The Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners have made a free grant of 100l. for building a church in St. At an ordination held at Christ Church, Belfast, on Sunday, September 4th, by the Lord Bishop of Down and Priests.-R. Rowan, LL.B.; C. S. Young; W. B. Ashe; N. Pollock. Deacons.-J. Wilson, A.B.; G. King, A.B.; R. Oulton, A.B.; G. Hill, A.B.; H. Garret, A.B.; J. Hill, A.B.; W. Boyle, A.B.; T. La Ban Kennedy, A.B.; It is frequently asserted that the revenues of the Church of Ireland are more than sufficient for the purposes of religion. In the dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, there are 44 benefices without a church, and 56 licensed places for divine worship. Of 196 congregations, 142 have been increasing for the last five years. EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. On Sunday, August 21st, Bishop Walker of Edinburgh confirmed sixty persons, thirty males and thirty females, in Trinity chapel, Paisley. The Episcopal congregation of Paisley is numerous and increasing, through the exertions chiefly of the Rev. W. M. Wade, the minister. There had been no place of worship for Protestant Episcopalians in Paisley since the period of the Revolution, until the year 1817, when Mr. Wade formed a small congregation, scarcely exceeding twenty persons, which used to meet in a school-room. Trinity chapel, which was consecrated by Bishop Walker CHURCH IN INDIA. Died at Vepery, on the 21th of January last, the Rev. Dr. J. P. Rottler, at the age of nearly 87. In the charge delivered to the reverend missionaries, at Tanjore and Vepery, in February 1835, by the present metropolitan of India, (p. 72,) Dr. Rottler is alluded to as one of "the three honoured missionaries who have laboured for fifty years or more in the fields where Ziegenbalg and Swartz, Gerické and Pohlé, Joenické and Haubroe, had laboured before them, and who still survive to bless us with their advice and their prayers."* It appears by a written statement from the Rev. C. Calthrop, addressed to the Madras Diocesan Committee of the Society, and read at their meeting, that this lamented person was born at Strasburgh, in June 1749, was ordained at Copenhagen in 1775, and has been labouring for above the last sixty years as a missionary in India, formerly at Tranque The two others are the Rev. Mr. Kolhoff, in his 76th year, and fifty-third of his services in the mission; and the Rev. Dr. Cæmmerer, who went out in the year 1789, and is now senior chaplain at Tranquebar, aged about 69, and forty-seven years in the field of service in India. bar, and, since 1804, at Madras. Up to the day preceding his illness, he was engaged in his Tamil and English Dictionary, to which he had devoted a certain portion of his time for the last twenty years, and which is now left in an unfinished state. Only the Sunday previous to his illness he was at church twice; in the morning at the Tamil, and in the evening at the English service. On Monday evening he attended at the usual weekly meeting of the catechists; he sat with them longer than usual, and seemed remarkably cheerful and well. The night before he was seized with paralysis, he expounded, as was his custom, to the young people in his house, but was much longer, and more animated. And in the morning, before he was taken ill, he had a young native girl, his adopted daughter, Ayah, to read some portion of the Tamil Testament to him, and to have it afterwards explained to her. His venerable remains (attended by the archdeacon and clergy at Madras, and a great number of Europeans, East Indians, and natives,) were interred in the Vepery Mission churchyard, on Sunday evening, the 31st January. ̧ Miscellaneous Ecclesiastical LONDON DIOCESE.-On Thursday, the 25th August, the foundation- stone was laid of a chapel of ease in the parish of Bushey, Herts. The ceremony was performed by the rector, the Rev. J. L. Richards, B.D. who delivered an address on the occasion, and offered up an appropriate prayer. An elegant silver trowel was presented to him for the purpose, by Mr. Rigby, of London, the builder. The chapel is designed to contain 400 sittings, of which 200 are free; and it is hoped that it will be opened for divine service early next summer, though there is still a considerable deficiency in the funds required for the purpose. The living of Bushey is in the patronage of Exeter College, Oxford. Intelligence. CHESTER DIOCESE.-On Monday, the 5th instant, the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Church of England North School took place on a piece of ground opposite the Shipwrights'-buildings, in Liverpool. A procession accordingly was formed, enbodying the children of the various public schools of the town, the clergy, and the members of the Tradesmen's and the Operative Conservative Asseciations, who had signified their wish to join. The scene at this time was most lively and interesting, whilst the merry clang of the church-bells added no little to its gaiety, and to the happy countenances of the assembled children. sent number? The question is easily solved, and no time in providing for the emergency must be lost. The consideration of these facts has led the clergy of Blackburn to conclude, that an imperative necessity exists for the erection of a new church. In their deliberations for an eligible site for the fabric thus contemplated, they have turned their attention to the eastern and north-eastern part of the town, where a very large extension of population has taken place during the last five years. The character, not less than the number of that population, seems to require the undivided attention of a clergyman of the Church of England. An eligible site at the top of Moore The Earl of Derby has given the munificent sum of 1000l. towards building two new churches in the town of Bury, Lancashire. The great increase of population in the town and neighbourhood of Bury, makes it very evident that an increased supply of room, dedicated to the public religious worship of God, has become absolutely necessary. Under this impression, it was, a short time since, determined, at a meeting held for the purpose, that measures should be immediately taken for building two new churches, to contain 1200 persons in each; the one in Elton, in the neighbourhood of Bury Bridge, the other in the vicinity of Free Town, upon sites to be fixed hereafter; and that 80007, should be raised by subscription for this pur-Street, being part of the vicarial glebe, will be given by pose, and for making an endowment to each of 10007. The subscriptions already amount to 4,3001.—Liverpool Standard. From some calculations contained in a report of the spiritual state of the town of Blackburn, which, in pursuance of his lordship's commands, was made in the autumn of last year, to the Lord Bishop of Chester, it appeared that in the course of fifteen years, reckoning from the midsummer of 1821, a wonderful increase has taken place in the number of members of the Church of England throughout the parish of Blackburn. This accession of numbers cannot be ascribed, except in a very slight degree, to the growth of population, as it far exceeds the proportion of that increase, and, in some remote parts of the parish, has taken place where the population has been stationary. The census of 1821 gave 21,940 as the population of the town of Blackburn. In 1831 it was calculated at 27,091. If we suppose it, in 1836, to be 30,000, which will be a large allowance, the increase will, in fifteen years, be somewhat more than onethird. In the same interval our congregations have multiplied tenfold. In the year 1821, the Church of England did not possess, and had not possessed for some years, more than one place of worship, viz. St. John's, and that church was not one-third filled. The average congregations there certainly did not then exceed 500. The amount of the average congregations in August 1835, in our four present churches, by returns on which we can rely, amounted to above 5000. The calculated accommodation in those churches is 6,364, without reckoning movable seats for children; so that if a fifth should be added to the numbers now resorting to our churches, the supply of church-room would be exactly equal to the demand. In 1821 no official return was made of the number of children in the national and Sunday (there was then but one Sunday) schools; but the return of 1823 gives the number of children 903. At Easter, 1836, the return of the national and five Sunday schools in the township of Blackburn, gives an amount of 3,118. A new school is about to be erected near the Brook House, to contain 600 children, where the want of one of these valuable institutions is severely felt; and when it shall have been erected, there will be a great difficulty to find accommodation for the children, in any of our churches within a reasonable distance from that place. In the mean time the happy effects of our new Sunday schools become every year more manifest. The increase of the Church of England, during the period of which we speak, is attributable to a great variety of causes, which need not here be detailed. It continues steadily progressive; and there can be no doubt that it is rapidly accelerated by the accession of these schools, as they come into full operation, and as the persons who have received the benefit of a religious education in them arrive at mature years, and become heads of families. If, therefore, during the lapse of fifteen years, the number of those who frequent our churches, taking the average estimate, has been multiplied by ten, how soon may we reasonably calculate on the addition of one-fifth of their pre the vicar of Blackburn, provided his grace the archbishop of Canterbury and the lord bishop of Chester consent to such alienation. The vicar also engages to pay, 107. per annum towards the minister's stipend, until his income, from other sources, shall amount to 2001.-Blackburn Standard. SALISBURY DIOCESE.-At the anniversary of the Church Union Society, held at Salisbury, the following were this year among the objects of its bounty:To the perpetual curate of a village containing upwards of 500 souls, who performs two services on the Sabbath, has no private property, a wife and two children dependent on him, and the whole of whose income from his curacy has hitherto been only 301., the committee granted 301. To a sick, infirm, and aged clergyman, long incapable of duty, (whose income does not exceed 651.), who has been received by this Society from the books of the Widows' and Orphans' Charity of Wilts, in order that the funds of the latter institution might be exclusively devoted to the poor widows and orphans, the committee granted 221. Towards the maintenance of a poor insane clergyman, under the like circumstance, and with the same view, the committee granted 221.-Hants Advertiser. WINCHESTER DIOCESE. A new church has been consecrated at Botley, Hants. YORK DIOCESE.-The living of Beverley Minster has been purchased, under the provisions of the Municipal Reform Act, by the Rev. C. Simeon, the Archdeacon of Stafford, the Rev. W. Carus Wilson, of College, Cambridge. Kirkby Lonsdale, and the Rev. W. Carus, of Trinity CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.-The committee have published an edition of their report, with the Sermon by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, comprised within one sheet Svo. It is well calculated for, and will, we hope, obtain extensive circulation. We take from page 8 the following interesting postscript: Committee-Room, August 30, 1836. "The Committee, in putting forth their report, with the Sermon by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, in this form, at the suggestion, and largely at the expense of a liberal and zealous friend of the Society, cannot refrain from expressing their earnest hope that it will be the means of obtaining, from the friends of the Church, much additional support in behalf of this Society. Since the date of the Report, an Occasional Paper' (No. 1), containing some interesting particulars of the Society's proceedings, has been published, and the subscriptions have been augmented to 3,4767.;— of which, however, only 8471. are described as annual subscriptions, while the grants made by the Society already exceed 1,100.; securing an addition of seventeen clerical and eight lay assistants, in the pastoral work of necessitous and populous parishes. Testimony to the value and need of this Society is daily borne; and in proof, the committee have only to state the fact, that in the short space of six months, besides other distinguished patronage, 320 clergymen of the Church of England are enrolled among its supporters. Auxiliary associations have been formed at Aylesbury, LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY NEWFOUNDLAND AND BRITISH NORTH AMERICA SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE POOR -The thirteenth report of this society, now under the patronage of his Majesty, and the presidentship of Lord Bexley, states that the expenditure during the last year amounted to 31761. 16s. 6d., and that there was a balance due to the treasurer of nearly 10007. to enjoy the countenance and assistance of the goThe society continues vernor and other high official characters in the island. The whole number admitted into the schools has been 7657, of which there are now 2510 on the books. PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY.-The report for 1835-6 has been published, to which is annexed a most valuable Sermon, preached before the society by Professor Scholefield, of Cambridge, with extracts from which, as peculiarly applicable to the present circumstances of the Church, we shall from time to time enrich our pages. Many important documents are contained in the report, relative to the blessings which have attended the society's labours among seamen. It is an important rule of the society, that all copies of the Book of Common Prayer issued by it shall contain the thirty-nine articles of religion, the ordination services, and all the other offices complete. The receipts of the society for the last year were 23961. 3s. 114d.; the expenditure, 24497. 10s. 54d. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. From the third quarterly paper of the society, we learn, that from the audit of April 1835 to that of April 1836, the number of Bibles, Testaments, Common-Prayer Books, Psalters, and other books and tracts, which have been issued during the past year to members on the terms of the society, granted gratuitously in special cases, delivered to members for their gratuitous distribution, and supplied at prime cost, exceeds the number issued in any former year. The following is the total circulation between the audit of April 1835 and that of April 1836: 100,913 Bibles Testaments Common-Prayer Books 86.061 192,082 Psalters 14,803 Other bound Books 125,533 Small Tracts, half-bound, &c. 1,955,780 SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL The report of the society, published in October last, IN FOREIGN PARTS.-Missions in Southern India.count of his visit to the Christian Churches in Southern contained extracts from the Bishop of Calcutta's acIndia; and a subsequent correspondence has been published, wherein the reader will perceive that the Bishop of Calcutta's declaration, respecting the low state of morals and piety which prevails among the native Christians in the society's missions, is painfully confirmed by the testimony of missionaries long resiship's regulations respecting caste had not ceased in dent in the country; and that resistance to his lordpleasure in announcing that measures are in progress the spring of last year. for counteracting these lamentable evils. The whole But the society has great number of ordained missionaries in the society's southern missions now amounts to eighteen; and as the want of adequate superintendence, arising from an insufficient number of missionaries, has been the chief cause of the existing disorders, the society is encouraged to hope that, through the Divine blessing upon its labours, the difficulties with which it has to contend may be speedily surmounted. British West Indies. the society announced that it had resolved to extend In the report for 1835, its operations to the British West Indies, and that a special subscription and a general collection, under the authority of a king's letter, were to be made, in order to meet the increased expenditure which would be required for that purpose. The amount of the receipts, and the portion of them already expended, will be given in the Report for 1836; but the society is already enabled to state, that grants of money larging 46 churches or chapels, and 57 schools; that have been made towards the cost of building or enschoolmasters, receive a portion of their stipends from 35 clergymen and catechists, and upwards of 100 the society's funds; and that considerable progre: 3 appears to have been made in the religious instruction of the emancipated negroes. it Some interesting correspondence has been printed contains most satisfactory reports from the society's for the information of members and the public. trust estate at Codrington, Barbadoes, and from many of the clergy throughout that diocese; a report of which are comprised within the limits of his lordthe Bishop of Nova Scotia's visit to the Bermudas, ship's diocese; and a letter, of a more recent date, froin Mr. Archdeacon Spencer, giving an account of the society's progress in the same quarter. BISHOP RYDER'S CHURCH.At the meeting of subscribers held lately at the Bluecoat School, Birmingham, it was stated that the amount of subscriptions, of which the secretaries had been apprised up port also announced to the subscribers the offer made to that time, was 18281. 1s. 7d., of which 140%, and upwards was from the diocese of Gloucester. The reby a lady, through the Rev. William Marsh, to subscribe 15007. on condition that the patronage of the church should be placed in such hands as the party offering the sum should direct. The subscribers present expressed their concurrence in this proposal. The report also mentioned the grant of a site by the governors of a Free Grammar School, and the expectation of aid from the Diocesan Building Society. committee to carry into effect the erection of the resolution was passed, appointing secretaries and church.-Worcester Guardian. A a Robson, Levey, and Franklyn, 46 St. Martin's Lane. Bateman, George, B.A. Trin. Coll. Camb. Lett. Dim. from Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry. Lamprell, C. W. B.A. Clare Hail, Camb.; Norgate, L. A. B.A. C.C. Camb. Lett. Dim. from Bp. of Norwich, Bishton, H. B.A. Brasenose, Oxf. Lett. Dim, from Bp. of Peterborough. Clergymen Deceased. Bamford, H. L. perp. curate of Aconbury, Herefordshire, 35. Bale, S. S. at Withyham, Sussex, 83. Browne, John, perp. curate of Ashford and Tadding- Claye, W. domestic chaplain to Duke of Grafton, 71. Drought, Robert, chap.-general of Hobart Town, Van Duncalf, John, incumbent of Peak Forest, Derby- Faraday, D. C. B.A. of Queen's coll. Oxford, 26. Foster, Robert, rector of Sutton Bonnington, and preb. of Wells, 70. Griffiths, C. formerly cur. of Lancing, Sussex. King, James, curate of Hawkedon, Suffolk, 42. Madan, Spencer, D.D. prebendary and chancellor of Morville, J. at Wakefield, 66. Nicholas, John, D.C.L. rector of Fisherton Anger and Pready, James, vicar of Hinton, and rector of Stone, Rowley, George, D.D. vice-chancellor of the university University Entelligence. OXFORD. Sept. 23.-George Hext, of the diocese of Exeter, elected a scholar of C.C.C. Oct. 10.-The Rev. A. T. Gilbert, D.D. principal of Brasenose, appointed by his Grace the Chancellor vicechancellor for the ensuing year; Drs. Jenkyns of Balliol, Jones of Exeter, and Bridges of C.C., named pro-vice chancellors. Degree. M.A.-Rev. John Armstrong, Balliol. CAMBRIDGE. Sept. 5.-Died Wm. Battine, Esq. D.C.L. Fellow of Trinity Hall. Oct. 6.-Messrs. Lushington, Rawle, Howes, and A. Smith, scholars, elected fellows of Trinity. Scrutators. Rev. G. E. Corrie, B.D. Fellow of Catherine Hall; and Rev. W. Hodgson, B.D. Fellow of St. Peter's. At a congregation, on Monday, the 10th of October, the following University officers were appointed :— Proctors. Rev. F. Martin, M.A. Fellow of Trinity; and Rev. G. R. Tuck, M.A. Fellow of Pembroke. Taxors. Rev. G. F. Nicholas, M.A. Fellow of King's; and Rev. J. W. L. Heaviside, Fellow of Sidney Sussex. Moderators.-Rev. J. W. L. Heaviside, M.A. Fellow of Sidney Sussex; and Rev. E. Steventon, M.A. Fellow of C.C. OCT. 12. Caput. The Vice-Chancellor; Wm. French, D.D. Divinity; James Geldart, D.C.L. Law; Thomas Ingle, M.D. Physic; Robt. Cory, B.D. Sen, non-Regent; John Mills, M.A. Sen. Regent. At the last annual diocesan synod of the clergy of the diocese of Brechin, the very Rev. Henage Horsley, dean of the diocese, presided, in the absence of the Primus, Bishop Gleig. The importance of these meetings for the transaction of business becomes more and more obvious. At the stated triennial general meeting of the Scotch Episcopal Friendly Society, held at Aberdeen, in July, the funds were declared for the last three years to have increased 2,9231. 6s. 3d. The object of the society is to make a provision for the widows and orphans of Episcopal ministers. Hitherto the annuity granted to a widow has been 201., and in the case of a member dying, and leaving a child or children and no widow, the child or children received 2001. In consequence of the prosperous state of the funds, an addition of 51. will be made to the widow's annuity, and 50% to the orphan's provision. Bishop Skinner was chosen president, and the Rev. J. B. Pratt, secretary. EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CANADA. REPORT OF THE BISHOP OF QUEBEC'S UPPER CANADIAN MISSION FUND, FROM Nov. 1, 1834, To JULY 31, 1836.-Total amount of subscriptions, donations, and collections, as received and accounted for to the Bishop of Quebec, the Hon. and Right Rev. Charles James Stewart, 6531. 8s. 4d. to Nov. 1, 1835. Additional to March 31, 1836, 1177. 19s.; to July 31, 577, 9s. Gd. Missionaries sent out on agreements for |