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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

Rev. J. Tucker, to the Vicarage of West Hendred,
Berkshire.

Rev. C. Turner, M.A., to the Cu:
Northamptonshire.
Rev. R. W. Walker, M.A., Vicar of
Surrogate for the Diocese of Lincoln.

.racy of Watford,

Bardney, to be a

Rev. A. W. Warde, late Curate of Croydon, to the
Curacy of Penshurst, Kent.

Rev. J. D. White, M.A., Vicar of Little Ca
the Rectory of Manby, near Louth.
Rev. H. Wortham, to the Vicarage of Shepreth, Cam-
bridge.

-wthorpe, to

THE Brstior or LONDON has refused to licence as a
candidate for the Ministry a gentleman who had received
a nomination from the Rev. Thomas Dale, Vicar of St.
Pancras. The ground of rejection is the agreement of the
candidate with the views of Mr. Gorham on the subject of
Baptism.

THE PROCEEDINGS in the case of " The Rev. R.
Whiston v. the Dean and Chapter of Rochester" were
resumed on Friday morning, in the Arches Court. Doctors'
Commons, before the Bishop of Rochester, Baron Parke,
and Dr. Lushington. On Saturday the further hearing
was adjourned to Wednesday next.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.--
On Tuesday morning, divine service was performed at
Westminster Abbey, in celebration of the third jubilee of
this society. A procession, composed of ;ha Archbishops
of Canterbury and York, followed by a number of bishops
and the metropolitan clergy in their robes, passed through
the choir to the altar, after which divine service was
commenced. There was a full cathedral service. The
sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, at
the close of which the offertory collection, which is to be
added to the Jubilee Fund, was made, and the amount
collected deposited on the altar. The communion was
afterwards administered by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
first to the clergy at the altar, and next to the laity in the
body of the cathedral, and the service then terminated.

THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S AND THE ARCHBISHOP
OF CANTERDURY.—The Rev. Richard Lewis having been
presented by the late Lord Chancellor to the living of
Lampeter Velfrey, in the diocese of the Bishop of Saint
David's, he was examined on the 19th of December by
three clergymen, appointed by the Diocesan. They cer-
tified that he was not, at that time, competent to under-
take the duties of a Welsh parish, and the Bishop
consequently refused to institute him. He appealed to
the Archbishop of Canterbury, who caused him to be ex-
amined on the 29th of May by the Vicar of Carnarvon,
and upon his report the former decision was reversed.
The Bishop of St. David's has addressed a letter to the
Archbishop, in which, while cheerfully submitting to his
grace's decision, he protests against the assumption on
which it had been rested, namely, that if Mr. Lewis was
competent on the 29th of May to undertake the duties of
a Welsh parish, he must have been competent on the 19th
of December preceding ; discredit being thus cast on the
competency of the examiners in the first instance.

THE CHURCH AND HER REFORNIERS.—It is one of
the natural consequences of the mode of dealing with
church questions adopted by Sir Benjamin Hall, that he
is not believed even when his case is really sustainable.
He has cried " wolf !" so long that people regard it as a
monomania, and leave him to it. This is unfortunate,
because there are undoubtedly many evils, of long
growth and pernicious influence, which recent measures
of church reform have not yet reached, and which re-
quire the correction of an authoritative hand. The man
who would apply himself to the investigation and
removal of these in a spirit of candour, friendship,
and reverence, would deserve well of the church and
the country. Very few men are fit for such a
task. Yet, to see the volunteers who come forward
from time to time, one would suppose it to be mere
child's play. Church tinkers of the Cockermouthian
school talk of preparing measures of ecclesiastical reform
during the vacation, as they would talk of repairing their
fences, or beating their covers. Church mending and
partridge shooting go together, and are considered as
component parts of the autumn recess—a combination of
the dulce and the utile, by which the luxury of a six
months' idleness is redeemed, and the inveteracy of half a
year's parliamentary exertion rewarded. As long as
this is the case, we may in vain look for any really
beneficial legislation, even in those few ecclesiastial
questions with which Parliament is constitutionally en-
titled to deal. At present the church is absolutely tit the
mercy of any one who chooses to rise in Parliament and
aim a blow at hen—Morning Post.