the building is calculated at 3,4601.—Manchester Courier.

A new Roman-catholic chapel has just been opened at Wigton.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

May 23rd having been the day appointed to present an address to the Bishop of Lincoln, on his Lordship resigning the episcopal charge of the Huntingdonshire portion of the diocese, which has been annexed to the see of Ely, about sixty of the clergymen of the county assembled at the George Inn, Buckden, where they were met by the Rev. Dr. Hollingworth, the Archdeacon, and at two o'clock proceeded in a body to the palace, where they were received with urbanity and kindness. The address was read by the Archdeacon, and the Bishop replied. The visitors afterwards dined

with his Lordship in the ancient diningroom of the palace.

The first stone of a new church at Wragby has been laid, with all due formalities: 3,000l. have been subscribed by voluntary contributions for the purpose of building and endowing this edifice, all given by the parishioners of Wragby.Lincoln Gazette.

MIDDLESEX.

The foundation stone of the school. bouse of Marylebone, founded for the reception, education, and support, of 150 girls, daughters of poor settled parishioners, was laid by Lord Kenyon on Thursday the 15th inst.-Times.

LIBERAL PRESENT TO BISHOPSGATE SCHOOL. On Monday the 19th, the subscribers to the Ward School of Bishopsgate dined together, the Lord Mayor in the chair. Deputy Sir William Rawlings, in the course of the evening, addressed the Lord Mayor on the subject of the institution. He said he was now in the 87th year of his age, and that he could not in better terms express his high admiration of the institution they had assembled to celebrate than by stating, that if the treasurer would call upon him the next day, he would put into his hands a transfer for 1,000l. in the three per cent. consols for its benefit.-Watchman.

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.-We are told that a very splendid grant towards the fund for providing additional churches in the destitute parts of the metropolis and its suburbs, has been lately made. Mrs. Hindman, who during her whole life was much attached to our national religion, and felt a deep interest in the spiritual welfare of her fellow-creatures, has be

queathed the sum of 80,000l. for the erection of new churches in our large metropolis, which has been placed at the disposal of the Bishop of London, under the control of the Rev. Mr. Dodsworth, apppointed by the donor trustee of the gift. In accordance with a wish expressed by the benevolent lady, the erection of a new church in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, will shortly be commenced. The present ancient edifice, the nave of which, it is hoped, will be shortly restored by the inhabitants, is quite inadequate to accommodate onetenth of the parishioners of St. Saviour's. We believe that the ground for the site of the new church will be presented by Mr. Dots, the opulent vinegar merchant. The erection of a new church at Stepney has been ordered by the Metropolitan Church Building Committee, and others in St. Chelsea, and other parishes, will be shortly George's East, St. George's, Southwark,

commenced.-Herald.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL CURATES IN POPULOUS PLACES.-The sum of 3000l. and upwards per annum has already been subscribed as a permanent fund towards this object.-Observer.

A very handsome subscription has been entered into at Uxbridge for the erection of a new episcopal church, on Uxbridge Moor. The parish church of Hillingdon, and the chapel of ease at Uxbridge, have not accommodation for more than half the population.—Morning Post.

Lord Godolphin has a bill in the House of Lords for abolishing the announcement of secular notices in time of divine service.

The Carlton Club has contributed 2001. towards the erection of the new church in the populous and extensive parish of St. James's. The dispute among the members of the United Service Club, respecting the right of the majority to vote 3001. out of the general funds of the Club towards the erection of a new church in St. James's, has been decided in favour of the minority; Sir W. Follett, whose opinion was taken upon the matter, having decided against the vote.-Morning Herald. [At the Oxford and Cambridge Club a subscription-book has been opened for the furtherance of this desirable object.]

On Tuesday morning last the Marylebone parochial charity schools, together with portions of the children of the several national schools, amounting in number to nearly 2,800, attended divine service at the parish church. The Rev. Thomas Wharton preached; Mr. Greatorex presided at the organ.-Morning Pest.

On Thursday, the 1st of June, the charity children belonging to the several schools within the bills of mortality visited the cathedral church of St. Paul, attended by their rectors, beadles, and other parish functionaries, for the purpose of hearing the annual sermon, which was preached by the Lord Bishop of Chichester, in the presence of the Marquis Camden, the Lord Mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, and several of the nobility and gentry. The numerous assemblage present far exceeded those of last year. Among those that occupied the scarlet seats were many foreign ladies and gentlemen, who seemed to take a lively interest in the pleasant scene presented to their view. Divine service concluded about balf-past two, after which the children proceeded to their separate schools, and were supplied with a good dinner of old English fare-plum-pudding and roast beef.-Times.

On Friday, the 26th of May, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury gave a splendid entertainment to the stewards of the Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy. Amongst the guests were the Bishop of Durham, the Lord Mayor, Lord Bexley, Archdeacon Pott, Mr. John Capel, the Rev. Dr. Shepherd, and many other distinguished individuals, clerical and lay. The dinner was served up in the new Gothic hall, the architectural beauty of which, and of the other parts of the archiepiscopal residence, reflects great credit upon the taste of the present Archbishop, who has expended a vast sum of money in effecting improvements.-Ibid.

The Archbishop of Canterbury having expressed a desire to visit so much of the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark, as has already been restored, including the Ladye Chapel, choir, transepts, and altar screen, the committee for the restoration had the honour, on Tuesday the 6th June, of receiving his Grace, accompanied by the Bishops of Winchester and Killaloe, the Earl of Lonsdale, Lords Skelmersdale and Encombe, the Rev. Dr. Dealtry, Chancellor of Winchester, and many of the inhabitants of the parish who had contributed to the restoration. There was also a numerous assemblage of elegantly-dressed ladies. His Grace expressed his great satisfaction and delight at what he had witnessed, and departed amid the respectful acknowledgments of the visitors.-Ibid.

The annual meeting of the Australian Church Missionary Society took place at Exeter Hall, London. Lord Teignmouth took the chair. The report which was read shewed the receipts of the society for the year to be 7481., but stated that the society still wanted funds to carry forward

their great and interesting work. It was further stated, that Western Australia is at present in the state which marks all young colonies, that, with all the difficulties attending the formation of a new settlement, but with a delightful climate to bless their industry, and an almost boundless continent to be subdued by them, the scattered settlers, on the frontier, especially, must be left without pastoral instruction and public worship but for the missionaries provided for them by this society.

The second anniversary meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society was held at the Freemasons' Hall, London. The Right Hon. Lord Ashley, the president of the society, took the chair. The report read to the meeting stated that the receipts of the society, for the year ending in March last, amounted to 7363/. 11s.; but of this sum only about 18007. appear as annual subscriptions. "The grants of the society now voted provide for the employment of fifty-eight clergymen, and of thirteen lay-assistants; and, relying on the continued liberality of the church, the committee will proceed to make other grants for the same purposes." The resolutions were moved by the Bishops of Winchester and Chester, the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, &c.--Salisbury Herald.

In the House of Commons, on the 5th of June, in committee on the Irish poor-laws, it was resolved that 100 popish priests are to be established as chaplains, paid by the state, in the 100 poor-houses which it is proposed by the bill to erect in Ireland.

The Rev. T. Morell, the Rev. J. Blackburn, and Dr. Andrew Reed, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, on the subject of the Regium Donum.-Court Circular.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. After the late distribution of the medical prizes, a dinner was given in the hall of the College to the Bishop of Chichester, the late Principal. On this occasion, a splendid candelabrum was presented to his lordship, as a testimony of grateful regard, from the professors, students, and officers of the College. The pedestal of the candelabrum bears the subjoined inscription :

Reverendo admodum in Christo Patri Gulielmo Otter, S. T. P., Episcopo Cirestrensi, Collegii Regalis apud Londin. nuper Principali, Ob suavissimos mores, Verum animi judicium, Religionem quam docebat commendantes, Omnibus carissimo. Hoc amoris ac pietatis testimonium, D.D. Ejusdem Collegii Professores ac Alumni. A.D. MDCCCXXXVII.

CONFIRMATION. This interesting ceremony was performed, June the 6th, by the Bishop of London, at Kensington church, on 347 young persons-viz. 275 females and 72 males, belonging to that and the adjoining parish of Hammersmith. In the afternoon, his lordship performed a similar ceremony at the church of St. Luke's, Chelsea.

On Monday, the 5th, the Bishop of London held a public confirmation at the parish church of St. George-in-the-East. Nearly 300 persons were confirmed.

The bishop has also held a confirmation at Trinity Church, Islington.-Times.

PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. (From the Standard.)-On Saturday, May 22nd, a meeting of the Protestant Association took place at Exeter-hall. The platform was occupied by a great number of gentlemen of respectability and distinction.

At twelve o'clock precisely the chair was taken by J. P. Plumptre, M.P., who explained the objects of the association. The Rev. R. M'Ghee and the Rev. M. O'Sullivan, in speeches of great length and ability, exposed the real character of the religion of the church of Rome. Lord Kenyon also addressed the meeting.

On May the 31st, a meeting was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of forming an auxiliary to the great Metropolitan Protestant Association : Mr. Chisholm, M.P., in the chair. A petition to the King and both houses of parliament, for the protection of the Protestant religion, was proposed and unanimously adopted.Herald.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

SPLENDID MUNIFICENCE.-Mr. Kinnersley, of Clough Hall, has built, at his own expense, an elegant church in that parish, in which he has placed a fine organ, a ring of six large bells, and a splendid painted glass window. He has made every sitting in the church free. This beautiful building was designed by Mrs. Kinnersley, under whose direction it has been built, without the aid of an architect. The cost to Mr. Kinnersley is 5,500l.— Northampton Herald.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE.-Numerous and respectable meetings of the Newcastle Lord's-day Society, have been held at Ballast Hills, Gateshead Fell, Bill Quay, Wallsend, South Shields, and Blaydon, at the whole of which, petitions to parliament were unanimously adopted. The petition of the society from this town received upwards of 5000 signatures. - Newcastle Journal.

OXFORDSHIRE.

RELIGIOUS DESTITUTION CANADA.-On the 29th of May, a public IN UPPER ford, to detail the actual state of Upper meeting was held at the Town Hall, OxCanada, in regard to religious instruction, in connexion with the established church. The Principal of Magdalen Hall (who was in the chair) opened the proceedings of the meeting.-The Vice-Chancellor assured the meeting of his cordial concurrence in the object which had brought them together, and which, with much feeling, he commended to their consideration.The Rev. William Bettridge, B.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, entered very fully into the history of the church of Canada, from the conquest of the province to the present time. The clergy reserve question was already explained by him. Mr. B. passed a merited eulogy on the labours of the venerable Bishop of Quebec, once a Fellow of All Souls', who, with a self-denial rarely equalled, sacrificed a good pects which nobility of birth and extent of living in Cambridgeshire, and all the prosinterest held out to him, for the welfare of the destitute settlers in Canada. Twenty years of unceasing labour as a missionary, added to his continued exertions during his episcopate, have reduced him to a state of entire incapacity to prosecute his labour of love. Mr. B. concluded by destitution of spiritual instruction was some account of instances in which the lamentably apparent. After addresses from the Rev. D. Cronyn, from the Warden of Merton, and the Rector of Exeter, &c., the meeting concluded. - On the whole we may say, few such meetings, for numbers and respectability, have been seen in Oxford. The collection exceeded sixty pounds, besides the sums before contributed, amounting to more than 100l.-Orford Herald.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

A new gallery has been added to St. James's Church, Taunton.

A Quarterly Meeting of the General Committee of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Church Building Association was held at the palace at Wells, on Thursday se'nnight. The incumbent of Stoke Lane, near Shepton Mallet, having been unable to raise a sufficient subscription towards rebuilding his parish church, applied to know whether the committee would confirm their grant of 100l., should the dimensions of the plan previously approved be reduced. As the alteration of the plan would occasion the loss of fifty free sittings, the committee withheld their sanction from

the proposed reduction; but on reconsidering the original application, made an additional grant to the utmost extent of the general rule they had just established. The sum of 801., on the like scale, was voted towards the expense of building a chapel of ease in the parish of Midsomer Norton. It was stated that the aggregate amount of donations and subscriptions was 73051. 10s. 54d., but that of this sum 22217. 68. has been recorded for specific purposes. From an abstract, shewing by

whom the total amount had been contributed, it appeared that 14261. 19s. had been given by noblemen and baronets; 31744 1s. 5 d. by other laymen; 4641. by ladies; and 22401. by the bishops and clergy. Payment was ordered to be made of the sums specifically received for building new churches at Burrow-Bridge and Bridgewater. The annual meeting was appointed to be held, at Wells, on Friday, the 15th of September.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

THE NEW CHURCH AT STONE.-The endowment for this church was provided by the late Rev. C. Simeon, a short time previous to his death, and is at the disposal of the Archdeacon of Stafford. A district will be assigned to the new church, containing 2924 souls; of this number, 1561 are at and near the north end of the town. The site is given by Earl Granville in the very heart of the 1561, and lessens the present distance to church of all the remaining parts of the district, except seventy, by half a mile. It is so near the town that it will remedy the evils arising from the unfortunate system of pew-appropriation in the mother church.

THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH, WOLVERHAMPTON. It is designed to rescue this beautiful and venerable structure from the dilapidated state into which it has fallen, and with this view the church wardens have published an address, to the nobility, clergy, and other inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, soliciting their aid to enable them to accomplish their praiseworthy and desirable object. — Wolverhampton Chronicle.

A church-rate of 3d in the pound was unanimously granted at Banwell, on Wednesday, May 31st, for the usual current expenses of the year.-Bristol Mirror.

Mr. Joseph Mills, of Sharncot, in this county has new-pewed the church, and furnished a very rich and handsome velvet cloth for the altar, pulpit, reading-desk,&c., at his own expense; and has, in addition, given a donation of 101. each to the Salisbury and Gloucester Church Building Societies. Salisbury Herald.

The mural monument recently erected in the church of St. Edmund's, to the memory of the lamented Rector, is the work of Mr. Osmond, whose taste and abilities as a sculptor are manifested in so many similar works in this city. The tablet bears the following inscription :"To the memory of the Rev. Herbert this church, who, during so long a period, Hawes, D.D., thirty-four years Rector of ably and zealously fulfilled his arduous duties, and under whose judicious superintendence, the public business of the parish was conducted with peculiar and laudable unanimity. His parishioners, honouring his merits and grateful for his services, have dedicated this tablet. He died 17th January, 1837, in the 73rd year of his age."-Ibid.

SALISBURY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. -At a Meeting of the town council, held lately, it was moved by Mr. G. Atkinson, seconded by Mr. Alderman Davies, and resolved unanimously, That petitions should be presented to both Houses of Parliament against the projected alteration of the law regarding church-rates; to the House of Lords by the Earl of Shaftesbury, and to the House of Commons by Wadham Wyndham, Esq., M.P.-Ibid.

At a vestry-meeting, held on the 15th of June, at Malmesbury, in the Abbey Church, a church-rate was granted, without any opposition.—Ibid.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

Two new churches are about to be erected at Dudley. A bazaar has been held at Dudley Castle, to raise a sum towards the necessary funds.-Worcester Herald.

A meeting, to form in this city an Auxiliary to the Society for promoting the due Observance of the Lord's Day, has been held in the lecture-room of the museum, the Rev. John Davies in the chair. - Ibid.

On Monday, May 29th, the Bishop of Worcester laid the first stone of a new

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church in the parish of St. Peter's.-Worcester Journal.

YORKSHIRE.

We understand that it is in contemplation to convert the Church Methodist Chapel, at Beverley, into an Episcopal Chapel of Ease under the Establishment, and that the Archbishop of York has signified his approval of the design, and will consent to its consecration. The Vicar of St. Mary's is understood to be opposed to it, on the ground that there is accommodation enough in his parish church. We hope, however, that all difficulties will be amicably overcome, and that, even though not now very pressingly required by the population, numerically considered, this additional pillar of the Established Church will not be rejected.-Yorkshire Gazette.

It is with much pleasure we hear that the erection of a church in the neighbour hood of Gleadless, a populous hamlet in the parish of Handsworth is in contemplation. Mrs. Griffiths, of Barnbro' Hall, near Doncaster, is a most liberal contributor towards the accomplishment of this charitable design. The land for a site and burial ground is given by Hugh Parker, Esq., of Woodthorpe ; and handsome subscriptions have been entered into by other members of the parish.-Sheffield Mercury.

We have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Hardy, M.P., is about to build, at his own expense, a new church in the neighbourhood of Shelf.- Leeds Intelligencer.

Mr. Hardy, M. P. for Bradford, has subscribed 100l. for the relief of the distressed poor at that place.

WALES.

Lord John Russell has, on behalf of the Ministers, refused to assent to the requests of the whole people of Wales, backed by all the Welsh members, without regard to politics, that the surplus funds of the Welsh bishoprics, arising out of Welsh lands and tithes, should be applied to the increase of the stipends of poor benefices, and to the religious instruction of the people of the principality. The determined refusal of this request by the ministers, has created a feeling of vexation amongst all classes of the Welsh.-North Wales Chronicle.

IRELAND.

A new church has just been opened at Kilmena, Ireland.-Dublin Pilot.

Lord Palmerston has endowed the popish priest of Ahamlish, Sligo, on his lordship's estate, with twelve acres of choice land as a glebe. The papists are

in ecstacies, and read in this act an augury of how ministers would treat the mother church universally, had they power commensurate with their desires.-Ulster Times.

NATIONAL SCHOOL CONVERTED INTO A MASS-HOUSE.-(From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Mr. Anthony Blake is fertile in resources. We therefore submit to him, in one of his multifarious capacities, namely, that of commissioner of the National Board of Education, the following case for a plausible solution:-The committee of inquiry is now sitting; the Bishop of Exeter is monstrously inquisitive. What defence our friend Anthony hath he had better betake himself to; for let him take our honest word for it, this is "a mighty ugly business." We quote from the Limerick Standard of Tuesday :-" At a place called Inch St. Lawrence, in the parish of Cahirconlish, and situated about seven miles from this city, is built a national school on the bounds of the Roman-catholic chapel-yard. As the chapel is at present undergoing some repairs, every sabbath and holyday mass is celebrated by the sacerdotal of the parish in the aforesaid national school! If this be not a case in point-if it be not calculated to shew that those seminaries are for the propagation of popery, and upheld by the government of the country for that purpose, and that alone, then are arguments valueless, and reason and common sense of no possible use."

CHURCHES, IRELAND.-By a return to an order of the House of Commons, it appears that the total sum appropriated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the repair, enlargement, and rebuilding of churches in Ireland during the years 1834, 35, 36, and 37, is 224,623l. 10s. 6d.Ulster Times.

COLONIAL.

The Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, Lord Bishop of Madras, died on the morning of the 15th instant. His Lordship's illness had been coming on from the time be was at Hydrabad, in October, when he first complained of a pain in his head. On Tuesday, the 31st of January, he attended a meeting of the S. P. G., and before taking the chair, was seized with violent illness. He returned home immediately, but the remedies applied were unavailing. The disease gained ground until, on the morning of the 5th of the month, at halfpast three o'clock, he passed, without suffering or pain, from a sabbath of grace to a sabbath of glory.-Calcutta paper, Feb. 16.