understand, no foundation for the report given by the Newry Telegraph, of the resignation of the Deanery of Armagh by the Rev. Mr. Hudson.

The Annual Meeting of the Bible Society was recently held in Bandon, the Earl of Bandon in the chair.

The mastership of Clonmel school, with an endowment of 5007. a-year, is vacant by the promotion of Dr. Bell to the living of Ballybrood, near Limerick.

The mastership of Elphin diocesan school is vacant by the death of the Rev. C. Smith.

There is a third Roman catholic chapel building at Glasgow, with a burial-ground attached, and the ground for a fourth chapel is taken.

OXFORD, DEC. 17.

This day being the last day of Michaelmas Term, a Congregation was holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred :

Bachelors in Divinity.-The Rev. W. Mallock, Balliol College; Rev. J. Williams, Jesus College.

Bachelors of Arts.-E. L. S. Lumsdaine, Oriel College; L. Carden, University College; C. R. Clifton, Merton College; H. H. Cornish, Magdalen Hall.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 18.

A a meeting of the Perse Trustees, on Monday, December 13, Joseph Morrison Croker, B.A., was elected a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, on the foundation of Dr. Perse.

At a Congregation on Wednesday last, the following grace passed the Senate :-"That the existing regulations for the Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarships be continued."

At the same Congregation the following degrees were conferred :

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Master of Arts.-Edward Cusack, Catharine Hall.

Bachelor in Physic.-James Simpson, Caius College.

Bachelors of Arts.-William Elias Taunton, Trinity College; Edwin Mountford Stephen Sandys, St. John's College.

PREFERMENTS.

Rev. W. Morgan, B. A., late curate of Todmorden, Lancashire, to be incumbent of St. James's church, Clitheroe, vacant by the cession of the Rev. W. P. Powell, D.C.L., of Worcester College, Oxford, who has been appointed chaplain on the Madras establishment of the East India Company.

The Rev. G. Dodsworth, D.D., to be chaplain of the Eton and Windsor Union.

The Rev. A. G. Edonart, B.A., to the beneficence of St. Paul's church, Blackburn. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn.

The Rev. J. H. A. Gwyther, M.A., to the vicarage of Madeley, Salop, void by the cession of the Rev. George Edmonds, on

the presentation of Sir Richard B. P. Phillips, Bart.

The Rev. George John Majendie, B.D., rector of Headington, Wilts, and Rural Dean, has been collated by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the Prebend or Canonry of Torleton, anciently founded in the cathedral church of Sarum, void by the death of George Frederick Nott, D.D.

The Rev. Arthur Atherley, vicar of Heavitree, has appointed the Rev. Harold Browne to succeed Mr. Tripp, at St. Sidwell's, Exeter; and the Rev. Philip Carlyon, curate of St. Nicholas, Colchester, to fill Mr. Brown's place at St. James's.

The Rev. Owen Owen, to the rectory of St. Edmund, Exeter, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Atkinson, on the presentation of George Hyde, Esq., of Norwich.

The Rev. William Brassey Hole, to the rectory of Woolfardisworthy, Devon, on his own petition, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Hole.

The Rev. Daniel Alexander, curate of Walkhampton, to the vicarage of Bickleigh, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. T. H. Walker.

The Queen has presented the Rev. Francis Wylie to the church and parish of Elgin, in the Presbytery of Elgin, and county of Moray, vacant by the translation of the Rev. Alexander Walker to the church of Urquhart.

The Rev. John Woodrooffe, to the curacy of Lisburn.

The Rev. J. Gulley, to the curacy of Sligo. The Rev. William Cotter Williamson, A.M., curate of Passage, to the parish of St. Nicholas, Cork, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. W. Hall, A. M., to the living of Charleville.

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

At Milton Abbas, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, the Rev. Henry Masterman, M.A., vicar of that parish, and also of Alton Pancras, in the county of Dorset.

At Staveley Hall, Derbyshire, the Rev. E. Foxlowe, brother-in-law of General Rebow, of Wivenhoe-park, Essex.

On the 13th inst., at his residence, Kirbyle-Soken, in the forty-eighth of his age, the Rev. Warwell Fenn, LL.B., formerly of Catherine Hall, Cambridge.

Aged seventy-two, after a short illness, the Rev. Michael Ward, LL.B., Rector of Stifkey and Morston, Norfolk, and late vicar of Lapley, Staffordshire.

At the vicarage, Rattery, Devon, the Rev. Joshua Reynolds Johnson.

Suddenly, the Rev. Charles Pasley Vivian, of Hatton Hall, Northamptonshire, and rector of Wellingborough, third son of the late John Vivian, Esq., of Portland-place, and Claverton, Somersetshire.

BY THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.

Deacons.-Of Cambridge: John Peers Parry, B.A., St. John's College; John Romney, B.A. St. John's College.-Literate : James Marshall.

Priests.-Of Oxford: Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson, M.A., Lincoln College; Rev. Henry Richard Ridley, B.A., University College. Of Cambridge: Rev. William Mackenzie, B.A., Trinity Hall.—Of Dublin : Rev. Edward Edmunds, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. Joshua Elliott, B.A., Trinity College. Of Durham: Rev. Henry Stoker, M.A., University College; Rev. Brereton Edward Dwarris, University College; Rev. John Stevenson, University College; Rev. Moorhouse Thompson, M.A., University College. Of St. Bees: Rev. Thomas James Steele.--Of Lampeter: Rev. Arthur Angus Rees, St. David's College.

BY THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY.

Deacons.-Of Oxford: Henry Edwin Devey, B.A., Pembroke College; Thomas Swinton Hewett, B.A., Worcester College; Thomas Manson, B.C.L., Magdalen College; John Frederick Brooke, M.A., Oriel College; Charles John Sale, B.A., Lincoln College; Edmund Tew, B.A., Magdalen Hall.-Of Cambridge: Thomas Ragland,

B.C., Corpus Christi College; Allan John Lloyd, B.A., Trinity College; William Bell, B.A., Corpus Christi College; Samuel Frederick Bulton, B.A., St. John's College; Charles William Dowding, B.A., Exeter College; John Manners, B. A., Corpus Christi College; Henry Pearson, B.A., Catherine Hall; William Rushton, B. A., Trinity College; Thomas Massingberd Pyke, B.A., Corpus Christi College.-Literate: Francis Twemlow Cradock.

Priests.-Of Oxford: Rev. Philip Hayman Dod, B.A., Worcester College; Rev. Charles Augustus Fowler, B.A., Oriel College; Rev. James Issacson, B.A., New Inn Hall; Rev. William Reynolds Ogle, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. Charles Whittaker, B.A., Brazennose College; Rev. Charles Frederick Wesdeman, B.A., Christ Church College. Of Cambridge: Rev. William James Conybere, M.A., Trinity College; Rev. Augustus Adam Bagshaw, B.A., Corpus Christi College; Rev. Daniel Cook, M.A., Queen's College; Rev. Frederick, B.A., Queen's College; Rev. Ralph Sadlier Drayton, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. Thomas Pattinson Ferguson, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. John William Hall, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. Henry Bridges Harvey, B.A., Clare Hall; Rev. John Manley Lowe, B.A., St. John's College; Rev. George Lloyd, B.A., Emmanuel College; Rev. Edward H. Lane, B.A., Corpus Christi College; Rev. Alfred Baker Strettell, B.A., Trinity College; Rev. Frederick Williams, B.A., Corpus Christi College.-Of Dublin : Rev. John Wilkin, B.A., Trinity College.

ORDINATIONS.

The following gentlemen have been admitted into holy orders by the Lord Bishop of Chichester:

Deacons.-Henry Sockett, B.A., Exeter College, Oxford; John White, B.A., Lincoln College, Oxford; George Braithwaite, B.A., Queen's College, Oxford; William Henry Anderton, B.A., University College; William St. George Patterson, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin; Travers Arthur Golding, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin.

Priests. Rev. Henry James Smith, B.A., Queen's College, Oxford; Rev. Thomas Royal Smith, B.A., Brazennose College; Rev. Felix Brown, B.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge; Rev. Henry Goldsmith Vigne, B.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge.

The following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, on Sunday week :

Deacons.-Of Oxford: Arthur George Newbold, B.A., Magdalen Hall; James Neville Heard, M.A., St. Mary Hall.-Of Cambridge: Guy Bryan, M.A., St Peter's College; Robert Everson Harresson, B.A. Christ College; Lewis Drummond Kennedy,

B.A., Christ College; John Edwards Legh Snowden, M.A., King's College; Carter William Dakin Moore, B.A. St. John's College.

PUSEYISM. The following is a copy of an address from certain lay members of the church of England to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and of his Grace's reply :

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"To the Most Reverend Father in God his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate ot all England and Metropolitan :

"We the undersigned, lay members of the church of England, have observed with astonishment and deep regret the perseverance of the authors of the Tracts for the Times, in disseminating and vindicating the doctrines propounded in those tracts, notwithstanding the disapprobation of the Bishop of Oxford, and the express condemnation of those doctrines by the heads of houses in that university.

"We, therefore, humbly implore your Grace, as the authorized head and guardian of that branch of the church of Christ established in these realms, to adopt measures as to your Grace's wisdom may seem fit, for allaying the anxieties which this controversy in the church has occasioned, and for dispelling the doubts resulting from an attempt, by authorized ministers, to disparage the articles of our holy religion, and to shake our confidence in the plenitude of the sacred Scriptures, as to all things appertaining to faith and practice, as set forth in the third chapter of the second epistle to Timothy, verses 16 and 17.

"If the leaders in this movement had taken warning from the admonitions we have referred to; if they had retracted, or ceased to justify their errors, we should not have presumed to resort to the unusual course of appealing to your Grace; but as the case, happily, is as unusual as it is urgent, we trust to your Grace's forgiveness of any informality; and we have the honour to subscribe ourselves, with great respect,

"Your Grace's very faithful and obedient humble servants,

"Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1842. "The Archbishop of Canterbury has the honour to acknowledge Major-General Marshall's note of the 14th of this month, accompanied with an Address from certain lay members of the Church of England at Brighton, and to state, that he will give due con sideration to the matters therein referred to. "To Major-General Marshall."

CONVERSION OF AN ENGLISH OFFICIAL TO ROMAN CATHOLICISM.-The following particulars of the alleged conversion of the British consul at Port Mahon, Minorca, to the

Roman catholic faith, appears in the Univers, Paris paper-"The English consul at this town, a man of superior manners and much amiability, has just abjured protestantism, and entered the pale of our holy catholic church, much to the satisfaction of the inhabitants. I cannot tell you to which of the numerous sects of protestantism he belonged, but suffice it to say that the origin of this happy conversion is traceable to the fact of his having assisted' at our religious ceremonies. It appears that the magnificence of our forms of worship, the majesty of our ceremonies, and the solemnity of the anthemsrarely equalled out of our early cathedralsproduced upon the heart of the convert during the past year an effect so deep and lasting, that his mind could not be satisfied until he had entered into a study of our religion, the results of which were, a conviction that he was out of the highway of truth (chemin de la verité,) and a resolution to embrace the Roman catholic faith. This event is attended by the most auspicious circumstances, whether we regard the character of the consul himself, or the presence of Miss Hart, (the sister-in-law of the Anglo-American commodore lost in the Mediterranean,) herself a convert and bright exemplar of virtue and piety. The circumstances attending the conversion of that lady were similar to those which marked that of the British consul."

PECKHAM.-The opening of the new church, East Peckham, took place on Christmas-day, when two very appropriate and impressive sermons were preached.

ORNAMENTAL CHURCH RELICS OF FORMER TIMES.-While employed in the repairs and alterations which have for some time been going on in All Saints' church, South Lynn, the workmen lately discovered several very ancient portraits of the apostles, painted upon wood, and placed in curious frame-work. The portraits were found boarded up in the partition which separated the church from the chancel, and they appear to have been well executed, though somewhat impaired by time and circumstances. They have undoubtedly been concealed for ages, most probably since the time of Oliver Cromwell, when the different species of ornament and decoration in our churches were obliged to be removed and hidden in obscurity, in order to secure them from the destructive enthusiasm of the puri

tans.

We understand that an address has been presented to the archbishop of Canterbury, from a large number of the lay residents of Cheltenham, members of the Church of England, praying his grace to take measures to procure from the bench of bishops a united expression of their disapprobation of those doctrines set forth in the Traacts for the Times, which have already been condemned

by many of the bishops in their several charges.

THE COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.-The next bishop to be appointed under this fund will have the superintendence of the clergy and congregations in connexion with the church of England in the islands and on the coasts of the Mediterranean; and then measures will be taken for the erection of episcopal sees in the colonies of New Brunswick, the Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen's Land, and Ceylon. The fund is alone chargeable with the endowment of the bishoprics; the support of the clergy will for the most part be derived from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

IMPROVEMENT AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. A great improvement has just been completed at the north entrance to St. Paul's Cathedral, by the erection of additional doors on the outside of the massive doors under the portico. The addition has been made to prevent the continual opening and shutting of the original doors, which are exceedingly heavy, every time a visitor required admission when divine service was not being performed. The new doors are but a few inches from the old ones-they open outwards and close with a spring, and there are two panes of glass in each door, so that the door-keeper may see the approach of persons desirous of being admitted.

We have reason to believe that among other beneficial arrangements, the church in the West Indies is about to be placed on a far more efficient footing. Instead of two bishops, there will certainly be four, and in the end perhaps six, in that part of the world. The bishopric of Barbadoes which is now vacant by the resignation of Dr. Coleridge, is about to be divided into three, each of which will receive an endowment of 2,000l. a-year. To meet this, the bishop's revenues at present 4,000l. a-year--will be distributed, and the three archdeaconries, each of which is now worth 1,5007. a-year, reduced to 6007. So also it is stated, that at the Cape of Good Hope, and in New Brunswick, sees will immediately be established; and that the same excellent arrangements will be entered into throughout the colonies in general. This is, indeed, to act as becomes a christian government.

PROGRESS OF PUSEYISM.-The rector of Leadenham, in the diocese of Lincoln, in the fervency of his desire for the Pusey doctrine, introduced into the church a moveable cross, and an altar with a pair of candlesticks and burning tapers, administered the holy eucharist at an early hour in the morning by taperlight, and adorned the back of his surplice with a cross. The prayer-books also bore the emblem of the cross, and on the roof of the building the Litany is painted in latin. These things, and various devices and cere

monies, the bishop has ordered to be removed, and the plain decorum of the church service to be observed in its performance.

OPENING OF THE EVANGELICAL CHAPEL AT LYONS, IN FRANCE.-The building being at length finished, Sunday, 28th November, was fixed upon as the day of its consecration. We had the gratification of seeing, on this solemn occasion, several Christian friends from a distance amongst us; among others, the Rev. Messrs. Blanc, of Mens, Pastor of the Reformed Church, and President of the Consistoire in that town; Bonifas, Pastor of the Reformed Church at Grenoble; Zipperlen, Pastor of the Evangelical Church at Macon; and Laught, Evangelical Minister, supplying provisionally the place of our dear Pastor, M. Cordes, detained at a distance by illness. Due notice having been timely given to the public authorities, the chapel, which holds from 700 to 800 persons, was opened at nine o'clock in the morning; and at half-past ten, when divine service began, it was filled with hearers. During the day, two sermons, suitable for the occasion, were delivered; the first by M. Blanc, and the second by M. Bonifas, from 1 Tim. iii. Except a mortgage on the chapel, the expenses of building this place of worship have all been defrayed within about 3,000 franes, which it is to be hoped the liberality of the religious public will soon supply.

We call the attention of the Bishop of Madras, as well as of the clergy and laity of that diocese, to the fact, that Mr. Willshire, who has just been sent out to Madras by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, has been brought up as a pupil under the instructions of Dr. Pusey, at Oxford: that he has not taken a degree, or even passed his examination at Oxford; that he is understood to have imbibed the peculiar and objectionable views of Dr. Pusey and his school; and yet that he is sent out by the venerable Society to seek ordination at the hands of the Bishop of Madras.

The Bishop of New Zealand has taken his departure for Sydney, on his way to New Zealand, by the ship Tomatin, bound for the former place. He carries with him the good-will of all who have been placed in communication with him. Previous to his departure, the New Zealand Company entered into certain arrangements for the promotion of education and the support of the church, which are calculated to give great satisfaction to the colony. Subject to the approval of government, the Company has offered to advance the sum of 5,000l. by way of loan on the security of the native reserve, for promoting the education of the native families; on condition, however, that the Church furnishes an equal sum. We believe there will be no difficulty in fulfilling this condition, so that we trust we are justi

fied in saying the education of the natives is happily secured. A further sum of 5007. is to be assigned to the support of the church at Nelson; 2,000l. for a like purpose at Wellington; and 5007. for New Plymouth. The reason why Nelson has so large a sum is, that in point of fact it is her own, whilst the sums for the church at Wellington and New Plymouth are really grants on the part of the Company. By referring to the terms of purchase of the second colony, the reader will find a fund set apart for such purposes. The Company is also ready to provide for the establishment of a college at Nelson, as soon as a municipality is granted to that settlement. The fund for the purpose of establishing a college amounts to 15,0007. Mrs. Mactin, the lady of the chief judge of New Zealand, accompanied the Bishop of New Zealand in the Tomatin, for Sydney.

REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The Rev. Mr. Drummond, one of the episcopal clergymen of Edinburgh, has published the following protest against the assumption of this title, in a recent advertisement relative to a proposed Scotch episcopal college :-"I have nothing to say regarding the special object put forth in the advertisement. My present businesss is with the recommendatory letter it contains: that letter professes to be written by the bishops of the reformed catholic church in Scotland.' Now, sir, I beg most repectfully, but firmly, to protest against the assumption of this title by any member or members of the Scottish episcopal church. The canons to which I have promised obediencc are the canons of the 'Scottish episcopal church,' not of the reformed catholic church in Scotland;' and there is not one of these which authorizes any change in the designation of our com

munion. This alteration has been made, therefore, without competent authority; while, at the same time, it seems to aim a blow against multitudes in this country, who, though not episcopalian, belong nevertheless to reformed' churches, and are, (in the best sense of the term,) members of the 'catholic church.' I hesitate not to add, that by God's help I shall to the last oppose the adoption of any such title, on this or any other occasion."

DUBLIN, Dec. 13.-A commission de lunatico inquirendo sat to-day on the Right Rev. Robert Fowler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Ossory. The jury found his lordship to be of unsound mind. His property in ready money and the funds, was proved to be about 30,0007.; landed estates in Ireland and England 8,000l. a-year, the income of his lordship's see being 5,000l. per annum.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF OSSORY.— The Right Rev. Dr. Fowler, bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, against whom a commission of lunacy was recently taken out, expired at the palace, Kilkenny, on Friday the 21st ult. The deceased prelate was in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and was consecrated bishop of Ossory in May, 1818. Dr. Fowler, previous to the melancholy visitation with which he was afflicted, was distinguished in a pre-eminent degree for his princely acts of charity. Possessed of an ample private fortune, it is well known that he for a long period devoted the revenue of his see to the exclusive use of the poor and friendless throughout his diocese. The names of Dr. Elrington, Regius Professor of Divinity, and the Very Rev. Robert Daly, dean of St. Patrick's, are mentioned as the probable candidates for the vacant bishopric.