be retained, as an honour to the church of England, and a blessing to the isle of Man.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL CURATES IN POPULOUS PLACES.

THE extreme importance of this society to the church and nation require the publication of the following documents, in the manner most calculated to bring them under general observation. The rules and regulations of the society are so well known by the prospectus, that there is no necessity to make any remarks on them. It will be seen by the following circular, which has been addressed to the bishops, and with a copy of which this Magazine has been favoured, that the society acts upon such principles that it cannot in any way infringe upon the spiritual functions of the episcopal office; but that it confines itself wholly to furnishing temporal aid in such cases as shall be transmitted to it from incumbents through their diocesan :

4, St. Martin's Place, 12th Feb. 1838.

My Lord, I am directed by the committee of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Populous Places, to transmit to your lordship the accompanying paper of queries, which they have prepared to be answered by incumbents applying for their aid.

And as it is the determination of the society not to consider any application for their assistance until the approbation of the diocesan has been obtained, they hope that your lordship will allow them to direct that every incumbent in your diocese, applying for aid, shall send to you two of these papers, properly filled up by him and signed; and that you will be good enough to retain one of them, and forward the other to the society, with such remarks on the case as your lordship may think it right to make.

I am further directed to state, that the society will in no case interfere with the nomination or recommendation of curates. They will confine themselves strictly to granting such aid, by way of annual payments to the incumbent, as the case may seem to them to require, and their funds may allow. And it is only to enable them to judge more correctly of the comparative claims of the different places for which application may be made, that they have felt it right to make the inquiries contained in the inclosed paper.

I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, (Signed) W. J. RODBER, Provisional Secretary.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL CURATES IN POPULOUS PLACES.

APPLICATION for Aid towards the Employment of an additional Curate,

day of

In the Parish of
Diocese of

QUERIES TO BE FULLY AND PARTICULARLY ANSWERED.

1. What is the age of the incumbent; and what is the date of his institution or admission?

2. Is he resident on the benefice?

3. What is the net yearly income of such benefice?

4. What is the extent of the parish?

5. What is the population of the entire parish?

6. What are the relative situations of the different portions of the population, with respect to the accommodation in existing churches or chapels?

7. What services are performed in each of such churches or chapels?

8. What is the population of the particular chapelry or district for which an additional curate is required?

9. Is there any church or chapel at present existing, or building, or about to be built, in such district; and how many persons will it accommodate?

10. If such church or chapel be unendowed, or insufficiently endowed, have any steps been taken towards obtaining an adequate endowment?

11. If there be no such church or chapel, is there any place of worship in which divine service is celebrated with the bishop's licence?

12. How many stipendiary curates are at present employed in the parish; and what stipend is paid by the incumbent to each of them?

13. How many clergymen are now officiating within the parish; and what duties are performed by each?

14. Are there any endowed lectureships in the parish; and what duties and emoluments belong to them?

15. What are the duties which the additional curate will have to perform; and, in what church or chapel will he officiate?

16. What is the whole amount of the provision proposed to be made for such additional curate?

17. From what sources-and in what proportion from each source-will such provision be supplied, exclusively of any grant from this society?

18. Is there good reason to expect the continuance of such supplies?

19. Are there any other circumstances bearing upon the subject of this application? No application for aid can be received by the committee, but through the bishop of the diocese, or taken into consideration without his previous sanction; nor can any payment be made to the incumbent except for a curate approved by his lordship, and duly licensed. It is therefore necessary that both papers (Nos. 1 and 2*) be carefully filled up and forwarded to the bishop, who will retain one of them, and transmit the other to the secretary of the society. The committee will then proceed to consider the comparative claims of the several cases, and the sum to be assigned to each, with a due regard to its relative merits, and to the amount of the funds entrusted to their management.

The sums of money voted by the committee being for the current year, and pay. able only during the continuance of the services of the licensed curate, the applications are in all cases to be renewed at the expiration of each year.

The committee are desirous of impressing upon the clergy the great importance of making known the objects of the society in their respective neighbourhoods, and of promoting, by every exertion in their power, donations and subscriptions in aid of its general funds.

COMMITTEE ROOM,

4, St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

ONE hopes that it would be an insult to the House of Commons, even such as it is, to suppose that, if a bill similar to Lord Brougham's had been proposed in that house, it would ever have been sent to the House of Lords. There can, therefore, be no apprehension of their being even called upon to decide the question of this identical bill. The question, however, of national education is one of great and

N. B. No. 1 and 2 are the duplicates of this paper sent to the bishop. A letter from a valuable correspondent, signed "P. E.," complains, that this subject was overlooked in the last number of this Magazine; and, indeed, has generally been neglected. He will, on looking back, find that this charge is not a just one. In the Number for January, Lord Brougham's abstract was printed, and as much said as space would allow, to give warning of the nature of his bill, and the subject is one which has both been treated at length and the mention of it kept up continually.

pressing importance, but to be discussed with any good effect it must be fully treated. In this present number it is impossible to do anything of the sort. Indeed, want of space prevents the publication of the documents relative to the University of London and King's College. It is a duty to mention a letter by a member of the senate of Cambridge to a member of the senate of the University of London, in which the question of an examination in the Greek Testament is very ably discussed.

The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells will hold an Ordination on Sunday, the 8th of April.

The Lord Bishop of Ripon will hold his next Ordination the latter end of July.

St. Thomas V.

Cox, Robert A.... {Charminster, P. C.,

P. C.

Dorset {

Creyke, S., the Head Mastership of St. Peter's Royal Free Grammar School in York. Harward, C.

County. Diocese.
S Pec. of D.
of Sarum

Patron.

Rev. G. Pickard

Devon Exon

J. W. Buller, Esq.

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CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.

Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, Bath.
Official and Commissary of the D. and C. of Lincoln, for the
Peculiars at Banbury.

Allen, John...........
Apthorpe, W. H.

Bailey, W..

Chisholme, Charles..

Cook, William

Crosse, Robert

Davies, D. P.

Chaplain to the Ionian Islands.

Rural Dean of Rochford.

One of the Masters of the City of London School.
Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.
Master of the Free Grammar School, Carmarthen.
Rural Dean of the Deanery of Abingdon.
Downes, J. W., Lecturer of St. Philip's, Birmingham, a Surrogate.
Eden, Robert, R. of Leigh, Essex, a Rural Dean.

Dodson Nathaniel...

Hewson, W.
Hill, R. H.

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Kirwan, A. L.
Noad, George........
Powley, John.........
Proctor, Thomas
Sadleir, W. D., F. T.
Scott, Robert H.

Spring, F.

Wallace, J..

...

Head Master of St. Peter's School, York.

Chaplain to the Union Workhouse of the Alderbury Union, at
East Harnham, near Salisbury.

Chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Classical Master of Grosvenor College, Bath.
Chaplain to the Sleaford Union.

Head Master of Sherburn Grammar School.

C. D., Chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Chaplain to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.
Assistant Chaplain at Bombay.

Trentham, W. H.... Head Master of East Retford Free Grammar School.
Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Seven Oaks.

Hill, William, Minister of the New Church at Leicester.