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nauseam. We would only add, that it is, in our opinion, a great misfortune that Mr. Ragg should be printer and publisher, as well as author, of his volume; for we are persuaded that no other man would have issued such a production from his press; and thus Mr. Ragg would have been spared the annoyance of our candid criticism, and ourselves the disagreeable duty of pronouncing it.

MR. BURNS has just reprinted in his series of Tracts (No. 47) an excellent sermon of Reeves', the intimate friend of the pious Robert Nelson, On Obedience to Spiritual Governors. It is by far the soundest, clearest, and most convincing of any thing which has yet appeared on the subject.

Miscellaneous.

exists a memorable beacon to all who, on the pretence, or even sincere desire, of doing God service, renounce those means of accomplishing good which God hath appointed. "We count these persons to be heretics, who, though they pretend to profess a sound faith, have separated themselves, and made congregations contrary to our canonical bishops" (Council of Constantinople, A.D. 381).

PRAYERS OF THE PURITANS. About a week

after Oliver Cromwell's death (1658), the following disgusting scene took place at Whitehall during a fast kept by the household. The solemnity was parodied in the presence-chamber, in which was the new protector and his family, surrounded by six of the godly preachers; amongst whom were Dr. John Owen, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Sterry, and others. On this occasion God was reproached with the deceased protector's services, and challenged for taking him away so soon. Goodwin, who had pretended to assure them, in a prayer a very few minutes before he expired, that he was not to die, had now the boldness to say to God, "Thou hast deceived us, and we are deceived;" and Mr. Sterry, praying for Richard Cromwell, blasphemously said, "Make him the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of his person." Surely every Churchman has cause to thank God that our Prayer-book was not altered to suit the prejudices of persons whose addresses to the Deity were such as these. From this example we may form some idea to what a condition they would have reduced our Liturgy.

CHURCH AND STATE. As human institutions are in their nature liable to perversion and decay, || care was taken to defend and preserve the true faith then established, by uniting and identifying the interests of the Church with those of the State: that they might mutually strengthen and support each other; that obedience to the law might rest upon the sure foundation of religious obligation, and sound principles of religion be maintained through the sanction of the law. Hence the Church, though governed immediately by a jurisdiction of its own in spiritual concerns, is nevertheless in temporal placed under the protection, and amenable to the control, of the civil magistrate. For our doctrines ADVANTAGES OF A RESIDENT CLERGY.-It is, and sacraments, we look only to the Gospel; we indeed, generally acknowledged that nothing has should maintain and celebrate them independently more effect in forming and sustaining the characof human authority. But the incorporation of these ter of an English yeoman than the intercourse doctrines and sacraments into the law of the land, which takes place between a country gentleman so that Christianity, in its principles and usages, and the peasantry by whom he is surrounded. should be the national religion, we owe to the conThis is a species of influence for which the public stitution of our country. And so far it is true that is, in an eminent degree, indebted to ecclesiastics. our doctrines and ordinances have been established The established provision for the clergy secures, and published under the sanction of the legislature; in most parishes, the constant residence of one and the sovereign of the realm has been by law well-educated and intelligent individual. Looking, constituted, "in all causes and over all persons, therefore, at our ecclesiastical establishment in this ecclesiastical as well as civil, supreme."-W. S. light alone, we regard it as in the highest degree Goddard, D.D. beneficial to the community. It is the means of WESLEYANISM. Its professed object at its ori-spreading over the whole surface of England an gin was to promote, by means more or less ques-intelligent body of country gentlemen, possessing tionable, a true Church-of-England faith. It now moderate incomes, who must, in almost every inboldly seeks to supersede not only the Church of stance, reside in the district from which their reEngland, but has invested the Conference, a self- venues are derived, and who are impelled, by duty constituted assembly of self-made teachers, with as well as policy, to attend to the moral and social powers which belong only to the Church Catholic. habits of the population by which they are surThe Conference, therefore, is rivalling the Churchi rounded. Our parish-churches, with their attendof Christ! Can we doubt the issue of the contest, ant parsonages, may be represented as so many or wonder if divine vengeance should strike such reservoirs of religious, moral, and literary informaadversaries with judicial blindness? Already, as se- tion, which diffuses itself gradually over the disveral learned men have shewn-Archbishop Magee,tricts in which they stand: as pebbles, thrown into Bishop Lavington, and others has Methodism contracted no inconsiderable portion of the heresies of Donatus, Sabellius, Arminius, Calvin, Socinus; already has it imbibed some of the worst dogmas of popery, as well as the most pernicious errors of the Protestant dissenters. We do not dare to say whether the prediction of their human founder has yet been fulfilled,-" when Methodists leave the Church, God will leave them;"-but this may be said, and said it now is in all Christian charity, that their condition is one of exceeding peril, and

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stagnant water at regular distances, form circles which, gradually extending themselves till they meet, produce at length a gentle undulation of the whole surface, and preserve from corruption the element on which they act.-Quarterly Review, No. 58.

THE LEAVE-TAKING OF LORD STRAFFORD AND ARCHBISHOP LAUD.-The night before his execution, the Lord Strafford sent for the lieutenant of the Tower, and asked whether it were possible he might speak with the archbishop (who was confined

by the rebel parliament in the same place). The lieutenant told him he might not do so without order from the parliament. Whereupon the earl replied: "You shall hear what passeth between us; for it is not now a time either for him to plot heresy, or me to plot treason." The lieutenant answered, that he was limited; and therefore desired his lordship he would petition the parliament for that favour. "No," said he, "I have gotten my despatch from them, and will trouble them no more. I am now petitioning a higher court, where neither partiality can be expected, nor error feared. But, my lord," said he, turning to the primate of Ireland, whose company he had procured of the houses in that fatal exigent, "I will tell you what I would have spoken to my lord's grace of Canterbury. You shall desire the archbishop to lend me his prayers this night, and to give me his blessing when I do go abroad to morrow; and to be in his window, that, by my last farewell, I may give him thanks for this and all other his former favours." The primate having delivered this message without delay, the archbishop replied, that in conscience he was bound to the first, and in duty and obligation to the second; but he feared his weakness and passion (feelings) would not lend him eyes to behold his last departure. The next morning, at his coming forth, he drew near to the archbishop's lodging, and said to the lieutenant : "Though I do not see the archbishop, yet give me leave, I pray you, to do my last observance towards his rooms." In the meantime the archbishop, advertised of his approach, came out to the window. Then the earl, bowing himself to the ground," My lord," said he, "your prayers and your blessing." The archbishop lifted up his hands and bestowed both; but overcome with grief, fell to the ground in a swoon. The earl, bowing the second time, said, "Farewell, my lord; God protect your innocency." And because he (the archbishop) feared that it might perhaps be thought an effeminacy or unbecoming weakness in him, to sink down in such a manner, he added, that he hoped, by God's assistance and his own innocency, that when he came to his own execution, which he daily longed for, the world should perceive he had been more sensible of Lord Strafford's loss than of his own; and good reason it should be so, said he, for the gentleman was more serviceable to the Church1 (he would not mention the state) than either himself, or any of all the Churchmen, had ever been. A gallant farewell to so eminent and beloved a friend!-Book of Anecdotes.

THE CHURCH'S CAUSE GOD'S CAUSE.-The cause of the Church, in what kind soever it be, be it in the cause of truth, or in the cause of unity, or in the cause of right, it is God's cause too: and it must needs be so; for Christ and His Church

more: no man can wilfully corrupt the Church in her doctrine, but he would have a false god; nor persecute the profession of the Church, but he would have no God; nor rend the Church into sects, but he would have many gods; nor make the Church base, but he would pluck God as low, were God as much in his power as the Church is. And therefore the Church's cause is God's cause.-Arch|| bishop Laud.

EXTEMPORE PREACHING.-One Sunday, when Mr. (afterwards bishop Bull) had begun his sermon, as he was turning over his Bible to explain some texts of Scripture which he had quoted, it happened unfortunately (as it was thought) that his notes, contained in several small pieces of paper, flew out of his Bible into the middle of his church, by which means there was instantly raised a laughter in many of his congregation, consisting chiefly of wild seafaring persons; these, concluding that their young preacher would now, for want of his materials, be entirely at a nonplus, were not a little pleased, and prepared themselves hereupon to sport at him with an air of contempt, not considering him as the minister of Christ to them in the weakness of flesh; but some, who were soberer or better natured than the rest, condemning the levity of those scoffers, with great concern gathered them up and carried them to him in his pulpit. Mr. Bull took them; but perceiving most of the company there present to be rather inclined to triumph over him in that surprise, and to insult his youth, which stood in need of such props, immediately clapped his notes into his book again and shut it, not without great presence of mind, and then gave himself the liberty of discoursing to them on the spot, prosecuting the subject which he had begun ; which he performed so much to their satisfaction, that they who at first were most inclined to laugh at him began to grow serious. This mightily advanced his reputation for the future among them. A facility of addressing bodies of men upon the instant is a valuable gift; but the habit of preaching extempore is not to be commended. Demosthenes, the famous orator, used to say, he had too much respect for the people of Athens ever to address them without careful preparation; and the more exalted the subject, the greater, of course, the need of meditating what we shall say. The art of extempore preaching is easily acquired, but very frequently at the expense of simplicity and solidity. The preacher is often carried away to make statements which his calmer judgment would disapprove; and the people are tempted to think more of the person addressing them than of the lesson which he teaches.-Book of Anecdotes. ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE IN THE OLDEN TIME. Duties of Churchwardens.-In the consistory court of the bishop sit, every Friday, the

are head and body (Ephes. i. 22, 23); and there-bishop's chancellor, or one of the surrogates, with fore they must needs be one common cause. One cause: and you cannot corrupt the Church in her truth, or persccute her for it, nor distract her from her unity, nor impoverish and abuse her in her means,—but God suffers in the oppression. Nay

1 "An offer was made to him while in prison, that if he would employ his power and credit with the king for the taking of episcopacy out of the Church, he should have his life. His Christian answer was very heroical; that he would not buy his life at so dear a rate."-LAUD's Diary.

full power to try and punish all persons offending against religion and the ecclesiastical laws. In the acts or books of office are recorded the presentments for immorality made, according to their oath, by the churchwardens. The offences presented appear as follows:-cohabitation without marriage, incontinence, drunkenness, swearing, profaneness, suspicious conduct, "living" (in the words of the presentment) "without any sense of God or religion, and leading a loose and idle life

without going to church." And here I would ad-suffragan bishops within your province, expressly dress myself especially to that important body of requiring them to take care that publication be made ecclesiastical officers just named (i. e. churchward- || hereof on such Sunday in the present or in the enens), and remind them of the duties they have to suing month, and in such places within their reperform, and the powers with which they are spective dioceses, as the said bishops shall appoint; invested. Your duties, my brethren, are not only and that upon this occasion the ministers in each to maintain the fabric of the church in becoming parish do effectually excite the parishioners to a repair, and all the furniture of the church in a con- liberal contribution, which shall be collected the dition fit for the services of religion; but you are week following at their respective dwellings by the bound to present to the ordinary (bishop) all per-churchwardens or overseers of the poor in each pasons who offend against religion and morality. It rish; and the ministers of the several parishes are is no discharge to you that the ecclesiastical courts to cause the sum so collected to be paid immeno longer proceed to cite the offenders to answer diately into the hands of the Bank of England, to be by legal process. This is the responsibility of the accounted for by them, and applied to the carrying bishop of the diocese. It is yours to present, and on and promoting the above-mentioned good dehis to consider of the steps to be taken upon your signs. And so we bid you very heartily farewell. presentment. It is in the power, as assuredly it is Given at our Court at St. James's, the 11th day the duty, of the churchwardens, to render most efof May, 1842, in the fifth year of our reign, fective assistance to their pastor in the moral disBy her Majesty's command, cipline of the parish. It is by presentments only J. R. G. GRAHAM. that the bishop can obtain a full knowledge of To the most Reverend Father in God, our the moral state of the diocese; and I believe the Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved whole body of my reverend brethren would tell you Councillor, William Lord Archbishop that I speak their wishes when I say, that they would be grateful for your official aid in adminisof Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan. tering the moral discipline of their parishes, and that the weight of their pastoral admonitions would be indefinitely increased, if they could fall back upon the support of the bishop of the diocese, following upon your formal official presentments.Archdeacon Manning's Charge.

OUR Church, bidding us keep quiet, speaks for us; robes us from head to foot in the garments of righteousness, and exhorts us to live henceforth to God.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Chester, and Ripon, Lords Stanley and Russell, Sir R. H. Inglis, &c., are members of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee. We are also happy to announce that the following contributions have been already received: Her Majesty the Queen, 500.; the Queen Dowager, 300%; Šir R. Peel, 2001; Sir James Graham, 4007.; the Duke of Buccleuch, 2007.; Sir Edward Knatchbull, 1007.; the Earl of Ripon, 100%.; the Earl of Aberdeen,

YOUTH is the season for enjoyment; but why 1001.; Lord Stanley, 1007.; the Right Hon. Henry not a rejoicing in the Lord?

Entelligence.

DISTRESS IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.The Queen's Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for a collection in aid of the subscriptions entered into for the relief of the working classes in England and Scotland.

VICTORIA R.

Most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right entirely beloved councillor, we greet you well: Whereas in some districts in England and Scotland many of the working classes have suffered, and continue to suffer, severe distress; and whereas many of our subjects have entered into voluntary subscriptions for their relief, and have at the same time humbly prayed us to issue our royal letters directed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Archbishop of York, authorising them to promote contributions within their several provinces for the same benevolent purposes: We, taking the premises into our royal consideration, and being always ready to give the best encouragement and countenance to such humane and charitable undertakings, are graciously pleased to condescend to their request; and we do hereby direct that these our letters be communicated by you to the several

I could here adduce more than fifty precedents of such cases; and a closer examination of the act-books of the last century would produce twice as many more.

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Goulburn, 50%.; Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, 100%; Earl of Haddington, 100%.; Lord Lyndhurst, 100%; Sir Henry Hardinge, 501.; Earl Howe, 1007.; Lord John Russell, 501.; Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., 501.; Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. B., 20.; Alderman Lucas, 261. 5s.; Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., 50%. IPSWICH. A flagon, plate, paten, and two chalices, have been presented to the altar in the church of St. Matthew, Ipswich.

BROMPTON.- Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has been graciously pleased to forward the liberal sum of fifteen pounds to the Rev. Wm. J. Irons, the vicar of Brompton, in aid of the handsome and capacious schools now being erected in that parish, and situate in the Fulham Road. The old parish of Kensington, of which recently Brompton formed a part, claims Queen Victoria as a parishioner; and has Queen Adelaide now to boast of as a patroness.

LEEDS. The following are the rules of the Literary Union, Central Library, and Newsroom, lately established in Leeds :-"1. That this institution be called 'The Literary Union Central Library, and Newsroom. 2. That the vicar be exofficio the president of the institution: that the officers (consisting of the president, vice-presidents, treasurer, and secretaries) be permanent appointments, but in case of a vacancy occurring, it shall be filled up by the council. 3. That the management of this institution be vested in the officers and council, consisting of the clergy of the parish, of the officers for the time being of the Leeds dis

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trict committee of the Society for Promoting Chris- children repaired to their respective schools, where tian Knowledge (provided they be members of the they were regaled with a plentiful supply of tea institution), and of twelve laymen to be elected an- and plum-cake. Besides the schools which asnually. 4. That at the last meeting in each ses- sembled at the parish church, others attended dision, to be held the first Monday in May, the council vine service at Christ Church, St. Mark's and St. do submit for the approbation of the subscribers of || George's chapels. The total number of children one guinea annually, a report of their proceedings; belonging to the Church-schools, exclusive of the and a list of twelve members to act as the lay mem-out-townships, who shared in the celebration of bers of the council for the ensuing session. 5. That this high festival, exceeded 6000. the council meet on the first Monday in each month, MINCHINHAMPTON.-This ancient parish church, for the transaction of business. 6. That subscri- of which a curious representation is in Sir Robt. Atbers of 10s. 6d. per annum shall have the advan-kyns's" Gloucestershire," is now being taken down, tage of the library, newsroom, papers and lectures, to be rebuilt on a larger scale, by Mr. Foster, arand be entitled to the use of one set of books. chitect of Bristol. Towards this good work, the paThat subscribers of 11. 1s. per annum, or donors of tron, David Ricardo, Esq., has munificently given 10. 10s. have in addition one extra transferable || 20007., and the rector, the Rev. Charles Whateley, ticket to each paper and lecture, one extra set of 500.; the principal inhabitants have also freely books, be eligible for office, and have the right to contributed. Many vestiges of bygone days have vote at the election of lay members of the council. already been brought to light, and it is expected 7. That persons wishing to become members must many more will be developed during the progress be recommended by a member, in a book kept for of the work, which is rapidly advancing. the purpose; and be submitted at the next monthly WINCHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH-BUILDING SOmeeting to the council for election. 8. That a book CIETY. At the last meeting of the committee, the be kept on the library-table, for the insertion of following grants were made:- For a new church suggestions by the members, and for the recom- at Hardway, in the parish of Alverstoke, 550%.; mendation of books. 9. That the council, so far as for one at South Hawley, in the parish of Yately, the funds allow, shall provide books, periodicals, || 350l.; for one in the parish of Chobham, 1007, in and newspapers, for the perusal of the members. addition to the previous grant of 3001. 10, That as far as possible, regularly recurring pa- CRIMINAL RETURNS.-Metropolitan Police.-By pers and lectures be provided for the members. the annual statement just published by the ComThat to these lectures the members of the district missioners in Scotland Yard of the number of perlibraries be admitted, provided they have been sub- sons who were taken into custody by the metroposcribers for the previous three months. 11. That litan police in the year 1841, we gather the followclasses be formed for mutual instruction, subject to ing information:-8,573 persons were apprehended the direction of the council. 12. That the council charged with offences against the person, 244 with be empowered to make grants of books towards es- offences against property committed with violence, tablishing libraries in the different districts of the 13,477 with offences against property without viotown, and of money towards the fitting-up of the lence, 2,134 with malicious offences against prolibraries and reading-rooms. 13. That the ma- perty, 868 with forgery and offences against the nagement of the district libraries and reading-currency, and 43,665 with other offences not inrooms be vested in the hands of the clergy of the district, and of the visiters of the Christian Knowledge Society, being members of the Central Library but that all proceedings of the district committees be transmitted to the next monthly meeting of the council for its approval. 14. That the property of the libraries be vested in the bishop of the diocese and the vicar of the parish, as trustees. -P.S. As many gentlemen possess books which they can conveniently spare from their libraries, we need scarcely remind you of their great value to such an institution, and how gladly they would be received. The expense of the lectures being principally defrayed by the admission of non-subscri bers, it is hoped you will induce your friends to attend." This excellent institution was opened on the 2d of May, when the Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds, read a paper on "the nature and progress of human society." The large room in the Music-ball was crowded in every part by a most attentive auditory, many of whom were the leading dissenters of the place.

cluded in the before-mentioned classes; making a total of 68,961, of which number 46,358 were males, and 22,603 females. Out of the total number, 5,418 were charged with common assaults, 2,168 with assaults on the police, 1,210 with larceny from the person, 5,108 with simple larceny, 2,990 with misdemeanours with intent to steal, 1,919 with unlawful possession of goods, 2,082 with wilful damage, 12,795 with being disorderly characters, 15,006 with drunkenness, 4,889 as suspicious characters, and 4,841 as vagrants.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-At the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Bible Society, which is to be held immediately after the general assembly, a full statement will be made of the grounds on which the British and Foreign Bible Society are not entitled to the support of the Christian public of Scotland. It will be proved that the society still adheres to its apocryphal alliance on the Continent,-that it retains as managers the individuals who for so many years propagated falsehoods under the title of the holy Scriptures, and LEEDS PAROCHIAL SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. who mutilate their own records, the better to palWhit-Monday, the children, in number between liate their conduct, that many of the versions it three and four thousand, in connexion with these at present circulates contain popish errors of the schools, attended divine service at the parish church. worst description,-and that the society still perAfter prayers the vicar delivered a suitable dis- sists in not opening its meetings with prayer, for course, on the nature of Christian training as deve-fear of offending the Socinians, by invoking the loped in the Catechism. On leaving church the name of Christ. For many years the British and

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Foreign Bible Society had no more zealous auxiliary than the Edinburgh Bible Society, who remitted the parent society upwards of 20,000l.; and it was only after the misapplication of their funds was discovered, and their corrupt practices brought to light, that the Edinburgh Society broke off its connexion. A clergyman at one of the recent public meetings in London observed, in reference to the attempt now making by the agents of the British and Foreign Bible Society, to recover the ground which, ten years ago, they had lost in Scotland, that they trusted to success, "not to any additional arguments they could advance, but simply to the shortness of the memories of Scotchmen. He was sure, however, that the British and Foreign Bible Society had miscalculated their host, and that they would find in Scotland as determined and successful opposition to the lax principles they practised and professed, as before."-Edinburgh ||

Wilness.

Anglesey new church, for which 1,1007. of the 2,0007. required have already been subscribed, is in forwardness. For an endowment of 1,000l. to this important undertaking the public are principally indebted to R. Cruikshank, Esq., who has most munificently assigned to it a sum presented to him for another object. It is now in contemplation to erect another church at Elson, or Hardway, a populous district of the parish of Alverstoke, distant three miles from the church, as soon as a sufficient sum can be raised. The estimated expense, to accommodate 400 persons, is 1,4007., and it is essential to provide an endowment of 1,000l. As it is intended that every seat shall be free, it is not proposed to fit the area of the building with pews. Towards this object the Queen Dowager has subscribed 20.; the Lord Bishop of Winchester, 501.; Archdeacon Wilberforce (the rector) and Lord Ashburton, 100l. each; the Rev. R. C. Trench and the Rev. H. W. Burrows, 201. each; H. Tritton, Esq., 101. The population of the parish of Alverstoke exceeds 13,000, and the present churchaccommodation is less than 4,300, of which about 2,220 are within the town of Gosport.

TAUNTON.-The new church at this place was consecrated on the 19th inst. by the lord bishop.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.-A layman has anonymously sent 50l. towards the funds for the choir of the parish church of Leeds.

SYRIAN ARCHBISHOP.-The Archbishop of Tripoli in Syria is at present, we believe, in Dublin, for the purpose of raising subscriptions for the relief of his poor suffering flock, whose harvests have been destroyed, and villages burnt, during the late hostilities in that country. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London have contributed largely for that purpose, and the Archbishop of Dublin has followed their example.

The Queen Dowager has, with her usual kind feelings, transmitted the sum of twenty pounds to the Rev. James Caulfield Browne, the rector of Compton Martin and Nempnet, Somerset, towards the erection of national schools in these parishes.

Lady Katherine Harcourt, a few days since, laid the foundation-stone of the new church of St. John, in the neighbourhood of Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl of Burlington, Viscount Morpeth, the Bishop of Ripon, and Mr. Hardy,

M.P., have subscribed handsome donations to the fund for building a new church at Farsley, Yorkshire.

The Holloway-end New Church, Stourbridge, is expected to be opened for divine worship on the first Sunday in June.

C. B. Adderley, Esq, M.P., has contributed 500l., and H. H. Williamson, Esq., 3007., towards the erection of a church, parsonage-house, and school, at Brown Edge, Norton-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. The secretaries laid before the general meeting of the society, May 3, the auditors' annual account, together with the following comparative statement:-Total receipts: 1841, 95,0177. 16s. 1d. ; 1842, 90,476l. 7s. 10d.; decrease, 45411. Ss. 3d. Total expenditure: 1841, 115,5331. 1s. 6d.; 1842, 94,3421. 3s. 2d.; decrease, 21,1907. 18s. 4d. Benefactions: 1841, 40681. 5s. 7d.; 1842, 34417. 13s. 3d ; decrease, 6261. 12s. 4d. Gratuitous grants, books: 1841, 56331. 15s.; 1842, 41417. 14s. 11d.; decrease, 14921. 1d. Subscriptions: 1841, 15,1787. 3s. 8d.; 1842, 14,960l. 15s. ld.; decrease, 2171. 8s. 7d.; Money-grants voted: 1841, 22,5967.; 1842, 74907.; decrease, 15,1061. Legacies: 1842, 74421. Ss.; 1841, 1471. 13s. 5d.; increase, 5970l. 14s. 7d. Received for books: 1841, 60,9671. 4s. 2d.; 1842, 57,8191. 6s. 10d.; decrease, 31481. 17s. 4d. Paid for books: 1841, 75,751. 4s. 1d.; 1842, 66,9107. 17s. 7d.; decrease, 88407. 6s. 6d.

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It is only fair to state that we are considerably indebted for our "Intelligence" to the pages of the Church Intelligencer, a weekly publication, which may be safely recommended to those who wish to know the passing events in Church and State.

The Church of Rome, considering lay baptism to be valid, does not baptise converts, as she would term them, on entering her communion, provided, of course, there is sufficient evidence that the sacrament has been administered with water in the name of the Trinity.

We are greatly obliged to S. A. for his kind offer; but think that the subject proposed is not exactly suited to the pages of our Magazine, its object being to repress, rather than foster, the spirit of controversy, especially in matters with which ordinary readers are not much concerned.

Again is the editor reluctantly compelled to postpone the insertion of several articles.

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