to the amount of £1,722. Though this
sum falis somewhat stort of the usual
average, the Committee must again, in
their present Report, call the attention
of the Annual Court to the great assist-
ance rendered to the Society by these
Associations. It will be borne in mind
that those of them which make remit-
tances to this Society, remit but a certain
portion of their funds, not more than
one-fourth, commonly, of their annual
subscriptions, and a still smaller propor-
tion of their donations; the benefit con-
ferred by them must not, therefore, be
estimated simply by the amount of their
contribution to the general treasury of
this Society, though this is, indeed, most
valuable, and calls for grateful acknow-
ledgment.

It

As a specimen of these urgent cases,
the Committee cannot refrain from ad-
ducing, before they close this Report, the
instances of the two parishes of Man-
chester and Stockport, which have re-
cently been brought before them. The
parish of Manchester, containing a popu-
lation of half a million souls, is stated to
have within it seven entire townships
without Churches, with an amount of
population in each, varying from 1,200
to nearly 5,000, respectively, alt gether
upwards of 20,000, exclusively of the large
town districts. In Stockport there are
three townships, containing populations
of 1,400, 3,300, and 5,300, respectively,
in like manner destitute of Churches.
And there are other similar cases.
must be acknowledged, with all thankful-
ness, that much indeed has been done,
and this irrespectively of the mass of
population in the great towns themselves.
Upwards of 50 Churches have been built
within the last ten years, only in the
Diocese of Chester, providing for more
than 220,000 souls, "all of whom were
heretofore debarred the ordinances and
ministrations of the Established Church."
And in the ten years between 1831 and
1841, the provision of Church-room in
Cheshire and Lancashire has "increased
in greater proportion than the popula
tion, yet there is a fearful deficiency
still. Taking one in three, or thirty-
three per cent., as the best amount to
be provided of Church-accommodation,
there is reported in twenty principal
towns and parishes of Lancashire and
Cheshire only, a deficiency of Church-
room for an aggregate of upwards of
227,000. In a communication lately re-
ceived from the Diocese of Chester, it is
said, "We want immediately 25 new
Churches in Cheshire, of which 13 are
most urgent cases, averaging 4,000 souls
to each. We require 132 for Lancashire,
of which 120 are urgent.
We calculate
on about 50 of these coming under the
Clergy Endowment Act; on 11 being
built from local resources; perhaps 12
are hopeless."

It is with much satisfaction that the Committee observe some increase during the past and present years in the amount of Annual Subscriptions; and they cannot but hope that augmentation may be made, progressively, from this source to the funds of the Society, as well as by the donations, which, in the past and former years, contributed in so large and liberal measure from a limited number of individuals, have mainly enabled the Society to continue hitherto its labours in the work of Christian piety and charity committed to it.

The present amount of Grants up to the 31st of March, was £55,015. And the sum in the Society's hands, to meet this demand, was £62,931 11s. 3d., leaving a disposable balance of only 7,916 11s. 3d. Of this sum it must be added, though the present Report, strictly speaking, belongs only to the year ending with the 31st of March, £7,065 has been pledged in Grants voted at the two Committees of last month and the present, reducing the above balance to £851 11s. 3d.

The Committee feel it absolutely impossible, though their treasury is thus nearly exhausted, to withhold the aid so earnestly sought from every quarter. They feel convinced that, when the case is known, as they trust it may soon be, and felt in all its urgency and importance, the liberal contributions of a Christian people will not be wanting to enable the Society to go on in its "work of faith and labour of love." Especially would they make their appeal to those who are deriving large incomes from those densely populated manufacturing and mining districts, the spiritual necessities of which so painfully pressed upon the consideration of the Society, and its sadly limited

means.

In this condition of things, it must be the fervent hope and prayer of every one who has the welfare of his country at heart, that it may please Almighty God to move the hearts of his servants to a large measure of bountifulness, and that every member of our Church may be brought to feel the urgent obligation which lies upon him to lend his aid, according to the ability with which he is blessed, to this great and holy work.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

AN APPEAL TO THE STATUTES.

HAS Dr. Hampden the right of stopping Divinity Degrees? That is to say, is the consent of the Regius Professor of Divinity necessary for obtaining a Divinity Degree?

This is a simple question of fact, and must be decided by an appeal to the Statutes. The Regius Professor is what the Statutes of the University make him, No vague undefinand nothing more. able powers belong to him simply from The title his title of Regius Professor. of itself confers nothing: whatever powers may accompany it must depend upon academical law for their existence.

Do the Statutes of the University then give the Regius Professor this power? Any one may satisfy himThey do not. self on this head by merely looking over the Statutes relating to the subject. From the Exercises in the Schools, in the first instance, up to the granting of the grace in Congregation, to the Presentation, and the Degree, they do not once mention or imply such a right, as belonging to the Regius Professor.

1. The Statute which regulates the performance of the Exercises for Divinity Degrees is as follows:

Tit. VI. Sect. vi.

§ 2. Exercitia pro Gradu Baccalaurei
in Theologia præstanda.

"Statutum est, quod is, qui ad Gradum Baccalaurei in S. Theologia promoveri cupit, priusquam Gratiam proponat, bis in disputationibus Theologicis pro Forma Opponentis principalis, (id est, primo vel secundo loco disputantis) munere perfunctus fuerit, et semel per duas horas in Schola Theologica pro Forma responderit.

"Quodque ante hujusmodi Disputationes, Quæstiones, una cum nominibus Opponentium et Respondentis, per septem dies integros significentur, programmate affixo valvis utriusque exterioris Portæ Scholarum, ac insuper muris Collegii Omnium Animarum, et Oriel, qua Australis et Occidentalis parietes Plateam versus in angulos coeunt."

This Statute, which was formally reenacted in 1833, is the one upon which the Exercises for Divinity Degrees now

rest.

And this Statute, so far as the letter is concerned at any rate, does not give the powers, now claimed, to the Regius Professor-for one plain reason

-that it does not once mention his
name throughout. But let us allow it
to be interpreted by an ancient one,
(Tit. viii.) abrogated now, which speaks
(6 moderator,"
of the Regius Professor as
in the ordinary theological disputations,
of which the disputationary exercises for
Divinity Degrees are supposed by some
to have been a branch. It then simply
remains to see what the meaning of the
Dr. Johnson,
word "moderator" is.
citing the old authorities, gives it,

"One who presides in a disputation to
restrain the contending parties from inde-
cency, and confine them to the question.

"How does he seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practised moderator." More."

The part of" moderating" then only gives the Regius Professor certain regulating and managing functions with respect to the Disputations which are held for the Degree: it gives him no sort of power as to granting or withholding the The office of moderator Degree itself. in the Exercises is wholly distinct from that of Judge of the Degree, and therefore the Regius Professor has clearly no control over the Degree, so far as this stage of the proceedings is concerned.

2. After the performance of the Exercises comes the Supplication for the And here, Grace in Congregation.

again, Congregation is the sole arbiter. The three parties which compose Congregation, viz. the Majority of Regents, other the Vice-Chancellor, and the Proctors, And all that any grant the grace. party, be he Regius Professor of Divinity, or any one else, can do, is to suspend the Degree three times; after which, he is obliged to give his reason for doing so, and the validity of this reason is decided on by Congregation.— Corpus Statutorum, p. 83.

3. With respect to the Presentation of the Divinity Candidate, there is no ground whatever for making the Regius Professor of Divinity the necessary Pre

sentor.

His name is not mentioned in the Statute regulations on this point. The Professorships of the other departments, too, are not invested with any such privilege; and why should it attach to the Divinity Professorship more than to the others?-Corpus Stat. p. 94.

4. The form of conferring the Degree is performed by the Vice-Chancellor solely.

In this state of the case, it only remains, with reference to the Regius Professor's expression, ". non sufficit pro forma" recently heard in the Schools, to say, that if he meant it, as he seems to have done, to act as a prohibition on the Degree, it was a simply null, idle, and futile, unauthoritative, unstatutable assumption on his part; that as such it imposes no kind of legal obligation on the Vice-Chancellor to refuse the Degree; but throws him entirely, should he choose this alternative, upon the authority of his own single irresponsible veto. May 1, 1844.

AMERICA.

"Resolved, That although but recently con nected with this Parish in the office of an Assistant Minister, the brief services of Mr. Carey deserve to be remembered by us with lasting gratitude. Young in years, yet profound in knowledge, and having evidently drank long and deep of the pure fountain of Holy Scripture under the guidance of the Church Catholic, and of the Anglican branch thereof in her best and purest days; in his 'style of preaching, simple, direct, and practical, seeking to inform and guide the judgment, and to purify the heart; in his disposition, docile and calm, forbearing and forgiving, 'yet, when duty required, firm and decided; in his deportment, exemplary and unobtrusive; in his habits, uniformly pious and devout, and possessing a simplicity, sincerity, and perfection of character which is rarely attained by any human being, he has inspired us with a profound respect for his character as a Clergyman and a Christian, and left behind him a memory which we shall never cease to cherish with sentiments of reverence and love.

INDEX TO VOL. VII.

(NEW SERIES.)

ARTICLES AND SUBJECTS.

American Church. Part II. See vol. vi. p. 677.
[Prayer Book and Canons of the American
Church. American Church Newspapers, &c.]
317-334. Hawks' Collections, 317. England
originates evil which others follow out, 318.
Applied to our inconsistent state; mixed
aspect of the Church of England, 319. Our
Amplitude of our
anomalous state, 320.
Settlement of Virginia, ibid.
means, 321.
Romanistsettlement of Maryland, 322. Church
Colonial
endowment in Virginia and Maryland, 323.
Want of Colonial Bishops, 324.
Drs. Blair and Bray,
commissaries, 325.
326, 327. Bequests toward American Epi-
scopate, 328. Talbot and Keith, 328, 329.
Consecration of Welton and Talbot by the
Opposition to the
Non-jurors, 329, 330.
American Episcopate, 331, 332. Dr. Chandler,
333. Virginian convention, ibid. Persecu-
tion of the Church during the revolutionary
war, 334.

holding of heresy, 3. Unreal estimate of the
Catholic system, 4. Estheticism, 5. Rela-
tion of the faith to personal duties, 6, 7.
Church-fellowship a living truth, 8. Applied
to children, 9. Their trusting self-denying
nature; their relations to God and man, 10,
11. The life of the Catechism, 12. Attend-
ance of children on the daily service, 13.
Early Confirmation, 14; and Communion, ibid.
Christian Knowledge Society-Reign of Interim.
[Scott's Appeal to the Members of the S.P.C.K.
on Doctrinal Changes introduced into their
"Laissez faire," 265.
Tracts.] 265-288.
S.P.C.K. at Bartlett's Buildings, 266, Little
concessions, 266, 267. Suppression of old
Tracts, 268. Messrs. Rivington, 269. Com-
mittee of General Literature, ibid. Change
"Pious Country Pa-
of language, 270.
rishioner," 271. Appointment of Tract Com-
-mittee, 272. Its composition, 273. "Death-bed
Scenes," ibid. Family Bible and Commentary,
274. Gilly's "Our Protestant Forefathers,'
-its Erastian nature, 275. Hey's tract, 276.
Our Protestant Forefathers," 277. Influence
of "Interim," negative and positive, 278.
Mutilation of old books, 279. Publication
Ditto of Wilson
of the Appeal, ibid. Extracts from-Mutila-
tion of Ken, 280-284.

NO. XLII.-N.S.

and Nelson, &c. 284. New tracts suggested,
S.P.C.K.'s Report
285. Tract No. 619, 286.
on Ken's Manual, 287, 288. [See also p. 485.]
[Marshall's
Church, Objective System of the.

Notes. Tracts on Doctrine and Practice.
Gresley's Anglo-Catholicism, &c. &c.] 521-
542. Man's faculties, 521. The Church sup-
plies objects, 522. Need of systems, 523;
their final end, 524. Feelings of reverence,
524, 525; Of shame, 526, 527. The Confes-
sional and Absolution, 527, 528. Of ambi-
St. Ignatius, Loyola, and St.
tion, 529.
Francis, 530. Contrast between Church and
Of compassion, 532-535.
schism, 531.
Moral interests, 536. Self-denial, 537. Ex-
Association, 539, 540. Un-
citement, 538.
reality of Low-Church system, 541. Remedies
of our defects, 542.
Colonial Emigration - New Zealand. [Dr.
Dieffenbach's Travels in New Zealand.
Bishop Selwyn's Letters. Ritter's New Zea-
land, with a Map.] 393-426. New Zealand
the Yeoman's Colony, 394. History of the
Colonization of the Island, 395-397. Arrival
and acts of the Bishop, 398. Nature of land
Auckland, its situation and
claims, 399.
Waimate and the
Ton-
capabilities, 400-403.
region of the hot springs, 404, 405.
gariroo, Waikato, Rotu-Mahana and its hot
cascade, 406-409. Taranaki, or New Ply-
mouth, its peculiar fitness for small working
farmers, 410-413. Cook's Straits, Welling-
ton, Port Nicholson, the Valley of the Wan-
ganui, disadvantages of its locality, 413-
416. Nelson and the Valley of the Waimea,
417, 418. The New Zealander; mixed races;
early traditions of origin, 419-421. The re-
ligion of the native; the nature of his idola-
try, 422, 423. The general character of the
native, 424-426.

Coningsby. [Coningsby, or the New Generation,
by B. D'Israeli, Esq. M.P. &c.) 667-689. Cha-
racter and merits of this novel, 667-677.
Influence of Judaism on mankind, 671-675.
Mr. D'Israeli's alliance with Young England,
676. Young England an important symptom,
its real limits, 678, 679. Conservatism supplies
us with a positive and universally applicable
principle, 680-682. But yet an inadequate
one, and why, 682, 683. Whig ascendency,
its real character and aim, 684. Permanent
elements of the English Constitution, mon-
archy the prominently enduring one, its pro-
bable revival among us, 685-689. Warning
to Young England, 689.
Convocation, Revival of.

[Lathbury's His-
tory.] 466-481. Railway travelling, 466.
5 D

Applied to Church system, 467. Laws of the
Church, parliamentary and canonical, 468,
469. Constitution of Convocation, 470. Arch-
bishop's writ, 471. History of Convocation,
472, 473. Want of independence, 474. Envy
of schismatics, 475. Yoke of the State, 476.
Suffragan Bishops, 478, 479. Restoration of
Convocation, 480. Recent petitions, 481.

D.

Defection from the Church. [Jukes's Reasons
for Separation. Examination of Mr. Close's
Pamphlet.] 542-562. Hull ten years since,
542. Church Reform and the Oxford Tracts,
543, 544. Mr. Jukes's defection, 545. The
Queen's Supremacy, 546. Baptismal Rege-
neration, 547-551. Mr. Jukes's irreverence,
552. His neglect of Church duties, 553. Mr.
Close's tendency, 554. Contrasted with Mr.
Jukes's, ibid. Position of the Low-Church
party, 555. Cause of defections to Rome, ibid.
Foresight of Jebb and Knox, 556, 557. Church
Missionary Society, 558. Relations towards
the Drummond and Dunbar Schism, 559. Mr.
Bickersteth's Mission, 560, 561. Relations of
English and Scotch Churches, 562.
Domestic Life of Dissent. [Ellis's Family
Secrets.] 591-596. Our mutual ignorance,
591. Mrs. Ellis a dissenter, ibid. Coarseness
of dissent, 592. Drunkenness, ibid. Vul-
garity, 593. Trustworthiness of Mrs. Ellis,
594. The "Minister," 595. Mrs. Ellis's
ignorance, 596. Character of "Family
Secrets," ibid.

and Horsley, in the eighteenth, 613. Loss of
Bishop Butler's Parochial Sermons, 613.
Merits of Messrs. Paget's and Tennant's
Sermons, 613, 614.

F.

Fouqué [Life and Writings of.] 304-317.
Growing popularity of his writings a good sign
of the times-qualities required in order to ap-
preciate them, 305. Multifarious, but on the
whole having one tendency, 306. Bear a strik-
ing testimony to the definition of poetry, as
"the indirect expression of some overpowering
emotion, or ruling taste and feeling, the direct
expression of which is somehow repressed,"
307. This feeling in Fouqué "a deep and
mysterious yearning after the unseen world
simply as such," 308. Circumstances of his
childish life illustrative of this, 309. His
education injudicious treatment by his
friends-distressed state of mind-his mo-
ther's death-its happy effects, 312-317.

Drummond and Dunbar Schism-Foreign Pa-
rallels. [Scottish Episcopal Times, &c.] 298
-304. (See "Scotch Communion Office.")
Parallel Schism in America. The Maryland
case, 298. Bp. Claggett's resignation. Mr.
Dashiell's attempt to become suffragan, 299.
Bp. Kemp's election, and Dashiell's excom-
munication, 300, 301. Free Church in Eng-
land, 302. Declaration of Clergy and Laity
against Church principles, ibid. Church Mis-
sionary Society, 303. Christian Union Society,
304.

E.

H.

History of Scotland-The King and the Kirk.
[Tytler's History of Scotland, Vol. IX.
Lawson's Episcopal Church in Scotland from
the Reformation to the Revolution.] 639-659.
The position of James at his mother's death,
638-640. His marriage and coronation of
his queen, 640. The King's orations on
witchcraft and Church-government, 641, 642.
Violence of the Kirk; the Stewart Plot, 643
-645. Elizabeth's hypocrisy,_645.
Kirk
and the Catholics, 646-648. The General
Assembly of 1596, 649. David Black and
the King, 650, 651. Riot in Edinburgh and
violence of the preachers, 652-654. The
victory of the King; the King's queries, 654,
655. Submission of the Kirk; the King's
progress towards Episcopacy, 656-658. The
Basilicon Doron; the ambassador's priest;
the players and the preachers, 658, 659.
Hope, Signs of. [Smith's Letters on National
Religion. Evans's Rectory of Valehead, and
Church of God. Testimonies of Wordsworth
and Coleridge to Catholic Truth. Maurice's
Kingdom of Christ.] 163-183. General in-
terest taken in Theology at present, and great
progress of Church sentiments, 163, 164. The
present age seems especially to call for a
development of the Catholic Church. Consi-
derations to be kept in mind in regard to
preceding periods, 164-166. Causes which
have conspired to one end, that of Catholic
sentiment, in our day, 166-182. Increased
seriousness of Religion among the High
Church clergy, 167, 168. Travelling,-legiti-
mate influence of Rome on the mind of those
who visit it, 169-171. Literary Revolution,
influence of Wordsworth, 171-173; of Cole-
ridge, 173-176. Students of Prophecy, 177.
Mr. Evans's works, Keble's Christian Year,
Bp. Jebb, and Mr. Knox, 177-179. Mr.
Maurice's Kingdom of Christ, 179-182.
Hymnology. [A Day in the Sanctuary, with an
Introductory Treatise on Hymnology, by the
Rev. R. W. Evans, &c.] 85-102. Popular
Misconceptions of a Hymn-no Scripture pre-
cedent for a metrical one, 85. Hebrew Poetry
proceeds upon rhythm only--advantages, ac-
cording to Mr. Evans, of rhythmic prose over
metre in sacred composition, 86, 87. Real
reason why verse must be excluded from any
distinctively Liturgic art is, that to give plea-
sure is its professed object, 88. The question,
Can the Church's stock of Liturgic Psalmody
be materially increased? 89-92. Although it
-be very doubtful that it can, there may yet

English Preaching. [Sermons on the Duties of
Daily Life, by F. E. Paget, M.A. &c. Ser-
mons preached to the British Congregation at
Florence, by their late Chaplain, the Rev. R.
J. Tennant, M.A. &c.] 596-614. The ordi-
nance of preaching as easily under as over-
rated; Mr. Froude's estimate of it contrary
to Catholic sentiment; the Puritan doctrine
on the subject a distortion rather than an
abandonment of the Primitive, inadequately
answered by Hooker, 597, 598. Case of
Origen, 600. Prevalent weakness of English
Preaching, 601, 602. Not to be remedied by
borrowing from others, 602-604. Human
means, mastery of common language distinct
from the copying thereof, 604-606. Evils of
too much condescension, 606, 607. No Spe-
cimens left us of Apostolical Preaching, 607.
The Reformation of the seventeenth century
does not supply us with perfect specimens, 608.
Folly of the Preacher prescribing to himself
a certain length, 608, 609. The exhibition of
one prominent view on the whole the best
form of Sermon, and that adopted by our best
Preachers at present, 609. Formal divisions,
-609, 610. Augustine the best model in this
kind, 610, 611. Expository Preaching, Chry-
sostom the best model, 611. Comparison be-
tween St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine, 612.
Bull in the seventeenth century, Horne, Paley,