"Charles, by a public edict, proclaimed himself the author of it, pretending that he was forced to the measure by the Admiral Coligny and his friends. In honor of it, high mass was performed by the pope; salvoes of artillery thundered from the ramparts of St. Angelo ; a Te Dev.m was sung to celebrate the atrocious event, and a medal was struck for the same purpose. If every Protestant account of this terrible trans-

Pac-slmllie of Papal Medal in honor of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Kindly furnished by Mr. Edward Walker, publisher of "Dowling's History of Romanism."

action must encounter suspicion, we ourselves will be satisfied with the testimony of this medal alone of Gregory XIII., at that time the Pope ; -- evidence that scatters to the winds of heaven all the excuses and attempted apologies for those who perpetrated the St. Bartholomew Massacre. The medal has, as usual, on the obverse a head of the Pope, Gregorius XIII. Pont. Max. An. I. The reverse exhibits a destroying angel, with a cross in one hand and a sword in the other, pursuing and slaying a flying and prostrate band of heretics. Strange work for an angel !<* The legend is : -- ' Ilugonottorum Strages,' -- (' Slaughter of the Huguenots.') 1572/

The city of La Rochelle in France, which had always stood firmly ata Sketch of the Huguenots, by Mr. O. P. Disostfay. S.?e Christian Intelligencer.

b There was an original medal in the possession of the late Rev. S. Farmer .larris, D.D., LL.l)., of Middletown, Conn., who obtained it at the mint in Rome. Electrotype copies of this medal are very numerous ; " and vet we are told that the Papa! Church is not answerable for its acts and deeds; but only for such words as it thinks proper at this time to acknowledge?