclusive, had not been composed or admitted into the holy canon till after
that date. The criterion then for ascertaining whether the Chinese Jews are
descended from the ten tribes, appears to be their adherence to the
Pentateu