The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

ORDINATION.

At a general ordination, held by the Lord Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, on Sunday last, in the Cathedral
Church of Gloucester, the following gentlemen were ad-
mitted into holy orders, viz. :
DEAcoNs—William George Sinclair Addison, M.A.,
Magdalene llall, Oxon ; Richard Champernowne, 8.A.,
Christ Church, Oxon ; Marmaduke Cochin, 8.A.,
Queen's College, Cambridge ; Thomas Debary, 8.A.,
Lincoln College, Oxon ; John Bowdler Gisborne, B.A„
Trinity College, Cambridge ; Richard Masters Hutchins,
Trinity College, Cambridge ; Robert Inchbald, 8.A.,
St. John's College, Cambrige ; Thomas Palling Little,
8.A., Trinity College, Oxon ; James Houghton Money,
8.A., Emanuel College, Cambridge ; Fielding Palmer,
8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Joseph Corbett
Turnbull, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Nathaniel
Arscott lloward, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxon, by letters
dismissory from the Bishop of Exeter.
PRIESTS.—WiIIiam Henry Biedermann, 8.A., Pem-
broke College, Oxon ; henry Bubb, M.A., Pembroke
College, Oxon ; Richard Trist Budd, 8.A., Magdalene
College, Cambridge ; Charles Ross de Havilland, M.A.,
Oriel College, Oxon ; John Bath Gabriel, 8.A., St. Ed-
mund's Hall, Oxon ; Alexander Grant, 8.A., Trinity
College, Cambridge ; William Nathaniel Griffin, M.A.,
St. John's College, Cambridge ; William Philip Haste-
wood, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Hugh Hynd-
man Jones, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Octa-
vius Friere Owen, BA., Christ Church, Oxon; Andrews
Reeve, 8.A., Wadham College, Oxon 4 William Spear -
man, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Frederick Ston-
house, 8.A., Oriel College, Oxon ; John Sibley Wood-
man, 8.A., Worcester College, Oxon ; John Davis, a
literate person, and Henry William Steel, 8.A., Jesus
College, Oxon, by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop
of Llandaff.

DISCOVERIES IN THE TEMPLE

CHURCH.

On the southern side of the building, near the high
altar, is an elegant marble piscine or lavacrum, which
was in like manner discovered on pulling down the
modern oak wainscoting. This interesting remnant
of antiquity has been beautifully restored, and well
merits attention. It was constructed for the use of
the priest who officiated at the adjoining altar, and was
intended to receive the water in which the chalice had
been rinsed, and in which the priest washed his hands
before the consecration of the bread and wine. It
consists of two perforated hollows or small basins, in-
closed in an elegant marble niche, adorned with two
graceful arches, which rest on small marble columns.
The holes at the bottom of the basins communicate
with two conduits or channels for draining off the
water, which anciently made its exit through the thick
walls of the church. In the olden time, before the con-
secration of the host, the priest walked to the piscine,
accompanied by the clerk, who poured water over his
hand?, that they might be purified from all stain be-
fore he ventured to touch the body of our Lord. One
of these channels was intended to receive the water in
which the priest washed his hands, and the other that in
which he had rinsed the chalice. The piscine, conse-
quently, served the purposes of a sink.—Addison's His-
tory of the Knights Templars.