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charge, all such rights arma privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto
them or anv of them 
  "Queen.-'All this I promise to do.'
  " Her majesty will then arise from her chair; and, attended by her sup-
porters, and the lord great chamberlain, the sword of state alone being borne
before her majesty, will go to the altar, where, kneeling upon the cushion
placed on the steps, and laying her right hand on the holy gospels, tendered
to her majesty by the archbishop, will take the Coronation Oath:
  " ' The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep,
so help rme God "
  "She then kisses the gospels, and to a transcript of the Oath sets her
sign-manual, the lord great chamberlain of the household holding a silver
standish for that purpose, delivered to him by an officer of the jewel-office."
-Book of the Court, p. 467.
  Coronation Manual, p. 111."




                     RELIGIOUS DESTITUTION.
  To show the present pitiable religious condition of England under the
operation and influence of the law and parliament church, hedged in still
further, as this state establishment is, by the oath of the British sovereigns
binding them to uphold it with all their executive authority, we here append
an extract from the January number of the Westminster Review for 1860.
It will be seen from the unimpeachable facts and figures here exhibited,
that, after all that has been said and written in favor of the Anglican Refor-
mation, and after the latter has been reforming England for three centuries,
nearly if not quite one-half of the English people are now in a state of
frightful irreligion, but little removed from downright paganism!
  ". We quote from an extract which appeared in the Times of November
5th: 'There is an alarming picture presented of the irreligion in which
large masses of the population are steeped. For example, in Southwark
there are sixty-eight per cent. of the people who attend no place of worship;
in Lambeth, sixty and one-half; in Sheffield, sixty-two; in Oldham, sixty-
one and one-half; in Galeshead, sixty; in Preston, fifty-nine; in Brighton,
fifty-four; in the Tower Hamlets, fifty-three and one-half; in Finsbury,
fifty-three; in Salford, fifty-two; in South Shields, fifty-two; in Manches-
ter, fifty-one and one-half; in Bolton, fifty one and one-half; in Stoke, fifty-
one and one-half; in Westminster, fifty; and in Coventry, fifty. Of the
aggregate population of the sixteen places named, the average proportion
who never enter a place of worship is fifty-three per cent., and of the
remaining forty-seven per cent., how few are real Christians!'
  "The select committee of the house of lords 'appointed to inquire into
deficiency of means of spiritual instruction and places of divine worship in
the metropolis, and in other populous districts in England and Wales,' would
have inferred, that the non-attendance on public worship, and the misery
and degradation of the great masses of the people in the metropolis and
other large towns arise from the paucity of churches, from the deficiency