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SODOR AND MAN.

The consecration of the bishop, by the Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops of Rochester and Lichfield (both of which prelates have held the see), took place at the Royal chapel, Whitehall, March 8th.

WINCHESTER.

Diocesan Church Building Association.-At the last quarterly meeting of the committee, the following grants were made-viz., 150l. towards building a church at Milton, parish of Portsea; 400l. towards enlarging the parish church of Godalming, securing 1000 additional sittings; and 250l. towards building a church at Cleygate, Thames Ditton, for a hamlet of 500 persons. distant three miles from the church.

CHURCHES CONSECRATED.

Chichester.-St. John Evangelist's, Brighton. Rochester.—Trinity Church, Greenwich, March 25.

OPENED.

Bath and Wells.—At Menioth, near Crewkerne, Feb. 20. York. At Gransmoor, Burton Agnes.

FOUNDATIONS LAID.

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Tributes of respect have recently been presented to the following clergymen :

Basely, T. T., rector of Poplar, from former pupils at Brasenose. A splendid tea service.

Irvine, G. M. D'Arcy, late cur. Newbury, Berks. Silver salver, also a purse, to which upwards of 300 of the poorer inhabitants had contributed.

Jeffreys, J., rector of Barnes. An elegant candelabrum. Johns, J. W., late cur. of Helston, Cornwall. Silver tea-pot, coffee-pot, cream-jug, and sugar-basin. Maltinson, R., inc. Arthholme. Silk gown. Sherwood, W., cur. Holybourne, Hants. and purse.

Inkstand

Whitehurst, E., of Moreton and Aston chapels. A sil

Gloucester and Bristol.—Jefferies Hill, Bristol, Feb. 28. ver coffee-pot and salver.

SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.*

Death of Bishop Gleig.-March 9th, at Stirling, died the right rev. George Gleig, L.L.D., one of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Dr. Gleig was well known in the literary world, and his talents and acquirements highly appreciated. He was minister of the episcopal congregation in Stirling for many years, and chosen by the clergy of the diocese of Brechin, coadjutor and successor to Bishop Strachan, then in a superannuated state. |

AUSTRALIA.

He was consecrated bishop October 30th, 1808, in St. Andrew's chapel, Aberdeen, by Bps. Skinner, Jolly, and Torry. On the death of Bishop Skinner in 1816, he was chosen primus. This office, together with the charge of the congregation of Stirling, he resigned some years ago. He was for a considerable period in a state of great weakness of mind and body, and the rev. David Moir of Brechin, was consecrated his coadjutor and successor in 1837.

COLONIAL CHURCH.

fice much of their personal comfort and present advan Names and stations of Clergymen employed by Society tages, in the hope of laying the foundations deeply and

for Prop. the Gospel.

Rev. W. Stack, West Maitland.

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Rev. E. Smith, Queenbeyan.

Rev. E. Rogers, Brisbane Water.

Rev. J. C. Grylls, Melbourne, (in Port Phillip).
Rev. J. Duffus, Liverpool.

Rev. C. F. Brigstocke, Yass.

Rev. W. H. Walsh, Sydney (St. Lawrence).

Rev. J. Edmondston, Sydney (Prisons).

Rev. G. E. Turner, Hunter's Hill.

Rev. W. C. Clarke, Castle Hill, and Dural.
Rev. R. T. Bolton, Wittingham.

Rev. C. Spencer, Paterson.
Rev. J. R. Walpole, Bathurst.
Rev. J. Morse, Scone.

Extracts from a Letter of the Bishop to Society for
Prop. the Gospel, dated 12th Sept., 1840.
"In the generality of cases in the country, the actual
duties of a clergyman are not to be estimated merely by
the service performed by him in the church. A more cor-
rect view may be derived from tracing upon the map the
distances at which, in very many instances, the clergy are
placed from one another, and considering how numerous
and how widely extended must be the calls of duty among
a population scattered over so wide a surface, I am
anxious that in every engagement made by the society of
a clergyman's services, it should be distinctly impressed
upon their attention, that it is not an appointment of ease
or profit which they are coming to, but one which de-
mands the constant exercise of great activity and much
self-denial. There is nothing arranged or established
here as at home, enabling a clergyman to profit by the
exertions of his predecessors. He has his own way to
make entirely for himself, and the demands in conse-
quence upon his physical and mental resources will be too
much for any except those who can be content to sacri-

firmly of that church, which, under God's providence, may prove, I trust, in future ages, a refuge and a restingplace for pure religion, under those trials which I think are evidently preparing for it in the future progress of our society. I should at this moment be able to employ fif teen more clergymen than we have; in addition to which, while writing this, I have received a letter from archdeacon Hutchins, dated the 2d. instant, containing the following paragraph:-'I at present want clergy for the following stations, in which the provisions of the Act of Council have been so far complied with as to entitle them to a salary under that act: namely, St. George's Hobart Town; Browne's River; Brighton; Avoca; Launceston; George Town; Perth; Hamilton, and Oatlands'. These nice stations, added to those enumerated in my paper, and one or two others which I have in contemplation, presunt no less than twenty-four vacant stations, having the cur of many souls attached to them; on whose behalf, I certain, the warmest sympathies of the society will be called forth."

BOMBAY.

Appointments.-Dec. 3, C. Jackson, L.L.B., chap. d Ahmedabad; A. Stackhouse, M.A., chap. at Aden.

BARBADOES.

On the 28th Jan. the bishop consecrated a chapel-ofease, called Holy Innocents, erected on part of the glebe land in the parish of St. Thomas, in the island of Barbedoes; and at the same time his lordship consecrated the burial-ground thereto belonging.—Barbadian.

CANADA.

Church Lands.-A bill has passed the legislative cour! cil, by which the lands called the Clergy Reserves are placed at the disposal of the governor and the legislative council for the following purposes :-First, to pay all the stipends of those of the clergy of the churches of England and Scotland to whom the faith of the crown is pledged dering their lives; then that one-half the annual fund arising from the sale shall be allotted and appropriated to the churches of England and Scotland in this province, and shall be divided between the said churches in proportion to the number of their respective members ;" and the The notice from Portsoy came too late for insertion.

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"the residue of the said annual fund (namely one-half of the whole) shall be divided among the other religious bodies or denominations of Christians now recognized by the constitution of the laws of this province."

made an appropriate reply. An address has also been presented to his lordship by the members of the Niagara Clerical Association. The bishop was installed at the cathedral of St. James, on the 22d of Dec., and afterwards preached to a large congregation, from 2 Cor. iii. 20. The following extract from "The Gospel Messenger," to which we are indebted to the "Church," is peculiarly interesting, as indicative of the feeling on religious subjects in Canada. "We most heartily unite with our esteemed brother of in thankfulness to God for the safe return of the Right Rev. Dr. Strachan, from England, where he lately received consecration as Bishop of Toronto, his diocese being the province of Upper Canada. The division of the im

This is appropriation with a vengeance. The other denominations are said to amount to seventeen, and all are to share in the plunder of that which belongs by right to the Church of England only. But happily this bill cannot become law until it has been laid for thirty days upon the table of both houses of parliament in Eng-the Church' and with all our brethren in Upper Canada, land; and if either house shall address the Queen against it, the measure is lost.-Ecclesiastical Gazette.

TORONTO.

Religious Statistics of Canada.

The following tables of two districts will show the pre- mense diocese of Quebec has been most satisfactorily sent spiritual condition of Canada :

BATHURST DISTRICT.

Church of England

Presbyterians

Roman Catholics

Methodists....

Baptists..

Mormons

......

Quakers

Universalists
Deists...

....

Congregationalists

Church of Jesus

No religious denomination

7671
8933
5509
1802

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settled, and we trust that one so well informed and experienced, so capable and devoted as Dr. Strachan, will, under the gracious guidance and protection of God, promote the best interests of the people of his charge, to the edifying of the church, and the salvation of souls. Long may he live to carry on those measures, which he has, through many years of toil and difficulty, sustained with great talent, fidelity, and zeal.

SUMMARY

Of Cases recommended for Aid out of the Parliamentary Grant of 1839, by the NATIONAL SOCIETY, the Applicants for which have refused to submit their Schools to an Inspection not derived from, or connected with, the Authorities of the National Church.

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Tithe Commutation.-We have already recommended Socialism. The following address has been forwarded Mr. Willich's Tithe Tables to the notice of our readers. to the Bishop of Exeter, from the Edinburgh Operative The following is his statement of the

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Conservative Association :

"To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter. "My Lord Bishop.-Admiring, as Protestants, the Christian zeal which we have always seen evinced by your lordship in defence of the Protestant cause, when assailed by restless and malignant enemies, we now beg leave to address your lordship, desiring your acceptance of our heartfelt thanks, not only for the general advocacy of our spiritual rights as British subjects, and for your support of those institutions by which alone these rights can be be maintained, but also for that distinguished ability and intrepidity with which you have recently performed so signal a service to the cause of all religion, morality, and truth, in exposing the vile dogmas of " Socialism.""

"We have seen your lordship hitherto as a recognized champion of Protestantism in England-we behold your lordship now as a great benefactor of mankind. The con

fidence which we reposed in your lordship (deduced from a faithful discharge of the former office), led us at once to expect, when the occasion demanded, your willing assumption and efficient fulfilment of the latter. Trembling at the critical nature of the circumstances, we rejoice, indeed, that they should be so boldly and so powerfully

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thanks, for your lordship's services to the cause of Protestantism in general, and their especial thanks and aeknowledgments for bringing under the attention of the most distinguished legislative assembly in the world—the | British House of Peers-the abominable doctrines of the Socialists.

gifted your lordship, you may be long preserved, a cham-
pion of the faith as it is in Christ Jesus, an ornament of
the church, and a pillar of the constitution.
"Signed in name, and by appointment of the Edin-

"In so doing, it is the earnest prayer, my lord, of the "Socialism,' your lordship is aware, had its origin in association, that, in the exercise of those high endowScotland, which was the scene of the early chimerical ex-ments, wherewith God, in his infinite goodness, has periments of Robert Owen. Thus, when we lately found that the propagation of his opinions, which we had deemed abhorent to ordinary society, that the adoption of his practices, which we had considered as self-evidently absurd, had progressed to so frightful an extent in Eng-burgh Operative Conservative Association. land, attended by machinery calculated to diffuse them wider and wider amongst the facile multitudes of weakminded and unwary persons, we entertained the utmost alarm, lest, reverting to Scotland with something like the fondness of a first attachment, the wretched founder of "Socialism" should revive the hope of retrieving there his early disappointments. Our apprehensions have been verified only too well. In the large manufacturing towns of Scotland the noxious seeds were soon disseminated. They have produced a rank and baneful crop.

WILLIAM MENZIES, Vice-president. "Edinburgh Operative Conservative Association Committee Rooms, 128, High-street. "Edinburgh, Feb. 14, 1840."

To this his lordship returned the following answer :"Warren's Hotel, March 2. "SIR, On the point of leaving London for some weeks, I have received the address from the 'Edinburgh Conservative Association,' which they have done me the honour of presenting to me through you.

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"When I say the honour,' I hope I shall not be con

"In Glasgow there is a strong body of Socialists, having a resident missionary' in liberal pay, with 'tract distribu-sidered as using a mere conventional term of civility. I tors' and other officers; extensive premises, in the most public streets of the city, and public amusements every Sunday evening at their Hall of Science, the sign-board of which projects conspicuously to the view, an eyesore to every rightly-disposed member of the community.

"In Dundee there is another Socialist branch, having a similar establishment.

"Even in Edinburgh, against which Owen lately flung the charge of general insanity, and, for repudiating his doctrines, ventured to describe its inhabitants as being 'either the most hypocritical or the most ignorant circle in the known world;' a 'class,' if not what he calls a 'branch,' has been founded.

"Something, but almost the only thing attempted, has been done to check the spread of these pernicious and unprincipled opinions in Scotland, by proving them to be simply Atheism in disguise, and appealing to the good sense of the people. This was, in some measure, effected by the Philalethean Society for Peaceably Depressing Infidelity,' in a public discussion at Dundee (now printed and in circulation), and in letters between them and Robert Owen, extensively sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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"These outlines of the state of matters in Scotland may serve to show your lordship how well founded are the apprehensions of any association, which, like ours, owes its existence to the love of civil subordination, in witnessing the spread of a moral evil, tending directly to disorganize society.

"It was, therefore, with just feelings of exultation that we regarded your lordship's efforts to unmask the deformity of the system of Owenism, which, though polluted with impiety and foul with vice, was recklessly paraded before the sacred eyes of Majesty, patronized by the retainers of place and power-nay, circulated throughout the continent of Europe, by means of favourable introductions, issuing from the hands of British ministers.

"In admiration of your lordship's conduct, the Edinburgh Operative Conservative Association' resolved to transmit to your lordship the foregoing humble address, and to beg your lordship's acceptance of their warmest

assure you that I feel deeply, and estimate most highly, such a testimony of sympathy and kindness from such a body. If the deliverance of this great country from the fearful evils with which we are visited, and the still more fearful with which we are menaced, shall be effected, that deliverance must, humanly speaking, be wrought by the triumph of sound principles, and real intelligence in them, and in men like them.

"May it please God to crown their efforts with that success, the success of their pure and holy cause, which is their main object, and will be in this world their highest reward. May the leaven of true religion, which has by God's blessing pervaded your body, extend itself, by the efficacy of good example among your neighbours and fellow operatives. So shall we or our children look back with humble thankfulness to Almighty God for calling

us to bear testimony to his truth, and to assert the honour of his holy name, in an age distinguished beyond all that have preceded it as an age of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy.

"To yourself I offer my especial thanks for being the channel of conveying to me the most gratifying and most encouraging mark of public approbation I ever was so happy as to receive.

"I am, sir, your sincerely obliged and faithful servant, "H. EXETER.

"Mr. Wm. Menzies,

"V. P. Edinburgh Operative Conservative
Association."

New Church at Coblentz.-Through the liberality of the Prussian Government, the British residents at Coblentz on the Rhine lately obtained the use of the chapel in the late elector's palace in that town for the performance of divine service, according to the rites of the church of England. A petition was a few days since addressed to the Queen Dowager, praying for a small donation towards defraying the expences. Her Majesty was pleased to forward 251. to Messrs. Deinkard and Jordan, trustees of the fund, at Coblentz.

TO OUR READERS.

Every body has heard of the person whose two wives eradicated, the one his white, and the other his black hairs till they had made him entirely bald. We are that unfortunate old man; for there is scarcely a single advertisemen? appearing in our advertising sheet that does not displease some one or more of our readers, and we conceive that at las we shall be quite weeded out. We have already expressed our intention of excluding every thing that is really objectionable; but when we are blamed on one side, because, in a list of books sent by a respectable publisher, there happen to be two or three written by dissenters, on the other, because a wine merchant forwards us a bill;-when some object to the advertisement of a tooth-powder, and others think that tailors ought not to thrust their scale of prices for superfine coats into the advertising columns of a Church of England Magazine--what are we to do? We are ready to gratify our friends in every thing reasonable, but we cannot be so fastidious as some of them would have us. In answer to some enquirers, we beg to mention that Best's introductory Lecture is published by Ridge and Jackson, Sheffield, and Groombridge, Paternoster Row, London. We received P. A.

London: Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand.

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence.

MAY, 1840.

ORDINATIONS APPOINTED.

BP. OF LONDON, Trin. Sun., at St. Paul's.
BP. OF LINCOLN, Trin. Sun., at Lincoln
Cathedral.

BP. OF GLOUC. AND BRISTOL, Trin. Sun.,
at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
Br. OF HEREFORD, June 28, at Hereford
Cathedral.

Br. OF RIPON, July 12, at Ripon Cathed.
BP. CF WORCESTER, July 25.
BP. OF NORWICH, July 26, at Norwich.
ORDAINED BY BP. OF LINCOLN, March 15

PRIESTS.

Of Oxford.-E. C. Shedden, B.A., St
Mary H.

Ordinations.

Of Cambridge.-W. Dobson, M.A. Trin.;
M. Gartit, B.A., Trin.; C. Gribble, B.A.,
Christ's; J. M. Wilkins, B.A., Trin.

DEACONS.

Of Oxford.-J. Byron, B.A., Brasen.; C.
Carey, B.A., Oriel; W. Holland, B.A., Linc.;
A. Turner, B.A., St. John's; H. Ward, B.A.,
Exeter; J. H. Waugh, B.A., Magd.

Of Cambridge.-W. A. Carter, B.A.,
King's; W. H. Coleman, M.A., St. John's;
J. S. Green, B.A., Christ's; W. I. Rolleston,
B.A., St. John's; W. S. Thomson, B.A.,
Queen's; A. Wilkin, B.A., Christ's.

Of Dublin.-S. H. Atkins, B.A., J. Comp-
ton, B.A., W. Hopper, B.A.

BY Br. OF PETERBOROUGH, at Peterbo-
rough, March 15.
PRIESTS.

Of Oxford.-W. H. Benn, B.A., Mert.
Of Cambridge.-R. Knipe, B.A., Clare.
Of Dublin.-R. Garde, B.A.

DEACONS.

Of Oxford.-J. M. Cox, B.A., Worc.; F.
Green, B.A., Magd.; J. Jones, B.A., Ed.
H.; G. E. Maunsell, B.A., Ch. Ch.; J. Py-
croft, B.A., Trin.

Of Cambridge.-G. Boynton, B.A., Trin.;
C. Carver, B.A., C.C.C.; H. F. Corrance, B.A.,
Clare; E. B. Field, S.C.L., Sid.; H. P. Lazonby,
B.A., Jes.; G. Neville, B.A., Cath.; J. M.
W. Piercy, B.A., Clare; E. M. Pridmore,
B.A., Clare; J. G. Slight, B.A., St. John's;
J. Thornton, Cath.; W. Wilkinson, B.A.,
Trin.

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Bailey, R. R., chap. to the Tower of Lon-
don, perp. cur. Culpho, Suffolk, and rec.
St. Peter ad Vincula, London (pat. the
Queen).

Baker, R., Brit. chap. at Hamburgh, 49.
Bolland, W., vic. Swineshead, Line. (pat.
Trin. Coll. Cambridge), vic. Frampton,
Line. (pat. C. K. Tunnard, Esq.), P.C.
Trinity Chap. Cheshunt, Herts., (pat. vic.
of Cheshunt.)

Bolton, W., rec. Brancaster, Norf., 87.
Boyle, J., rec. Compton Martin, Somerset.,
80.

Bull, H., vic. Littlebury, Essex, 68.

Burgess, W.C., vic. Osmotherly, York (pat.
Bp. Durham.)

Carleton, R., cur. Killead, 44.
Clayton, J., at Manchester.

Creswell, E., vic. Radford, Notts., 88.

Clergymen deceased.

Cutler, J., rec. Leckford, Hants., 81.
Fowle, F. C, vie. Kintbury, Berks (pat.
Capt. Dundas), rec. Elkstone, Glouc. (pat.
Hon. A. Craven, 76.

Gibson, R., at Fyfield, Essex, 75.
Goodall, J., D.D., provost of Eton, canon of
Windsor (pat. Crown), rec. West Ilsley
(pat. D. & C. Windsor).
Hamilton, J. J., late cur. Woking, Surrey,

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King, T., rec. Templeconnell and Kilbolan e
Ireland.

Merchant, W., 130.

Mogg, A., cur. Paulton, Somerset.

Moore J., formerly mast. Cavan College.
Nunn, W., min. St. Clement's, Manchester, 54.
Rennell, T., dean of Winchester, preb.
Harleston in St. Paul's Cathed., vic. Ban-
ton Stacey, Hants.

Royle, J., rec. Compton Martin, Somerset
(pat. Duke of Buckingham), 80.

Warde, R., vic. Yalding, and rec. Ditton,
Kent, 77.

Williams, J., rec. Ludechurch (pat. Queen),
and vic. Marloes, Pemb. (pat. Ld. Chan.).
Winscom, T. C., vic. Warkworth, Northumb.
(pat. Bp. of Carlisle), 52.

Wodehouse, T., can. of Wells, rec. Norton (pat. Bp. of Rochester).

OXFORD.

University Intelligence.

March 16.-Rev. S. Reay, M. A., St. Alban Hall, elected Laudian professor of Arabic, vice, Dr. Knatchbull. March 19.-In convocation the degree of doctor in PRINCE civil law, by diploma, was conferred on ALBERT.

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University Scholarship-for Encouragement. Smith, schol. of Oriel, elected. H. Cotton, stud. Ch. Ch. honourably mentioned.

Dean Ireland's Scholar.-E. K. Karslake, stud. Ch. Ch., elected; M. Barnard, schol. Trin., honourably mentioned.

March 20. New Coll. E. Huntingford, admitted actual fell. Jesus, Rev. L. Gilbertson, M. A., elected fell. Canada, Clergy Reserves.In a convocation holden April 9, the following petition to both houses of parliament was unanimously agreed to:--

To the right honourable, &c. &c., the humble petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, sheweth,

That your petitioners have learnt that an act, recently passed by the legislature of Upper Canada, entitled "An Act to provide for the Sale of the Clergy Reserves, and for the distribution of the proceeds thereof," has been laid before both Houses of Parliament, agreeably to the provisions of 31 Geo. III., ch. 31.

That your petitioners humbly conceive the original allotment and appropriation of the clergy reserves in Upper Canada to have been dictated by enlarged views of policy and benevolence of policy, in bearing witness to the truth of the principle that an established religion is essential to the welfare of a state; of benevolence, in supplying the spiritual wants of all conditions in the colony, without exciting animosity, by pressing upon the resources of individuals.

To the views thus wisely developed, the measure now before your honourable house is manifestly opposed, recognising, as it does, the admissibility of all denominations of Christians to share, in proportion to their numbers, in the encouragement and support afforded by the state; thus fomenting, instead of allaying, religious divisions, and retarding the ultimate attainment of political harmony and mutual good will.

That this act of the colonial legislature will fall with twofold severity upon the clergy of the church of England, taking effect at a time when the withdrawal of the parliamentary grant, formerly dispensed to them through the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, has reduced them to distress and destitution, whilst constant and increasing demands are made upon their Christian compassion by the yearly influx, encouraged by the government at home, of emigrants from this country, most of them poor, and struggling with the difficulties necessarily attendant upon their situation. To these privations and discouragements the Canadian clergy have hitherto submitted with cheerfulness, relying upon the blessing of God, that, in proportion to the pro

gress of colonization around them, ample means would be eventually placed at their disposal for the spiritual improvement and consolation of their fellow-subjects in that province, and that habits of peaceful loyalty would thus be diffused among them, fraught with blessings to themselves, and to the empire at large.

That the measure now before your honourable house is calculated in the judgment of your petitioners at once to extinguish these hopes, to diminish the usefulness and efficiency of the established church in Upper Canada, inflict injustice and spoliation upon its ministers, and undermine the very foundation of individual and national happiness-the knowledge of salvation through our divine Redeemer.

Actuated by these considerations, your petitioners most humbly and earnestly entreat your honourable house to adopt such measures, as to its wisdom shall seem best, for averting from one of our most important colonies the evil consequences which are to be apprehended from this act, and for settling the questions connected with the clergy reserves in such a manner as shall be most consistent with justice, with a due regard to religion, the principles of our constitution, and the permanent welfare and tranquillity of the province.

And your petitioners shall ever pray.

New Professorships.-We heartily congratulate the university on the preservation of the two canonries at Christ Church, which the ecclesiastical commissioners proposed to suppress. It will be seen in our parlia mentary report, that Lord John Russell has announced the intention of the crown to endow two additional professorships in the university with those stalls; the one of ecclesiastical history, the other of biblical criticism.-Oxford Herald, April 11.

CAMBRIDGE.

March 27. Craven Scholarship.-A. B. Simonds was elected a scholar in this foundation.

March 30. The Chancellor's Medallists.-The two gold medals for the best classical scholars among the com mencing bachelors of arts of the presents year, were adjudged to A. C. Gooden, Trin., and W. S. Wood, St. John's.

April 3. Bell's Scholars.-The following were elected university scholars, on the Rev. Dr. Bell's foundation :F. Gell, Trin., F. H. Cox, Pemb.

April 6. The following of St. John's college, were elected foundation fellows of that society:-C. Colson, B.A.; G. F. Reyner, B. A.; F. S. Bolton, B. A.; J. Woolley, B.A.; W. S. Wood, B.A.; and L. Lloyd, B.A. and F. France, B.A. Also, E. Docker, B.A.; N. M. Manley, B.A.; and W. Parkinson, B.A., were elected fellows, upon the foundation of Mr. Platt.

April 8.-Rev. J. O. Routh, B.A., Chr., was elected fellow of that society, on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines.

There will be congregations on the following days of the ensuing Easter term:

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