The Quarterly Review Author:John Murray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lous town-parishes have received stipends wholly inadequate to provide them with those requisites which are usually deemed necessary for their station, or to the... more » demands which their office involves. ' Of the very serious evils now adverted to, a large class is still in active operation, and the consequences are apparent in that wide-spread alienation from the doctrines and discipline of the Established Church, which is so prominent a feature in many districts of the country. To suggest the remedies applicable to such a state of things would exceed, as it appears to us, the province of our duty; but we have thought it too important to be left without comment, both in respect to its general bearing on the sentiments and feelings of the people, and on account of the indirect, but not less powerful, influence which may be traced to it in connexion with those disturbances which were the immediate object of our inquiry.'—p. 37. Art. VI.—Die Kdnigliche Rede an einen Katolischen Bischoff, S-c. Frankfort, 1842. "JV/T TOPFER, born and bred a Genevese republican and -L'-- Calvinist, observes in his entertaining ' Voyages en Zigzags,' p. 457, on entering into Italy, 'on reconnoit bientot qu'on vient d'entrer dans une contree sui generis, devote mais religieuse, fidele a son culte, a ses traditions, a ses moeurs, saine a sa maniere ; chez une nation enfin, et non pas chez un assemblage d'esprits sans lien et sans unite.' Fully alive to all the blessings which we ourselves owe to the Reformation, and more keenly sensible than most, from a thorough and intimate knowledge, derived from long residence in the bosom of Romanist families, both at home and abroad, of the practical evils of the papal system, we, nevertheless, acknowledge that we never passed from France or Switzerland into It...« less