The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-20 00:00:00

THE BISHOPRIC of JERUSALEM.
BERLIN, JULY 11.—llis Majesty has been pleased
to address to the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs
the following orders in respect to the relations of the
Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland
in Jerusalem, to the German congregation of the
Evangelical religion in Palestine :
" I send you herewith a letter from his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England,
which contains the definitive proposals respecting the
relations of the Bishop of the United Church of
England and Ireland in Jerusalem to the German
congregations of the Evangelical religion in Pales-
tine, which are inclined to place themselves under
the jurisdiction .of the latter. You will see from
this letter that the Prelate secures to the con-
gregations of the German Protestant faith in
Palestine the protection and • pastoral care of the
English Bishop at Jerusalem, without any other
conditionS than such as the exercise of the pro-
tection itself requires. The publication of these pro-
posals will be the best means to dispel the misunder-
standing of some well-meaning persons, and to ren-
der the misrepresentation and calumnies of the evil-
minded of no effect. Though there are at. present
no German Protestant congregations in Palestine,
but the formation is still to be looked for under the
influence of favourable circumstances ; yet young
divines of the German Protestant Church, whom the
increasing interest in the labours of the missions for
conversion of the Jews induces to go to Palestine,
will certainly think it desirable to avail thetnselves
of the offers contained in the letter of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, to obtain a greater freedom of action
and a more successful result of their labours, by ac-
' cepting the protection and care of the Bishop of the
United Church of England and Ireland. lam very
ready to support, in a suitable manner, young divines
of this kind, when they have been examined and found
duly qualified, and especially proved themselves to be
thoroughly grounded in the doctrines of the Protes-
tant faith, according to the Augsburg Gonfession,
and I invite you to point out to me any such persons.
(Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM.
"To the Minister of State, Eichhorn."
" ' Lambeth, June 18, 1842.
" ' SIRE,—As it seems to me to be desirable that
your Majesty should be thoroughly acquainted with
the relations in which the German congregations in
Palestine will stand with respect to the Bishop of the
United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem,
I take the liberty most respectfully to submit the fol-
lowing proposals, which 1 hope will be agreeaLile to
your Majesty.
" ' The. Bishop will consider it as his duty to take
under his pastoral care and protection all the congre-
gations 9i...the German Protestant faith which are
within ,the limits of his diocese, and are inclined to
place themselves under his jurisdiction, and will afford
them all the support in hiswer. The German
Liturgy, which has been carefully examined by me,
which is taken from the Liturgies received in the
churches of your Majesty's dominions, will be used
in the celehiation of Divine service by the clergy-
men who are appointed, on the tiillowing prin-
ciple :—Young divines, candidatos. for the pastoral
office in the German Church, who have obtained
your Majesty's Royal permission to this end,
will exhibit to the Bishop a certificate from sonic
authority appointed by your Majesty, in which their
good conduct, as well as their qualification for the pas-
toral office is in every respect attested. The Bishop
will, of course, take care, in the case of every candi-
date so presented to him, to-convince himself of his
qualifications for the especial duties of his office, of
the purity of his faith, and of his desire to receive
ordination from the hands of the Bishop. As soon
as the Bishop has fully satisfied himself on these
points, he will ordain the candidate on his subscribing
the three Creeds, the Apostles, the Nicenee, and the
Athanasian, and on his taking the oath of obedience
to the Bishop and his successor, will give him permis-
sion to exercise the functions of his office.
With respect to the confirmation of young per-
sons of such congregations in Palestine, the clergyman
of the congregation will prepare them for that pur-
pose' in. the usual manner, will subject them to the
requisite examination, and receive from them, in the
presence of the congregation, the profession of their
faith. They will then be presented to the Bishop,
who will confirm them according to the form of the
Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ire-
land.—With the most profound respect, I have the
honour to remain, Sire, your Majesty's most sincere
and humble servant, •
(Signed) "W. CANTERBURY.
" `To his Majesty Frederick William the Fourth,
King of Prussia.' "
—Prussian State Gazette, July 12.

There was an important meeting held in Clayton-
Liverpool, en Monday, Hugh Hoinby, Esq., in the
ton-
street,
chair, for the purpose of petitioning the Crown not to allow
Parliament to separate, in the present alarming state of dis-
tress, until some measures have been adopted to alleviate that
distress. The first resolution was moved by Mr. W. Rath-
bone, in a speech of some length.
We hear from undoubted authority that when the
truly sad and distressing intelligence of the death of the Due
d'Orleans was conveyed to the Queen at Claremont, her
Majesty could not refrain from weeping. Autograph letters of
condolence from her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert to the afflicted Royal Family of France have already
been despatched.
The Hon. Charles Henry Cuit, of the Royal Horse
Guards Blue, second son of Earl Brownlow, who is about to
lead to the altar Miss Macdonald, niece to the Earl of Mount
Edgcumbe and to the Countess Brownlow,_ inherits the greater
part of the fortune of his late grandfather, Sir Abraham Ham%
Bart., of Normleybury. The marriage, ive bears it likely to
take place in the first week of nest month.