nuper subsidium et spes nunc desiderium. In eo inerant Doctrina, ingenium, fides, pietas, Literarum studium et amor prope singularis, tum linguarum quæ maxime apud exteros hodie valent par scientia et usus. Accessit his sermo facetus, et idem urbanus, et summa morum suavitas. Decessit pridie Kal. Aug. Anno Salutis MDCCCXXXI. Etatis xxXVII. CHESHIRE. A plot of land, situate at the top of the village of Bollington, near Macclesfield, has been given by William Turner, Esq., M.P. for Shrigley, for the purpose of erecting the contemplated new Catholic Chapel, which is to be raised by public subscription. CORNWALL. The Rev. Mr. Aldrich has retired from the perpetual curacy of St. Ives, and is succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Malkin. Heavitree Church. At a vestry-meeting in this parish, the motion for rebuilding this church was negatived on a division by 96 to 81, on the ground of its being premature in the present state of affairs as regards the church, to agitate a question of that description. Falmouth Packet. CUMBERLAND. Cockermouth General Sunday School.-- It appears from the annual Report of this establishment for the year ending on the 28th ult., that there are at present no fewer than 237 boys and 219 girls on the books of the institution, whose education is superintended by 53 teachers, and seven other persons who hold active situations making in the whole 516 teachers and scholars. The expenses attending the erection of the commodious school were necessarily great, and though many respectable persons in Cockermouth and the neighbourhood have contributed liberally towards this laudable object, there is yet a debt of 178l. 5s. 3d. upon this establishment -the total expenses during the past year, including the cost of the building, books, stationery, &c. &c., amounting to 3391. Os. 7d., and the receipts within the seme period to 160l. 15s. 4d. Temperance Society at Whitehaven.-On Tuesday, 26 ult., a numerous and respectable assembly met in the Friends' Meeting House, in Whitehaven, when a Temperance Society was formed under the patronage of the Lord Bishop of Chester. Mr. James Nicholson of Cartgate, in the Chair. The cause of these institutions was advocated by the Rev. Walter Fairlie, the Rev. Wm. Gardner, the Rev. C. Turner, of Workington, and several other gentlemen. DEVONSHIRE. Devon.-During the Earl of Eldon's visit to his seat at Encombe, in the Christmas holidays, he caused to be distributed to 622 men, women, and children, 11 lb. of excellent beef and 11lb. of plumb pudding to each, with 300 bushels of coals, and a plentiful supply of soup from his kitchen. Upwards of 900 persons partook of his Lordship's Christmas gifts. Broadclist Church.-We regret to learn that the late storm did so much injury to the roof of the church at Broadclist, that the parishioners in vestry have come to the determination of having it replaced by a new one, from an elegant and appropriate design of Mr. Wm. Wills, builder, Exeter, and is to be covered with Carter's patent roofing. Sir Thomas Acland, with that ready liberality that has ever marked his character, will be a liberal subscriber. Mr. E. Boutcher has offered to advance the sum that might be required (so that the burden might be thrown over a space of years) at 4 per cent. interest. The handsome offer of Mr. Boutcher has been accepted, and it is said that the liquidation of the debt will be extended over a period of fourteen years. DORSETSHIRE. It was lately resolved at the vestry of Sherborne, Dorset, that from ten to fourteen acres of land near the town shall be rented for the employment in spade husbandry of the labourers of the parish who are out of work. DURHAM. Durham.-The following is a copy of a petition to the House of Commons from the clergy of the diocese of Durham, now lying for signature in this city : : "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled The Petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham, and of the Officialty of the Dean and Chapter of Durham and of other Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, whose names are underwritten, HUMBLY SHEWETH,-That your Petitioners have learned, with deep regret, that a Bill has been introduced into your Honourable House, seriously affecting the rights, privileges, and revenues of the Bishops and Clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, and confiscating a large portion of the property of the Irish Clergy. That your Petitioners humbly represent to your Honourable House, that in the security of rights and property the common interest of all classes is involved, and that every invasion of right or property strikes at the root of national prosperity and happiness. That your Petitioners beg leave to submit to your Honourable House, that the property, rights, and privileges, spiritual and temporal, of the Bishops and Clergy of the United Church of England and Ire land, have been guaranteed by the laws, customs, and constitution of the realm, and guarded by the oath and engagements of the Sovereign with the utmost care and jealousy. And your Petitioners pray your Honourable House to protect, as heretofore, the rights, privileges, and property of the Bishops and Clergy, as well as those of every class of their fellow-subjects, and to reject all those provisions of the Bill which threaten an interference with their inalienable rights. And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c." The Rev. Dr. Prosser has generously signified his intention to give 1,000l. for the endowment of the parochial school at Easington, which was erected at his expense, and principally supported by his purse, while rector of that parish.- Tyne Mercury. ESSEX. Labour Rute.-The reports from the parishes around us, where the principle of employing the poor has been adopted for the last six weeks, are very encouraging. At Polstead, where the plan has been tried, there were from fifty to sixty men unemployed; not a man is now to be found idle, and the redundancy of labourers is converted into a scarcity. The husbandmen can now obtain wages according to their competence, and they have, in consequence, emerged from a comparative state of beggary to that situation in society which they formerly filled.-Essex Herald. The parish officers of Great Waltham applied to the Bench for their sanction to a labour rate in that parish. The necessary notices having been proved, the rate was signed. This is the second rate which has been made in this parish; and it appears that, so far as the system has been brought into operation, it has been found to answer admirably-the whole of the labouring poor have been kept in contant employ, and the sum levied for poor rates has consequently been considerably reduced.- Essex Independent. The sixteenth report of the Colchester and East Essex Association in aid of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, states, that the receipts of the last year were 469l. 14s. 1d., being 102. 8s. less than in the last year. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The following petition to the Legislature from the Archdeacon and clergy of the diocese of Gloucester has been agreed to, together with petitions on the Beer Act, and the better observance of the Sabbath :"To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled "The humble Petition of the Venerable the Archdeacon and the Reverend the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester, “SHEWETH, "That your petitioners desire humbly to approach your Honourable House, in respectful acknowledgment of your concurrence in the observations contained in his Majesty's most gracious speech from the throne, which refer to the correcting of imperfection, and the supplying of deficiency, in the United Church of England and Ireland. "Your petitioners desire that such real defects in the administration of the United Church of England and Ireland as impair its moral and spiritual efficiency may be considered and corrected. They cannot, however, but feel convinced that none of those defects are inherent in its design and constitution; and they earnestly pray your Honourable House promptly and vigorously to aid his Majesty's Government in resisting all those awful attempts which are now made and openly avowed in many adverse quarters to accomplish its downfall. "Your petitioners beg distinctly to disclaim every sordid and self-interested motive, and are ready to make any personal sacrifices which they shall be persuaded are necessary for promoting the beneficent purposes of the Protestant Church of England, and for realizing to the nation at large her true character as the best dispenser of sound scriptural doctrine and morality, and the chief benefactress of the whole community. Your petitioners humbly submit to your Honourable House, that the property of the church should be preserved inviolate, conceiving, as they do, that any invasion of that property would directly tend to unsettle the rights of property in general, and to open a wide door to revolution and anarchy. "Your petitioners also beg respectfully to represent to your Honourable House, that the Protestant Church of Ireland is identified with that of England; and, being fully persuaded that the property of that United Church is unalienable, they would earnestly entreat that no measure may receive the sanction of your Honourable House which would involve any transfer of that property from the support of the Protestant Establishment. "Your petitioners will feel most grateful for any salutary measures which may render the collection of tithes less objectionable to the community; and, as a due provision for the inferior clergy is necessary to the complete efficiency of their ministration, they would joyfully accept any well-arranged plan for the augmentation of the smaller benefices. "Your petitioners, apprehending that present usage allows the United Church of England and Ireland no means of remedying by its own acts any imperfections with which it is charged, beg humbly to submit to your Honourable House the propriety of adopting some measures by which the Bishops and Clergy may be empowered to consult together, under Royal permission, on such questions as involve the internal regulations of the Established Church, and I which it may be necessary to bring before the Legislature. "Lastly-Your petitioners would earnestly supplicate the Supreme Disposer of events, that the result of your consultations on this serious and most momentous subject, may tend to the glory of God, and the true welfare of this Church and nation." Beer Shops.-Mr. Commissioner Bowen, who presided at the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Bristol, during the last week, stated that nearly every other insolvent that had appeared before him throughout the circuit was a retailer of beer. Of the 28 who petitioned in Bristol, nine were of that description. Bristol College. The annual general meeting of the Shareholders of the College was held on Thursday the 28th ult., at the College Chambers in Park Row, when W. P. Taunton, Esq. was called to the chair. The report of the Council, which was read by the Chairman, states that the number of Students, which at the date of the last annual report was only 63, is now 87. The total augmentation, therefore, is more than a third on the former number, and it is still increasing, so that a reasonable hope may be entertained that the income of the current year will prove fully adequate to the expenses of the establishment. The treasurer, F. Ricketts, Esq. read the financial account for 1832, by which it appeared that the total receipts for the year, including a prior balance of 18. 11s., amounted to 17857. 11s. The sum of 5651. has been contributed in Cheltenham, in aid of the distressed Clergy of the Established Church in the sister kingdom. Gloucester Benevolent Society. We rejoice to state that the operations of this excellent institution are in progress of being carried on to the great benefit of the poorer classes of the community, and that the hopes entertained of its efficiency by its early supporters, have been signally realized. It appears that for the last few weeks the Benevolent Society has employed in digging the land which it has hired and in cleaning the streets all the persons who have applied for employment. They have sold 567cwt. of the best Staffordshire coal, at 6d. each cwt.; and have sold a large quantity of clothes, blankets, and sheets, at less than half the prime cost; the ladies having themselves cut out the clothes, and employed the wives and daughters of the poor in making them up. The objects of these several benefits having been persons who were not chargeable to the parishes. We must add that the society has set the laudable example of paying their workmen on Fridays, instead VOL. III.-April, 1833. of Saturdays, thus preventing the two frequent violation of the Sabbath, by the latter day being selected for such a purpose. HAMPSHIRE. Some time ago it was announced to be in contemplation to hold a Bazaar, early in the ensuing summer, on that romantic spot, Selborne Common, for the benefit of the Hawkley National School, which, from its central situation, is attended by the Prior's Dean, Newton Valence, East children of the adjoining parishes of and effective as it is, not only labours Tisted, Lyss, &c. This institution, useful requires a considerable sum for its necesunder an oppressive original debt, but that many ladies in the neigbourhood and sary completion. It is gratifying to learn county at large, are warmly interesting themselves in the preparation of fancy and useful articles. kindly undertaken the office of Patroness. Lady Sherborne has Among other distinguished personages who have promised their support are, the Duchess of Buckingham, Lady Maria Saunderson, Lady Lethbridge, Mrs. Sumner, &c. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese, and the Chancellor, will honour it with their presence. HEREFORDSHIRE. At the Meeting of the Hereford Diocesan Committee of the S.P.C.K. held on the 6th Feb., (the Very Rev. the Dean in the chair,) after the usual prayers, the Secretary reported that the number of books and tracts sold and distributed by the Committee was-Bibles and Testaments, 382; Prayer Books and Psalters, 715; tracts, 4537; making a total of 5629, and shewing an increase since last year of 2777 books distributed by means of the Committee. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Parent Society, expressive of approbation of a resolution of the last meeting, in conformity with the second general rule for District Committees, and having regard to the accommodation of such persons of limited means as might be desirous of availing themselves of the privileges of the society, viz.-That members of the United Church of England and Ireland may be admitted to the District Committee, and upon the annual subscription of 10s. 6d. may participate in the administration of their local concerns, although they are not thereby constituted members of the Parent Society. KENT. It has been proposed that a Penny Club, for the purpose of providing the poor with clothing in several parishes bordering on Romney Marsh, should be established; and a clergyman resident in one of them waited upon Sir Edward Knatchbull, to submit the plan to his notice, and solicit his assistance in its accomplishment. The honourable baronet approved of the scheme, and, without a moment's hesitation, gave 3 R him fifty pounds, to be applied to its objects during the present year.-Kentish Paper. LANCASHIRE. St. Philip's Church, Salford. The congregation of St. Philip's, Salford, have presented their late minister, the Rev. Oswald Sergeant, with a splendid service of silver covered dishes, as a memorial of their esteem. T. B. Wanklyn, Esq., the senior churchwarden, (who was deputed to address the Rev. Gentleman on this interesting occasion,) bore testimony, in an appropriate speech, to Mr. Sergeant's zealous and faithful services, as minister of St. Philip's since its consecration, in 1825, to the general feeling of respect entertained towards him by the congregation, and to his uniform liberality on those occasions which, from the peculiar circumstances of the church, so frequently claimed his aid. Mr. Sergeant acknowledged the gratifying mark of esteem with great feeling, and referred particularly to the unanimity which had so happily prevailed among the members of his flock during his ministry, and to the cordial and truly Christian support which he had always received at their hands. A very handsome silver fruit basket was also presented by the congregation to Mrs. Serjeant. St. Philip's is one of the churches built under the Parliamentary Commission. It contains about eighteen hundred sittings, one thousand of which are free. It was consecrated in 1825, when Mr. Sergeant was appointed minister by the patrons, the Warden and Fellows of the collegiate church, Manchester. Since its consecration, more than 1500l. have been subscribed by the congregation, and expended in the erection of a Sunday School for 400 children, in providing an organ, stoves, and in beautifying the church, &c. All the pews are let, with the exception of one or two, which number continue untenanted from the fluctuation of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and the church is remarkably well attended by the poor. The Rev. Isaac Robley, M.A., late curate of the church, has succeeded to the ministry vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Oswald Sergeant, M.A., who has been elected to a Fellowship in the collegiate church of Manchester. The teachers and children of the Sunday School have also presented to Mr. Sergeant a small, but beautiful, silver salver, as a record of their gratitude for his "uniform kindness and unwearied attention to their temporal and spiritual welfare." The salver bears the following inscription:"Presented to the Rev. Oswald Sergeant, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Manchester, on his resignation of the ministry of St. Philip's Church, Salford, by the teachers and children of the Sunday School. A memorial of gratitude for his zealous exertions in founding the school, and for his and Mrs. Serjeant's uniform kindness and unwearied attention to their temporal and spiritual welfare. January, 1833." MIDDLESEX. The parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, have recently presented the Rev. Henry William Maddock, of Brasennose College, with an elegant silver salver, on which is engraved the following inscription:-"Let this, presented in the year of our Lord 1833, to the Rev. Henry William Maddock, M.Á., late Curate of the parish, betoken the respect, esteem, and attachment of the parishioners of St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate.' The Welsh Charity School connected with the Society of Ancient Britons, has received and wholly maintained 1,542 boys and 355 girls. The collections and donations to this charity after the dinner of the Society on St. David's day, amount to upwards of 1,000l. The 12th anniversary of the Seaman's Hospital Society was celebrated at the City-of-London Tavern. Admiral Sir R. Stopford took the chair. The amount of money subscribed in the course of the evening was, we understand, 1,500; among which were donations from their Majesties, the East India Company, the Trinity house, and the Emperor of Russia. Temperance Society.-A numerous meeting of the friends and members of the Temperance Society was held on Tuesday, 26th ult., at Willis's rooms, King-street, St. James's, to join simultaneously with the various Temperance Societies in this coun try and in America, in commemoration of the institution of these Societies. There were a great many ladies present; and, amongst the gentlemen on the platform, were Lord Henley, the Bishop of Chester, Sir A. Agnew, M.P., Ruddell Todd, M.P., A. Mackinnon, J.Wilkes, M.P., W. Crampton, Esq., Solicitor-General for Ireland, Dr. Levinge, Dr. Edwards, Rev. D. Wilson, and T. Lewin, Esq. Another meeting took place in the evening at the Friends' Meeting-house, Bishopsgate, at which several persons of distinction and a large number of the friends of the society were present. Similar meetings simultaneously took place in almost every part of the kingdom; and there cannot be a doubt that the cause of temperance has received a considerable impulse. In the county of Lancaster, there are twenty-six of these associations, consisting of 13,270 members. In Preston some extensive premises have recently been opened as a Temperance coffeehouse. The formation of the following auxiliary Societies have been reported since last month :-Braintree and Bocking, Essex; Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk; Canterbury, Kent; Chester; Coggeshall, Essex; Egham, Surrey.-Morning Post. Harrow School.-The Easter examination for two scholarships on the foundation, closed on Friday, 15th inst., before Dr. Burton (Oxford), and the Rev. Mr. Hughes (Cambridge), when Mr. Egerton (brother to the Member for Cheshire), and Mr. Leslie (Captain of the school), were declared the successful candidates. Sabbath Petitions.-A weekly Report is printed by the Committee of the House of Commons for the use of the House, in which is set forth the names of all the petitions arranged under distinct heads, together with the number of signatures attached to each petition. Under the head of the Sabbath are arranged, up to the 12th of March, 131 petitions with 29,918 signatures. The Report observes: "These petitions urge precisely the same grounds for a more effectual law respecting the observance of the Sabbath, which are to be found in the various petitions noticed in former Reports." The Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy. The Committee of this Society assembled at their rooms in Sackvillestreet, to receive the report of the Chairman's application to the parishes of Marylebone, and St. Giles's, and St. George's, Bloomsbury, to aid the Society in sending out their paupers as agricultural servants to the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Brenton informed the meeting, that the guardians of the poor in Marylebone, having consented to advance the sum of 2001. towards the expense of sending out twenty of the parish boys, provided the Vestry approved of the proposition, he (Captain Brenton) attended before that body on Thursday week, when a motion was made and carried, that if Viscount Goderich, as Colonial Secretary, would pledge himself that the protection of Government should be extended to the boys, after their arrival at the Cape, the Society should have the sum in question at their disposal. The Secretary announced that Lord Kenyon had transmitted a donation of 201., and Major Revell had collected 631. The other business having been concluded, the Committee adjourned. The day appointed for the General Thanksgiving for the cessation of the cholera is altered from the 12th May to Sunday, the 14th April. The London University.-The Athenæum states that it appears from a Report of the Council of the London University, that the University was, in October last, in debt 2,9461.; and it infers that at the end of the present Session the University will be about 4,000l. in debt, and that it will be impossible to proceed unless the proprietors consent to raise by subscription 1,000l. a year at least. The Council state, that they have now under deliberation the question of instituting Professorships of Civil Engineering, and some other subjects not hitherto taught in British Universities. NORTHUMBERLAND. The Duchess of Northumberland has just established a Sunday School in Alnwick, and her Grace pays the most minute and constant attention to her poor scholars. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. At the late Association Meeting at Bulwell, the Rev. Alfred Padley, in consideration of the heavy pressure upon all classes in the village occasioned by the levying of the damage done in the late riots, presented to the parish the sum of 250l., which he had previously advanced for its use, together with a five pound note, to be applied by the curate in the purchase of blankets for such of the poor as were unable to obtain them-an example worthy of record and imitation. OXFORDSHIRE. Oxford Church Missionary Association.— The Annual Meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, 6th ult,, in the Grand Jury Room, adjoining the Town Hall. It appeared from the Report read to the Meeting, that the Church Missionary Society has succeeded in establishing efficient Missions in Western Africa, Egypt, and Abyssinia, in Greece, in India, and Ceylon, in New Holland and New Zealand, in North West America, and the West Indies. Above sixty clergymen, and more than six hundred catechists, readers, schoolmasters, and schoolmistresses, are in connexion with the Society. The Meeting to establish a Diocesan Society for Promoting the Education of the Children of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, took place on Thursday, March 7th, and it was attended by many of the clergy and laity resident in, and in the neighbourhood of Oxford. The Archdeacon of Oxford was called to the chair, and opened the business of the Meeting, which was addressed by many distinguished persons present, on the nature and objects of the societies similar to the present, and on the state, advantage, management, and origin of English charity schools. Several of the Nobility and Gentry of the county, together with the leading Members of the University, and Gentlemen of the City of Oxford, were proposed as VicePresidents, by the Rev. V. Thomas, and seconded by B. Morrell, Esq. It was proposed that the Archdeacon be requested to accept the office of Secretary; and that Herbert Parsons, Esq., be requested to take the office of Treasurer. It was proposed, that the Committee for the present year be the parochial Clergy of the City of Oxford, the Provost of Oriel College, the Warden of All Souls' College, the Principal of Magdalen Hall, the Rev. Dr. Burton, the Rev. Mr. Pusey, and the Rev. Dr. Ashhurst. Thanks were voted |