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      no , » I . Lud up m U 1 * i ' . ' irnrfifnHhTHitinnTr '"^ nfmnr-trnfrirT -fayrmg-faeen rejeeled £# Q 4 b ofhieta hiiife b&tih retained—upon what authority not even dogmatism ^ fr say ^ tt *^ *^ s jpdsition is . proved to be equally untenable mth the ^^ frl * Stacnau ^ lit stands by no means alone in his opinion , tlidugh prbty He 'is . ihe first who has worked out the thesis with perfect calmness confidence . Dr . Arnold speaks ' .-of the question of the fallibility orii » jf ^ l * b . > Iity of the Scriptures as " that momentous question which fayolVes in it such a shock to existing potions ; the greatest , pro-$ » bly , that has ever been given since the discovery of the falsehood of tfee ; doctrine of the Pope ' s infallibility . Yet it must come , he continues , and will end in spite of the fears and clamours of the weak and of Christi

      Bigoted , " in the-higher exalting and more sure establishing an tftttiL" Dr . Hinds , Bishop of Norwich * argues that , "it is not truth of all Jfindkthat the Bible was inspired to teach , but only such truth as tends to &h" # bu 8 edification ; and the Bible is consequently infallible , as far as regards this and this alone . " The scholarly and logical Whately maintains that "in matters , indeed , unconnected with religion , such as points of hwtory , or natural philosophy , a writer who professes ( as the Apostles do ) ¦* # be communicating a divine revelation , imparted to him through the means of miracles * be as liable to error as other men , without any disparagement to his pretensions . " His credentials , however , ought to be well vised to&ttest that he is not an impostor . Dr . Hampden , Bishop of Hereford , goes still further than tho writers we have quoted , and shows that Christianity left ethical science precisely where it found it ; and that all the

      duties which ethical science prescribesr remain on their old footing , not altered or weakened , but affirmed and strengthened by the association of religion . ' . ^ Afad : so independent , " he continues , "is the science of ethics of the support aitld the ennobling which it receives from religion , thait it would be nothing strange orobjectionable in a revelation , were we to find embodied in its languagenjiich of the false ethical philosophy which systems may have estatd&fied . This , I conceive , would appear to those who bear in mind the real | jfitijactness of religion and moral science , nothing more objectionable than i Jje \ admiesion into the sacred volume of descriptions involving false theories of latural philosophy . " It is in this way that the right reverend prelate would saaoel the passages that militate against the liigh moral character of the > eity in the Bible , where the treachery and assassination of Jael , for instance , * e represented as noble deeds ; where the extirpation of different tribes is Sid to be authorized by God ; and where the prevarication of Abraham L Mentioned without reprehension . We might quote numerous examples fBiich moral discrepancies , but we are losing sight of our author and his

      % tx . Macnaught has divided his essay into five books , distributing his jibject under as many heads . In the first book , he asks , does the iiible ermit us to regard its teachings as infallible ? In the second , what gason have we ior expecting the Bible to be infallible ? In the third , e-investigates the meaning of the term " inspiration . " In the fourth , he Indicates the authority of Scripture by showing that it reveals things be-»»**»« to thefutwre condition of i man perfectly consistent with reason ,, which e ; maintains heathen philosophers failed to do , —thus all its teachings are uoduraging and . consoling , —and further shows to his clerical brethren that he position he has assumed does in no degree interfere with what they ubscribed at their ordination , and that in fact neither the Prayer Book nor tie Homines contradict or militate against his view of the question . ' . We cannot accompany Mr . Maonaught through the subdivisions ot his ifl > $ ect . "We can fully testify , however , to the candour and accuracy with rh&h he deals with this important question . He pursues his course step y > iep / With logical precision ; his language is clear and sound , and his

      argumenir"isr ^ cottdncted iviili di ^ uity . ^ It ~ remainsr " with-those who xiphoid the infallibility and the divine inspiration of Holy Writ to prove that he is wrong . ¦ ¦ ¦>¦ . ,

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      BIRTHS , MAkRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . UTJTLY . ^^ Oji tho 14 th inst ., at Orton Iiongville , the Marchioness of Huntly : a son . jlLDMAY . —On the 18 th inst ., at a Chesham-street . Belgravia , the lady of Sir Henry St . John Mildmay , Bart .:. u daughter . rAKXEY . —On Saturday , tho 14 th inst .. at No 7 , Arlington-« ta » et , Piccadilly , the wife of Thomas Wakloy , Esq ., JFJtLO . S .: a daughter . , MARRIAGES . A * frKIEWICZ—PIGOTT — On tlio 7 th inst . at St .

      - , George's , Bloomsbury , James Mankicwicz , Esq .. of Danzig , also of Button Vilfao , Camdon-road , Holloway . to Ada Susan . daughter of tho lato John Allen Pigott , Esq ., or Heathcoto-street . 'M'ooklonburg-squaro . tTGHBNSON- ^ RANKLIN .-On the I 7 thinst ., at Sprattou , Northampto > i 8 hiro , the Rev . Henry Clarke Mitoheriaon . M . A ., of King Edward ' s Grammar School , East Retford , to Emma Maria , daughter of tho late Major FrankUn , of the 1 st Bengal Cavalry , granddaughter of the lata Lieut .-Genoral SlrThomasTirown , K . C . B ., H . E . I . C . S ., and nifeoe of tho late Roar-Admiral Sir John Franklin , EffOJI , ATli _ ROBIN 6 ON . —On the 3 rd ult .. at tho Maha-Sinclai

      Meahwar-hills , Bombay Presidency , Professor r , MKDv to Mary Elisabeth , eldest dnughter of the late John $ H Robinson , Esq ., of Banff , N . B . > ix ¦ > . DBATILS . faQKETT . —On tho lBth inst ., at 2 * . Gloucostpr-gardoriN , WGeorgo Duokott , Bart .. F . lt . B ., F . S . A ., &c , in Iho 70 tli i | £ ^ On , t i ? e . " l 4 th iust , at . 70 . Bridge-road , Lambeth , in Stt ^ Sth y ^ ar , Mr . Honry Hill , lato Premier Viola , Royal © SfSFA 25 * ^ bn t he 15 th inst .. at 10 . Portland-place , aped ^ SuUl da Jane , second daughter of Thomas B . Horalall , $ j $ kBTT .--On tho 12 th inat .. at 0 . Suffolk-parndo , Cheltenham . Bear-Admiral Thomas Priokott aged 08 . cuoiorain

      ADBrdH—At Calcutta , of tho olfoots or , m 4 WW » o £ -: Major Frederick Raleigh , of the 1 st IUff" ™ " * 3 }« mal > Native Jnfajjtry , nnd Commandant of tho 1 st I « 0 Wl JtcKUnbnt . or Calcutta Militia . . ffoSttS ^ ba the 12 fch inst ., at Penroso , Cornwall , tuo rB 0 t . John Xt 6 Ktam . Al . A-. o * non residentiary of lixotcr Oa-WS ^^^ S ^ 'in * :. at Liinogrove . Putney JSi ^^ a ^ ie ^ tSl Tnst .. at N « p to , the Lady Victoria SuMinTalbot , after alougthonod ninous .

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      THE CHARACTER OP IAGO . A vert interesting lecture on one of the most subtle and profound of Shakspeare ' s characters was delivered on Wednesday evening , at the Maryle .-bone Literary and Scientific Institution , by Mr . Chablbb A . Cole . The object of the lecturer was to show that logo is not , as generally supposed , a mere

      devil , but that he is a man of a perfectly natural , every-day character—a person such as we frequently encounter in our common intercourse—a sceptic , a materialist , a utilitarian , who measures vice and virtue , good and evil , or whatever else presents itself to his scoffing intellect , simply by the profit it will yield him . " Will it pay ?"—that is his only thought .: He sneers at all things , even at himself and his own jibing heart , till at length , like the ancient Sophists , he doubts whether he doubts , and , addressing the " Divinity of Hell , " becomes a Manichaean , and worships the Spirit of Evil . Every sceptic should tremble at him as a reflexion of himself . Yet he is not a mere incarnation of vice from the first , but is led on gradually to the commission of his final villany , which , at the commencement of bis career , he has not even proposed to his own soul . He fancies that Othello has injured him by seducing his wife ; afterwards , he is reaUy injured by being placed in an inferior position in the army to Cassio , who has had less experience than himself . This slight gives him an excuse for and his Cassio

      paltering with his inmost mind , representing revenge on as a public-spirited act . He becomes " an Administrative Reformer , who has been irritated by being passed over in favour of a person of less worth , and sent to the Crimea , after long experience , with a featherbed soldier over his head , " In the like manner—under a distorted sense of doing something he ia justified in doing—he lures Othello into misery and crime , and Desdemona to her death . Othello himself is a man of noble heart , with imagination and passions so strong as to overbalance his intellect , which is comparatively weak ; and he is punished tor not meeting the iirst crafty insinuations of logo in the way that a man of more vigorous mind would have met them — by utter disbelief founded on the transparent purity of Desdemona . In thus shadowing forth the salient points in the two great characters of the drama , Mr . Cojle begged his hearers to remember that Shakspeake never puts forth cut-and-dry lessons after the copybook fashion , but leaves the moral to rise naturally from the incidents and persons- that he is not professedly didactic ; and that he does not seek to impress any sharply-defined maxims of right or wrong , " as in a child ' s impromptu play , or the works of great French dramatists . " "An effeminate modern moralist would have disabused Othello ' s mind in time , would have saved Desdemona s life ,

      and made all end happily ; but not so Shakspeare . Such is a brief abstract of the theory propounded by Mr . Cole—an abstract in which we cannot do justice to the felicities of expression by which the criticisms were worked out , or to the clear and forcible manner , in which they were delivered . The conception of logo is perhaps not entirely new , but it rescues Shakbpeare from the foclish charge of having made a mere monster of purposeless inaligniiy . We ^ cail only express our entire assent in Mr . Colb's views , and congratulate him on the earnest attention with which he was listened to , and the applause with which he was greeted , by an evidently thoughtful By the way , Mr . Cole said that , when Togo has successfully poisoned Othello ' s mind , he concludes , "likea newspaper editor of the present day , " by exhorting him not to , think too much of thereports in circulation . Now , we take exception to bejing classed , together with our brethren , as so many logos . .,..

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      [ The extraordinary pressure upon our space this week in the news department obliges us to defer a notice of Mdlle Johanna Wagner , and of Count Aruivabene s Lectures on Dante and the ' Italian Drama . 3

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      London , Friday Evening , Jnno 20 , I 860 . sinco

      fTnn state of our market in much more satisfactory lnft wook Tho American difficulty aeoma in a , fair wa > of being arranged , and the temperate tone taken by our ministers hS had the effect of giving groat coiilldoi . ee to " TOoSSSaro Oil ox dividend , and all tho English gjaro market has felt tho Improvement . London and HouLU Western !^ T Brighton * . BorwlokN , Loods . and Midlands , uro Ll . to * lOa bettor ¦ thiu at tho settlement of tho account . In forefgn Stook . ^ Moxl 6 an stock hanga flro . No prepam-, ' . /¦ ¦ .

      tions are talked of for the payment of dividends as had boon once fondly anticipated . In Turkish six and four per cents there are strong buyers at 102 and 104 . J respectively . Foreign railway shares are not so good . Thoro has been a sudden rise in tho much despised Swedish railway shares . Jt Is a complete lottery-ticket buying a 5 / . share at 11 . ; you may get your money back with cent , percent , interest , or lose aU your money . Money is much easier , and the increase of bullion from Australia and other parts of the world will go far to force tho banks to reduce their rates . Tho monetary state of France is considered as unhealthy , and tho mystery of a bndgot never being revealed under that happy despotism , every one is in the dark as to expenditure and resources , and in this case tho worst may bo

      GX is to be hoped that tho summer may prove lino throughout Europe , to alleviate tho possible dearth arising from tha fearful inundations which have taken place in France . It seems a nervous time just now oven here—tho weather far from settled , and all these accidents raise or depress our sensitive plants . " Consols . in general and miscellaneous business there has been nothluff doin -a tow Mining Shares and Crystal Palaces . Joint Stock Banks aro much / lrnjer , and coi . tinuo to bo inquired after . At four o ' clock Consols close at 04 J , 944 , x . d . for tho opening .

      Aberdeen , 20 J . 27 * ; Bristol and F . xotor , 00 , 02 . Caledonian C 2 i , 03 ; Chester anU Holyhoad 16 104 ; Eas t ' Anglian . 174 IS * ; Extern Couutio 9 . 10 f . 108 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow . 60 . 62 ; Great Northern . 00 , 07 ; Ditto , A stock , 78 , Ms Ditto . B stock , 180 . 181 ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , 100 ? 108 ; Great Western . 03 J . 64 * ; Lancaster and Carlisle , 08 73 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 05 06 * ; London and ^ ^ Blackwall . 7 . 7 * j London . Brighton , and South Coast , 106 . 107 ; Londoli anil North-Western 108 } , 1 0 $ i X-ondo »» m « a « o «» Western . 1 03 * , 104 J ; Manohestor . JShemeld , and £ « ° "J \ " ! 30 * . 81 ; Midland , 804 , 8 0 f * Bln ^ nghMn and Dortv , flQ j « B | Newport , Abergavennv . and Hereford , 18 . 16 j Nortft British . 304 . 374 ; North Eastern ( Horwick ) , 83 * . 841 ; UJtto . JTffteW-i ^ ir «?« arts £ * S t ! / . a '* i .. i . in ki * a Hla . Oxford . Worcester ana BtanoraHiiiruoi

      v _ . , JNortn , ' , uw «•»• . x * i ' iAo-iAlT « ri « tM « li Wolverhampton . 30 * , 31 * j Scottish Central , UgU Mt fS ^" " Midland , 10 . 78 ; 6 outh Devon , 14 ,, 15 ; 6 outh Eastoni , 724 . 734 ; South Wales , 74 * . 75 * ; yale of TSTeath , l » l . . West Cornwall , 01 74 ; Antwerp an * Bottondam , 8 | , 8 | Bombay and Baroda . 1 * , 2 pm-i P" ** !^?*^^ ' ( of %£ ¦» m& 8 gpjgB £ b 1 && Of pm . ; Groat Indian FoninaulA , 22 |« 2 » . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ;¦ ¦ ' ' ; t , \ ' ¦ - i \ ,

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      TBOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , June 17 . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — Daniei . Davis , Nowington-causeway , glass merchant—John Thomas Bats , Inte of the London-road , Southwark , and Wisbeach . miller . BANKRUPTS .-Alexandeb Painb , Croydon . lnnkeoper — Francisco » e Salvo , Loadenhall-street , mercliant — William Smith and James Kiddbr , Church street , Shoreditch . grocers —James Chapman , lato of Kings Norton Worcestershire , licensed victualler - Rodeet Thomas RirriNaALE , Newark-upon-Trent , 1 ™^ : ™*™^*™* - William ADAMa Manning , Totnes . corndealor- Sa ^ el PnnsninnDartmouthronemako r — Williamuenson

      . . , , STOKEV 3 Livei ? oo " driper-7 ouN Stananouoht , Livcr-^ S ^ OTCTSEQUE ST RATION . - J . Pollock . Glasgow , dyewood manufacturer . Friday , June 20 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . — Geohoe Habdino , Shop ton Mallet . Somorsot , innkeeper . BXNKHUPTS .-OirAUi . BB Vbnablks , tho youngor , OHofdon , Bucks , paper manufacturer- William Adams

      Mawlicensed vietuaHor-JoHN Rumbns . Lower Clapton . Mldd osex buildor-John Edw ahpjcs . Wolvorhampton . wine m orchant-SAMiTEL Pouni > . junior , Dartmouth , ropemakcr TiroMAS Dukbton , Taunton , brewer . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . - Caitekon and Co , SDrinRllold Mills , near Edinburgh . papor-makors-THOWAS guwi Donneily . lately shipowner in Grcenock , surgeon .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 21, 1856, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2146/page/21/