DR. HOLLAND.-Dr. Holland, Regius Professor at Oxford, when he went forth from his college for any considerable time, took this solemn valediction of the fellows: "I commend you to the love of God, and to the hatred of popery and superstition." LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-A new educational establishment is about to be founded in Liverpool, under the title of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. John Gladstone, Esq. has contributed 500l. towards its funds. Lords Francis Egerton and Sandon have likewise placed their names amongst the donors, and consented to become vice-presidents. The bishop of the diocese has accepted the office of visitor. MANCHESTER FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.-The second annual examination took place before the Rev. J. F. Isaacson, B.D. Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge; the Rev. E. A. Dayman, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Rev. J. Walker, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Brasennose College, Oxford. These gentlemen (two of whom examined the school last year also), after a very careful examination of all the classes, expressed themselves highly gratified with the progress made in the different departments of study during the year. We have been favoured with a sight of their report, in which, after noticing the diligence and attention with which the various books and subjects have been taught and studied in the classical department; the satisfactory state of the lower school, both in Latin and English; the proficiency of the boys in the upper English school, especially in mapping, drawing, and penmanship; the great and judicious pains bestowed upon the pupils in the French school; and the successful results, and the encouraging prospects of the system pursued in the mathematical department, the examiners conclude with naming J. Booth as the successful candidate for the exhibition, and recommend several of the pupils, among whom are the unsuccessful candidates for the prizes. "Nor," they add, "can we close this report, without a favourable notice of the pains which have been taken in the religious instruction of the boys in general." We rejoice to find by this, that the Free Grammar School continues to merit the praise (which it obtained likewise, we believe, at the last examination), of making instruction in true religion a prominent and essential part of its system; and we trust the example thus set, will be an encouraging one to the Church of England Schools which are now rising up throughout the country. A NOBLE EXAMPLE.-At the last quarterly meeting for this year of the members of the Royal Naval Benevolent Society, a letter was read from Admiral Sir T. Williams, in which that gallant officer nobly tendered the munificent sum of 500l. towards the erection of a school for the education of the daughters of his brother officers, "having," as Sir Thomas Williams observed, "for its basis the means of affording to them a well-grounded religious instruction, according to the tenets of the Church of England." The reading of this letter elicited the general applause of the officers present, and Sir G. Cockburn and the other members expressed their deep sense of the generous offer, and their determination to cooperate with the gallant donor in effecting so desirable an object as he contemplated. It appeared that, in 1831, Sir Joseph Yorke recommended the establishment of a school for the daughters of naval officers, which it is to be hoped, will be now carried into effect. The Bishop of London has lately ordained, as a minister of the Church of England, a gentleman who had been born and educated in the Church of Rome, and who had been studying at Rome eight years, to qualify him as a minister of the Romish Church. His residence at Rome has led to his conviction of the errors of Popery, which he has in consequence renounced, and is now a zealous defender of the faith once delivered to the saints. APPOINTMENTS. Appointment. Chaplain to Earl of Mountcashel. Chaplain of Keynsham Union. Curacy of St. Luke's, Charlton-upon-Medlock. Chaplain to Stirling Castle Convict Ship. Second Mastership of Free Grammar Sch. Manchester. Head Master of Wigan Grammar School. Curacy of Caistor, Lincoln. Chaplain to Earl of Zetland. Master of Yeovil Free School. Curacy of Nantmel, Radnor. Chaplain to House of Correction, Devizes. . Curacy of Framlingham, Suffolk. Rural Dean, Clapham, Peterborough. Master of Mansfield Grammar School. Chaplain to Duke of Richmond. Curacy of Ruislip, Middlesex. Assistant Curate, Holy Trinity, Leeds. Provincial Grand Chaplain for Essex Masonic Lodges. Rural Dean, Fleet, Peterborough. |