It is a venerable and beautiful rite which commands the Chinese not only to establish in their dwellings a Hall of Ancestors, devoted to memorials of kindred who are dead, but which obliges them, on a certain day of every year, to quit the ordinary toils of life and hasten to the tombs of their Forefathers, where, with mingled services of festivity and worship, they pass the hours in honoring the manes of those whom they have either loved or been taught to respect for their virtues. This is a wh

It is singular that the clause in the XXII section of Charles Ist's charter to Lord Baltimore, relating to the interpretation of that instrument in regard to religion, has never been accurately translated, but that all commentators have, hitherto, followed the version given by Bacon. I shall endeavor to demonstrate the error. The following parallel passages exhibit the original Latin, and Bacon's adopted translation: It will be noticed that this Latin copy, according to the well known ancient us

The scope of my discourse is confined to the illustration of principles either announced, or acted on, in the founding of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I have contended that Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, so framed the charter which was granted by Charles I, that, without express concessions, the general character of its language in regard to religious rights, would secure liberty of conscience to christians. I: 1632.—Language can scarcely be more perspicuously comprehensive, than in

Dear Sir : We have been appointed a committee to communicate to you the following resolution passed at a meeting of the Historical Society held this evening: " Resolved , That the thanks of the Historical Society , are hereby returned to Mr. Brantz Mayer , of Baltimore , for his very able and eloquent address, delivered before it, on Thursday evening, the 8th instant; and that Messrs. Tyson , Fisher , Coates and Armstrong , be appointed a committee to transmit this resolution to Mr. Mayer, and r