28 dispassionate man considered the matter deliberately, he would be induced to form a similar opinion. His grace concluded by again recommending this important question to the serious attention of the clergy and members of the church. His grace gave positive directions to the clergy to insure glebe houses; and every minister of the diocese who was not present on this occasion is to be summoned up to Dublin, before the consistorial court. At half-past four o'clock the visitation terminated, and his grace, accompanied by Dr. Radcliffe and Dr. West, proceeded to Limerick LINCOLN. Louth. There is every reason to believe that such a sum may be collected as will enable the parishioners to proceed with the important repairs of the fine church and its spire. An architectural society for Lincolnshire is about to be established at Louth, having for its object the " promotion of the study of church architecture, and the preservation and restoration of ecclesiastical antiquities." The lord bishop of the diocese, the lord lieutenant of the county, and several influential clergymen and laymen have signified their approval. The rev. Irvin Eller, rector of St. Clement's, Saltfleetby, has issued a circular, inviting members to join, and detailing the proposed regulations. Stamford.-Our paper contains the announcement of the death of the rev. C. Cookson, M.A., warden of Brown's hospital, Stamford. The patronage is in the vicar of All Saints' and the rural dean of Stamford (the rev. Nicholas Walters, and the rev. archdeacon Bonney, of King's Cliffe). The wardenship is understood to be worth more than 1,000l. a year, proceeding from a proportion of the rents of numerous valuable estates in Stamford, the manor of Swayfield, and 609 acres of land there, and estates at Twyford, South Witham, Wolsthorpe, Pilsgate, Wothorpe, Easton, Barnak, Sutton St. Edmunds, Buckminster, and other places, yielding together a rental of about 2,500l. a year; which, if the principle of letting the estates on renewable leases be abolished, it is supposed would be doubled in a few years. The hospital is for the support of twelve needy men and two poor women, who receive 5s. each weekly. The present confrater is the rev. Chas. Sanders (long confined to his bed-room by illness), who was appointed in 1808, and it is supposed will, according to usage, be the new warden. The rev. Charles Arnold, of Tinwell, is spoken of as the new confrater.-Local paper. LONDON. Peculiar of Dean and Chap. St. Paul's.-St. Pancras. -A temporary church of wood has been erected in Kentish Town, for the use of the congregation, while the parochial chapel is undergoing extensive alterations and enlargements. It is built on brick foundations, by Mr. Peter Thompson, of Limehouse, who has a treasury grant, allowing him to manufacture, free of duty, framed churches, chapels, schools, and dwellings, to export to her majesty's various colonies. Although capable of accommodating 500 adults and 300 children, it has been prepared and erected in one month, and was opened for service the 1st of Sept. It consists of a tower, surmounted by a belfry, forming the entrance to two lobbies, right and left, communicating with the nave, divided from the side aisles by a range of columns supporting an open-framed roof. At the end of the nave is the chancel, terminating with a recessed communion-table. At the end of one aisle is the vestry; and of the other, the robing room, communicating with the pulpit. The body of the church is lighted by two ranges of clerestory windows, of "vitreous cloth," the light from which, although subdued in tone, is very brilliant. The walls are formed in compartments, the inside finished with oak paper in panels. The outside panels and the roof are covered with patent asphalted felt, the roofs being covered, as the outside wood and the open roof inside, with patent marine glue. The seats are all open. This erection shows, that for a very limited sum a congregation may be provided with a comfortable temporary church.-Morning Herald. Whitechapel. The rev. W. W. Champneys, rector, has recently distributed amongst his parishioners the following statement:-"The parish of Whitechapel contains a population of above 34,000 souls, of which the greater majority are poor. The two churches accommodate about 2,100 grown persons, and there is accommodation for about 600 more (besides children) in a large school-room, which is open for divine worship there every Sunday. The rev. W. W. Ellis, minister of St. George's chapel, Albemarle-street, and rector of St. Clement Danes, having collected 3,000l. in his chapel, for the erection of a church for the poor, in some unprovided metropolitan parish, has offered this sum to be applied to the above purpose in Whitechapel, with the approbation of the bishop, if a site can be procured. The commissioners for building churches, &c., had previously made a liberal conditional grant of 2,000l. towards the same object, on the recommendation of the bishop of London; but no part of this money can be applied to the purchase of a site. The only vacant ground in that district of the parish in which such church is required is in the line of the new street now forming from the London docks to Spitalfields church. The commissioners of woods, &c., would sell a site in this line of street, sufficient for the erection of a church, small parsonage, and schools, for the sum of 1,4007., being a reduction of 6001. from the estimated value of the ground; and they have kindly promised the refusal of this most eligible site for the next three months. The total sum required for the purchase of the site and the erection of the parsonage and schools is 2,500l. SARUM. There is a well-organized society instituted in the diocese of Salisbury, by the late learned and excellent bishop Burgess. He thought proper to designate it the Church Union Society, but its real object is to promote the efficient discharge of clerical duties. When the county of Berks was severed from the diocese of Salisbury, a portion of its funded property was placed at the disposal of the archdeacon, to constitute the basis of a new institution which is now in full operation. Its objects are-1. To afford to superannuated or disabled curates the means of retiring from duties to which they are no longer equal, and in certain cases to assist curates whose incomes are inadequate to their support. 2. To enable aged or infirm incumbents and endowed lecturers of small incomes to provide clerical assistants. 3. To promote, as much as possible, the residence of the parochial clergy, by affording assistance towards the building, purchasing, or improving parsonage-houses. In every case within the county where it has been proposed to erect a parsonagehouse in connexion with a new church, a grant of eighty pounds has been made, distressed clergymen have been relieved, and the stipends of curates paid for disabled incumbents with small incomes. Sanctioned and supported by the ecclesiastical authorities, the bishop of Oxford and the archdeacon of Berks, a security is felt of the utmost impartiality of the distribution of its income. If an institution with similar objects was established in every county, cases of distress could not remain unrelieved.-Oxford Herald. ST. DAVID'S. Cardigan.-The Bishop.-On Saturday evening last, the bishop of St. David's arrived at the Angel hotel in this town; and, upon his arrival being made known, the rev. G. Thomas, vicar of St. Mary's, waited upon his lordship, when he kindly consented to preach three times on the Sunday following; in English at eleven, in Welsh at three, and again in English at six. The congregation at each service (notwithstanding his lordship's visit being quite unexpected) was exceedingly numerous and highly respectable, and at three o'clock, the time his lordship preached in Welsh, the church was crowded to excess. The sermons were most impressive, and attended to with the profoundest attention; and we believe that this is the only instance of a bishop having preached in St. Mary's church for some centuries. Certainly we are not aware of any record in Welsh history of a bishop preaching at Cardigan three times the same Sunday. We have read that "Dewi Sant" preached in a field on the Pembrokeshire side of the Tivy, many, many years ago.-Pembrokeshire Herald. vided into 359 parishes, or ecclesiastical districts, the Church Building.-In strong proof of the past and present activity of church building and improvement among us, it will be at once satisfactory and honourable to the friends of the church, if I mention the actual progress made, and still making, within the limits of our own archdeaconry. From the year 1801 to 1828, it appears three additional churches were consecrated and one re built. From that period, and under the auspices of our present diocesan, I have the account that thirty-five churches, erected additional in new districts, and thirteen rebuilt on their ancient sites, have been consecrated by his lordship; and of these, three new ones, and two rebuilt, have been so since the spring of last year. Four more are now ready, or preparing for consecration before the close of this year; besides three others commencing. App. to Archd. Hoare's Charge. YORK. The Gazette, of Sept. 3, contains a notification of an agreement between the ecclesiastical commissioners and the very rev. Wm. Cockburn, dean of York, for the commutation of all his right, title, and interest to and in all his estates and hereditaments belonging to him in right of the said deanery (excepting the residence-house and the advowsons), for an annual sum to be paid to the said dean as long as he shall continue incumbent of the said deanery. The amount is to be fixed by two arbitrators-Mr. J. Pickering, of Westminster, being appointed on the part of the ecclesiastical commissioners, and Mr. A. Morgan, the actuary of the Equitable Assurance Society, on the part of the dean. The period of commutation is to reckon from the 25th of Dec. last. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN CHURCH. ANTIGUA. The ven. archdeacon Holberton, with his family, embarked for England on board H.M. steam-packet, July 13; previous to which addresses were presented to him from the teachers of St. John's cathedral Sunday-school and the committee of the St. John's Friendly Society, to which truly Christian answers were returned. and who thus devote their leisure time on Sundays to imparting to the young and ignorant the blessings of a religious education. The school-house was erected from voluntary contributions, and is, perhaps, the largest and best in the West Indies. On the Thursday the bishop proceeded, by the same conveyance, to St. Thomas, where he held a confirmation of 124 candidates. He embarked on board the steamer, and landed here on Friday last, thus completing a period of one month's absence, during which, among other episcopal functions, he has confirmed at the different islands visited 776 persons.—Antigua Weekly Register, July 16. AUSTRALIA, &c.* This enormous continent, the seed-plot of future nations, was first planted by the outcasts of our own population. More than 100,000 convicts have been transported to its shores since the end of the last century. Extent Name of the Colony. in square Van Diemen's Land.. On Sunday, the 16th of June, the bishop held an ordination in the parish church, St. George's, Roadtown, Tortola, when G. H. Todd, literate, was ordained deacon. On the 5th of July the bishop landed at English Harbour, from the steamer" Actæon," on his return from a visitation to the northern islands. He has been absent one month, during which he has been actively engaged in the discharge of the duties of his office. His stay at St. Kitt's was brief, the object of landing there being only to meet the building committee, and to consult as to the measures to be adopted for the restoration of the churches of that island injured by the great earthquake. At Tortola his lordship consecrated two new chapels, St. Paul's and St. James's, both of which are very conveniently situated for the neighbouring population. He also inspected the chapel and school at Kingstown, and was satisfied with the general appearance and improve- Australia...... ment of the children. It must be borne in mind that this is purely an African settlement; and, consequently, that greater care and diligence are required in the instruction and training of the rising generation. On the 12th of June his lordship visited Spanish-town, where he held a confirmation, to which 23 candidates were admitted. On the morning of the 16th his lordship held an ordination of a deacon in the church of Roadtown; and in the afternoon a confirmation, at which 27 candidates were present. On the 18th he embarked on board government vessel, sent expressly by his excellency the governor of St. Croix for conveying his lordship to that island, where he landed the same day at Christianstadt. On Thursday his lordship attended service at the English church, St. John's, and administered the rite of confirmation to 300 candidates. The next day he proceeded to Fredericstadt, West-end; and on the following Sunday officiated in St. Paul's, the English church, and administered the holy communion to 396 persons. The next day he held a confirmation, to which 302 candidates were admitted, of whom five were converts from Judaism. On Wednesday there was the annual examination of the sunday-school, which was highly creditable to all concerned. This school, counting adults and children, numbers 1235. The instruction is gratuitous on the part of the teachers, who consist of fifty or sixty of the most respectable English inhabitants, a Miles. In the dioceses of Australia and Tasmania fifty clergy have been sent out since 1837, and are now in part maintained by the society; and large annual grants have been made towards the erection of churches and schools. But the cry for help from this portion of our empire continues to be painfully loud. The most strenuous efforts will be needed to arrest the progress of downright heathenism and utter apostacy from Christ, among those who have gone forth out of the parishes of England. In the district of Port Philip alone, 8,000 British emigrants are reported as scattered over a vast extent of country, entirely destitute of the means and ordinances of religion. In another and distant part of New South Wales, the bishop of Australia thus writes in a recent letter: "I may observe that, during my present progress, I have been in one county (Durham), in the whole extent of which there is not a church, and but one clergyman. In the adjoining county of Brisbane there is one church and one clergyman; no more. After that, I shall pass through three entire counties, in which there is neither minister nor ordinance of religion; and the five counties included in this enumeration contain a fourth part of the • From a summary account of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," ust published area of New South Wales, and from a sixteenth to an eighteenth of the entire population." In the diocese of Tasmania, within a very recent date, there were nearly 18,000 convicts unprovided with a single clergyman. In the province of South Australia there is a population of 20,000, with but one clergyman of the church of England. In addition to the large native population of the diocese of New Zealand, there are now 10,000 English inhabitants in those islands. Since the foundation of the bishopric, the society has contributed large annual grants towards the purchase of land for the endowment of the church. This has been done in the confident hope that, before many years, the church in this colony will, by such timely measures, have been rendered independent of further aid from England. It also makes a grant for the maintenance of clergy. St. John's college, Waimate, at which the bishop purposes training a body of clergy, is in part maintained by the society. MALTA. Sailors' Union.-Under the patronage of lieut.-general sir H. F. Bouverie, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., late governor of Malta; admiral the hon. sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; admiral sir E. W. Owen, K.C.B., G.C.H.-A few individuals, deeply concerned at the neglected state of our sailors at Malta, exerted themselves, in the course of the last few years, to provide some remedy for this most serious evil. A sum of between 5001. and 600l. was collected from officers of the navy, British residents, and visitors. The local government granted a spacious and handsome building at a very small rent, which, having been fitted up, an institution on the subjoined plan was opened in December, 1843; a man and his wife, of good moral and religious character, appointed as managers, at a fixed salary; one large room appropriated for meals and refreshments, one room for reading, one room for smoking; another part of the building provided with beds, as those sailors who get leave of absence from their ships must sleep on shore; all necessary refreshments supplied at fixed and moderate prices; dinner and supper prepared daily at stated hours, when required; tea, coffee, beer, spirits, and wine supplied; but drinking to intoxication strictly prohibited. The provisions being purchased wholesale will be obtained of the best quality, on the most moderate terms; and the sailors will be provided with better fare than they can get in the taverns, and at less expense. The wine and spirits in the gin-shops are notoriously adulterated, and of a pernicious and intoxicating quality; the food is likewise of a very inferior description to that supplied in the establishment. The reading-room is provided with good newspapers, a collection of maps, charts, works on geography, voyages, and other useful subjects relating to the nautical art; also a good collection of books both of a literary and religious character. Family prayers are read morning and evening by the manager, and the inmates may attend if they wish. The resident manager of the union receives deposits from sailors who may be desirous of investing money in savings' banks in England, and the committee undertake its transmission thither for that purpose. They will thus be encouraged to make a provision against the time of sickness and old age, or for the maintenance of their families; while at present they are surrounded with every conceivable temptation to squander their wages. It was fully anticipated that the prejudices and vicious habits of the sailors would prevent them at the very beginning from availing themselves of the advantages of such an institution in sufficient numbers to provide wholly for its support, and that some little time would be required before its receipts were equal to its disbursements. This has been the case the first year; and the funds already collected being exhausted, the committee find that a sum of 807. is wanted to enable them to keep the union open the following year. The need, however, of such additional assistance may reasonably be expected gradually to cease, seeing that a sum of about 8,000l. is spent annually by our sailors in Malta. The number of British residents in opulent circumstances being small, it is found necessary to appeal for the help, in this good work, of the benevolent public in England. It is earnestly hoped that an institution, having such important ends for its object, will not be suffered to be abandoned for the want of the small temporary support 30 needed to secure its permanent establishment, especially when it is considered that, should this happen, our brave sailors must inevitably continue the victims of the cruel treatment and debasing vices described in the following extract from the prospectus:-"The number of British sailors in the port of Malta, belonging either to the royal navy (including marines) or the mercantile shipping, is generally considerable. The sailors, when on shore, having no friends to whom they may go, are in the habit, from necessity, of frequenting small gin and wine shops, of which there are a great number in the vicinity of the harbour: upwards of 500 have been counted in Valetta and its suburbs. These houses are in general kept by natives well practised in the arts of alluring into their shops the unfortunate sailors, and enticing them to indulge in every species of debauchery, until their last farthing is spent; if indeed, as sometimes happens, they do not rob them while intoxicated. The honest unsuspicious sailor, who generally receives his wages when going on shore, is thus tempted to squander them all in a few days in riotous living. He then returns on board, and conducts himself quietly until he again comes into port. This is the well-known course pursued by great numbers, until, their bodily health being prematurely broken down by intemperance, and their minds thoroughly demoralized, they are reduced, at the end of a life spent, perhaps, in their country's service, to the condition of wretched outcast paupers. The correctness of the foregoing statement is fully borne out by the disgusting scenes of drunkenness and riot so frequently witnessed in the streets and neighbourhood of Valetta. These exhibitions of vice cannot but lower the moral and religious character of the British in the eyes of the natives, besides exercising a deteriorating influence upon their own morals. Those among the sailors who may be inclined to conduct themselves with propriety, not having at present any respectable place of resort for their meals, or any rational enjoyment while on shore, are driven by necessity to places where they are exposed to irresistible temptations to drunkenness and vice. There are numbers to whom these excesses are the highest species of enjoyment known, for no other reason than that they have not the opportunity of becoming acquainted with enjoyments of a more real and unobjectionable nature. To afford them this opportunity is the object of the proposed institution. NEWFOUNDLAND. Extracts from a Letter of the Bishop of Newfoundland to a Friend in Oxford. "St. John's, Newfoundland, July 15, 1844. "MY DEAR SIR,-Some account of my proceedings and purposes is justly due to you and my kind friends in college, and I gladly avail myself of such a way (a poor one, but the best I have) of declaring my constant and grateful remembrance of what you have done for my help and encouragement. I may take you across the Atlantic in shorter time than even steam could effect it, though I beg you to believe that the passage in the mail-packets is neither long nor in any way unpleasant. We left Liverpool at one o'clock on the 4th of June; and at six o'clock on Monday afternoon, the 17th of June, were safely landed at Halifax, without any accident to a single person (of 150) on board. The weather was rough, and the winds adverse the whole first week after leaving Liverpool, but the remainder of the voyage was prosperous and pleasant. We crossed the banks of Newfoundland on the 14th of June, and were then, or the next day, within 100 miles of St. John's; and it is very provoking to be carried past, and lose a full week of time, not to mention money and strength. If the steam packets were allowed to touch at Newfoundland, the voyage might easily be accomplished in eight or nine days, and, of course, with a considerable saving of expense. The harbour of Halifax is very beautiful, and the town has quite an imposing appearance, being built on the side of a hill rising from the water, and the streets running parallel to the harbour on the left hand side as you enter. The houses are lofty, and you do not perceive from the water that they are all of wood. Many spires and towers are seen. There are two wooden churches belonging to our church in Halifax ; and a third, or chapel of ease, is now being built. The bishop of Nova Scotia was kindly awaiting our arrival at the wharf, attended by his archdeacon and chaplain, | bers of our communion—both of wood. We remained and took me in his carriage to his own residence. I spent a fortnight pleasantly-I fear too pleasantly-at Halifax, but I hope I may add, not unprofitably. My object in staying there was partly to obtain some rest and relaxation; to recover from past fatigue, and to prepare for new exertions; and partly to receive information and instruction from the bishop of Nova Scotia on many important matters connected with my future diocese, and its duties and difficulties. Both these objects were fully gained; and, in addition, I had the privilege of forming such an acquaintance with the bishop as promises great benefits to myself and this diocese. His attentions were most considerate and unremitting during my whole stay. He did not take us into his house, but everything else was done which could be desired o: thought of, both for our pastoral comfort and entertainment, and for furthering the objects of my mission. I visited the college at Windsor, which is about fifty miles from Halifax, and situated in a very rich and productive neighbourhood, formerly occupied by the French Acadians. I think it will be satisfactory and interesting to the bishop of Nova Scotia's numerous friends in England to learn how kindly and cordially we were welcomed by him, for the church's, not for our own sakes (for we, personally, were unknown to him), how hospitably we were entertained, and sent on our way encouraged and instructed for our great and responsible work. We left Halifax by the North American steam-packet, in connection with the steam-packets from England to Halifax, by which letters and passengers from England to Newfoundland are regularly forwarded every fortnight within three or four hours after their arrival at Halifax. The steam-packet arrived from England (this was the next after the one in which we sailed) at twelve o'clock on Monday the 1st of July, and about four o'clock the same day we sailed in the North America' from Halifax for St. John's, Newfoundland. The following morning we stopped at a place called Arichat, in Cape Breton, where passengers and goods are landed. The inhabitants are chiefly the descendants of French Acadians, recruited by emigrants from Jersey and Guernsey, Ireland, and Scotland. There is a very handsome Roman catholic chapel, and a wretchedly built little church for the mem here about three hours, having lost some hours through the fog, which at this time of the year is very thick on this coast. We came in sight of Newfoundland on the morning of Thursday, July 4th. Coming upon deck, my eyes rested upon barren and forbidding rocks, which I was told were part of my diocese, a good specimen of the soil and country, some were inclined to add of the people. These rocks were to a certain extent enveloped in a fog, and there were several icebergs stranded on or near the shore. All this was cheerless and chilling, and I went below in a heavy dispirited mood; but, as the day wore on, the fogs dissipated, and the icebergs disappeared, and several smiling settlements in succession met my view. The shores near which we sailed from Cape Race are all of the hardest slate rock, high and steep, and, as they are called, very bold, that is, running into the deep sea without leaving any beach; an iron-bound coast, apparently doomed to eternal sterility. There is only very low brushwood, not higher than gooseberry-bushes, growing on these rocks. We reached St. John's about four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, where I found great preparations had been made to receive me with all respect. Two boats came off to meet the packet on her entering the harbour; one manned by the clergy of St. John's, with the churchwardens and some other respectable inhabitants; and the other from H.M.S. Eurydice,' having on board the governor's son and private secretary. I was directed to enter the latter, into which also the two clergymen (for, alas! there are only two in the district of St. John's, containing nearly 20,000 souls widely scattered) entered, having first ascended the packet to salute and welcome me. In three or four minutes we were at the wharf, and there I found the Royal Newfoundland Companies (i. e., fifty or sixty of them), with their officers, drawn up to receive me, who presented arms on my landing, and the officers congratulated me on arriving in my diocese. The two clergymen still accompanied me, and we soon arrived (in lady Harvey's carriage, which was waiting for me at the end of the wharf) at government house, where I was most kindly and courteously received by his excellency sir John Harvey, the governor. Such was my introduction to my diocese." Miscellaneous. Bishop Field on the Diocesan System of Education.With respect to the diocesan boards in the various districts, I have had, in my office of inspector of schools, abundant opportunities of witnessing their effects and their results; though, as I only entered upon the office soon after the diocesan boards were established, I could not of course at first expect to see any great results. The diocese in which I was first employed was Salisbury, and I can safely affirm that the whole diocese did, even then, feel the decided benefit afforded by the diocesan board; and, even if it should happen, as some persons have supposed, that the diocesan boards are not to be permanent, that they are only a temporary expedient, that they are not to last, I may safely affirm that the whole diocese did feel the benefit and assistance afforded by the board. I am persuaded that the present results have been exceedingly beneficial, that they have drawn attention all over the diocese, not merely by affording information as to the manner of conducting education, but they have drawn the notice and attention of the whole district to the bishop and to the cathedral town, as the centre from which the benefits and blessings were to flow to the remotest hamlets. I may mention to you that, on many occasions, in rural parishes, when it was understood that I came to them as one commissioned, authorized by the bishop of the diocese, the affections of the people were very strongly drawn out towards the bishop; they felt they were more cared for and more a part of the church than ever they conceived that they were before. We have heard with great satisfaction, I am sure with great gratitude, the remarks of the lord bishop of St. David's, respecting the elasticity of this society; we have already seen something of what may be effected; and I do hope that it may continue to be elastic in every emergency in which the church may be placed. I could not help feeling some regret, perhaps it was merely a personal one, that there have been some signs of contraction in this (the National) Society. I mention one particularlywith respect to the business of inspection. I do not mean to pass any judgment upon the expediency of relinquishing the duty of inspection by this society, but I am able to testify, though perhaps the last person that ought to do so, that the results of inspection as conducted by this society were exceedingly beneficial. As I said before, it not merely carried information into the diocese and into the various parishes, but it did especially draw the affection of all those parishes and all those remote districts towards the church in a much stronger degree than they ever were drawn before; and I am afraid the present system of inspection cannot at least supply that great desideratum. I am very far indeed from supposing that the actual business of inspecting schools is not as ably or more ably conducted by those who have been appointed by the committee of privy council than it was before. But, at the same time, there are several benefits: there is one great and most important one, which I have named, which did result from it as conducted by this society, and which did not appear to me likely to ensue from the present system.-From the Journal of Education. commissioners out of the funds at their disposal. Plans for eighteen churches have been approved of, and two additional plans are under consideration. Conditional grants have been made for the erection of a number of churches mentioned in the report, and other applications which have been made are set forth. Several consolidated districts have been formed, as well as district chapelries. It is stated, that church extension on the parochial system has increased, and then comes the statement that the commissioners are willing to afford facilities for obtaining additional "burial grounds" in the parishes they specify. The commissioners have under consideration several applications for the perpetual patronage of new chapels which its is proposed to build and endow. Tithe Commutation.-A parliamentary document, moved for by Mr. Manners Sutton, has been printed, embracing returns of all agreements for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the tithe commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales, from the 1st of January to the 1st of July last, specifying also in each case the amount of rent-charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes, and showing whether the same be payable to appropriators, impropriators, or clerical incumbents; of all awards for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the tithe commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales in the same period; and also of all appointments of rent-charges in the period mentioned. It appears that under the first branch-agreements for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the commissioners-that the Ecclesiastical Commission.-A supplement to the Gazette balance of increase was 6917. 17s. Ofd., which, with the of Tuesday contains an order in council ratifying a scheme increase in former returns, of 54,7221. 28. 14d., makes prepared by the ecclesiatical commissioners for constituting the total increase 55,4647.; so that in England and Wales a separate district for spiritual purposes out of the parish "rent-charges" will be the term used, instead of the an- of Ruabon, in the county of Denbigh; which parish is of cient word "tithe,” which existed from the earliest pe- great extent, and the provision for public worship therein riod, and was provided for the support of the clergy. By insufficient. The new district is to be called "the disthe second head-the awards for the commutation of trict of Rhôs Llanerchrugog," and an endowment is to be tithes confirmed by the commissioners-it is stated that provided for the minister to be appointed. The supplein England and Wales the total rent-charges of the pre- ment contains similar orders respecting the parishes of sent return were 92,3601. 6s. 5§d.; the total rent-charges Bury and Whalley, in the county of Lancaster, where of former returns, 856,3711. 19s. 14d.; and the total rent- the new district is to be called "the district of Muscharges, 948,7321. 5s. 54d. Under the third branch bury;" respecting the parish of Monkwearmouth, in the a return was made of all apportionments confirmed by county of Durham, where the new district is to be called the tithe commissioners in the period of six months end-" the district of All Saints, Monkwearmouth;" respecting in July last; and over the same period the two other ing the parish of Kingswinford, in the county of Stafford, branches have reference.-Churchman's Newspaper. where three new districts are to be constituted, to be New Churches.-The twenty-fourth annual report of called respectively" the district of Brookmoor," "the the commissioners for building new churches has been district of Quarry-bank," and "the district of Pen printed. In the last report it was stated, that 316 snett;" respecting the parish of Ecclesfield, in the county churches had been completed, in which accommoda- of York, where the new district is to be named the district tion had been provided for 379,662 persons, including of Chepstow ;" respecting the parish of St. Mary-the-Virgin 209,323 free seats, appropriated to the use of the poor. in Nottingham, where the new district is to be named "the Since the last report ten churches have been completed, district of St. John the Baptist;" respecting the parish in as many counties, in which ten churches accommoda- of St. Peter, in the city of Worcester, where the new distion has been afforded for 9,979 persons, including 7,273 trict is to be named "the district of St. Paul;" respectfree seats for the use of the poor. Thus, in the whole, ing the parishes of Rowley Regis, in the county of Staf 326 churches have now been completed, and provision ford, and St. John the Baptist, in the city of Coventry, has therein been made for 389,641 persons, including where the new districts are to be named respectively, 216,596 free seats appropriated to the use of the poor. It" the district of Reddall-hill," and "the district of St. is further stated by the commissioners, that twenty-eight Thomas ;" and respecting the parish of Aberystwith, in churches are now in the course of building, to the erec- the county of Monmouth, where the new district is to be tion of which pecuniary aid has been granted by the named "the district of Nant-y-glo." TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Editors once more state that anonymous contributions are utterly disregarded. They request that this may be regarded as their imperative rule. During the last five weeks thirty-seven anonymous papers have been received -to not one of which has the slightest attention been paid. The Editors trust that henceforth no such contributions will be forwarded. TO OUR READERS. We have been requested to give an opinion of a work, published two or three years ago, entitled "The Holy Bible, containing the Authorized Version of the Old and New Testaments, with twenty thousand Emendations." Longmans, 1841. In our judgment, this title-page is very injudicious. It has, to our certain knowledge, disgusted those who otherwise might have been disposed to welcome such a volume. As far, however, as we have examined the contents, we see no reason for disapproval. It is simply a new (or rather revised) version of the scriptures, on the basis of our authorized translation; and, though we could by no means recommend it as a substitute for that translation, yet we think it may be used advantageously as a book of reference. Some of the alterations are not, it is true, improvements, and some, e. g., Isaiah xix. 4, contain mistakes; but, as a whole, for the purpose we have mentioned, we consider the book an useful one. We must warn our friends against a "Commentary on the Seventh Chapter of Daniel, by Elizabeth," which has been obtruded upon us. We had determined to pass it over in silence; but the pretensions with which it is put forth seem to require a notice. What will our readers say when we tell them that the correctness of the interpretation given (maintaining, to use moderate language, the most rampant Socinianism) is declared to have been privately admitted to the author by the government! and the BISHOPS!! Has this unhappy individual no friends? ERRATUM.-The view which appears at page 233, is from the north-west, not north-east. London: Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand. |