Chester, Mr. T. F. Buxton, M. P., the Bishop of Ohio, the Earl of Galloway, the Venerable Archdeacon Corrie, (Bishop elect of Madras), the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Rev. W. Yate, Missionary from New Zealand, Captain Alsager, M. P., and the Rev. Hugh Stowell, addressed the meeting at great length, and proposed and seconded the various resolutions, which were carried unanimously. The Report stated, that the Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester had been appointed president of the Society. It was also stated, that the entire income of the year amounted to 69,5821. 4s. 8d. This sum includes 11,7661. 11s. 9d., the legacy of the late Horatio Cock, Esq., of Colchester. The receipts through associations were 6,8971, 6s. 5d. more than those of last year. The expenditure of the year was 55,6881. 16s. 5d. An enlargement of the society's operations in the West Indies and China is contemplated. The institution at Islington was reported to be in a sound and thriving state, and to contain twenty-five students. Thirty-one new associations have been formed during the past year. The number of missionaries sent out in the year was four in holy orders, and five catechists and artisans. In the West African Mission there are 474 communicants, and 3,100 attendants on public worship. In the year, 30,081 copies of different publications have been issued from the Malta press. The school labours of the Rev. F. Mildner, of Syra, were proceeding satisfactorily. At Smyrna there are upwards of 500 children in the schools. In Egypt the missionaries were prosecuting their labours with diligence in the midst of many difficulties. The Rev. J. Gobat and his fellow-labourers reached Massorah in Abyssinia on the 20th of December. In the several missions of the society in India and Ceylon, a steady progress was reported. NORFOLK. The Rev. J. Hankinson, M. A., Curate of St. Nicholas Lynn, has been appointed minister of St. Matthew's chapel, Denmark Hill; previous to his departure from Lynn, the inhabitants intend to present him with a piece of plate, as a tribute of respect to him as a neighbour, and as a testimony of their high esteem for him as a minister.Norfolk Chronicle. NORTHUMBERLAND. The address to the King and Sir Robert Peel on the present aspect of public affairs, but more particularly with reference to the church, from the archdeacon and clergy of the Archdeaconry of Northumberland, have, we are gratified to learn, been received and signed during the present week with an almost unanimous approbation of the clerical body of the district, and will be transmitted forthwith to the proper quarters for presentation. Nearly one hundred signatures have been already affixed.-Newcastle Journal, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. W. Bartlett, Vicar of Newark, a memorial, In consequence of the death of the Rev. the Treasury, the patron of the living, on respectfully addressed to the First Lord of behalf of the Rev. R. Simpson, is in course of signature, and had received 700 names up to Wednesday evening.-Notts. Journ. OXFORDSHIRE. An address, agreed upon at a numerous meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Oxford, at the residence of the archdeacon, on Thursday May 7th, is now in course of signature, and copies of it have been circulated in various parts of the country.Oxford Paper. A new Catholic chapel is in the course of erection at the London entrance of Chipping Norton. There are now more than five hundred Catholic chapels throughout England. The large proportion of these which have been opened during the last seven years, is truly remarkable, and the increase in the congregation attending the old chapels is not less so; indeed no Protestant can shut his eyes to the fact, that the Catholics are every day increasing in numbers.-Worcester Journal. emplary and persevering attendance to his duties as chairman of the select vestry, whereby the New Poor Law, by his excellent and humane advice, is the means of reviving the industry of the paupers, and thereby effecting a very considerable reduction of the parish expenditure, without an abridgement of the comforts or parochial allowance of the deserving, infirm, and sick and infant poor."-Salisbury Herald. On Thursday, the 7th instant, a meeting was held at Taunton, in the large room at the Market-house, for the purpose of addressing his Majesty, and petitioning both Houses of Parliament, against Lord John Russell's resolutions affecting the Church of Ireland. The meeting was attended by a very large number of the most influential gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, and it was almost unanimously resolved, that the Address and Petitions should be adopted-and that the Address and Petition to the House of Lords should be committed to the care of the Duke of Wellington, and the Petition to the Commons to Sir Robert Peel, Bart. -Record. The visitation at Frome was attended by a greater number of clergymen than has been known for many years; a discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Newnham, of Coleford.-Somerset Gaz. STAFFORDSHIRE, IMPORTANT TO DISSENTERS.-The ViceChancellor has decided, in an information filed to prevent the dissemination of Unitarian doctrines in St. John's Chapel, Wolverhampton, founded by Presbyterians, that those doctrines were never intended by the founders to be promulgated there, and that the charity funds should not be distributed by trustees of that denomination.-Salisbury Herald. SUFFOLK. The Rev.Daniel Pettiward, of Onehouse, has bequeathed 600l. to the Suffolk General Hospital, and 100%. to the Suffolk Clerical Charity, which sums have been paid over to the treasurers.-Suffolk Herald. SURREY. A petition from East Surrey against Lord John Russell's resolution has been presented to the king.-Record, The inhabitants of Dorking have entered into a subscription for rebuilding and enlarging the nave of the parish church, to which Messrs. Denison and Barclay, members for Surrey, have munificently put down their names for 500l. each. The donations from the inhabitants and surrounding gentry already amount to nearly 1,000l. more, so that no doubt is entertained that this desirable improvement will be speedily carried into effect.-Camb. Chron. SUSSEX. It is reported, says the Brighton Gazette, that the Roman Catholics are going to build seventy houses, with a chapel and college, on the extensive tract of land which they have purchased between St. Leonard's and Hastings: indeed it is capable of containing more. The valuable vicarage of East Grinstead becoming vacant by the death of the late incumbent, has been presented by Lady Plymouth to the curate, the Rev. C. Nevill; this gentleman having no claims on her ladyship's patronage beyond those derived from the exemplary discharge of his ministerial duties, both as Curate of East Grinstead, and as Chaplain to the English residents at Lisbon. A memorial, signed by the greater part of the parish. ioners of East Grinstead (embracing all classes), evincing their desire to retain the Rev. C. Nevill as their pastor, was forwarded to her ladyship, accompanied by testimonials of the highest regard from the English residents at Lisbon, who, on his return to England, presented him with a purse of 2004., as a further token of their esteem and respect.-Brighton Gazette. WARWICKSHIRE. Sir Robert Peel has most liberally contributed 200l. to the funds of the Lichfield Society.-Birmingham Gaz. and Coventry Diocesan Church Building In Birmingham and the neighbourhood, the election of parish officers last week produced the usual scenes of tumult. At St. Martin's, comparatively few of the members of the congregation, or of the respectable rate-payers, attended, and in consequence the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell the Catholic priest), Mr. Edmonds, and other members of the late Political Union, had it all their own way, and re-elected Mr. Winfield, the late parish warden, whose resistance to the granting or collection of any church-rate while he has been in office, strongly recommended him to their support.-At Aston, the respectable ratepayers took a different course. They attended in such numbers that the antichurch party were completely defeated, and obliged to content themselves with protests.-The Birmingham Advertiser of Thursday says "We have authority for stating that the leading radicals of this parish (Aston) have, to a man, paid their church-rates." Mr. Vyse, an extensive coach proprietor of Birmingham, has publicly announced his resolution to abstain from running his coaches on the Sabbath day.-Salisbury Herald. At a meeting of gentlemen held on Friday 22nd, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, Richard Spooner, Esq., in the chair, it was unanimously resolved, to petition the Lords and Commons, and to address bis Majesty on the subject of the Irish Church. The adoption of the petition was moved by the Rev. Dr. Jeune, and seconded by Mr. Beswick; and the address by the Rev. W. Marsh, seconded by the Rev. J. Allport.—Birmingham Gaz. In a few months the new church, near the bridge, built by the Rev. George Chamberlaine, will be finished, which cannot fail to be highly gratifying to every lover of his country. It will be one of the most handsome Gothic buildings in the West of England.-Salisbury Herald. WORCESTERSHIRE. The external repairs of Great Malvern church have actually commenced. Those two public spirited clergymen, the Rev. Mr. Philips, of Gloucester, and the Rev. Mr. Kinsey, of Cheltenham, have set on foot a subscription in those places for the preservation of the noble structure. We understand that Dr. Card still wants a considerable sum for the completion of the repairs, notwithstanding he has been so successful as already to have obtained nearly 600l. without a single levv from the parish.-Worcester Journal. YORKSHIRE. The York West Riding Visitations have been fixed as follows:-Doncaster, Monday, June 15; Wakefield, Tuesday, June 16; Leeds, Wednesday, June 17; Halifax, Thursday, June 18; Skipton, Friday, June 19; and York (Archdeaconry), Thursday, July 2.-The North Riding Visitations will be at Malton, Tuesday, June 23; Thirsk, Thursday, June 25; Stokesley, Friday, June 26. HARROGATE.-On Thursday the 23d of April, a vestry meeting was held in Low Harrogate, to lay a rate of twopence in the pound for the repairs of the church. For three years all church-rates have been strenuously, and but too successfully opposed; the friends of the church, however, have now triumphed; the number of voters for the rate being exactly double the number of their opponents.-York Gazette. The Poor Law Commissioners have authorized the parish officers of Hull to levy a rate of 12,000l. on the inhabitants for a new workhouse.-Leeds Intelligencer. WALES. At a vestry held in the parish church of Uzmaston, near Haverfordwest, on Friday, the 8th inst., it was suggested that as improvements were necessary to be made in the church, it was requisite to have a church-rate of 3d. in the pound. This was opposed by a recently self-dubbed minister of the Baptist persuasion, as uncalled for. It was, however, supported by two of the parishioners, well known for their attachment to the church, and so effectually did they appeal to those present that the proposition was carried by a majority of 16 to 2.-Carmarthen Journal. SCOTLAND. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.-The annexed petition has been presented by Captain Alsager, M.P. for East Surrey : "TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. "The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Parish of Salen, in the Isle of Mull, "Sheweth,-That your petitioners are cordially and devotedly attached to the Church of Scotland, that they view her as a source of incalculable blessings to the kingdom at large, that they cannot contemplate but with pain, anxiety, and alarm, the efforts which are being made to effect her overthrow and ruin, as well as the sister establishment of England and Ireland, efforts which, if successful, cannot but prove deeply hurtful to the best interests of the community at large, and rob the poor of the rich inheritance intended for them by the great Head of the Church,' that they should have the Gospel preached unto them, -yea, the waters of life placed within their reach, without money and without price.' That whilst it is their cherished beliefa belief on which, with scarce an exception, all Christian states have hitherto acted that it is a duty incumbent on the State to make due and suitable provision for the spiritual wants of the people, they cannot but rejoice at the recent recommendation from the throne to your hon. house in reference to this deeply important subject; and they rejoice in the confident assurance that that recommendation will challenge and secure that measure of consideration and thought to which its merits, and the high quarter from whence it came, give it equal title. "That partaking as your petitioners themselves do of the Christian bounty of the State and Legislature by the erection and endowment of a Parliamentary church in the year 1828, and alive as they are to the blessings they consequently enjoy, they cannot but experience a deep interest in, and compassion for, those thousands and tens of thousands of their fellow Christians and subjects who are now circumstanced as they were formerly; and they cannot resist, in the exercise of this sympathy they feel, to convey their prayers on their behalf to your hon. house. May it therefore please your hon. house to make such provision against this sad and abounding evil as your wisdom may see fit.” (Signed by all the inhabitants of Salen.) -Times. IRELAND. ELECTION OF THE CATHOLIC PRIMATE A Convocation of the parish priests of the diocese of Armagh was held at Armagh on the 19th ultimo, for the purpose of making the usual return of three names to the Court of Rome, from which the Pope will select a successor to the late Most Rev. Dr. Kelly. The votes stood thus:— For the Right Rev. Dr. Crolly, Bishop of Down, 29; the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, Bishop of Kilmore, 11; the Very Rev. Dean M'Cann, 6.—Dublin Register. INCREASE OF PROTESTANTISM.-The following statement from the county of Clare may serve to shew how far the facts of the rejected of Devonshire are to be relied upon-Twelve new churches have been recently built in this county. Facts speak for themselves; if Protestantism were not increasing, those twelve churches would not be requisite, and in eleven of them there are good congregations. 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