the clergy have either been starved into submission, or the education of the country has been virtually taken out of their hands and transferred to the Roman catholics and presbyterians, then the government of the day will find itself in a position to remove the English clergy also from the education of the people, and place the whole education of the empire in the hands of a department. But, in Ireland, this will include the overthrow of the protestant religion, and the establishment of popery. Will the establishment and protestantism of England long survive their destruction in Ireland, and the violation of the fundamental condition of the act of union, in 1800; that compact, on the faith of which the Irish church surrendered its independent rights for the benefit of England? It is to be hoped that Dr. Miller's well-timed pamphlet will receive the attention due to his age and learning and abilities. The charge of his Grace the Archbishop of Armagh, reprinted in the last number of this magazine, will show how unchanged are the sentiments of that most venerated prelate, and perhaps may lead some whom it may concern to consider what is the magnitude of the responsibility which laymen are incurring, who thus persist in their experiments on the established church, in utter disregard of the solemn and repeated protest of those whose information, experience, wisdom, character, and station, would, in other times, have entitled them to be regarded as the highest authorities on any question where the safety of religion and the promotion of Christian education are concerned. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. ORDINATIONS. Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, Archbishop of York, Bishopsthorpe ... Oct. 20. Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Bristol Bishop of London, Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace ... ... ... Bishop of Peterborough, Peterborough Cathedral ... ... Bishop of Winchester, the Chapel of Farnham Castle ... Dec. 1. ... Dec. 8. |