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was held on Monday, Feb, 22, at which time, upwards of 4,000l. were subscribed. Before the expiration of the week, the subscriptions exceeded 6,400. The following are some of the most liberal donations:Robert Gardner, 1,000l.; Brad shaw, Wanklyn, and Sons, 500l.; Edward Loyd, 500.; The Warden and Fellows of Christ College, 500l.; W. Atkinson, 500l.; Samuel Taylor, Moston, 8001. ; John Brooks, 300l.; Mrs. Byrom, 3001.; Edmund Wright, 2001.; Mrs. Brooks, 2001.; John Clowes, 2001.; Thomas Coates, 2001. Another munificent donation of 1,000l. is announced from H. H. Birly, Esq.; and of 100l. per annum from Lord F. Egerton, with an intimation of further aid. This sum also is subscribed by the noble Lord in addition to the same annual amount to the Chester Diocesan Society. Among the new contributions, are one of 2007., and ten of 100l. each. Sir Oswald Mosely, Bart., J. C. Legh, and John Grimes, Esqrs., in addition to 100l. each, have also offered land for sites. The latest accounts state the subscriptions already to amount to upwards of 11,000l. Cambridge Chronicle.

The Rev. J. Hutchins, curate of St. Anne's Church, St. Anne's Lane, has been presented with a set of robes, by the ladies of his congregation who are not parishioners, in token of their high approbation of his attention to their welfare, and as a testimony of his public and private worth. -Manchester Courier.

The consecration of the beautiful little

church which has just been erected in the village of Knotty Ash, near Liverpool, took place on Thursday, Feb. 18, by Dr. Sumner, the Lord Bishop of Chester. It is built in the Gothic style, of red stone, and the erection has cost near 6,000l.Ibid.

The clergy of Blackburn have addressed his Majesty, praying him to annul the appointment of Dr. Hampden.-Ibid.

The Manchester Operative Conservative Association have remitted, through the

bands of their treasurer, the sum of 144. 4s. 6d. (collected among the members) to the fund for the relief of the Irish Clergy. Many of the sums subscribed did not exceed 6d. each.-Ibid.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

[It is matter of very serious regret, that no space is left for detail of the extraordinary proceedings at Whitwick, where a popish priest, named Woolfey, assumes the title of Parish Priest, and has begun to perform miracles by means of medals blessed by the Archbishop of Paris, and sent over, in large quantities, to a lady in

Yorkshire, who transmits them to Mr. Ambrose Phillips. Mr. Phillips and his household attest the miracle quite deliberately. The whole history is so curious, and so illustrative of the unchanging spirit of popery, taking advantage of human ignorance wherever it can,and then disclaiming the practice where it cannot, that it must be fully brought forward next month.]

MIDDLESEX.

A vestry meeting of St. Martin's-in-the Fields, was held on Saturday, 5th March, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee appointed to examine into the present state of the church, and the repairs necessary to be done thereto. The Rev. Mr. Duckenfield presided, and the clerk read the report, from which it appeared, that Mr. Burton, the architect, has submitted the following estimate:First, essential repairs, 1,7181.; secondly, internal repairs, cleansing, 440.; thirdly, external cleansing, 1,210l.; fourthly, decorative repairs internally, exclusively, 6601.; fifthly, suggested improvements, 9841.; total, 5,0121. The committee recommended that the funds to be raised for such repairs should be collected on the voluntary principle. Mr. Fenn and Mr. Alexander Smith advised that a churchrate be made for such a purpose, and several others spoke in favour of the recommendation of the committee. The chairman, for the sake of unanimity, and that the parish should not be thrown into a state of disturbance, advised the voluntary principle. After a long discussion, it was convened, to consider the plan to be adoptdetermined that a vestry should shortly be

ed.-Observer.

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We extract the following intelligence from the newspapers in the ministerial interest: The London Congregational Board of Ministers have met, and unanimously passed a resolution of thanks to the present Government for introducing the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, of the prin ciple and main provisions of which the Board cordially approve.-Eight dissenting ministers of Jersey have sent a memorial to Lord J. Russell, praying that that island may be included in the Registration and Marriage Bills.-All the presbyteries of the church of Scotland in England intend applying to Parliament for a clause in the New Marriage Bill, to render legal in our southern division of the island the performance by their clergy of their marriage ceremony agreeably to the rites of their mother church.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.The following are the chief provisions of this measure:-It is, in the first place,

proposed that there shall be one general court in London for proving all wills; the jurisdiction of all local ecclesiastical courts (at present 386 in number) being entirely abolished. The bishops, however, are still to hold their jurisdiction over their clergy, excepting only in criminal proceedings, in which it is proposed to abolish it altogether. The jurisdiction in matters of tithe is also to be taken from the ecclesiastical courts, and is to be transferred to the court of Exchequer. The jurisdiction of these courts in respect to church-rates is also to be abolished, and all disputes connected with those payments subjected to the same course as those connected with poor-rates-viz., an appeal to the Quarter Sessions. The bill also abolishes the authority of ecclesiastical courts in the repression of immoral practices, which are to be left to the ordinary operation of the common or statute law. bill likewise regulates the mode to be pur sued in the sequestration of livings, a matter of great importance to clergymen, and to all connected with them.

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The Radicals have lately sustained a signal defeat in the large parish of St. George-in-the-East; the motion for a penny church-rate, which they resisted, having, after three days' polling, during which the Radicals placarded and agitated the parish by every means in their power, been carried by a majority of 230. The majority would have been much greater if the friends of the church had canvassed the parish, which they neglected to do.

CHURCH PROPERTY.-By the bill lately brought into the House of Lords by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (and which is the first introduced to the legislature upon the recommendation of the Church Commission,) all ecclesiastical corporations, aggregate as well as sole, are restrained from granting leases more frequently or otherwise than they have hitherto usually granted or renewed them; i. e., they are no longer to be able to exchange a lease for years into one for lives, or to change the lives in existing leases; or to renew leases for forty years, until fourteen years shall have expired. All such transactions, from the first of this month, are to be illegal.

HAMMERSMITH SESSIONS.-On the 10th March, the Rev. W. Wood, rector of Fulham, was summoned by the surveyors of the highways &c. of the parish of Hammersmith, to appear before the bench, and shew cause why he refused to pay the sum of 101. assessed for highway rates on the tithe of that parish, of which he is the lay impropriator. The rev. defendant, how.

ever, did not appear, and the case was postponed until the 24th, when

Mr. Scott (one of the magistrates) said he had received a letter from Mr. Wood, in which that gentleman called upon the bench not to issue a distress warrant, for three reasons:-1st. Because he denied the right of the parish to rate the tithes to the highways, he having compounded for the same. 2nd. Because, if they did so, it would be a double rating of the same property, the occupiers being already rated. Srd. Be cause in the case of the King v. the Ma gistrates of Buckinghamshire, in which an application was made to the court of King's Bench, in a similar case, for a writ of mandamus, it was ruled by Lord Tenterden and Mr. Justice Bailey that the court would not compel a justice to issue a distress warrant in any case where he entertained any doubts as to the law. The case was then further adjourned until Monday, when, as on the previous occasions, the rev. gentleman did not attend.

Mr. James Gomme, one of the surveyors of the highways of the parish of Hammersmith, was sworn. He stated that the sum claimed, which was on two assessments, made in March, 1834, and October, 1835, had been several times applied for, both from Mr. Wood personally and of his agent, but was still unpaid.

Mr. Florence (clerk and professional adviser to the bench) said, that since the previous hearing he had entered very fully into the law of the case, and was clearly of opinion that the rev. defendant was liable to pay highway rates on his tithes, even although he had compounded, it being laid down in the case of the King v. Lacy, that when tithes, under an inclosure act, were converted into a rent, yet that rent being considered as the substitute for tithes, was liable to the highway rate, even although, being simply a rent, no use of the highway could be supposed. He had also examined the case cited by Mr. Wood in his letter, "Rex v. the Justices of Buckinghamshire," as reported in Dowling and Ryland, 689, and Barnewall and Cresswell, 485; and had found that the court had refused to compel a magistrate to issue a distress warrant "where he bonâ fide entertained a doubt."

After considerable further discussion, the bench decided on signing the distress warrant against the goods of Mr. Wood, on the ground, that if the payment of the rate was not enforced from him, the burthen would fall more severely on the remainder of the rate-payers. Mr. Wood might appeal against the decision, if he pleased.

The surveyors then pledged themselves to hold the bench harmless should actions be brought against them.-Weekly Post.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

MEETING OF THE CLERGY AT BEDMINSTER.-On Monday, the 8th of March, the Archdeacon met his clergy upon the occasion of the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Hampden to the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Oxford, to petition the King against the admission of persons whose doctrinal sentiments did not accord with

the church of England. It was moved by the Rev. Isaac Lewis, vicar of Long Ashton, and seconded by the Rev. M. R. Whish, vicar of Bedminster, that a petition be presented of this character, which was carried unanimously, and the petition was signed by twenty-four clergymen.— Salisbury Herald.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

The Vice Chancellor has granted an injunction, restraining the Dean of Windsor

and Wolverhampton from licensing the Rev. H. S. Fletcher to the perpetual curacy of St. Leonard's, Bilston. The injunction was obtained on the ground of the election not being conducted in the accustomed manner. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese has licensed the Rev. G. White, of Darlaston, to be stipendiary curate during the vacancy occasioned by the legal proceedings.

YORKSHIRE.

His Grace the Archbishop of York has lately distributed the sum of 501. in coals, to the poor of Stanton Harcourt, Northmoor, Shifford, and Coggs; and the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College have liberally given 5l., in bread, to the poor of Stanton Harcourt.-Oxford Paper.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.-A petition, most respectably and numerously signed, has been forwarded to Lord Warncliffe, from the inhabitants of Selby, against this bill.-Leeds Intelligencer.

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THE Editor feels great regret that, from the exceeding mass of matters nearly concerning clerical feelings and interests, and the necessity of noticing them, and publishing various documents concerning them, it has been necessary this month to omit both very valuable Original Articles and a large number of most interesting Letters, as well as other matter, of which a good deal is actually in type.

The following Letters have been received, and shall be used :-W. B. Winning, “F.V. H.," (a truly valuable letter,) "S.," "V. G. M.,” “J. B—n,” (an excellent letter,) "A Medical Student," "e.," "J. M."

Mr. Huyshe's kind communication will be most acceptable.

The letter signed "E. B. P.," in the last number, is not by the writer with the same initials who has more than once done this Magazine the honour of contributing most valuable papers to it.

M.P." will perhaps look at the article on the Tithe Bill.

Easter is come, and all Church Bills are either at a stand still, or not brought forward. Is Parliament to sit till December? or shall we get through another year without change, but with the continued fever of our expectation of it?

The dissenters either are, or affect to be, very angry with ministers for the last few days, They say that the Registration and Marriage Bills are put off-that there is no Church-rate Bill and that the Metropolitan University is in great danger.

In order to shew the accurate information of the dissenters as to the church, there is a furious attack in the Patriot on the great revenue enjoyed by Dr. POYNTON (sic) as Bishop of Derry. This is no chance blunder either, for Dr. Ponsonby has been so called very often in the dissenting papers for some years. Is this ignorance, or is there some grand joke in it?

"H." on St. Patrick is, as usual, most learned, ingenious, and laborious. But, alas! alas! what hopes are there, while Parliament is sitting, of finding room for so long a paper? The Whitwick Miracles should be brought forward in every way. Mr. Woolfry, the priest and performer, and Mr. Ambrose Phillips and his household, the witnesses, should receive the honour due to them.

Mr. Mendham, to whom the public owes so much already, has republished the very scarce and curious "Index Librorum Prohibitorum". of Sextus V. By this it appears that Bellarmine was once prohibited. Only 125 copies of the work are printed.

"W. M." may obtain the Tract he wishes from the British Magazine at Messrs. Rivingtons. The Editor would always be most happy to hear from him.

At

Very many thanks to "G. D.," whose communications would always be most acceptable. "R. S." will, perhaps, be surprised to hear that some of the names he mentions are the very last to suggest the notion of firmness to those who know how things are going on. all events, many think so, and he will see that, if names are brought forward with one object, those who take the view just suggested will comment on them. This is to be deprecated. The rest of "R. S.'s" letter is exceedingly sensible. But he will find that things are drawing to a crisis.

"A Country Clergyman's" letter shall certainly be used without any omission. He will understand the hint.

The Editor particularly regrets having no space for Mr. Trant's obliging communication. "Clericus" is quite right in saying that something must be done to meet popery. The simple fact that Dr. Wiseman is here, and preaching here, is enough. The thing to be deprecated is, its being done by ultra-protestants who know nothing of history, antiquity, criticism, or divinity, and conceive that the whole question is settled by calling the pope anti-christ, and shewing that saint-worship is idolatry.

The Editor is very sorry that "T. C. D." should be extremely angry, but he cannot unsay what he has said. The age at which young men can obtain titles is now fast advancing to twenty-seven or twenty-eight, and will, with the measures contemplated, be soon still farther advanced. Recriminations are not advisable, or the Editor could supply "T. C. D." with a very long list at once, not of curacies, but good preferments, held by the persons to whom he refers.

The correspondence of the Record has began again to call this Magazine popish. Nothing can be more satisfactory. Popery and catholicism are, in that vocabulary, the same. But even in that correspondence, common honesty would be advantageous. And the bringing forward opinions proposed by various correspondents for discussion (very likely for contradiction) by other correspondents in succeeding numbers as the deliberate opinions of the Journal, would not elsewhere be reckoned exactly honest! But it is really of no consequence. The number of names signed to the requisition to the Vice-Chancellor to renew the proceedings against Dr. Hampden amounts to nearly four hundred already.

There is a most excellent article on the Tithe Bill in the Cambridge Chronicle of March 18. If any readers think this and other Church Bills treated too carelessly in the present number, let them remember what has taken place for the last few years. how many bills bave been brought in which have come to nothing; and, on the other hand, how utterly impossible it is now to gain any attention from any quarter, conservative or radical, for those discussions on the principle of measures, which were regularly introduced in this Journal when it commenced.

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