As soon as the Queen had ascended the throne in the House of Lords, Her Majesty commanded the Lord Chancellor to read the above Declaration, which she repeated after his Lordship, sentence by sentence, with great earnestness. Let Englishmen rejoice that the Throne of Great Britain rests on such principles;-the best security for the blessing of God being continued to this country, and servitude to a foreign yoke and false religion averted. And let them not cease to pray that the Most High may give grace to Her Majesty to fulfil a pledge of such sacred import. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.--The late charge of the Bishop of Rochester has shown that the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are viewed with considerable dissatisfaction even by the Bishops themselves. The deans and chapters have no representatives among the Commissioners, and this circumstance accounts for the different treatment they have received; as the Rev. Sydney Smith and other members of those bodies have sufficiently shown. The net revenues of the cathedral and collegiate churches appear to be nearly £300,000 per annum, out of which it is proposed to save £125,000. The subjoined table will show the intentions of the Commissioners as to the future incomes of each dean and Ely The following deanaries and canonries are to remain as at present: 606 1,451 2,297 641 Dean. Canon. 1,292 2,102 4,594 737 1,127 2,967 1,282 £3,112 £1,452 Bristol 890 415 Peterborough 1,166 STABILITY OF DISSENTING CONGREGATIONS.-The late Mr. Buck's Chapel, in Grub-street, London, has been turned into a theatre; and what was an Independent Chapel, in Camomile-street, is now used by a grocer as a wholesale warehouse. METHODISM. Mr. Josiah Conder, the editor of the Patriot, has addressed a letter to the Watchman, in which he states that the number of Methodists in Society were less in 1833 than in 1813, and the editor of the Watchman did not dispute the point. Indeed we are happy to express our belief that all the dissenting sects are on the decrease: may such decrease rapidly proceed.—Church of England Gazette. THE THIRTEEN COMPILERS OF THE FIRST* ENGLISH LITURGY, a.d. 1548-9. 1. Dr. Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. 2. Dr. Day, Bishop of Chichester. 3. Dr. Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, 4. Dr. Skip, Bishop of Hereford. 5. Dr. Holbeach, Bishop of Lincoln. 6. Dr. Ridley, Bishop (elect) of Rochester. 7. Dr. Thirlby, Bishop of Westminster. 8. Dr. May, Dean of St. Paul's. 9. Dr. Taylor, Dean of Lincoln. 10. Dr. Haines, Dean of Exeter. 11. Dr. Robertson, Dean of Durham. 12. Dr. Redman, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. 13. Dr. Cox, Almoner of King Edward VI. * (2) The second, or revised, Liturgy was made, 1552. (3) Elizabeth revived it 1559, (4) James I. improved it, 1603. (5) Charles I. altered it, 1629. (6) Charles II. reviewed it, 1062. This was the last authorised alteration. The comprehension-commission of 1689, was, happily, an abortion!---TEXTUARY, THE TWENTY ÆCUMENICAL, OR GENERAL COUNCILS. PLACE. 1. Nice (Bithynia) 2. Constantinople 553-Pope Vigilius. 754 786-Pope Adrian I. 869-Pope Adrian II. and Emp. Basil. 1122 Pope Calixtus II. and Emp. Henry V. 1139 Pope Innocent II. 1179-Pope Alexander III& Emp. Frederic I.. 1215-Pope Innocent III and Emp. Frederic II. 1245-Pope Innocent IV & Emp. Frederic III. 1274-Pope Gregory X and Emp. Rodolph I. 1311-Pope Clement V. and Emp. Henry VII. 1409-Pope Gregory XII. 1414-Pope John XXIII. and Emp. Sigismund -Pope Julius II. and Leo X., and 1512 1549 -Pope Paul III. to Pius IV., and Emp. POPISH PERSECUTION.-It will be recollected by many readers of The Churchman that about a year ago, the papists of the north entered into a conspiracy as it was said, and commenced a prosecution against the Rev. M. A Gathercole, for a pietended libel on nunneries at Darlington and Scorton. The trial it now appears is to take place at the present assizes at York, when the Rev. Gentleman thinks of defending his cause in his own person. The matter has caused considerable sensation in the north, and the result is looked for with great anxiety. It is not yet known on what day the trial will take place. We may give some account of it in our next. EPITAPH ON A YOUNG MINISTER. Pastor and Friend! thy loss we mourn no more; NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. THOMAS. Received T. M.—E. D.-J. E. B.-Vigil.-and V. A. and some other communications. We shall be happy to receive Mr. Thorp's Sermons at his earliest convenience * Of these twenty (mostly Popish,) Bishop Beveridge considers only the first eight as deserving the term general; Prideaux, 7, Bullinger 6. Our Church, 4. viz. (1) Nice, (2) Constantinople, (3) Ephesus. (4) Chalcedon. THE RIGHT REV. WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH.* BISHOP BEVERIDGE may, with great propriety, be considered as one amongst that constellation of divines which, under God, has illumed the Church with the bright radiance of truth, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. William Beveridge was born at Barrow, in the County of Leicester, in 1638. On the 24th of May, 1653, he was entered at St John's College, Cambridge, and admitted in 1656 to the degree of A.B., A.M. in 1660, and D.D. in 1679. He was so well versed in all the learned languages, that, at eighteen years of age, he wrote a Treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan. This he published in octavo, when he was about twenty. He also distinguished himself by his early piety and seriousness of mind. In 1660, Doctor Sheldon, Bishop of London, collated him to the vicarage of Ealing, in Middlesex. In 1672, he was chosen by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Rector of St. Peter, Cornhill, on which account he resigned Ealing. Upon his being thus placed in the metropolis of this kingdom, he applied himself, with the utmost labour and zeal, to the discharge of his ministry, in its several parts and offices. And so instructive was he in his discourses from the pulpit, so warm and affectionate in his private exhortations, so regular and uniform in the public worship of the Church, and in every part of pastoral function, that, as he himself was justly styled "The great reviver and restorer of primitive piety," so his parish was deservedly proposed as the best model and pattern for the rest of its neighbourhood after. His merit having recommended him to the favour of his diocesan, Bishop Henchman, he was collated by his lordship, on the 22d to copy Extracted from the preface to "Sermons selected and abridged from the Works of Bishop Beveridge, by the Rev. John Dakins, A.M." VOL. IV.-L |