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relation, are insulted and degraded; and are we to stand, considering whether other people's parents, before now, have not been used just as ill? Surely the general claim of God's ministers, to be consulted in matters of spiritual legislation, may be affirmed without committing ourselves to any statements of form or detail, without mentioning the name of convocation. We want the thing, not the name; substantial deference, not technical accuracy.

The great point is, not "to suffer things to pass away as in a dream;" to enter one's protest, and put it upon record, publicly, clearly, and unreservedly, against sacrilege, against usurpation, and against any kind of compromise with either. The sooner this is done, the better; both in policy, and for credit's sake. In policy, before those with whom we remonstrate are as yet irrecoverably entangled; and for credit's sake, before the spoiler has yet knocked at our own doors. In fact, who does not feel that English petitions deferred but till now, cannot come in with so good a grace as before the English commutation bill, while the attack was confined to Ireland?

One feels almost guilty of impertinence in offering so much that sounds like unasked advice to persons well able to judge for them. selves. But the case is urgent; and in fires and floods men are excused for calling about them in a tone otherwise little becoming. This must be the writer's apology, both for what he has said already, and for the following suggestions, which he ventures to put down, as not perhaps unworthy of consideration :

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Whether it be not fair and respectable to be timely in our applications, to the Throne especially, lest future historians should have to say that the great body of the English clergy allowed their Sovereign to be taken by surprise:

Whether, in our petitions to Parliament, and still more in our addresses to the King, we ought not to keep to a few great principles, avoiding detail as much as is consistent with perspicuity:

Whether cheap and familiar statements of the truth in this whole matter (avoiding personal and party remarks) might not be circulated with good effect among those of his Majesty's subjects who are at present most misled, or most uninformed on church affairs:

Whether it be not the nature of Englishmen, and of all men, to pay more respect to an honest, respectful resistance, than to a reluctant, unconvinced, cowardly submission:

And finally, whether, as far as one can look onward, the chances of ensuing evil be not at least evenly balanced between these two lines of conduct; so that expediency leaves us free to take, if we will, the highest ground.

But whatever answer each individual may be inclined to give to such hints as these, on one point we shall be all agreed: that the matter is too awful to be played with; that those who have opinions on it are bound to be serious and consistent in maintaining them; their public conduct should agree with their table talk. For it is a question of rows, to be kept or broken; of souls, to be saved or lost eternally; a contest to be looked at in the spirit of soldiers, not so anxious about immediate victory, as hoping to be one day publicly thanked, “Quod non desperassent de ecclesia."

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The Lord Bishop of Oxford will hold an Ordination in the Cathedral at Christ Church, on Sunday, June 2nd.

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester will hold a general Ordination at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on Sunday, June the 16th.

The candidates who have not already sent their papers are desired to enclose them to the Bishop in covers, each weighing less than an ounce, not later than June 1st. The examination will begin on Thursday, June 13th, at the Bishop's house, in the Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey.

A general Ordination will be holden by the Bishop of Salisbury at the Palace, Salisbury, on Sunday, the 22nd day of September next.

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CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.

J Archdeacon of St. David's, and Prebendary of Llanerthwl in

the Collegiate Church of Brecon,

Rural Dean of Bedminster.

Mastership of Ryton School.

Hodges, F. P., Vicar of Lyme-Regis, Dorset, a Surrogate for the Diocese of Sarum. Parry, H.................................. Prebendary of St. Asaph Cathedral.

Phipps, E. J., Rector of Devizes, a Surrogate for the Diocese of Sarum,

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Chaplain to the British Factory at Archangel.

Head Master of the Rochester and Chatham Classical and
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND,

A Chapel is about to be erected this Summer for the joint accommodation of the two purely Gaelic congregations at Ord and Wester Fairnburn, in the county of Ross. Ground for the Chapel has already been marked out, and benevolently gifted by the proprietor.

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The Rev. John Park has been elected Minister of the Scottish Church, Carlisle. The Rev. William Graham has been elected Minister of the Scottish Church, South Shields.

Dead.-Rev. Dr. McLean, Minister of Gorbals Parish, Glasgow.

On Saturday, the 4th of May, Rev. L. W. Grant was ordained Minister of the parish of Ordiquhil.

The Rev. Mr. White has been ordained Minister of Airlie by the Presbytery of Meigle.

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland met on Thursday; the Right Hon. Lord Belhaven being his Majesty's Commissioner. After Sermon by the Rev.

Dr. Chalmers, the late Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Stirling, of Craigie, was appointed Moderator for the ensuing year. An account of the proceedings of the Assembly will be given in the British Magazine of next month.

On Thursday, the 2nd of May, the Rev. F. Knox was ordained Minister of the Parish of Tawes, in the room of Dr. Black, appointed Professor of Divinity in Marischal College.

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.

Glasgow.-Sir Archibald Campbell, of Succoth, has been elected Dean of Faculties for the ensuing year.

Aberdeen, Marischal College.-His Majesty has been pleased to institute and endow a professorship of Church History; and to appoint the Rev. Dr. Dewar to the chair.

UNIVERSITY

OXFORD.

Saturday, April 27.

The Reader in Mineralogy will begin his course of Lectures, on the Elements of Mineralogy, at the Geological Lecture Room, in the Clarendon Building, on Tuesday next, the 30th of April, at two o'clock.

These Lectures will be continued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, during Easter and Act Terms; and will be introductory to a Course on Geology in October Term. They will be illustrated by the splendid collection of minerals lately presented to the University by Mr. Simmons, of Christ Church.

The Chancellor of the University has nominated the Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel Coll., Bampton Lecturer in 1832, and at present one of the Public Examiners in the University, to be Principal of St. Mary Hall, in the Room of the late Rev. Dr. Dean. This appointment reflects great honour on the Chancellor of the University, as Mr. Hampden has distinguished himself by his literary talents. At the examinations in Michaelmas Term, in 1813, he was placed in the First Class in Literis Humanioribus, and also in the First Class in Disciplinis Math. et Phys. In 1814, he gained the Latin Prize Essay, De Ephorum apud Lacedæmonios Magistratu.

On Wednesday last the following Degrees were conferred:

Masters of Arts-James Garnett Headlam, Brasennose; Thomas Pearson, Michel Scholar of Queen's; Rev. Henry Stevens, Oriel.

Bachelor of Arts-William Hutchinson, Bible Clerk of All Souls'.

Bachelor of Music-James Harris, Magdalen Hall.

In a convocation holden on Monday last it was unanimously resolved to suspend the Bampton Lecture for two years, in consequence of the very heavy expense necessary for repairs on the estate appropriated to the payment of the lecturer.

NEWS.

Preachers-Rev. Dr. Nolan, Bampton Lecture, Sunday morning at St Mary's; Rev. the Principal of New Inn Hall, afternoon, at ditto; Rev. Mr. Trevelyan, Merton, St. Philip and St. James, at Merton.

May 4.

In a full Convocation holden on Tuesday last, petitions to both Houses of Parliament against "A Bill to alter and amend the laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland," were unanimously agreed to.

On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred:

Bachelor in Divinity-Rev. Arthur Bennet Mesham, Fellow of Corpus Christi.

Bachelor in Medicine, with licence to practise:-Robert Bentley Todd, Pembroke.

Masters of Arts-Rev. Charles Vink, Magdalen Hall; William Palmer, Fellow of Magdalen; Rev. James Stevens, St. John's.

Bachelors of Arts--Edward Henry Blyth, Queen's; Henry M. B. Barns, Oriel; John Whitehead Peard, Exeter; Henry J. Maddock, Worcester.

Preachers at St. Mary's-Rev. Dr. Nolan, Bampton Lecture, Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Buckley, Merton, afternoon.

May 11.

Queen's College.-On Thursday, the 18th of June next, there will be an Election of SCHOLARS on the Old Foundation, open to natives of Cumberland and Westmorland, between the ages of 16 and 21 inclusive. Candidates are required to present themselves to the Provost, with testimonials and certificates of baptism, on or before Saturday, the 8th of June.

Also, on the same day, there will be an Election of an EXHIBITIONER on Mr. Bridgman's Foundation, open to natives of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Wiltshire. Candidates are required to appear before the Provost on or before Saturday the 8th, with testimonials and certificates of baptism.

An Election of an EXHIBITIONER on Mr. Michel's Foundation, at Queen's College, will

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