ECCLESIASTICAL GAZETTE;

OR,

MONTHLY REGISTER

OF THE

AFFAIRS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

AND OF ITS

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS.

FROM JULY 1852 TO JUNE 1853.

VOL. XV.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES COX, 12, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.-Cap. XXIV. An Act for the

Amendment of an Act passed in the First Year of

the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled

An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect

to Wills, 40; Cap. XXV. An Act to amend an Act

for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in

England; Cap. XXXI. An Act to legalize the For-

mation of Industrial and Provident Societies, 41;

Cap. XXXVI. An Act to amend the Law relating

to the certifying and registering Places of Religious

Worship of Protestant Dissenters, 42, 66; Cap.

XLIX. An Act to extend the Provisions of the

several Acts passed for the Conveyance of Sites of

Schools; Cap. LII. An Act to enable Colonial and

other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Functions,

under Commission from Bishops of England and

Ireland, 67, 90; Cap. LIII. An Act to provide for

the Exercise of certain Powers vested in the Bishop

of Quebec in respect of Districts severed from his

Diocese; Cap. LXXXVIII. An Act to remove

Doubts as to the Constitution of the Bishopric_of

Christchurch in New Zealand, and to enable Her

Majesty to constitute such Bishopric, and to sub-

divide the Diocese of New Zealand, 91.

Adelaide, Extracts of letters from the Lord Bishop of,

to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,

5, 86, 190.

Aidan's (St.) Theological College, Birkenhead, Mid-

summer Examinations, 14.

America (North), The Church in British.-Copy of

Minutes of the Conference between the Bishops of

Quebec, Toronto, Newfoundland, Fredericton, and

Montreal, 46.

Antigua, Extracts of letters from the Lord Bishop of,

to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,

5, 294.

Asaph (St.), Subjects discussed by the Secretaries of

Diocesan Education in the Diocese of, 62.

Assiniboia, a letter from the Rev. W. F. Taylor, at,

to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in

Foreign Parts, respecting the disastrous Flood in the

Hudson's Bay territory, 160.

Bees' (St.) College Examination, 168, 277.

Bishops, Return of the number of Colonial, with the

Salaries of each, and whence derived, 44.

Burton, Extract of a letter from Sir William, one of

Her Majesty's Judges at Madras, to the Society for

Promoting Christian Knowledge, 86.

Cambridge University Commission.-Copy of the Com-

mission, 161; Remarks of the Commissioners, 162;

Conclusion of the Report, 163.

Cambridge University Intelligence, 13, 44, 69, 91, 117,

166, 194, 222, 250, 276, 306.

Canterbury, Statement by the Rev. the Warden of St.

Augustine's College, with regard to the vacant Exhi-

bitions, 159.

Cape Town, Extracts of letters from the Lord Bishop

of, to the Society for Promoting Christian Know-

ledge, 2, 5,

Cape Town, a letter from Mr. Douglas, at, to the So-

ciety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 270.

CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCHES COM-

MISSION. Circular issued by the, 217.

Catholic (Roman) Processions, A Proclamation re-

specting (from the London Gazette), 15.

Church Estates Commissioners.-Second General Re-

port, 273.

Church Missionary Society.

Fifty-fourth Annual

Meeting, in May, 1853; Receipts and Expenditure

of the Society, 273.

CHURCHES (NEW) BUILDING.-Consolidated Chapelry

of Grosmont, near Whitby, Yorkshire, 16; St. Paul's,

Edensor, Longton, Staffordshire; St. Leonard's, Bal-

derstone, Blackburn, Lancashire, 44; a new church

in the parish of St. Maurice, Winchester; a new

church in the parish of Bottisham, Cambridgeshire,

45; St. John the Evangelist, Little Tew, Oxford-

shire, 70; St. George, Thornhill-square, Caledonian-

road, Islington, 93; St. Jude, Pottery Field, Hunslet,

Yorkshire, 94; a new church in the West-street,

Chichester; a new church at Eton, 118; a new church

at Knutten Heath, Staffordshire, 196; a new church

at Nannerch, Flintshire, 253.

Church Services, Alteration in the, 16.

Clergy Orphan Corporation.-Annual Court of the

Governors, in February, 1853, 216.

Colombo, Extracts of letters from the Lord Bishop of,

to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,

1, 4, 86, 110, 158, 214, 238, 294; Address delivered

by the Bishop on laying the corner-stone of the Cathe-

dral and Collegiate Chapel of St. Thomas, 110.

COLONIAL.-Ordination at Quebec, Canada, 16; Reso-

lutions adopted by the Synod or Convention held by

the Bishop of Adelaide, 46; Decree of the Sultan

concerning the question of the Holy Sepulchre, &c.,

70; Laying the foundation-stone of the Chapel of

St. Thomas's College, Ceylon; Ordination held by

the Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, 71; The Bishop

of Nova Scotia's Visitation of the Eastern Shores of

Nova Scotia, 94, 140, 172; Pastoral letter of the

Bishop of New Zealand; General Principles proposed

as a Basis of a Constitution of the Church in New

Zealand; Extract from "The Church Times,"

Halifax, Nova Scotia, respecting the Clergy Reserves ;

Charter constituting Trinity College, Toronto, a

University, 173; Petition to the Legislature from the

Lord Bishop of Toronto, on the subject of separate

schools; Consecration of the Cathedral at Hongkong,

China, 174; Pastoral letter to the Clergy and Laity

of the Diocese of Quebec, 197; Ordination in St.

Paul's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 198; Royal

Charter to Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Canada,

278.

Consecration of Churches and Chapels.-St. Luke,

Bilston, Staffordshire, 16; Holy Trinity, Wednesfield

Heath, Staffordshire, 44; St. James, Boroughbridge,

Yorkshire; a new church at Croydon, Surrey, 45;

All Saints', Brighton, 69; a new church at Ches-

terton, near Newcastle-under-Lyne, Staffordshire;

a new church at Oddington, Gloucestershire; St.

Edmund, Leicester; St. George, Darlaston, Staf-

fordshire; St. Luke, Sheen, Staffordshire; Trinity

Church, Langley, near Birmingham; St. John the

Baptist, New Wortley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, 70;

St. John the Baptist, Kidmore End, Oxfordshire,

93; a new church at Kingswood, Ewell, Surrey,

94; a new church at Castle Hall, Staley bridge,

Cheshire, 118; a new church in Haven-street,

Ryde, Isle of Wight; St. Barnabas, at Weeton,

Harewood, Yorkshire; St. John the Evangelist,

Kenilworth, Warwickshire; a new church at North-

wood, Ruislip, Middlesex, 119; the church at Mark-

beach, near Edenbridge, Kent, 170; St. Philip,

Alderley, Cheshire; St. John the Divine, Fairfield,

near Liverpool, 196; St. Mark, Regent's-park, St.

Pancras, 277; St. Anne, Highgate Hill, London;

St. Gabriel, Pimlico, London; St. Paul's, Balsall

heath, near Birmingham; St. James, Bottisham Lode,

Cambridgeshire, 308.

CONVOCATION.-A List of the Bishops and Clergy of

the Provinces of Canterbury and York cited to appear

in, 65, 90; Opening of, for the Province of Canter-

bury, at St. Paul's Cathedral, and, for the Province

of York, in the Chapter-house, adjoining the Minster,

115; Assembling of the Upper House of, Nov. 12,

1852, 134; Assembling of the Lower House, 136;

Return of Benefices in England and Wales, 170;

Meeting of, in February, 1853, 217.-(Upper House)

Discipline of the Clergy; Presentation of the Address

to Her Majesty, 240; The Bishop of Cape Town;

Appointment of Committees; The Church in the

Colonies.-(Lower House) Meeting in the Jerusalem

Chamber, 241; Report of the Committee, 242.

Deaths, 18, 49, 72, 96, 120, 142, 176, 199, 224, 254,

279, 310.

Durham University Intelligence, 14, 276.

Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.-Apportion-

ment of Episcopal Patronage, 36.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.-List of Commissioners ap-

pointed to inquire into the Law and Jurisdiction of

the Ecclesiastical and other Courts in relation to

matters testamentary; Copy of the Commission, 163.

Education, Committee of Privy Council on.-Minute

on the Management Clauses, 6; Communication ad-

dressed to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools re-

specting Pupil Teachers and Easter Examinations,

63; Minute as to Grants for Schools in Agricultural

Districts, and Unincorporated Towns in England and

Wales; Subordinate Regulations; Minute as to

Grants for Voluntary Assessments towards the Ex-

penses of School-buildings in Rural Districts, 273.

Emigrants, Report of the Mission to the, at Liverpool,

by the Rev. W. J. Welsh, 87.

Essequibo, a letter from the Rev. W. H. Brett, at, to

the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 87.

FOREIGN. (United States.) Coloured Congregations;

American Church Missions; Decree respecting the

Holy Places at Jerusalem, 16; Firman addressed in

favour of the Greeks respecting the Holy Places, in

Jerusalem; Election of a Bishop for Texas, United

States; Deaths of the Bishops of South Carolina and

Rhode Island, 48; Report of the Committee to inves-

tigate the Charges against the Bishop of New Jersey

by the Bishops of Virginia, Ohio, and Maine, 95;

Consecration of the first Bishop at Athens since

the Emancipation of Greece; Death of the Right

Rev. Philander Chase, D.D., Bishop of Illinois;

Election of a Provisional Bishop for the Diocese of

New York; The Presentment against Bishop Doane,

119; Letter by the Abate Cassiano de Col, a Lom-

bardo-Venetian priest, 141; Termination of the Pro-

ceedings for the trial of Bishop Doane, at Burlington,

United States; Statistics relating to Ecclesiastical

Matters in the United States, 175; Extract from the

Report of Bishop De Lancy presented to the Con-

vention of Western New York, 223; Election of

Bishops in the United States, 309.

Foreign Translation Committee of the Society for Pro-

moting Christian Knowledge, Report of the, for the

year 1852, 34.

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Extract of a letter from

the Rev. A. V. Stuart, at, 270.

Gally (The) Knight Fund for providing Parsonage-

houses. Report of the Committee, 242; Rules and

Instructions respecting Parsonage-houses, 243.

Gibraltar, a letter from the Lord Bishop of, to the

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 215.

Gobat, Extract of a letter from Bishop, Anglican Bp.

of Jerusalem, to the Rev. W. Douglas Veitch, 271.

Gravesend Church Union, Thirteenth Annual Meeting

of, 45.

Holman (Mr.), Extract of a letter from, read to the

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, re-

specting Pitcairn's Island, 134, 239.

Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement,

Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels.—

Grants of money made in aid of various objects, 134;

Names of places for which Grants were made, 192;

Objects for which Grants were made, 216; Meeting

in April, 1853, 272.

IRELAND.-The National Board of Education, 16;

Consecration of the Bishop of Meath, 140; Sums

received for Church Building in West Galway;

Eighteenth Report of the Commissioners for National

Education, 197.

Jamaica, a letter from the Lord Bishop of, to the

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 190.

Jennings, a letter from Mr., to the Editor of the (Cal-

cutta) Missionary, 88.

Jerusalem, Decrees respecting the Holy Places at,

16, 70.

LAW.-The Braintree Church-Rate Case; Suspension

of a Clergyman in the Diocese of Oxford, 7; The

Queen v. Newman, 8, 192; The Case of the Rev.

Mr. Gladstone; The Cathedral Trusts of Rochester,

8; In Re Bedford Charity, 42; Judgment in the

Matter of the Crediton Charity; Ex parte the Per-

petual Curate of Scropton, in Re North Staffordshire

Railway Company's Act, 1847; Hawkins v. Gather-

cole; Baxter v. Wilders, 43; Rawlinson v. Medwin

and Hurst, 90; Bishop of Hereford against the Rev.

Dr. Thompson, 192; The Office of Judge promoted

by Burder v. Nathan, Clerk; Manchester College;

The Attorney-General v. the Master and Brethren of

the Hospital of St. Cross, 274; In the matter of the

Lambeth Charities; Edwards v. Hall, 297; In the

Matter of Pulford's and other Charities; The Queen

e. the Rev. F. Temple; The Queen v. Townsend,

Clerk, 298; Decision respecting the Hours of Divine

Service; Edgell, Clerk, v. Barnaby, Clerk in re W.

H. Nainby, 299.

London Diocesan Board of Education.-Extracts from

the Thirteenth Annual Report of the, 64.

Madiai (Francesco), and Rosa his wife, Causes for

which sentence was passed on, at Florence, 111.

Marriages, 17, 49, 72, 96, 120, 141, 176, 198, 224,

254,

279, 310.

Melbourne, a letter from the Lord Bishop of, to the

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 214.

METROPOLIS.-Erection of new churches at Lime-
house and Blackheath, 44; Ordination of Mr. G. H.
Nobbs, at Islington; A scheme for the establishment.
of a middle class school in connexion with the Church
of England at Bethnal Green, 118; The Chapter
Commission, 139; List of Lent Preachers to preach
in the Chapel Royal and Whitehall, for 1853, 196;,
Opening of the new schools of St. Thomas, Charter