From the Report of the Committee it appears that 190 boys and girls have been receiving the benefits of the school since the 29th of September last year. Of this number 64 have been admitted within the year.-Salisbury Paper.

The pupils of the Rev. Samuel Field, late of Westbury, near this city, are about to present him with a splendid silver waiter, manufactured by Mr. Charles Taylor, of High-street, as a testimony of esteem for his personal worth, and in acknowledgment of the unremitting attention he has paid to their literary and religious improvement.

A meeting of the Labourers' Friend Branch Society was held at Hetling House, which was respectably and pretty numerously attended. The resolutions passed, as well as the speeches delivered, were highly confirmatory of the plans of this Society, and of the public approbation of their proceedings. It was determined to hold their future meetings at the Assembly Rooms, the annual meeting to be held on the 1st Tuesday in June. The Bishop of Bath and Wells presided, and the worthy and respected Chairman, as well as other able speakers, appeared to excite a warm interest in the auditory in favour of this highly benevolent system. Besides the Right Rev. Prelate, the principal speakers were Col. Gore Langton, M. P., (who, though he did not name it, is a practical friend to the system on his own estate) Capts. Scobell, Brenton, and Pore, R. N., G. Emery, Esq., of Banwell, G. W. Hall, Esq., T. Tanner, Esq., Dr. Parry, and the Revds. W. L. Bowles, Mount, Marriott, Collins, and others.- Salisbury Herald.

A new and commodious school-room was opened on Tuesday, December 3rd, in the village of Allcannings, in a manner highly interesting to all who were present. A suitable prayer was offered up by the Rev. T. A. Methuen, and a hymn was sung by the whole assembly. The children were respectively addressed by the Rector, and by the Rev. Messrs. Caulfield and Trenchard; and were more immediately reminded of the blessings of a Christian education, and of the consolation arising in old age from the dedication of themselves to God in the time of childhood. Ibid.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

There was a large and most highly respectable meeting in the Guildhall, Worcester, on Tuesday, November 26th, in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; the Lord Bishop of the diocese in the chair. The Meeting was attended by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Worcester, by the Archdeacon, the High Sheriff of the county, the Mayor of Worcester, the greater part of the prebendaries (some being absent from Worcester), a very large proportion of the

clergy of the diocese, and a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, both from the city and neighbourhood. The results have been highly gratifying, about 801. having been added to the Society's funds in annual subscriptions, (besides the sums regularly transmitted from the Worcester Diocesan Committee of the Society, established in 1829,) and nearly 70l. in donations, including the money received at the doors on the day of the meeting.

We have the pleasure of saying, that the Committee for managing the subscription raised to erect a Church in the ExtraParochial District, in the Blockhouse, have at length been enabled to agree for the purchase of an eligible site in the midst of the population, being a portion of the land (near Denmark Row) held by a lease granted to the late John Carden, Esq., by the Corporation of Worcester; and we have the further gratification of saying, that at a Chamber meeting, on Friday, November 15th, the Corporation agreed to enfranchise, for a nominal sum, the land thus purchased-thereby making their contribution towards the New Church very little short of 4001. It is understood that the patronage of the New Church will vest in the Bishop of the diocese.-Worcester Journal.

The second Anniversary meeting of the Burford Deanery District Committee in connexion with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was held at Newnham Bridge, in the parish of Lindridge, on Wednesday, the 4th inst.; the Rev. T. E. Miller in the chair. From the Report, read by the Rev. W. R. Davies, secretary, it appears that the Society is in a state of progressive improvement. The accession of several names to the list of subscribers was announced; and in this, as well as in other districts, the cause has been very considerably promoted by annual subscribers of 5s., that sum being within the reach of many benevolent persous whose means accord not with their inclination.

National Schools.-On Wednesday, the 19th inst., the examination of the boys' school, in the city of Worcester, took place in the presence of the bishop of the diocese. The knowledge of the Scriptures displayed by the boys was very satisfactory to his lordship. There are nearly 200 in the school.

YORKSHIRE.

New Church Rate at Wakefield.-It will be recollected that at a meeting of the churchwardens and parishioners of Wakefield, held in the vestry of the parish church there, in August last, for the purpose of laying a church rate, an amendment was moved and carried, that the meeting should. adjourn till "that day six months." That resolution was tantamount to a refusal of the rate, and the churchwardens, acting

under the advice of the highest legal authorities of the land, assembled on Saturday, and of their own authority, and without asking the concurrence of the parishioners, laid a rate of eighteen-pence in the pound, which rate is now in course of collection, and, we understand, can be enforced in the Ecclesiastical Court as effectually as if it had been laid in the ordinary way. The example thus set by the spirited churchwardens of Wakefield, is worthy of imitation by all churchwardens who may be similarly circumstanced.

Honourable Tribute.-At a full meeting of the Leeds workhouse board, held on Friday evening, November 1st, at the workhouse, it was unanimously resolved that the thanks of the board should be given to the Rev. Richard Fawcett, M. A., vicar of Leeds, for the uniform zeal and attention which he had manifested during the last fourteen years to the poor in the workhouse; he having, in the course of that long period, constantly attended there on Sunday evenings, to catechize the children, and to preach to the whole of the inmates. A copy of the memorial was ordered to be engrossed on vellum, and presented to the vicar; and another copy is to be framed and hung up in the board-room at the workhouse.

The effect of the late reductions in the churchwardens' estimates of the necessary expenses of the Parish Church, in this town, has been to deprive the parishioners and the officers of the church who may bave to attend divine service, or the performance of public rites, of so essential a comfort as that of fire during the present inclement season. A gentleman having inquired the cause of there being no fire in the vestry, and been informed that it was in consequence of the stoppage of the supplies, very liberally made a present of a waggon of excellent coals. And on Thursday morning the following notice was posted in the vestry-"Mr.Thomas Brumfit of this town, innkeeper, gave a waggon of coals for the use of this vestry, 11th Dec. 1833."--Leeds Intelligencer.

The city of York subscription for the Wilberforce Testimonial, amounts to nearly 1100.; and the subscription at Halifax to 300l.-Ibid.

Bolton. A vestry meeting was held at the parish church Sunday school, on Thursday, the 5th inst., to pass the church rates for the ensuing year, the Rev. J. Slade, vicar, in the chair. Mr. Mandly, one of the churchwardens, said that they had proposed a rate with a view to the most rigid economy, and that they wanted for the ensuing year 151l. 17s. 7d., towards which they had 94. 19s. in hand. It was moved and seconded that the rate be allowed. Some scurrilous observations were thrown out, but Mr. Slade met them with excellent temper. Mr. Naisby admitted that the proposed rate, amounting to only a farthing

in the pound for every inhabitant in the parish, was low, but he did not conceive they were bound to pay it, until they knew the ultimate intentions of Government. Mr. N. proposed as an amendment, that the meeting be adjourned to that day twelve months, until the intentions of Government be ascertained. The amendment was carried by a large majority, and the meeting separated.

WALES.

Exemplary Generosity.-At a recent examination of the pupils at the Beaumaris Free Grammar School, at which the Right Rev. the Bishop of Bangor presided, the College exhibitions of £20 were given, as usual, to the three candidates supposed to be the most meritorious. From some circumstance, one whose claims ought not to have been overlooked, nor do we suppose they were wilfully so, was unsuccessful. -When this became known, one of the masters wrote to his Lordship, stating the circumstance, and also the disappointment that it had occasioned, not only to the pupil, but to his parents, who, from their poverty, could not send their son to College, as they had intended, without such assistance as they had anticipated would have been afforded, had their son been successful in obtaining one of the prize exhibitions. His Lordship, with a generous promptitude, and which reflects the highest honour upon him as a Christian prelate, immediately healed up the unintentional wound that had been inflicted in awarding the prize exhibitions, by enclosing to the master a check to the same amount upon his bankers, for the purpose to which the amount of the exhibition would have been applied, had the meritorious pupil been successful.— Carnarvon Herald.

The Rev. John Williams, formerly of Winchester, and now Rector of the High School, Edinburgh, has been appointed Archdeacon of Cardigan, and to the Prebendal Stall of Llanarthney, Brecon.

The Duke of Newcastle.-His Grace, accompanied by his family, on arriving at Welsh Pool, from Hafod, on his way to Clumber, was met by a deputation of gentlemen residing in that neighbourhood, beaded by Captain Gildy, who delivered a his Grace's congratulatory address on visit to his new estate.-Hereford Journal.

SCOTLAND.

The town council of Paisley have refused to walk to church in procession, and have seriously proposed selling one of the churches, holding 700 or 800 persons, in

the town, for the sum of $151. to reduce their debt. They consider they have no call on them to provide churches for the poor people, and have nothing to do with supporting any one particular religion, and that this country will never prosper till the established church is requced to a level with the dissenters. -Edinburgh Ad

testiser.

IRELAND.

The Rev. Mr. Hoare, Rector of the parish of Kilcully, in the north liberties of Cork, has relinquished all claims to the arrears of tithes to the 1st of May in the present year; and has stated his reasons for so doing-" that there has been no Church Service in the parish down to that period."

By the death of the Rev. W. Massay of Tipperary, a vacancy occurs in the chapter of the Cathedral of the diocese. The living at Dysart, a non cure, which he held, reverts to the Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the late Church Reform

Act, and we believe is the first that has fallen to their patronage since the passing of that statute.

Last week the Earl of Roden sent 451. to the congregation lately formed at Ballynamagna, near Rathfryland, in connection with the Scottish Seceders, to aid them in building the Meeting House now erecting at that place.

The Committee for managing the subscription on behalf of the distressed Protestant Clergy in Ireland, have closed their books, as they do not think it necessary at present to ask for any further aid. total sum raised is about 52,000l.

The

Application is about to be made by the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, in consequence of the vast increase of students, for permission to add eight new Fellows to their establishment.

The parishioners at Cove have voted an address and a piece of plate to the Rev. P. W. Drew, on his removal to the Curacy of Youghal.

The late Rev. John Gibson, of Dublin, has left 54'., in small portions, to various Missionary Societies.

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