purposes to which they were devoted. In of 1,3001. having thas arisen, it is due to this, the advocates of a less enlightened the incumbent and churchwardens that religion had displayed a zeal which those immediate measures be taken for relieving who boasted of a purer faith might have them from the heavy responsibility which done well to avoid. He could not exactly they have incurred. – That a further comprehend the arguments of those who general subscription be therefore entered could oppose the development of their ac- into and appeals for assistance be made to quirements to their fullest extent in the all who value the work of church restoraservice of Him from whom they derived tion. And a committee was formed for their talents. On that ground he would carrying all the requisite arrangements encourage the taste for decorations, whe- into effect, with a request that they would ther external or internal. Who could be associate with themselves such other genhold without gratification the finest speci- tlemen as might be desirous of co-operatmens of art, whether architectural oring with them. It was also determined to pictorial, or regard without pleasure the hold another meeting on Saturday next, to productions of the painter or the sculptor, arrange the method of operation.-Bury and not feel that religion had patronised Herald. these sister arts? There was he admitted,

SURREY. an antiquated objection to such decora

KINGSTON-UPON-RAILWAY.—The ner tions, because they had formerly been the Church erected in this rapidly increasing objects of superstitious worship. In a pre- place was consecrated by the Lord Bishop vious age, when men's minds were under of Winchester on Friday, May 2. the control of superstition, when they were enslaved by the priesthood, such an

WARWICKSHIRE. argument might have had some weight;

It has been resolved to erect additional but in the present more enlightened era wings to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingthere was little foundation for such appre- ham, to contain eight wards, for the achensions. The friends of the Protestant commodation of fifty beds. The Rev. Church might now look without danger Dr. Warneford, with his usual munifi. upon what had been once dangerous, and cence, has given the sum of 500l. towards they should have no sympathy with the the expense. spirit which went forth as the destroyer of

WORCESTERSHIRE. all that was beautiful. In fact, the restora- WORCESTER.–At the last quarterly tion of churches was the restoration of Pro- meeting of the committee of the Church testantism, not of Popery. Of Protestant- Building Society; present,- The Rev. E. ism they might say with Luther-" that it w. Ingram, Hon. and Rev. J. Fortescue, would be well to any external ideas, in order Reverends H. J. Stevenson, J. D. Simpthe more vividly to impress spiritual truths son, T. L. Wheeler, and J. Pearson ; upon the mind."

H. B. Tymbs, Esq. and H. Eginton, Ameeting was held on Monday, the 12th Esq., consulting architects to the society; of May, at the Guildhall, in this town, con- the Rev. W. H. Havergal was elected a vened by the subscribers and friends for the member of the committee in the place of restoration of St. Mary's Church, for the the Rev. W. J. Phillpotts, who has left purpose of considering the best measures to the diocese. A conditional grant of 1501. be adopted for raising the deficiency of the was made towards repairing the church of funds; James Borton, Esq. in the chair; Holy Cross, Pershore, if the plan prowhen the following resolutions were unani. posed by Mr. Egerton be carried out, mously carried :-That the best thanks of whereby more than 100 additional free the subscribers and parishioners are due to sittings would be obtained. At the meetthe rev. incumbent and the churchwardens ing of the Diocesan Board of Edacation ; for the assiduous attention bestowed by present,--the Right Hon. Lord Littleton, them upon the works during their pro- the Hon. and Rev. Canon Fortescue, the gress, and for the correct taste and judg- Rev. Canon Wood, &c.; the annual rement by which the works have been port, with a digest of the report of the ladirected. — That extensive dilapidations spectors of Schools for the last year, was and defects have been discovered after the read by the secretary, the Rev. H. J. commencement of the works, the sum of Hastings, and agreed to. David Thomas 1,700l., voted by the vestry, became greatly was elected an exhibitioner; and a plan inadequate to the necessary reparations, for assembling schoolmasters and misand the voluntary subscriptions have fallen tresses for instruction during the harvest far short of the amount required for the month was adopted, provided a suitable proper restoration of so magnificent a number of persons should be found to church; and that a deficiency of upwards avail themselves of it.

INDEX TO VOL. XXVII.

ORIGINAL PAPERS, CORRESPONDENCE, AND POETRY.

Oakeley, Mr., his letter on the rubric, C. S. B. | R. D., on the church in Newfoundland, 614
on, 261

R. W. H., on fasting, 390, 512
Offertory, the, F. B. W. on, 37

Sacred music, P. on, 164
Ordo ad faciendum decanum, J. H. T.on, 155 Services, occasional, of the reign of Queen Eliza-
Oxford movement, the, circular letter of the beth, 166

Bishop of Exeter, Theta Lancastriensis on, Scripture text books, P. on, 255
161

Solomon's temple, M. J. M. on the dimensions

of, 262
Parochial intercourse with the middle and
lower classes, 602

Theta Lancastriensis on the Oxford movement,
Peace, a project for, J. O. W. H., 259

161
P. on sacred music, 164; on scripture text Todd, Rev. Dr., on Rev. Mr. Hearn on the
books, 255

Man of Sin, 578
Presbyter on the religious condition of lunatics, Triquetra, the, R. B. on, 36
514

| Vestiges of creation and its answers, J.O.W.H.
Queen's letters in behalf of the Society for the

Propagation of the Gospel, F, H. on the,
398

Winning, Rev. W. B., on Gradivus and Sera-
Queries, answers to, 263

pis, 39; Mars Silvanus, 152

Worthey, Rev. C., answers to queries, 263
R. B., on the Triquetra, 36

on, 521

NOTICES AND REVIEWS.

poems, 534

Anderson, Rev. James S. M., History of the Faber, Rev. F. W.: The Rosary, and other

church of England in the Colonies, and
Foreign dependencies of the British empire,
623

Guest, Lady Charlotte : The Mabinogion ;

with an English translation, and Notes, 531
Best, Hon, and Rev. S., reasons why we should
not revise the liturgy, 623

Harrington, Rev. E. C. : The object, import-
Bonk of Common Prayer, illuminated, part I., apce, and antiquity of the Rite of Consecra-
623

tion of Churches, 534
Bosanquet, S. R.: Vestiges of the Natural
History of Creation, 404

Lathbury, Thomas: A History of the Non-
Bowman, H.: Ecclesiastical Architecture of jurors, their controversies and writings;
Great Britain, 404

with remarks on some of the rubries in the
Brooks, Rev. J. H. : Choral Service of the Book of Common Prayer, 405

Church, as used in the chapel of St. Philip,
Stepney, 532

Macray, W. D.: Manual of British Historians

to A.D. 1600 ; containing a chronological
Calcutta, Bishop of: Expository Lectures on account of the early chroniclers and monkish

St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians; being writers, their printed works and unpub-
an attempt to apply the apostle's argument lished MSS., 408
respecting the errors on the subject of the Maitland, Rev. S. R. : An index of such
mediation of Christ at Colosse to the present English books printed before MDC. as are
circumstances of the church, 623

now in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth,
Cotton, Ven. Archdeacon: Fasti Ecclesiæ 532
Hibernicæ, 534

Manual of Prayers for the Liturgy, arranged

Prayers for the Dead, for the use of members of Stewart, C. J.: Catalogue of Theological
the church of England, 533

Books, 624
Preston, Theodore, M.A.: noup The Hebrew

text, and a Latin version of the Book of Todd, Charles H., Esq., LL.D.: Act for the
Solomon, 528

more effectual application of charitable
Prideaux, Dr. Humphry: Old and New donations and bequests in Ireland, with
Testament corrected, 404

explanatory notes, 520
Rimbault, E. F.: Cathedral Chants of the Warter, John Wood, B.D.: The Teaching of
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, 535

the Prayer-book, 405

Whewell, Dr. W.: Indications of the Creator,
Smith, Rev. Sidney : Fragment on the Irish 404
Roman-catholic church, 534

Williams, Rev. John: Ecclesiastical An-
Stephens, A. J. : The Statutes relating to the tiquities of the Cymri, 41
ecclesiastical and eleemosynary institutions Williams, Rev. G. | The Holy City; or hig-
of England, Wales, Ireland, India, and the torical and topographical notices of Jeru.
colonies; with the decisions thereon, 622 salem, 528

425

dressed to the clergy and laity of his province LAW: -
by, 171

An act for marriages in Ireland, and for
Church Missionary Society, annual meeting, registering such marriages, 62
647

Arches court : Nurse v. Henslowe, refusal to
Clergy Orphan Corporation, annual court, bury, 58; Faulkner agaiost Litchfield and
310

Stearn-the stone altar case, 311; Homer

and Bloomer v. Jones, as to the admissi-
Declaration of members of the convocation, bility of the articles in a proceeding against
and correspondence relating to, 310

a clergyman for incontinence, 448; the
Down, Connor, and Dromore, Bishop of, office of the judge promoted by Barnes

letter from to his clergy, together with cor- against Shore, for performing divine ser.
respondence between the bishop and the vice in an unconsecrated chapel, 661
lord primate relative to the celebration of Bluck against Rackham, for non-residence,
divine service, 549

448
Dwellings for the poor, 57

Bluck c. Rackham, appeal against penalty

for non-residence, 662
Ecclesiastical commission, Ireland, abstract of Burial service in the church yards, right of
the annual report, 644

the dissenting ministers to perform the,
Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, pa-

case submitted by Rev. T. S. Grimshawe,
tronage of new districts under Sir Robert and Dr. Lushington's opinion, 658
Peel's church endowment act, 6 and 7 Vic. Consistory Court: Diocesan Court of In-
cap. 37; report of the estates committee re- quiry, Sheldrick v. Monckton, 449
specting the leasehold property vested in the

Court of Chancery, Dublin : the attorney-
commissioners, 643

general at the relation of George Mathews
Education in Ireland, address presented to the and others o. the Rev. Joseph Hutton and
Archbishop of Armagh from the dioceses of

others, 61
Down, Connor, and Dromore, on, 424;

Court of Common Pleas : Salkeld e.
reply, 425; bill to enable her plajesty to Johnston, tithes, 663
endow new colleges for the advancement of

Court of Queen's Bench : the Queen o. the
learning in Ireland, 648

Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the
Episcopal Fund, the, accounts issued by order University of Oxford, 659
of the house of lords, showing the intended

Legal decisions : publication of poor rates,
average incomes of archbishops and bishops,
654

Marriages in Ireland, an act for, and for re-
Exeter, Bishop of, Letter from, to the Rev. J. gistering such marriages, 62

Arinstrong, rural dean, 68; his letter to the Notes of legal decisions, 66, 196, 425
clergy of his diocese, 69; letter addressed to Recovery of arrears of rent charge, 66
the clergy of the diocese of Excter, on the

Offertory, the, case submitted to, and opinion
observance of the rubric in the Book of

of Dr. Phillimore on, 188
Common Prayer, 174

Offertory money at Trinity church, Mary-
Expenses of the apportionment under the le-bone, case and opinion of Dr. Phillimore
Tithe Act, 196

on, 192

Pews in the parish church of Wellingborough,
Gloucester and Bristol, Bishop of, Letter ad.

case and opinion of Dr. Haggard respecting
dressed by, to the clergy of his diocese, on a

the, 540
special fund for church building, 311

Publication of poor rates, 656
Queen's Bench : Exeter College, Oxford, c.

Butler, yatt, and Walker, trespass oa
Hurst, parish of, correspondence between the

claim for poor rate, 61
Bishop of Oxford and Mr. Cameron relating Titmarsh v. Chapman, refusal to bury, 59,
to, 185

319
Incorporated Society for Promoting the En- Madras, Bishop of, circular of, to his clergy,

largement, Building, and Repairing of 178
Churches and Chapels, meeting, 293, 434, Marriages in England, parliamentary return,

646