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These are very plain, but very appalling facts. Ought these things so to be? Let the Church in England distinctly say, No! I venture to suggest and urge on the attention of the clergy and laity of the Church, the absolute necessity of forwarding petitions to the imperial legislature. One may be expected from Upper Canada. The Universities of the land will doubtless take the lead. Let every town and congregation follow the example. We need a bishop. No bishop-no church. Is it right that the Romish Church should have a bishop and priests maintained at the public expense in Upper Canada, where their followers form but a small fraction of the population, and that encouragement should be given to various sectaries in the province, while to our national Church the right and privilege of a bishop should be distinctly refused? I know we have one bishop in Lower Canada; but is he sufficient to take the Episcopal charge of a country 1400 miles in length, three times the size of England, and containing a population of 1,100,000 souls?

We need assistance in the maintenance of ministers, the restoration of the grant to the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," and an annual grant for clearing portions of the "Clergy Reserves " for glebes, as the growing wants of the colony require. Let Christian England be reminded, even by every hamlet, of its high and holy duty to provide for the spiritual instruction of its subjects, to the remotest boundary of its possessions. Let all remember, that the evil we complain of is continually increasing. In every petition let the prayer be strongly expressed, that the imperial parliament would forthwith proceed to the settlement of the question of the "Clergy Reserves," because so long as the subject remains in its present state there can be no peace in the pro

vince, because the legislative council have unanimously and repeatedly deprecated the agitation of the question in the province, and a large majority in the house of assembly have constantly dissented from the method of disposal proposed by the majority,—and because the imperial legislature alone can definitively decide the question. The public need only read the Act (31 Geo. iii. c. 31, § 35-42) to be persuaded, that to the Clergy of the Church of England alone these lands belong. I am prepared also to show, from the correspondence of the government of the day with General Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of the province, that such was the only construction of the act then thought of. Let no 66 appropriation clause be forced upon us. The bishopric of Sodor and Man was saved by petitions. It was my intention, had I remained in England, to have published, at the opening of the next session of parliament, a form of petition embracing these several objects; but I am persuaded these suggestions will be abundantly sufficient.

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In conclusion, may I be permitted to express the hope that some of my brethren in the ministry, who in our personal interviews have exhibited the most lively sympathy in our need, will be led to offer themselves as labourers in this most deserted portion of the Lord's vineyard? How thankful should I be to renew our intercourse in Upper Canada, and to assist them by my experience of the country, in entering on the sphere appointed for their future ministrations! May the great Head of the Church inspire the members of his body here with the spirit of sympathy and love towards his destitute members in our colonies.

WILLIAM BETTRIDGE, B.D. Rector of Woodstock, Upper Canada. London, Sept. 12, 1838.

CHURCH SOCIETIES.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Ar the Wrington Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the col

lection at the door was larger than on any previous occasion, and the company far more numerous.

Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

A MEETING of the friends of this Society has been held in the Town Hall, Manchester; the object of which was that of devising the best means of forming local districts of the towns within the deanery of Manchester, in order to render their cooperation more useful.

A public meeting of the above Society has been held at the Guildhall, Barnstaple, Sir T. Acland, Bart. M.P. in the chair. The collection and new annual subscriptions were very liberal.

A meeting has been held at Canterbury, in behalf of this Society, at Barnes' Assembly Rooms, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair.

One of the most influential assemblages ever witnessed in Maidstone, took place lately at Maidstone, in aid of the above Society. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided.

Church Building Society, &c. THE Bath and Wells Diocesan Church Building Association, and the Society for promoting the Employment of additional Curates in Populous Places, have had highly important and interesting meetings during the past month. The report of the former is a most valuable document, and we regret that our confined space will not admit of its insertion, at all events in the present number.

A public meeting has been held at Chelmsford, for the purpose of forming an Essex Association, in aid of the incorporated Society for building and enlarging Churches and Chapels. The subscription is already a munificent one, amounting to nearly 20007., the greater portion of which was subscribed at the meeting.

A public meeting has been held at the National School, Bangor, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop, for the purpose of forming a Church Building Society for the above Diocese, and 13827. in donations, and 2157. 19s. in annual subscriptions, raised.

CONSECRATION OF

BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER BURY.-The new church, which has recently been erected at Milkhouse

A numerous and highly respectable meeting has been held at the County Rooms, Leicester, for the purpose of establishing an Association for the building, enlarging, and improving of Churches in the county of Leicester.

At a meeting of the Stafford District Committee of the Lichfield Diocesan Church Building Society, the Earl of Harrowby in the chair, donations to the extent of 5651. were made towards replenishing the nearly exhausted funds of the Society; and of 155l. in aid of the erection of parsonage-houses for the new Churches built by the Society. The Shropshire branch of the same Society also lately held a meeting, Sir R. Hill, Bart. in the chair. Archdeacon Bather addressed the meeting with great effect; and upwards of 2821. was received in donations and subscriptions.

Metropolis Churches Fund.

The Second Annual Meeting of the Metropolis Churches Fund was held on the 6th of June last. The Committee stated that fourteen churches were either completed or in progress, and that the Fund is pledged to the cost of building, wholly or in part, of twelve other churches in different parishes of the metropolis, making a total of twenty-six churches to be erected from this Fund; which will afford additional provision for 31,200. The Committee lament the falling off of subscriptions for the present year; the amount at the last meeting being 117,423/ 2s. 6d., while the present amount, up to the 6th of June, is only 9,946l. 10s. 9d.

At the anniversary of the Berkshire Church Missionary Association, at Reading, the collections, together with those made in churches a short time previous, amounted to about 141. From the annual report, it appeared, that the County Association had last year remitted 955l. 6s. 6d. to the Parent Society.

NEW CHURCHES, &c.

street, near Cranbrook. A meeting was afterwards held at Taylor's new room, at which his Grace pre ided, in aid of

the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.The church which has been erected in the village of Fullwood, by the munificence of Miss Silcock, of Whiteley Wood Hall.

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. The church lately erected in the town of Frome.

Burrowbridge church, adapted for the accommodation of 360 persons, most of whom have free sittings.

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER. -The new church at Eccleston, in the parish of Prescot, built, we believe, solely at the expense of Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Eccleston Hall. The

church is a neat Gothic edifice, adapt-
ed for the accommodation of 600 per-
sons, and is fitted up in the interior in
a manner much superior to the great
majority of modern churches.
The new church at Harpurley,

built by the Manchester and Eccles Church Building Society, aided by the generous contributions of a few respectable individuals in the neighbourhood.

The chapel at Walkden Moor, near Worsley, which has been recently erected and endowed by the Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton.

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER. The new episcopal chapel, lately purchased from the Independents, situated at Hart's-hill, near Dudley, has been opened according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, under a license from the Lord Bishop of the diocese.

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. -The new burial ground at Crediton, Devon.

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. -The new church at East Doneyland, Essex.

PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH.

THE first stone of a new church at Bury, Lancashire, has been laid by Lord Stanley, in the presence of an assemblage of persons amounting to nearly 4000.

The foundation stone of the new church to be erected in the parish of Slebech, in the vicinity of Haverfordwest, has been laid by the Baroness de Rutzen, patroness of the living, and proprietor of the principal part of the lands in the parish.

The ceremony of laying the foundation stones of two new churches within the borough of Dudley, has recently taken place.

The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has made a donation of 100l. to the Church Building Society of the county and town of Leicester.

The Marquess of Salisbury has subscribed 50%. towards the expense of building a new church at Barkingside, Essex.

Lord Hotham has subscribed 2007. towards building a gallery at Leominster church.

Sir John Walsh, bart. M. P. has subscribed the sum of 100l. towards rebuilding the old church of Llanvihangel, Wales.

The earl of Harewood has given the munificent sum of 1000l. towards the establishment of a Diocesan Association for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The Rev. J. W. Minton, the esteemed and much-respected minister of Darlington, and his brother, have given the very handsome sum of 20007. towards the endowment of the new church at that place.

We have to record more munificent donations, in continuation of the series which we have observed, on the part of the Rev. Dr. Warneford, in the cause of our Church. That great benefactor has presented a sum of 500l. towards the endowment of a district church at Whiteshill, in the parish of Stroud. The Diocesan Church Building Society have already fixed upon this as one of the places which has a strong claim on their funds. This donation of the Rev. Dr. Warneford has been preceded by two gifts of 50%. and 100 guineas for the church at present building in the town of Stroud. He has also given four other sums of 500l. for similar purposes in different parishes.

The church of St. Thomas, in the city of Salisbury, has been recently repaired.

POLITICAL RETROSPECT.

DOMESTIC.-By the Quarterly Account it appears that the increase on the revenue of the quarter is 655,910l. The income for the year ended 10th October, 1838, is 43,628,6831.; and for the year ended 10th October, 1837, 42,887,6387.; and the increase 741,0457. In the quarter the chief increase has been in the Excise, 388,4927.; and in the Stamps, 129,224ł. In the year there is an increase in the Customs of 450,675., in the Stamps of 174,9227., and in the Post Office of 45,2577.; while there is a decrease in the Excise of 179,450l., and in the Taxes of 46,2231.

Rumours have been rife of an immediate re-assembling of Parliament, in consequence of Lord Durham's resignation; but for the last few days the political horizon has not presented any new feature.

CANADA. The resignation of the

Governor-General has caused no little ferment; and altogether this country is by no means in a satisfactory state. RUSSIA is arming.

SPAIN.-King Charles V. is making most satisfactory progress.

FRANCE. The blockade of Mexico is about to terminate, in effect it never existed.

THE EAST.-Affairs wear a very unpromising appearance. The natives are dissatisfied; the Burmese panting for revenge, and forming alliances with neighbouring powers, for mutual protection against English aggression; which means, for the purpose of making war at the first favourable opportunity.

The political aspect of affairs, indeed, throughout the whole world, leads us to fear that a general convulsion is not far distant.

UNIVERSITY, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND PAROCHIAL INTELLIGENCE.

TRIBUTES OF RESPECT.

THE TRIBUTES OF RESPECT to the Clergy, alike highly honourable to all parties, are so much increased in number, that we have been compelled to adopt the following plan of making these gratifying announcements:

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DIOCESES IN ENGLAND AND WALES.-The following are the number of benefices in each of the dioceses in England and Wales :-Canterbury, 343; St. Asaph, 131; Bangor, 124; Bath and Wells, 441; Chichester, 267; St. David's, 407; Gloucester and Bristol, 535; Exeter, 611; Hereford, 256; Lichfield and Coventry, 606; Lincoln, 1,234; Llandaff, 192; London, 635; Norwich, 1,021; Oxford, 209; Peterborough, 290; Rochester, 94; Salisbury, 386; Winchester, 416; Worcester, 212; York, 891; Carlisle, 127; Chester, 554; Durham, 146; Ely, 149.

NORWICH.-The dean and chapter of Norwich have resolved materially to augment the stipends of the minor canons, and also of the lay clerks in the cathedral.

HEREFORD. By the demise of the Rev. Job Walker Baugh, chancellor of the late diocese of Bristol, a prebendal stall in Hereford cathedral is become vacant, which will not be filled up.

CORONATION CUSHION.-The Queen has presented to the Bishop of Bath and Wells the cushion on which his lordship knelt at the coronation of her Majesty. It is composed of cloth of gold, richly embossed with velvet flowers, and decorated by gold tassels. It measures two feet and a half square, and has been forwarded to his lordship.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.-Her Majesty has subscribed three hundred pounds in aid of Church Extension in Scotland. We trust that her example will be followed by her numerous subjects of rank and fortune who have hitherto delayed sending their subscriptions.

STAFFORD.-Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has forwarded, through the medium of the countess of Lichfield, a variety of fancy articles, in needlework, and other tasteful specimens of female ingenuity, towards the fund now raising for the endowment of a church at Stafford, for which a fancy bazaar has been held in that city.

EXETER. An order in council directs that, at the next avoidance of the see of Exeter, in order to raise the annual income of the bishop to the sum of 5000l., in accordance with the plan of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the annual sum of 34007. shall be paid to him half-yearly, out of the fund provided for the purpose of equalizing the incomes of the prelacy. It is further declared, that the Scilly Isles are in the jurisdiction of the Bishop and the Archdeacon of Cornwall for the time being.

ORDINATIONS.-1838.

The Bishop of Winchester will hold his next General Ordination on Sunday, Dec. 16. The Bishop of Ely will hold an Ordination, in the Cathedral at Ely, on Sunday, December 2; candidates to transmit their papers to the Palace, Ely, by November 1; candidates for Deacons' Orders to give immediate notice to the Bishop.

The Bishop of Lincolu's next Ordination will be held at Lincoln, on Sunday, 16th of December next; candidates must send their papers thither to his Lordship before the 4th of November.

The next General Ordination of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, will be held at Gloucester, on the Sunday before Christmas day.

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