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"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, one God blessed for ever; I lay this the foundation stone of the Episcopal Mission College of the Iucorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, to be commonly called and known as Bishop's College, near Calcutta."

His lordship then proceeded: "O Father Almighty, through whose aid we have now commenced this work of charity, we bless Thee that we have lived to this day: O prosper the work to its conclusion: and grant, that so many of us, as thy Providence may preserve to witness its solemn dedication, may join together in heart and in spirit in praising thy Name, and in adoring thy mercy, and in supplicating thy favour to this house evermore, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

The assembly were then dismissed with the bishop's blessing.

His lordship and Mrs. Middleton now led the way to breakfast, which was very handsomely served up in a neat bungalow erected for the purpose, and in an adjoining tent, where about forty persons sat down.

The plans of the college were exhibited and were much admired, as was also an elegant drawing, executed and liberally presented by G. Chinnery, Esq. The college, we learn, will consist of three piles of building, in the plain Gothic style, disposed to a quadrangular form, the fourth side being open to the river. The principal pile will comprise a chapel to the east, divided by a tower from the hall and library on the west; and the wings and side buildings will form dwellings for the professors, with lecture-rooms and dormitories for the students; the whole being calculated to combine comfort and convenience, with an elegant simplicity.

After breakfast the company proceeded to view the ground, which is now in a great measure cleared; and it was impossible not to feel that a happier spot could not have been selected with respect to convenience, its retirement, or the beauty of its situation.

In a future number, we hope to be enabled to present our readers with further information on this interesting subject.

The Lord Bishop of Meath's Circular to the Rural Deans of his Diocese:

Ardbraccan-House, Oct. 1, 1820. Rev. Sir,

I CANNOT give you a stronger proof of the

REMEMBRANCER, No, 35.

estimation in which I hold you, or of the confidence I place in you, than by re questing you to continue to fill the office of Rural Dean, at a period of such interest to the Established Church. It is the reproach of her enemics, that her Clergy have in general become so secularised, that they have lost the stamp of their holy profession; and we every day hear it admitted by her nominal friends, that it is not without reason that sectaries and seceders arrogate to themselves the exclusive praise of that zealous discharge of the pastoral duties, to which every Minister of the Gospel pledges himself, on his having the care of souls committed to him in the Lord.

Without stopping to inquire to what an extent these charges may or may not be founded, I persuade myself that you feel as warmly as I do how much it is to be wished that all grounds for them should be done away; and that you will seriously cooperate with me in my humble endeavours to rescue our Ministers from so foul an

imputation. As to what depends upon me, what I have chiefly at heart is, to see, before I shall be called away to answer for my own stewardship, the establishment of a Parochial Clergy in the Diocese, who should manifest the zeal of those sectaries and seceders without the fanaticism and excluding spirit that serve only to render their zeal dangerous and destitute of all Christian morality and true religion.It would be to see that every officiating Minister, whom I shall licence, should be distinguished for assiduity and earnestness in preserving all who are committed to his charge from being tainted and led astray by the false teachers who are daily multiplying around us.

These teachers are gaining proselytes from the Established Church; while professing to preach her articles of faith, they pervert them, as they pervert the Scriptures, and deduce from them doctrines, which the pious and learned compilers of them, and all their most distinguished successors have uniformly condemned as unknown to the Gospel. I need not observe to you, that we can no

longer shut our eyes to our situation, nor

be insensible to the circumstances that call

forth the renovation of the spirit by which the early fathers of our Church were actuated in their successful exertions in the cause of truth, as it is in CHRIST Jesus, and for the restoration of which to that

Church in her happier days, we are, under God, so much indebted to them; and severe must be the account which every individual amongst us shall have to give, when his ministry is ended with his life, if 4 U

he shall be found to have discharged that ministry with the torpor and lukewarm ness that so evidently bespeak the total absence of that primitive spirit, to which I fear, we are in a great measure to attribute the apathy in all matters of their religion, that characterises some amongst the Protestants of this country, and the like attachment they shew to the pure and reformed Church into which they have been baptized.

In humble endeavours to avert the evils with which this apathy and indifference threatens, as well in a civil as a religious view I rely with confidence in the co-operation of the Rural Deans. It is not alone a report of the state and condition of the Churches and Glebe-Houses that I expect from them. These are, undoubtedly, very important objects, and I earnestly hope that neither negligence, nor a too hasty inspection, nor a false delicacy, will stand in the way of the fullest and most faithful report on this head. You can never be capable of deserving the imputation of which I was obliged to take notice in a late charge, or of conducting your inspection otherwise than with the most becoming attention to the feelings of your brother incumbents, and to what one gentleman owes to another. But at the same time, you will not connive at nor pass over any dilapidations you may discover, which if suffered to remain unattended to, must in the end, with respect to the glebe-houses, operate to the distress of the family of the clergyman who allows them to take place; and, with respect to churches, to entailing a greater expence on the parish, besides the discredit to the Establishment. I am sorry to say, that some returns have been made to me, previous to every visitation, which will point out the other heads on which I wish to receive information from you; and I am confident that I may rely on the strictest accuracy in all of them.

The objects connected with the Association in Capel-street, on which I fully explained myself in one of my charges, I now wish more particularly to recommend to you. The Society I have recommended to each Rural Dean, and on which I rely for representing my expectations to the several officiating Ministers within his Deanery, that they should make every exertion to procure the countenance and co-operation of the respectable laymen in their respective Deaneries, and their presence at the meetings appointed by the Rural Dean for the promotion of the important object of the Society-that of disseminating the Scriptures, the Book of

Common Prayer, and Tracts, breathing the genuine spirit, and inculcating the unadulterated doctrines of the Gospel. I could not experience a more sensible mortification than to find that, in some instances, the Rural Dean cannot induce the Clergy of his Deanery to take any active part in the formation of those Societies, or to at tend the meetings; and I request that the Clergyman who betrays such a want of feeling for what he owes to his own cha. racter and to his sacred profession, must expect to have his name brought by me before his brethren at the Visitation, with the stigma he so justly deserves.

Our united and unremitted exertions in promoting these Diocesan Societies are at present the most imperatively called for, as the management of the Hibernian Bible Society has entirely fallen into the hands of Sectaries and Seceders, and as the establishment of our Auxiliary Society, wherever it takes place through the country, has for its immediate object the increase of the number of their proselytes, and the extension and prevalence of their doctrines.

The Public Catechetical Examinations is the next object connected with the As sociation, to which I wish the Rural Deans to pay particular attention. To make due preparation for these examinations, it will be necessary to communicate with the several incumbents and officiating Ministers, to settle with them at what time, and in what places the examinations are to be held. On this head, also, I hope to be informed, if any Minister neglects to prepare the children of his parish for the examination, or absents himself from it, as, however incredible it may appear to be, I am grieved to hear some have done.

The last object connected with the Association which I have particularly to re. commend to you, is the building of schoolhouses and the establishing schools. The funds at the disposal of the Association for these most essential purposes, I am happy to inform you, are now considerable; and the acting members of the Association are desirous of receiving applications from every place in which the conditions they require can be complied with. Mr. O'Connor, of this diocese, one of the Secretaries, will give every necessary information on the subject, and this, I hope, you will communicate to the several incumbents.

The part we shall all have to act in this most important branch of our duty, will require no less prudence and discretion, than zeal, We shall have to expect oppo

sition from the Roman Catholic Clergy, who, in the character of Ministers of the Gospel, anathematize all reading or use of it, unless accompanied with notes and explanations, which make it their own Gospel, and not that of the Apostles and Evangelists; from the Sectarians and Seceders, who, in establishing societies auxiliary to the Hibernian Bible Society, have, as I have already observed, for their object the increase of the number of their proselytes, and the extension of their own pernicious doctrines; and from the liberalised opinions and refinements of speculatists, who, to reconcile the religious differences that unhappily distract this country, recommend the summary process of excluding all religious instruction from schools instituted for the education of the middling and lower classes. In some schools established on this plan, under the sanction of the acting Minister of this country, and from a public fund, not only the appointment of the master, but all superintendance over the course of education he parsues, and the principles he inculcates, are taken out of the hands in which the religious feelings and the wisdom of happier days had placed them, to be vested exclusively in laymen granting ground for the

building of schools, and in the trustees to be appointed by them; and the interference the most strongly interdicted, is that of the Established Clergy.

In our endeavours to meet these difficulties, nothing is to be done with acrimony or intemperance, or in a spirit of irritating controversy. Let us do our utmost to promote the establishment of the schools under the regulations of the Association, countenanced and recommended, as they are, by the Bishops and Clergy of the Established Church, and leave them gradually to work their own way, as, under the divine influence, the truth is always sure to do.

Above all, we should make it our earnest prayer to ALMIGHTY GOD, that as he was pleased, after a long night of darkness, to cast the bright beam of light upon our Church, and to instruct her in the heavenly doctrines of the blessed Apostles and Evangelists, so she may continue to be established in the truth of the Holy Gospel, and all within her pale may be for ever preserved from being carried away with every blast of vain doctrine. I am, Reverend Sir,

Your loving Brother,
T. L. MEATH.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The rev. R. Crutwell, LL. B. to the rectory of Spackshall, alias Spexhall, Suffolk; patron, the lord chancellor.

The rev. Edward Paske, M.A. to the vicarage and parish church of Battisford, Suffolk; patron, George Paske, esq. of Needham market,

The rev. L. R. Brown, A.B. to the rec tory and parish church of Thorington, Suf folk; patron, the rev. B. Bence, of Beccles.

The rev. J. Homfray, B.A. licensed to be one of the ministers of St. George's chapel, Great Yarmouth; patrons, the corporation of that town.

The rev. H. Moises, of University college, Oxford, and rector of Whitchurch, appointed domestic chaplain to lord Stowell.

The rev. G. P. Lowther, M.A. to the rectory of Barton in Derbyshire; patron, F. Bradshaw, esq. of Barton Hall.

The rev. J. Blackburn, M.A. vicar of Gainford, Durham, to hold by dispensation the adjoining rectory of Romaldkirk, in Yorkshire, bequeathed to him by the late earl of Strathmore.

The rev. George Harker, to the handsome new church lately consecrated at Chatham, by the lord bishop of Oxford.

The rev. Thomas Cooke, M.A. of Oriel college, Oxford, to be domestic chaplain to the earl of Malmesbury.

The rev. Charles Mackie, M.A. to the rectory and parish church of Quarley, vacant by the death of the rev. Charles Brent Bairy, patron, the master, brothers and sisters of the hospital or free-school of St. Katherine, near the tower of London.

The rev. J. Wetherell, LL. B. appointed one of the prebendaries of Hereford Cathedral.

The lord bishop of Bristol has appointed the rev. S. Seyer, one of his lordship's chaplains.

The rev. J. Robson, to the vicarage of Ainderby Steeple, Yorkshire, vacant by the resignation of the rev. John Thornhill.

The rev. Henry Wrey Whinfield, instituted to the rectory of Battlesdon cum Potsgrove in Northamptonshire; patron, sjr G. O. P. Turner, bart.

The rev. W. Bell Moises, vicar of Felt on in Durham, presented by the lord chan

cellor to the vicarage of Owthorne in Yorkshire.

The rev. Henry Law, collated to the vicarage of Childwall, in Lancashire, by the bishop of Chester.

The rev. E. Benwell, licensed by the lord bishop of the diocese to be minister of St. George's chapel, Portsea.

The rev. Mr. Tredcroft, appointed to a Prebendal Stall at Lincoln, by the Lord Bishop.

The rev. William Wilkinson, M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, appointed chaplain to the earl of Athlone.

The rev. J. H. Barber, B.A. of Wadham college, Oxford, to the rectory of Aston Sandford, Buckingham.

The rev. Charles Kingsley, LL. B. vicar of North Clifton, is appointed domestic chaplain to the marquis of Exeter.

The rev. Charles James Burtor, to the vicarage of Lydd, in Kent, vacant by the decease of the rev. W. P. Warburton.

The rev. H. Wiles, M.A. Fellow of Trinity college, to the vicarage of Hitchin, Herts, vacated by the death of the rev. J. Ruddock; patron, the masters and fellows of that society.

The rev. J. Hodgson, M.A. to the vicarage of Kennington, near Ashford.

The rev. George Andrewes, son of the dean of Canterbury, to be sixth preacher of Canterbury cathedral, in the room of the late rev. R. Harvey; patron, the Archbishop.

The rev. Stephen Bevan, instituted to the rectory and parish church of Carleton Rode, Norfolk; patron, sir John Buxton, bart. of Shadwell lodge.

The rev. William Taylor, B.A. of Exeter college, Oxford, to the rectory of Litchborough, in Northamptonshire.

We

His Majesty has been pleased to establish by Letters Patent the Archdeaconry of Quebec in Lower Canada, and the Archdeaconry of York in Upper Canada. are informed that the Lord Bishop of the Diocese will collate the Rev. Dr. Mountain to the former Archdeaconry, and the Rev. G. O. Stuart to the latter.

The rev. T. Jones, curate of St. Twinnell's, Pembrokeshire, has been presented to the vicarage of Llanrhiddian, in the county of Glamorgan.

The lord bishop. of Llandaff has been pleased to nominate the rev. R. Prichard, rector of Langan, to the senior vicarage of Llandaff.

The rev. T. Brigstock, junior, minister of St. Catherine's chapel, Milford, has been appointed chaplain to the countess of Mansfield.

The rev. James Edwardes, rector of Reynoldstone, Glamorgan, has been instituted to the rectory of Lanmadoc, in the same county.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, October 15.-On Tuesday last, the rev. George William Hall, D.D. master of Pembroke college, having been previonsly nominated by the right hou. lord Grenville, chancellor of the University, to be vice-chancellor for the year-ensuing, was in full convocation invested with that office; after which the vice-chancellor nominated his pro vice-chancellors, viz. the rev. Thomas Lee, D.D. president of Trinity college; the rev. Frodsham Hodson, D.D. principal of Brasenose college; the rev. Richard Jenkyns, D.D. master of Baliol college; and the rev. John Collier Jones, D.D. rector of Exeter college.

Congregations will be holden for granting graces, and conferring degrees on the following days this term: Tuesday, October 23; Thursday, November 15; Saturday 24; Tuesday, December 4; Tuesday, 11; and Monday 17.

On Wednesday last, the first day of Michaelmas term, the following degrees were conferred:

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev. Andrew William Burnside, of Trinity college, grand compounder; Arthur Jackson Drury, scholar of Trinity college; William Fisher, student of Christ Church; rev. William Lewes Davies, Fellow of St. Jolin's college.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.—David Umpleby, of St. Edmund Hall.

The following gentlemen were ordained on Sunday, 7th of October, at a general ordination holden by the lord bishop of Chester, in the cathedral of that city:

DEACONS, Robert Myddelton, M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge; John Leigh, M.A. Brazenose college, Oxon; Oswald Fielding, M.A. Brasenose college; Richard Waterfield, M.A. Fellow of Emman, college, Cambridge; Henry Playsted Jeston, B.A. Worcester college, Oxon; Philip Gregson Harper, B.A. Wadham college, Oxon; G. Buckston, B.A. St. John's college, Cambridge; A. Browne, B.A. St. John's college, Cambridge; William Oldacres, B.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge; George Salt, B.A. Christ church, Oxon.

LITERATES.-Simeon Clayton, Joseph Thomlinson, Henry Hodgson, Joseph Stanley, John Allen Wedgwood, George Norris.

PRIESTS.-WM. Whitby, B.A. Brasenose college, Oxon; John Baron, B.A.

Brasenose collegé ; Thomas Stringer Mills, Magdalen college, Oxon; Samuel F. Trot man, B.A. Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge; Charles C. Cholmondeley, B.A. Brasenose college, Oxon; Francis Close, B.A. St. John's college, Cambridge; Thomas Warden, B.A. Trinity college, Cambridge.

LITERATES.-Edmund Ellwood, Henry Wingfield, George Wilkins, Thomas Garratt, Launcelot J. Wilson.

October 20.-On Sunday, the 30th ult. the lord bishop of Hereford held a private ordination in the chapel of Winchester college, at which Walter Farquhar Hook, B.A. student of Christ church, was ordained a deacon.

The rev. Charles Miller, M.A. demy of Magdalen college, Oxford, is appointed chaplain to the dowager countess of Roden.

The lord bishop of Lincoln held an ordination in the parish church of Buckden, on Sunday, the 14th of October, when the following gentlemen were ordained:

DEACONS. Richard B. Worthington, B.A.; J. Bonham, B.A. Brasenose college, Oxford; J. C. Girardot, B.A. Brasenose college, Oxford; J. Cowherd, B.A. Lincoln college, Oxford.

PRIESTS.-C. Semple, M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge; J. A. Ross, Trinity college, Cambridge; T. Anderson, M.A. Exeter college, Oxon; H. T. Atkins, B.A. Wadham college, Oxon; S. H. Knapp, B.A. Merton college, Oxon; T. Williams, B.A. Christ church, Oxon; J. Gould, B.A. Baliol college, Oxon; J. Fletcher, B.A. St. John's college, Oxon; J. Sankey, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxon; W. Smith, curate of Riby, Lincolnshire; C. Ash, curate of Bicker, Lincolnshire.

CAMBRIDGE, September 28.-On Sunday last, his grace the archbishop of Canterbury, held an ordination in that cathedral, when the following gentlemen were ordained:

DEACONS.-Joshua Stratton, B.A. New college, Oxford; John Hurst, B.A. St. Alban's Hall.

PRIESTS.-John Billington, M.A. rector of Kenardington, and vicar of Kennington; John Dight, S.C.L. of St. Peter's college, Cambridge; William Vallance, M.A.; Goswick Prideaux, and George Cowell, B.A.

On the same day an ordination was held in the cathedral of Wells, by the lord bishop of Gloucester, when the following gentlemen were admitted to the order of

DEACONSF. Aston, B.A. University college, Oxford; W. S. Townsend, B.A. Worcester college, Oxford; W. T. Black

burn, B.A. Christ's college, Cambridge; G. J. Harvey, B.A. Sidney college, Cam bridge.

October 5. This morning, William Joseph Bayne, B.A. of Trinity college, Cambridge; was elected a fellow of that society: the circumstance of there being only one vacancy, has not happened for more than thirty years.

There will be congregations ou the fol lowing days of the next term; Wednesday, October 24, at eleven; Wednesday, Nov. 7, at eleven; Wednesday, November 28, at eleven; Saturday, December 16, end of term, at ten.

A grace having passed the senate to the following effect, that those to whom the sunday afternoon turns and the turns for Christmas-day and Good-friday are assigned, shall, from the beginning of October, 1821, to the end of June, 1822, provide no other substitute than such as should be appointed in conformity with that grace. The following persons have been elected each for the month to which his name has been affixed:

October.-The Hulsean lecturer.
Nov.—Dr. Blomfield, Trinity college.
Dec. Rev. S. Lee, Arabic professor.
Jan.-Rev. C. Musgrave, Trinity college.
The lord bishop of Peterborough,
Feb.-
Lady Margaret's professor.
March.-Dr. Wordsworth, Master of Tri-
nity college.

April. The Hulsean lecturer.
May. S

June.-Mr. Dicken St. Peter's Coll.

October 10.-This day, being the first day of Michaelmas term, the following gentlemen were elected officers of the University for this year ensuing : PROCTORS. Samuel Berney Vince, M.A. King's college; Francis William Lodington, M.A. Clare Hall.

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TAXOR.-Beaupre P. Bell, M.A. Christ

college.

MODERATORS.-John Hind, M.A. Sidney college; Temple Chevalier, M.A. Catherine Hall.

SCRUTATORS.-Thomas W. Hornbuckle, D.D. St. John's college; Henry Wiles, M.A. Trinity college.

October 19.-The following gentlemen were on Friday last, appointed the caput for the year ensuing:

The vice-chancellor; R. T. Cory, D.D. Emmanuel college, Divinity; E. D. Clarke, LL. D. Jesus college, Law; J. Haviland, M.D. St. John's college, Physic; W. Frere, M.A. Downing, senior NonRegent; F. Calvert, M.A. Jesus college, Senior Regent.

The rev. W. W. Gurney, of Clare Hall,