Ay, death! for such is exile-fearful doom,
From homes expell'd, yet still to Poland chain'd
'Till want and famine, mind and life consume,
And sorrow's poison'd chalice, all is drain'd,—
Oh God that this should be! that one frail man
Hath power to crush a nation 'neath his ban.

Will none arise! with outstretch'd hand to save!
No prayer for pity, and for aid awake!

Will SHE who gave to liberty the slave,
For God's own People, not one effort make?
Will SHE not rise once more in mercy clad,

And heal the bleeding heart, and sorrow's sons make glad!

Will England sleep, when justice bids her wake,
And send her voice all thrillingly afar!

Will England sleep, when her rebuke might shake
With shame and terror, Muscovi's proud Czar,
And 'neath the magic of her mild appeal,
Move Russia's frozen soul, for Israel to feel.

Oh England! thou hast call'd us to thy breast,
And done to orphans, all a mother's part,
And giv'n them peace and liberty, and rest,
And healing, pour'd into the homeless heart:
Then, oh once more let Israel's mercy claim,

And suff'ring thousands bless our England's honor'd

name.

And let ONE prayer from Hebrew hearths ascend
To Israel's God-that HE may deign reply,

And yet again His chosen race defend,

And "have respect" once more "unto their cry."

And e'en from depths of darkness and despair,
Give freedom to His own, and list their anguish'd

prayer.

Then shall we seek, tho' dark our way and drear,

And hope hath found in misery a tomb!
And man is silent, mercy hath no tear,
And love and joy are wither'd 'neath the gloom!
No! God is near to hear us while we crave,

And HE will England rouse to shield us and to save.

GRACE.

ANONYMOUS WRITERS.

OUR "Notices to Correspondents" not affording sufficient room for what we have to say to this class of friends, we must devote a few pages to the subject of their communications; and this we desire to do in the spirit of humility, of goodhumour, and of christian love, while assuring some of the parties in question that, rendered too secure by the confident feeling of irresponsible invisibility, they write very rashly, and venture far beyond their depth. At the same time we would appeal to our more candid readers not to be warped in their judgment of a christian sister by the unfair representations that may fappear in the columns of other publications: for by such circuitous means some have been misled.

A short time since, wishing to bring before the church a question that has much exercised our own mind, in reference to the perpetuity of God's national covenant with Israel, but resolved not to force it upon the readers of the Christian Lady's Magazine, we published our remarks, or rather queries, in the form of a small pamphlet,* respectfully soliciting to be set right, if we were found to be wrong, by the church; that is to say, by those who are considered the mouth-pieces of the church in this land. The

* Israel's Ordinances: a few thoughts on their perpetuity, respectfully suggested in a letter to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Jerusalem. -Seeleys.

Christian Observer immediately took up the matter; and in a brief notice, for the kind, gentle, charitable, brotherly spirit of which we cannot express sufficient thankfulness, pronouneed a dissentient opinion; but with a generosity not often experienced at the hands of an opponent, gave nearly every page of our pamphlet as an extract. We blessed God for this: desiring only the elucidation of His revealed will, and anxious for nothing but a full investigation of the subject, now, in these "last days," assuming an aspect of such transcendant interest and importance.

Soon after this, a long anonymous letter, headed "Offences from within," appeared in the "Record" newspaper, the writer of which contrived to jumble together the subject of our unpretending pamphlet and a strange, wild work noticed in the same department of the same number of the Christian Observer from which, indeed, he seemed to have gleaned all his ideas respecting our tract, divesting them, however, of the courtesy, kindness, and charity that distinguished the original, and proving too that he had not rightly understood either the line of our argument or its tendency. We let this pass, being fully determined not to enter into a newspaper controversy; and satisfied too that a misrepresentation of our views and principles would defeat itself, by engaging the really candid enquirer in a more careful comparison between what we had presumed to advance, and the scriptures of truth, by which alone we desire our work to be tried-in order that, if it be wood, hay, or stubble it may be burnt up: if of

more durable stuff, it may stand.

So "J. D." re

mained unanswered; and the crowded columns of the Record unintruded upon by us.

But now comes the gist of the matter: there are, as every body knows, many excellent people who, not being in the habit of thinking for themselves, adopt the thoughts and sentiments of others, and act upon them. So, instead of being fairly met in the field by any regular antagonist, we have been exposed to showers of small, very small shot, poured in upon us from a masked battery. We have as it were been tried by an invisible court martial, condemned on the evidence of intangible witnesses, and condemned to be executed in the above-meutioned manner. As yet, however, we are not even touched we have not cried out, because nobody has hit us and by an anonymous hand we never shall be hit to any purpose. We, too, could have written and published under a mask: we could have adopted some mysterious initial letters, or some Greek title of high sounding import. We could have assumed the episcopal style, and fulminated our dogmas ex cathedra, with almost as imposing an effect, we think, as some of our lady reprovers do: but we abhor such manoeuvering, and despise alike the affectation of a modesty, and the reality of a cowardice, that shrinks from owning what it does not shrink from saying.

The Christian Remembrancer, an open organ of Puseyism, has given a notice of the pamphlet in its last number; and thus, among other remarks, the Reviewer expresses himself. "An independent thinker, reckless of all consequences, who admits of no authority, of any kind whatever, beyond the two covers of the Bible, my Bible, which includes neither note, comment, or interpolation of any kind,” we might anticipate to become a heretic; and a here