throughout the base metal which has recently been procured from the Babylonian mine opened in Oxford. The whole business of those who are occupied in modelling the metal obtained from that sulphureous ore, consists in disguising rather than in separating the brimstone of Popery. In plain words, the Tractarians endeavour to disguise Popery in a Protestant dress; and, on that account, I formerly designated them "Protestant Papists." The fashion of these habiliments is very curious. Some vestments are undisguisedly popish, others are slightly modified, while some few are so constructed as to be laid aside or not without interfering with the completeness of the equipment. Thus they endeavour to persuade members of the Church of England, that popish garments may be worn under a Protestant cloak, or vice versa. According to the Tractarian party, there are few, if any, of our principles, as consistent churchmen, which we need abandon, in order to be admitted as members of the Church of Rome. To establish this position, there is no disingenuous sophistry and subtlety to which they have not recourse. In making this statement, we need not suppose that they are not mentally sincere and honest. But it should be remembered that such mental sincerity gives a deeper die to the moral depravity of their hearts. Such delusion could only result from that perverseness of the will, which must be attributed to the indulgence of depraved habits of thinking. The more complete their insensibility to error and falsehood, the greater their perverseness of conscience, the more dense the darkness of their understanding, and the more depraved the hardness of their hearts. On this subject nothing can be stronger or more correct than the language used by the Bishop of Ossory, in the charge to which I have before alluded; and in closing this introductory letter, I would transcribe that forcible passage. -"It was still more distressing and alarming to learn, that their honesty had been so tainted in the process, that they were capable of employing it, that one who must have been supposed to have known intimately the minds on which he had exercised so baleful an influence, should have been able to calculate on their readiness to avail themselves of such a mode of escape from the fair force of the most solemn and sacred obligations, by such sophistry and evasions, such shifts and contrivances, as a man could not apply to the very lightest of the engagements of common life, without forfeiting all reputation for integrity and good faith."* I am, Sir, Middleton Pretyman, M. A., Oriel coll., Oxford; John Parkinson Bayly Younge, B. A., Christ's coll., Cambridge; Robert Evelyn Roy, B. A., Corpus Christi coll., Cambridge, with Letter Dimissory from the Bishop of St. David's. Priests.-Henry Leathley Armitage, B. A., Worcester college, Oxford; Thomas Lushington Edwards, LL. B., Trinity coll., Cambridge; Charles William Ireland Jones, Oriel coll., Oxford; John Clement Middleton, M. A., Fellow of King's coll., Cambridge; William Cyril Newcome, M. A., Trinity coll., Cambridge; Thomas Jackson Milnes Townsend, B.A., Lincoln college, Oxford; Robert Weatherell, B.A., St. Edmund hall, Oxford; John Scott Whiting, B. A., Worcester coll., Oxford. At an Ordination holden by the Right Rev. Edward, by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Durham, in the Chapel at Auckland Castle, on Sunday, the 17th December, the following Gentlemen were ordained. Deacons.-James Barrow, B. A., of Queen's college, Oxford; William Callendar, B. A., of Mary Magdalen hall, Oxford; George Frederick De Gex, B. A., of Pembroke college, Cambridge; Henry Borton, B. A., of University college, Durham; William Salmon Mare, M. A., of Magdalen college, Cambridge. Priests. Henry Wade Hodgson, M. A. of University college, Durham; William Blamire Young, B. A., of Emanuel college, Cambridge; Joseph Leeson, M. A. of Trinity college, Dublin; Joseph Reed, B. A., of Trinity college, Dublin. List of Candidates ordained by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, in the Cathedral of Christ Church, Oxford, on Sunday, the 17th of December, 1843. Deacons.-Charles HenryCollyns,M.A., Christ Church, Oxford; George Carless Swayne, M. A., Corpus Christi college, ditto; Thomas Pantin, B. A., Pembroke college, ditto; George Hext, M. A., Corpus Christi college, ditto; William Arnold Buckland, B. A., Christ Church, ditto; Arthur Alcock Barker, M. A., Magdalen college, ditto; Richard Charles Dickerson, B.A., Worcester college, ditto; Edward Rogers, M. A., Christ Church, ditto; Edward Alexander Frederick Harenc, M. A., Magdalen college, Cambridge; William Archibald Paxton, B. A., Trinity college, Oxford; John Marsh, S.C. L., New college, ditto; Wm. James Jenkins, B.A., Balliol college, ditto; Henry East Havergal, B.A., New college, ditto; Wm. Andrew, B. A., Worcester college, ditto; John George Hickley, M. A., Trinity college, ditto; George Hunter Fell, B.A., Magdalen college, ditto; Francis Balston, M. A., Christ Church, ditto. Priests.-John Ernest Bode, M. A., Christ Church, Oxford; Robert Aston Coffin, M. A., Christ Church, ditto; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, M. A., University college, ditto; Thomas Shadforth, M.A., University college, ditto; Hibbert Binney, B. A., Worcester college, ditto; Frederick Hathaway, M.A., Worcester college, ditto; John Foster, B.A., St. Mary hall, ditto; John Collingwood, B. A., Pembroke coll., ditto; Samuel Sheddem, B. A., Pembroke college, ditto; William Bousfield, B. A., Lincoln college, ditto; Henry Robinson, B. A., St. Alban hall, ditto; William Wetherall, B.C.L., New college, ditto; Thomas Knox, B. A., St. John's college, ditto; Richard Williams Mason, M. A., Jesus coll., ditto; Joseph Baker, M. A., Worcester coll., ditto; Robert Cholmeley Price, M. A., Christ Church, ditto; Francis Edward Thurland, B. A., New coll., ditto; William Vansittart, B. A., Christ Church, ditto; Henry Samuel Ryder Matthews, M. A., Lincoln college, ditto. List of Candidates ordained by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, in the Chapel within Farnham Castle, Surrey, on Sunday, 17th Dec., 1843. Deacons.-George Jenkins, B. A., Lincoln college, Oxford; Jeffery Foot, B. A., Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge; Theobald Richard O'Flaherty, B. A,, St. John's college, Cambridge; Charles Smith, M. A., Magdalen college, Cambridge; Forster George Simpson, B. A., St. Edmund hall, Oxford; Philip Hookins, B. A., Trinity hall, Cambridge; Henry Hotham, B. A., Jesus college, Cambridge; William Chas. Raffles Flint, B. A., Trinity college, Cambridge; Charles Frederick Seymour, B.A., University college, Oxford; Edward Kilvert, B. A., St. Alban hall, Oxford; Thos. Ridley, B. A., Catherine hall, Cambridge; William Banks Jowett, B. A., St. John's college, Cambridge; James Niven, B. A., Trinity college, Dublin; James Simpson, B. A., Exeter college, Oxford - Letter Dimissory from Bishop of Sarum; Perigrine Bingham, B. A., Jesus coll., Cambridgeditto. Priests.-Carteret Priaulx Carey, B. A., Wadham college, Oxford; John Chapman, B.A., Trinity college, Dublin; Charles Rae Hay, M. A., Merton college, Oxford; John Miller, B. A., St. John's college, Cambridge; Abraham Le Sueur, Magdalen hall, Oxford; Thomas Vincent, B. A., St. John's college, Cambridge; Newhenham Thomas Travers, B. A., Lincoln college, Oxford. List of Candidates ordained by the Lord Bishop of Ely, in the Cathedral Church of Ely, on Sunday, the 3d day of December, 1843; when the following Gentlemen were admitted into Holy Orders. Deacons.-George Jarvis, B. A., Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; Robert Wallace Deane, B. A., Exeter college, Oxford; Samuel Lewthwaite, M. A., Magdalen college, Cambridge; Dunbar Isidore Heath, M. A., Trinity college, Cambridge; William Collings Mathison, M. A., ditto; Alfred Paul Jodrell Mills, M. A., Queen's college, Cambridge; William Richard Ick, B.A., Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge; Frederick Gell, B. A., Christ college, Cambridge; Jenkin Jenkins, B. A., Lincoln college, Oxford-Letter Dimissory from Bishop of Exeter; John Manley Hawker, B. A., Balliol college, Oxford-ditto. Priests. Richard Hull, B. A., St. John's college, Cambridge; Lewis Hogg, B. A., Emanuel college, Cambridge; Alfred James Lowth, B. A., Exeter college, Oxford; Charles Ward, B. A., Magdalen college, Cambridge; William Crouch, B. A., Trinity college, Cambridge; Wm. Gilson Humphry, B. A., ditto; William Hutchinson Oliver, B. A., ditto; Michael Angelo Atkinson, M. A., ditto; John Alexander Frere, M. A., ditto; William Williams, Literate-Letter Dimissory from Bishop of Worcester. List of Candidates ordained by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, in the Cathedral Church of Ripon, on Sunday, the 17th of Dec., 1843. Deacons.-Percival Wilmot Bryan, St. Bees, Cumberland; George Henry Greville Anson, B. A., Exeter coll., Oxford; John Willis Grane, B. A., ditto; William Barton Caparn, B. A., Brasennose college, Oxford; John Grayson Underwood, B.A., St. John's college, Cambridge; John Campion, St. Bees, Cumberland; Richard Wolfenden, B. A., Trinity coll., Dublin; Robert Hodgson Dover, B. A., Queen's coll., Cambridge; William Lee Howarth, B. A., Magdalen coll., Cambridge; Thos, Roberts Jones, a Literate Person; George Jubb Perram, B. A., Clare hall, Cambridge; John Sanders, B. A., Catherine hall, Cambridge; John Hales Sweet, B.A., St. John's college, Cambridge. Priests.-Thomas Brown Parkinson, B. A., Queen's college, Cambridge; James Davidson, St. Bees, Cumberland; Henry Townsend, B. A., St. John's coll. Cambridge; Richard Robbins Wolfe, B. A., Trinity college, Dublin; Richard Neale, St. Bees, Cumberland; John Gooch, B.A., Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge; William Renwick Bowditch, B.A., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; Thomas Ramsbottom, B. A., Christ's coll., Cambridge; John Godfrey Angley, B. A., Trinity coll., Dublin. NATIONAL SOCIETY. The Committee of the National Society met at the Sanctuary, Westminster, on the 6th of December: his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair. The Treasurer reported that the special fund amounted to 130,000l., and was still increasing at the rate of 4007. a day. The Sub-Committee, for the distribution of the special fund, reported that they had voted grants for the following purposes: viz., Building school-rooms and the School requisites, slates, &c. £10,051 115 2,406 116 £12,688 The Secretary reported that the Queen's Letter was now in course of circulation. The object of this Letter is to extend and improve popular education, not only in the manufacturing and mining districts, but in agricultural parishes, in commercial and seaport towns, and generally throughout the country. The Appendix to the Annual Report, which has been delayed in consequence of the pressure of business arising out of the special fund, is now in the press, and will be ready in about a fortnight for circulation. INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. A meeting of this Society was held at their chambers in St. Martin's-place, on Monday, the 20th Nov., 1843: the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. There were also present Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P.; the Venerable Archdeacon Lonsdale; the Rev. Dr. Shepherd, H. H. Norris, and B. Harrison; W. Cotton, N. Connop, W. Davis, H. J. Barchard, B. Harrison, J. S. Salt, S. B. Brooke, A. Powell, J. Cocks, Esqs., &c. The Secretary read the reports of the Sub-Committees, and the meeting having examined the cases referred to their consideration, voted grants of money towards building additional churches or chapels, at Alltygryg, in the parish of Llanguick, Glamorganshire; at Kensall Green, in the parish of Chelsea, Middlesex; at Wood Green, in the parish of Tottenham, Middlesex; in the district parish of Saint George, Leeds; at Robert Town, in the township of Liversedge, near Leeds; at Cowhill, in the parish of Oldham, Lancashire; at Plymouth; and at Trawden, in the parochial chapelry of Calne, Lancashire; also towards enlarging (by rebuilding) the church at Bovingdon, Herts; enlarging the church at Owston, Lancashire; reseating or otherwise increasing the accommodation in the churches at Batcombe, Somerset; Burton, Westmoreland; Stoke Golding, Leicester; Tavistock, Devon; and Wanborough, Wilts. The population of these fifteen parishes is 213,614 persons, and the accommodation provided for them in 37 churches and chapels, is 29,411 seats, being less than one-seventh of the whole number; while the free sittings are only 9672, or one free seat for 22 persons; to this insufficient provision of church-room, 5753 seats will be added, when the works above referred to (which include the erection of eight additional churches), have been completed, and 3788 of those seats will be free and unappropriated for ever. Certificates of the completion of the works, in ten parishes, were examined and approved, and the Board issued orders for the payment of the grant voted in each case; the population of these parishes is 36,727 persons; and to the former provision of church-room therein, viz., 3009 sittings, including 1507 free seats, 2300 sittings are now added, 1861 of which are free and unappropriated. In addition to the cases which have now been assisted, the Committee have received notices, since their last meeting, that applications are about to be made for aid towards building churches at the Swindon station of the Great Western Railway; at Norland, in the parish of Kensington; at Coventry; at St. Lawrence, near Ramsgate; at Thorpe Acre, near Loughborough; at Seasalter, near Whitstable; at Lynn, Norfolk; and at Nenthead, in the parish of Alston, Cumberland; and also for enlarging or otherwise increasing the accommodation in fourteen existing churches. DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER. The Lord Bishop has issued a pastoral letter, recommending a congregational collection in every parish throughout the diocese, for the purpose of providing a fund to liquidate the present debts of the Diocesan Training Schools at Chichester and Brighton. On Tuesday, the 12th Dec., a new district Church on the Dicker Common, in the parish of Arlington, Sussex, was consecrated by the Bishop Chichester, assisted by the Archdeacon of Lewes and many of the neighbouring clergy. This Church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has been built in the course of the present year by voluntary contributions, aided by grants from the Incorporated Society, and the Chichester Diocesan Association. It contains about 300 sittings, all of which are free, and it is designed to supply the spiritual wants of about 500 souls, settled of late years in a newly enclosed country, remote from their parish Church, and generally in humble circumstances. The Rev. Dr. Warneford has given 5007. towards the endowment. Hastings.-A spacious school-room, and dwelling-house for the mistress, have lately been presented to the district of St. Clement's Chapel, Hastings, by Mrs. Milward, the lady who, a few years ago, contributed largely to the building of the Chapel, supplied the whole of the endowment fund, and erected an excellent parsonage-house. The population of the district consists chiefly of the labouring poor; who have thus, through the kindness and liberality of one lady, been furnished with the means of grace, and their children with the opportunity of receiving a sound Scriptural education. The cost of the school-room and dwellinghouse was upwards of 600%. BRISTOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF The half-yearly Meeting of the Board was held in the Chapter Room, Bristol Cathedral, on Friday, Dec. 1: the Very Rev. the Dean of Bristol in the chair. It was agreed to open the Training School for Masters, in Bristol, to the whole diocese, and to assist in the establishment of a Training School for Mistresses at Gloucester, if the details of the plan of union could be arranged between the diocesan boards acting severally for the archdeaconries of Bristol and Gloucester. It was reported that a statistical enquiry into the Church schools in the Bristol archdeaconry had been undertaken by the Board, and was now nearly completed. Returns had been received from fivesixths of the parishes, and it was expected that, through the kind co-operation of the rural deans, returns would be obtained from the other parishes before the end of the year. An exhibition of 107. 10s. per annum was granted to a deserving training pupil, and several schools were received into union with the Board. After the conclusion of the business of the Board, the Dean, Professor Lee, Canons Hervey and Bankes, and several clergymen, attended the public examination of the training and middle school, and prizes were presented by the Dean to the most deserving pupils. LONDON. The Bishop of London has formed an association for parochial and district visiting, "not merely to administer relief in cases of extreme destitution, but to improve the social, moral, and religious condition of the poor, &c." "This view of the subject plainly implies the necessity of combining religious and moral instruction with the relief of bodily want, &c." This is part of the system of Lay-Clerical agency to which our article alludes. Windsor.-The new private Chapel at the Castle was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford. Henceforth Morning Prayers will be performed in this Chapel, instead of in one of the private apartments of the Castle. CONSECRATION OF DR. LONSDALE. The Rev. John Lonsdale, D.D., of King's college, Cambridge, and principal of King's college, London, was on the 6th of December solemnly consecrated to the see of Lichfield, vacant by the decease of the Right Rev. James Bowstead, D.D., the late bishop. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, assisted by the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, and the Bishop of Winchester, in the presence of the Archdeacon of London, the Archdeacon of Middlesex, and a numerous body of the metropolitan clergy. After the usual prayers of the Church, and those especially appointed for the occasion, had been read, the Lord Bishop of Winchester presented Dr. Lonsdale, who was habited in his rochet, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be by him consecrated bishop. The form of consecration appointed in the reign of Edward VI., and authorised by the 36th canon of the Church, was then proceeded with, when the bishop elect, being attired in the full episcopal robes, received the archbishop's imposition of hands, with that of the right reverend prelates who were assisting at the ceremony. The sermon was preached by the Ven. the Archdeacon of London, (the Rev. W. H. Hale, M.A.,) from the following text in the Revelation of St. John: "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches." The Archdeacon dwelt very impressively on the duties and responsibilities of bishops and ministers, and was listened to throughout with profound attention. The Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced the apostolic benediction, when the bishops and clergy retired with the officers of the Church. |