An application is about to be made to the Admiralty, who, it is expected, will make a liberal grant towards the extension of religious accommodation amongst our increasing population, which the operations of the Royal service in that locality will considerably augment. The church will be built in Charlotte-street, a site very appropriate, owing to its contiguity to the extensive works now in progress.-West of England Conservative.

DIOCESE OF NEW BRUNSWICK.-The subscription, chiefly in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, for a cathedral in New Brunswick, which sum is to be placed in the hands of the Rev. Prebendary Medley, Bishop Elect, for that or other Church purposes,- already amounts to nearly 1000l.

THE SURPLICE AND THE OFFERTORY. -While the question of the surplice and the offertory has been troubling other parts of the kingdom, and breaking out into open and fierce contention, Essex has been comparatively quiet. In Chelmsford, as in various other parishes in the county, the changes were adopted in obedience to the suggestion of the bishop in his last charge to the clergy; but though we have reason to believe they were by no means approved by many of the congregation, such was the respect and good feeling entertained by the flock for their pastor, that no opposition was made to them-no public expression of dissent was offered, and matters have thus been proceeding for the last two years. The Rev. C. A. St. John Mildmay, the rector, however, it seems, at last became aware that the alterations were by no means fully acquiesced in by the parishioners, and he at once resolved to meet them in that spirit of peace and good-will which had dictated their forbearance.

Accordingly,

on Sunday last, the rev. gentleman voluntarily discarded the surplice, and preached in the gown, and also omitted the prayer for the church militant-a conciliatory example which, set in such a quarter, will doubtless be followed in many other parishes, and thus effectually prevent any dissatisfaction that may have existed from ripening into those disputes which every churchman, and even those engaged in

them, must have deeply deplored. The rev. gentleman, in returning to the gown, on Sunday, directed the attention of the congregation to the subject in his discourse, which he took from Hebrews, xii. 14, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."-Essex Herald.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

CONSECRATION OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, AT BRISTOL.-On Friday, Jan. 31, the Lord Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester consecrated the church recently erected at Montpelier, and dedicated to St. Andrew, to which a district, taken out of the parish of St. Paul, Bristol, and the parish of Horfield, has been assigned by the ecclesiastical commissioners. The church is cruciform, in the style of architecture that prevailed at the end of the thirteenth century. It is rather plain, built of native stone, with freestone quoins, dressings, &c. A tower is placed at the centre of the west front. It was originally intended to have carried a lofty spire, which, with the tower would have been 140 feet in height; but this important feature has, for lack of funds, been postponed.-Bristol Journal.

The clergy of the deanery of Gloucester last week resolved that the synodical meeting of the clergy in each deanery, recommended by his lordship, will be highly conducive to the welfare of the church, the clergy, and the people committed to their charge, and that immediate arrangements be made for holding such decanal synods in the deanery of Gloucester.

KENT.

THE RUINS OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S MONASTERY. This venerable pile, and that portion of the precincts known in Kent as "the Old Palace," were, as our readers are aware, a few months ago purchased by A. Beresford Hope, Esq., one of the members for Maidstone. The grounds, during his possession of the property, have been explored, and the foundations of the ancient edifice traced through its various compartments. The munificent purchaser has presented the grounds to the church, with a view to the establishment of a college for the reception and education of young men in the principles of the Church of England, designed to be sent as missionaries among the heathen. The object of the donor is to provide for young men, excluded by pecuniary outlay from a college education, to be brought up here exclusively for the service. Mr. Hope has added to the gift a donation of 3,000l.

The venerable primate has consented to become the patron or visitor of the institution. A large sum, amounting to nearly 16,000l., has been already contributed, and the plan will be carried into operation as soon as the required funds are raised. -Kentish Observer.

Mademoiselle D'Este has given a piece of ground adjoining some premises formerly occupied by her at Ramsgate, as a site for a new church, which will be completed in a short time. The funds necessary for the erection have been derived from voluntary subscriptions, and the sum of 100l. from the donor of the ground formed part of the same.

LANCASHIRE.

The following communication has been received from the bishop, in reply to an application made to his lordship by the vicar of Leigh, in the county of Lancaster, on the subject of the rubric preceding the prayer for the church militant:"Chester, Feb. 12. DEAR SIR,-I think that all the objects of the rubric will be attained, if the bread and wine are made ready in the vestry, and, at the proper time, transferred by you to the table.-I am, dear sir, faithfully yours, J. B. CHESTER.-Rev. J. Irvine."

A stained glass window is about to be placed on each side of the parish church, Bolton. Mr. Watkins, town clerk, will give one of the windows, and the other will be paid for by subscription.

The ceremony of adult baptism, by immersion, was performed lately, at the close of the second lesson for the evening, by the Rev. Fielding Ould, of Christ Church, Liverpool, on the wife of Mr. Griffith, late keeper of the Athenæum news-room, Church-street. A large marble tank had been provided for the occasion, and was placed in front of the pulpit, being in view of the whole of the persons present.-Manchester Advertiser.

MIDDLESEX.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. At the monthly (Feb.) meeting of this society, letters were received from the Bishops of Australia, Toronto, and Bombay. The Bishop of Australia stated, that, notwithstanding the severe pecuniary embarrassments of the colony during the last few years, the prosperity of their schools had not been interrupted. In Sydney alone there were at least 1400 children under instruction in schools superintended by the clergy, and whenever means could be provided for an additional school in the town or suburbs, it was instantly filled.

The

Bishops of Toronto and Bombay spoke in encouraging terms of the state of their respective dioceses. The secretary reported to the board that a fifth sum of 1000l. had been forwarded to the Lord Bishop of Calcutta on the 1st of Feb., that being the last instalment of 5000l. voted by the society in 1839, towards the erection and endowment of the Cathedral Church of Calcutta. It was also stated by the secretary that the standing committee had, on the application of the Rev. Vincent Stanton, authorized him to draw for 250l. towards the erection of a church at Hong Kong, from the fund placed by the board at their discretion, towards promoting the society's objects in China. It appeared that the site of a new church had been fixed-that Mr. Stanton had with much difficulty collected upwards of 2000l. towards the building, and that the government would be prepared to render effectual aid. Several grants of books were made, donations and legacies to the amount of 2560l. were acknowledged, and seventy-six new members were admitted. The following gentlemen were elected the committee of general literature and education for the ensuing year:-The Very Rev. George Chandler, D.C.L., Rector of All Souls' Church, Langham Place, and Dean of Chichester; the Rev. John Allen, M.A., Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield; the Rev. Professor Browne, M.A., of King's College; the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., Vicar of St. Bride's, and Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's; the Rev. Thomas Hall, M.A.; the Rev. Wm. Short, M.A., Rector of St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury; Dr. Thomas Watson, John Leycester Adolphus, Esq., Thomas Bell, Esq., J. R. Hope, Esq., J. H. Markland, Esq., and John Diston Powles, Esq. The Dean of Chichester presided.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.-At a court of the governors of this institution, held on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the president, Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., being in the chair, an honourable testimony of the approbation of the court was unanimously voted to Mr. Hugo Daniel Harper, B.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, a former scholar and exhibitioner of the hospital, on his having recently been placed alone in the first class of mathematical honours in that university, and having also attained a place in the second class of classical honours.

CONVERSION TO PROTESTANTISM.-On Sunday, the 2nd of February, a gentleman of the name of M'Carthy made a public renunciation of popery, in St. Michael's

Chapel, Burleigh Street, Strand; and was admitted into the Protestant Church, by the Rev. Septimus Ramsay, minister of the chapel, in the presence of a large congregation. Mr. M'Carthy is a native of Cork, and some years master of the Roman-catholic School at Kensington.

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, NOTTING-HILL. This church, which has been recently erected for the accommodation of the new and rapidly increasing district of Notting-hill, was consecrated, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, by the Lord Bishop of London; the Rev. Archdeacon Sinclair and the Rev. Mr. Holdsworth assisting. After the ceremony, a sermon was preached by the bishop.

The new Church Extension Fund already exceeds 11,000l., and is rapidly increasing.

On Monday, Jan. 20, the first stone of a new church, St. Paul's, Hackney-road, was laid with the usual ceremonies, by William Wilson, Esq., a munificent donor towards the erection of the building. The cost of the church and schools, in the Anglican style of architecture, will be 4,000l., executed from the design, and under the superintendence, of Mr. Owen, architect, of Abingdon, Berks.

THE TOTTENHAM CHURCH CONTROVERSY.-A letter has recently been circulated by the clergy of Tottenham, of which the following is a copy:—

"Tottenham, Feb. 12.

"DEAR SIR,-In consideration of the letter which the Archbishop of Canterbury has lately addressed to the clergy and laity of his province, and in the exercise of a discretion with which we have been entrusted by the bishop of the diocese, we beg leave to make known to you, that we do not intend to introduce, as proposed, certain changes in the order of divine service at the parish church and at Trinity Chapel, but the rather to await that adjustment of the questions at issue to which the primate has alluded.

"The changes which were contemplated, and to which we refer, are the omission of an anthem before the commencement of divine service; the giving out the singing ps lms by the minister; the use of the prayer for the church militant; and the collection with the offertory sentences upon the occasion of charity sermons.

"Anxiously hoping that the step which we are taking will, by God's blessing, tend to restore among us that mutual confidence and good feeling which have unhappily in some measure been im

paired, we beg to subscribe ourselves, yours faithfully,

"JOHN S. WINTER.
"GEORGE B. TWINING.
"HENRY P. DUNSTER.
"THOMAS BAKER."

Dr. Lee, of Hartwell and of Doctors' Commons, has recently presented to the Astronomical Society the advowson of Stone, in order that clergymen may be presented to the living as vacancies occur, who have distinguished themselves by their scientific researches. The learned civilian also presented to the Astronomical Society, some time since, the advowson of Hartwell, for similar objects.

tion that the patronage, with the exception of the first presentation, should be vested for ever in the Crown and the Archbishop of York, or in the Archbishop alone. After a discussion of considerable length, which was carried on in a very temperate and dispassionate manner, and with much good feeling on both sides, it was resolved, by a majority of the subscribers present, that the proposition of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should be acceded to. At the close of the meeting, a number of the subscribers who had voted in the minority signed the following protest, disclaiming, at the same time, any unfriendly feeling towards the opposite side:-"We, the undersigned, being subscribers to the fund for building two additional churches in Hull, or ministers of churches already existing, feel it incumbent upon us to enter our protest against a resolution carried this day, by a majority of the subscribers to the said fund, by which resolution it has been determined to accept a proposition from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the perpetual endowment of St. Stephen's Church, and the formation of the district into a parish, upon the terms of the first nomination being assigned by the subscribers to the Vicar of the Holy Trinity as their nominee, and the future patronage being left to the Crown and Archbishop alternately, or to the Archbishop alone. The ground on which we protest against the said resolution is a firm and solemn conviction that it is entirely at variance with the principle which led to the purchase of the advowson of the Holy Trinity Church, to the representations which were made to persons in order to induce them to subscribe to that object, and to the wish and intention, as well as to the full impression on the part of the subscribers generally, that the rights of the advowson, comprehending that of presentation by the vicar to the dependent churches of St. John and St. James, and of all future churches which might be erected in the parish, should for ever be preserved inviolate.-Dated Feb. 5th, 1845."

LEEDS.-A third new church is about to be erected in the St. George's district. The whole sum necessary, 3500l. was subscribed in a week.

THE VICARAGE OF BRADFORD.-We hear that a memorial is now in course of signature at Bradford, which had been already very numerously subscribed, to the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, vicar of Bradford, praying that the rev. gentleman would be pleased to revoke his determination to resign his Incumbency of the Vicarage;

and we understand that it will in all probability meet with a favourable response, as some of the causes which led to the contrary determination have been removed.-Leeds Intelligencer.

Viscount Morpeth has given 500l. to the proposed training schools for the dioceses of York and Ripon.

THE BELL FOR YORK MINSTER.The bell intended to be put in the south tower of York Minster, has recently been manufactured at the foundry of the Messrs. Meares, Whitechapel, it being larger than any other in the United Kingdom. Its weight exceeds twelve tons, and it is seven feet seven inches in height, and its diameter is eight feet four inches, being heavier by seven tons than the celebrated "Tom" of Lincoln, and by five tons than" Old Tom" of Oxford. The metal took twelve days to cool, from the 18th of January, when it was poured into the mould, to the 30th ult. The clapper is not yet put in, but this will weigh between three hundred weight and four hundred weight. The arms of the City of York and those of the Archbishop (the cross keys) are on the bell in opposite positions to each other. The following inscription, in Lombardian characters, is round the upper rim :-" In sanctæet æternæ Trinitatis honorem, pecunia sponté collata Eboracenses faciendum curaverunt in usum ecclesial metrop: B. Petri ebor." And on the lower rim are the words"Anno salutis MDCCCXLV. Victoriæ reg VIII. Edwardi Archiepi XXXVIII. C. et G. Meares, Londini, fererunt." The cost of it is about 20007.; the sum having been raised by voluntary subscription, as alluded to in the above inscription.

WALES.

CHRIST COLLEGE, BRECON.-At an adjourned meeting of the Town Council recently held, several interesting and important documents, having reference to Christ's College, Brecon, were produced by R. T. Watkins, Esq., Town Clerk, and John Jones, Esq.; the greater part furnished by Charles Alexander Wood, Esq., son of the county Member, and found by him during long and minute search in the Tower and other national archives. Among other documents were several extracts from the original charter of Henry VIII., referring to other instruments important towards establishing a more liberal endowment of the College. After some discussion it was moved by John Jones, Esq., seconded by John Lloyd, Esq., that a memorial should be presented to the Board of Ecclesiastical