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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. H. Austen. 8.A., Curate of Tarrant Keynstone, Dorset,
to the Incumbency of the new church in that parish.
Rev. A. Bell, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Forces, King
William's Town, Cape of Good Hope.
Rev. L. G. F. Broome, to the Curacies of Whittlebury and
Silverstone, Northamptonshire.
Rev. T. Cain, M.A., Chaplain of Baldwin, to the Vicarage
of Kirk Lonan, near Dougla., Isle of Man.
Rev. J. S. Coles, M.A., Rector of Shepton Beauchamp, to
the Assistant Rural Deanery of Crewkerne.
Rev. J. D. Collis, M.A., Head Master of Bromsgrove School,
to an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral.
Rev. J. E. Cooper, M.A., to the Rectory of Forncett St.
Mary, Norfolk.
Rev. J. Davies, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Smallwood,
Cheshire.
Rev. W. F. Ebrington, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Alkmund's,
Derby.
Rev. F. French, M.A. to the consolidated Rectories of
Woriingworth and Southolt, Suffolk.
Rev. K. Gale, 8.A., to the Incumbency of North Horton,
near Bradford.

Rev. E. Hotham, M.A., to the Rectory of Crow•combe,
Somerset.

Rev. W. R. Hunt, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's Church,
Preston.
Rev. W. Howard, to the Rectory of St. Peter's, Nottingham.
Rev. It. A. Julian, 8.A., to the Incumbency of the Holy
Trinity Church, Plymouth.
Rev. J. E. Lance, 8.A., Rector of Buckland St. Mary, to
the Rural Deanery of Crewkerne, Somerset.
Rer. J. Langdon, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Mudford,
Somerset.
Rev. A. Le Broc. 8.A., to be Chaplain to H.M.S. Terrible.
Rev. C. S. Lord, D.D., to the Rtctory of Farmborough,
Son. erset.

Rev. O. afarden, 8.A., to the Curacy of Trinity Church,
Tunbridge- Wells.
Rev. J. D. Massingham, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's,
Derby. _ _

Rev. X. N. Paszkowicz, Chaplain to the Bromsgrove Union,
to the Head Mastership of Newland Grammar School, Glou-
cestershire.

Rev. C. R. Pearson, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Mark,
Somerset.

Rev. E. M. D. Pyne, 8.A., to the Rectory of Bawdsey,
otherwise Bawsey, Norfolk.
Rev. W. C. Rawlinson, M.A., to the Rectory of Chedburgh.
Suffolk.

Rev. J. Russell, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Stephen's, Wil-
lenhall, Staffordshire.

Rev.'lt. 11. Scott, M.A., to the Rectory of Bonchurch, Isle
of Wight._ . . _

Rev-. T. F. Simmons, 8.A., to the Rectory of South Dalton,
Yorkshire.
Rev. R. Smith, to the Curacy of Bollington. Cheshire.
Rev. H. St. George, to the Perpetual Curacy of Bellinge,
in the parish of Wigan.
Rev. E. Symes, M.A., to the Prebend of Ilton, in Wells
Cathedral. _

Rev. E. S. Venn, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lanham Episcopi,
Norfolk.

Rev. J. B. Wakefield, BA., to the Incumbency of South-
shore, near Blackpool.

Rei. S. WestbrOoke, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. John's
Church, Huddersfield.
Rev. H. S. Wright, 8.A., to the Curacy of Pershore.

The following presentations have become vacant by the
death of the incumbents:—
A prebendal stall in Exeter Cathedrd ; as also the Vicarage
of St. Wenn, Cornwall. Patron for the latter, W. Rash.
leigh, Esq.
The Rectory of Char&ld, Gloucestershire. Value, £4OO
a-year. Patron, Mr. J. Neeld, M.P.
The Rectory of Compon, Berks. Value, £4OO a-year.
Patron, Mr. J. T. Wasey.
The Rectory of Buckland, near Reigate. Value, £4OO
a-year. Patrons, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' Col-
lege, Oxford.
The Vicarage of Atwick, near Hull. Value, £l5O a-year.
Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
The Rectory of With ycombe Rawleigh, Devon. Value, £2OO
a-year. Patron, the heirs of Lord Rolle.
The Vicarage of Llowes, with the Vicarage of Llandewivach,
Radnorshire. Value of the united penetices, 300 a-year.
Patron, the Archdeacon of Brecon.

The incumbency of St. Paul's. Whippingham, Isle of Wight.
Value, 4100 a-year. Patron, the Rector of Whippingham.
The Perpetual Curacy of St. James, Accrington, Lancashire.
Patrons, Hulme's Trustees.

ORDINATION OP 1 NEW ZEALANDER.—OR Sunday an
ordination service was held at St. Paul's Church, by the
Lord Bishop of New Zealand. A special feature of in-
terest was connected with the occasion, by the unprece-
dented and deeply gratifying fact that one of the abori-
ginal native race of New Zealand was admitted to Deacon's
orders. The name of the new Maori minister is Rota
(Lot) Waitoa ; he has been with the Bishop for several
years. He is to minister, we believe, at a mission station
on the east coast.—New Zealander, May 25.
Drocass or GRAHAM'S Towrr.—The Rev. John Arm-
strong, Vicar of Tidenham, Gloucestershire, has been
nominated by the Duke of Newcastle, at the suggestion of
the Bishop of Capetown, to the new diocese of Graham's
town, in Africa. The two new Bishops are expected to
take part at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, in Lambeth, this evening, the 18th inst. A
royal mandate was on Saturday issued to the University
of Oxford, commanding the authorities to confer the degree
of Doctor in Divinity, honoris causa, on the Rev. John
Armstrong, M.A., of Lincoln College, whom the Duke of
Newcastle has nominated to the. Bishopric or Prahams-
town, South Africa.

THE BISHOP OP EXETER.—It is currently reported,
we believe on good authority, that, at the recent ex-
amination of candidates for Holy Orders, in this city, a
gentleman who possessed the recommendations of distin-
guished ability, extensive reading, and exemplary private
character, together with an earnest desire to enter the
ministry, was rejected by the examining chaplains, with
the concurrence of the Bishop of Exeter. The sole cause
of his rejection was the Romeward tendency of his
writings. Tract NC. inspired his answers to the chap-
lains ; and, on this account, a highly gifted man was told
that, with his present views, he could not be presented for
ordination ! We have good reason to believe such was the
case ; and congratulate the diocese on the event, as in-
dicating a resolve, on the part of those in authority, not
to supply a temporary halting place within the Church of
England for young gentlemen who are on their journey
" from Oxford to Rome !"—Exeter Flying Post.
THE CLERGY WIDOW AND ORPHAN INSTITUTION.—
A special general meeting of subscribers to this institution
was held at Warrington on the 6th inst., the Lord Bishop
of Chester in the chair. The report of Mr. Beloe, the
accountant appointed by the committee to examine into
the financial position of the charity, was read, and a
balance found to be due to the treasurer of £4120. The
treasurer explained that £3676 of that amount was due
to Messrs. Parr, Lyon, and Co., and he wished the meet-
ing to consider the latter sum as due to him rather than
the former and larger amount. On the motion of the
Dean of Manchester, seconded by the Rev. Canon Slade,
the accounts of the treasurer, as audited by Mr. Beloe,
were adopted and confirmed. On the motion of Arch-
deacon Brooks, seconded by Charles Inman, Esq., it was
resolved that all the buildings now occupied by the dio-
cesan board of education be offered to that board for the
sum of £5063. The further business consisted in the
appointment of a new committee of twelve clergyman and
twelve laymen, and also the appointment of the Rev. R.
Greenall, as treasurer, in place of the Hon. and Rev.
Horace Powys, who, however, continues in the office of
hon. secretary. The meeting then adjourned to the 9th
of November. During the meeting the Ven. Archdeacon
Brooks announced a donation of £5OO from J. Huddle-
stone, Esq., of Liverpool.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE AND MR.

HENRY DRUMMOND, MP.

THE following letter has been addressed to the Secretary
of the Peace Society by Mr. Henry Drummond, M.P., in
reply to an invitation sent to him to attend its meetings
in Edinburgh
"Albuiy-park, Sept. 30.
" Sir,—You have invited me to go down to Edinburgh
to assist at a conference of persons calling themselves The
Friends of Peace ;' and you have desired me, if I cannot
be present, to send yon my written adhesion to the objects
of the conference.

" All people want peace. If the Emperor of Russia be
allowed to keep possession of Wallachia and Moldavia, and
to detach the subjects of the Porte from their duty to
their own Sovereign, no man will be more peaceable than
Nicholas. The title, therefore, of the body is not very
appropriate nor distinctive.

In your address there are many trite truisms describ-
ing the evils of war, against which common-places nothing
can be said. You consider it as a ' Utopian dream to
bring about suddenly a miraculous transformation of
nature,' the indulgence of which you disclaim • but your
whole address proves that the only part of the dream you
differ from is the suddenness of the ' miraculous transfor-
mation,' and that you do propose to yourselves to be the
means of ushering in a universal reign of peace by means
of conferences. Of the first two men born into the world
one killed the other ; and in this way ' human nature' has
manifested itself ever since that period, and ever will,
unless it undergoes a ' miraculous transformation.'
" You endeavour to cast obloquy on the profession of
arms, and are indignant at ' successful warriors occupying
posts of distinction in Courts and Cabinets.' Take the
army and the navy as a class, and take any other class of
men in the country—merchants, tradesmen, manufac-
turers, savants, lawyers—compare them together for
talents, patriotism, honour, virtue, disinterestedness, kind-
ness, self-devotion ; for, in short, every quality that en-
nobles man ; and I assert that the military class is, beyond
measure, superior to any other. You would prefer to see
statues erected to those who have been most eminent in
the money-making arts of peace; and, instead of statues to
Marlborough, Wellington, Duncan, and Nelson, you would
prefer to see statues to the inventors of spinning jennies
and railroads, or to Kant and Jeremy Bentham. You
think a broadbrim in bronze more picturesque than a
cocked hat. You are severe upon Mars and Moloch, and
prefer Mammon to both. Idolatry, like statuary, is an
affair of 'taste, but Milton, who seems to 'mow as much
about devils as you do, tells us that Mammon was the
basest and meanest of all. _

" You quote the opinion of Lord John Russell, that the
last war was unnecessary. It was not undertaken until
the French Government had declared war upon every
crowned head in Europe ; and they who were loyal urged
their Sovereigns to reply to these manifestoes with grape
shot—the only arguments with which revolutionists should
be treated. The Whigs said it was not necessary, merely
as every faction not in power takes the opposite side of
every question from the one that is; but when they came
into office, although they had coquetted with treason and
palliated sedition (as they have ever since continued to do,
whenever by so doing they could strengthen themselves),
they were not one whit less alive to the true safety and
honour of the country under Mr. Fox and Lord Grey,
than their predecessors had been under Mr. Pitt _
" It requires matchless impudence to speak of the de-
fenceless state of this country, and the sense of its danger,
to which the people were with difficulty awakened, as
absurd and fabulous tales for which there was not even
a shadow of a foundation.' The President of the French
Republic had reiterated assertions, with oaths, that he

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1853.

would preserve the Republic entire ; it has been :biting°
manifested that at the very moment he was ninkulf,ament
assertions he was plotting to seize upon the Gave
_.,a
and make himself Emperor. Yet on this man's trutnaio
professions of peace, you advise us to rely .11 ould, at
security ! He made no secret of saying that hew, t
a proper time, invade this country. A plan for soln,vr.
sion was given in to him while he was President the
Republic, which he would not look at then, becalve he
had other business in hand. After he was EraPer:rvol
referred that plan of invasion to his ministers, who r get
that the plan was good, if it had been carried and
at the time, but, now that the English were roused and
their military spirit awakened, as had been
calling out of their militia, the time had gone bL.re,
himself proposed a plan for the repartition of
which was put an end to solely by the Emperors f ,Itsu-s'L
Louis Napoleon has raised the largest numbeof.
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proved a). ije
war-ships that France ever possessed, which cannot nne.
protect its colonies and commerce, because it has
crny.',d
He has been long practising his troops in embarkinr to
disembarking by night, which cannot be for gnely
Vienna, Rome, or St. Petersburg, and which can be refer
for a descent on our shores. The French people P
glory to gain, hate the English with a perfect hatred, au.,
while Pr;
long to revenge their defeat at Waterloo.
facts as these stare us in the face, who shall sag there
no need' of common sense to hold up to scorn and de
that party in this country which ' excites public opingi"
to meet such dangers by a conference for peace?
" You state that ' the flower and strength of Eltrortfe
manhood is living in coerced idleness at the expense
ready
rest of the community, in order that they may be rorder
to fight ;' it would be more true if you had said, in ttoil
that the rest of the community may be able to spin e°
an"
Agreeably d ew corn in quiet.
" Agreeably to the cant of the age, you try to mix
some fragments of Holy Writ to sanctify your follY ;o.tilie
imagining that you are to be the means of introdne,
millenium, you ask `if there is nothing which Carrsoal
men can do' towards that end ? You want a unive
peace without the Prince of Peace : you want the wlfbo
more quiet, that men may be left more undisturbed intlo
enjoyment of selfish gratification : and you think tha
ePTI,
one can penetrate the darkness' in which you have all
veloped history, both sacred and profane. Yes • Y°ll
do something to bring in universal peace.' '
Join togettolet
to beseech the Prince of Peace to come again, as Seas
promised to do, in the same way as that in which 0,..r..;
seen to go, and He will come and bring peace with Jr—
but without Him ye shall nothing.
"At this moment every Sovereign On continental Eiothrir
has usurped over the rights of their nobles and °lt v
people ; the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the
and his priests, the King of Naples, and all the Inn'"
absolute German Princes. For this usurpation the 1 Beta
are vowing vengeance ; and from England their lea
have issued proclamations calling on all subjects 11°ttbe
war with each other, but to unite in warring on hate
reigning families, and put them to death. If yo
any honesty and sincerity among you, transfer your„`"af
ferences to Moscow, Vienna, or Constantinople, ini v
which I can venture, though unauthorized, to prolns'ttatt°
a reception much more consonant with your deserts is
the urbanity of the Scotch is likely to give to y°yid
Edinburgh ; and when the inhabitants of that citY,
of Manchester, have been brought to dismiss their nintla
trates and police, and to rely upon the pacific disPe`s`l,`ta
of the rabble in those towns, it will be time enotlg,
of
begin to think about what may be done with the resb
Europe.—" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"Rev. H. Richard, 19, New Broad-street." HENRY
d-stree' Dar'
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