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items which make up your sum of £40,000, and afterwards
of £12,577 13s. 2d., are all of a special character, and form
no part of the general fund referred to by us as arising
from donations and annual subscriptions. This, by your
own showing, is, for the last year, less than £9,000, viz.,
£8,782 16s. 6d. And if any additional proof were required
of the want of confidence of 'the country at large in the
National Society, it will be found at p. 28 of the 1853 re-
port, where the sum collected under the Queen's Letter,
from the audit of 1852 to the audit of 1853, is set down as
£10,764 9s. 7d. What prospect is there of this sum ever
being made up to anything like the average of former
Queen's Letters' funds, which you state at £27,000 ?
T/eirdly,—l did not confine the charge of batting to
" some one of 70 or 80 young men" as you misrepresent
me. My words were, "these masters in training." Thus,
your whole argument, being founded on a misquotation of
my words, falls to the ground. You enquire why I did
not include this charge in the memorial. I reply, simply
because I knew nothing about it till the spring of this
year ; otherwise I should certainly not have neglected
that opportunity of calling the attention of the authori-
ties to this instance of indecent levity on the part of the
students immediately after coming out of the House of
God. With regard to " cricket," I will leave to others
more versed than I am in such matters to decide, whether
cricket may not fairly be presumed to be included in the
description, "leap frog, and other similar pastimes," which,
though you carefully keep them out of view, are the
words made use of at p. 8 of the book to which I referred
you. Let alone cricket, however, if you please. Leap-
frog on a Sunday is quite enough for my purpose.
I am sending the whole of this correspondence to the
press ; and the more you circulate this last letter of yours,
in company with mine to you—for common fairness, of
course, requires this—the greater will be the obligation
under which you will lay both me and my cause. I could
not myself have written a stronger confirmation than is
afforded in your letter of the correctness of all my state-
ments. Your obedient servant,
F. S. Warren, Esq. E. GIRDLESTONE.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. A. E. Aldridge,M.A., to the Incumbency of the district
Clivelry of W orton, in the Parish of Potterne. Wiltshire.

Rev. G. Alston, A.A., to the Rectory of gtudiaVil,..iiear
Swanage, Dorset.
Rev. W. R. Barnes, Vicar of Probus, to a Prebendal Stall
in Exeter Cathedral.

Rev. H. N. Barton (on his own petition), to the Rectory of
St. Ervan, Cornwall.
Rev. F. Coy, M.A., to the Curacy of Woburn, Bedfordshire.
Rev. J. Davidson. M.A., to the Curacy of ‘V hitby, Yorkshi re.
Rev. A. W. Edwards, M.A., Curate of St. Mary's Cathedral,
Limerick, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Derry.
Rev. J. Fox, M.A., tate Incumbent of Kirby Bellars, to the
Incumbency of Scraptoft, near Leicester.
Rev. E. H. Gifford, Head-Master of Birmingham School, to
an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral.
Rev. J. C. Gregory, to the Perpetual Curacy of Laithkirk,
near Barnard Castle. (Not, as stated last week, to the Incum-
bency of Barnard Castle.)
Rev. E. Gunner, to the Curacy of Batheaston-cum-Catherine,
in the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Rev. G. Hales, it.C.L., to the Perpetual Curacy of Birch, in
the parish of Middleton; near Manchester.
Rev. C. R. Hay, M.A., late Curate of Thundridge, near
Ware, Hens, to the Vicarage of that parish.
Rev. J. Holden, to the Curacy of Holmfirth, near Hud-
dersfield.

Rev. M. H. Hole, M.A., Senior Assistant-Master of Ken-
sington School, to the ltead•Mastership of Alford Grammar
School, Lincolnshire.

Rev...l. Husband, M.A., to the Rectory of Seattyn, near
Oswestry.

Rev. R. Male, M.A., to the Vicarare of Rathmel, Yorkshire.
Rev. F. Norse, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Mary's
Church, Shrewsbury.

Rev. J. Nunn, M.A., to the Rectoryof Thorndon, near Eye,
Suffolk.

Rev. G. A. S. Powell, 8.A., Registrar of the Archdeaconry
of Wells, to the Incumbency of South Bnrcombe, near
Salisbury.
Rev. S. Rashleigh, 8.A., to the Vicarage of St. Wenn,
Cornwall.

Rev. W. L. Rolleston, M.A., Vicar of Great Dalby, to the
Incumbency of Kirby Sellars, near Melton Mowbray.
Rev. C. Taylor, M.A., to the Vicarage of Barnby-in-th e-
Willows, Notts.

Rev. H. temple, M.A., to the Rectory of Thornton, near
Buckingham.
Rev. J. Thorp, M.A., late Head Master of the Diocesan
Training School, Suinmertown, Oxford, to the Chaplaincy of
the Oxford County Gao►.
Rev. C. M. Turner, M.A., to the Vicarage of Horndon-on-
the- Hill, near Romford, Essex.
Rev. P. A. L. Wood, to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of
Salisbury.
DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMIINT.—The Rev. Richard Heighway Kirby has
been licensed to the perpetual curse/ of Haverthwaite,
in the county of Lancaster, void by the cession of the Rev.
W. H. Hugall. Patron, the incumbent of Colton.
CIIRA.DLE.—The piece of land added to the churchyard
of Cheadle was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, for
interments, on Wednesday last, the 23rd instant.
UPTON.—The ground surrounding the new church now
in course of erection in the township of Upton, in the
parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and intended as a
churchyard or cemetery, has been licensed by the Bishop
of Chester for interments, until consecration, to meet the
wants of the parishioners in that neighbourhood, it having
been duly conveyed and enclosed.

A CHURCH RATE of 6d. in the £1 was carried Last
week for East and West Ham, Plaistow, and Stratford,
Essex, on a poll, by a majority of 571 to 464.
STEWART MAJORIBANKS. ESQ., of Bushey-grove, has
liberally subscribed £lOOO towards the erection of a new
church, in lieu of the old church, in the parish of Bushey,
Herts. Kirkman Hodgson, Esq., of Sparrow's Herne,
Bushey, has likewise subscribed £6OO.
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER of Durham have arranged
to give £5,000 out of the purchase-money for their pro-
perty at Jarrow Slake, required by. the York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway Company for the dock at Jarrow
Slake, for the purpose of building and endowing a church,
&e., near the intended dock.
COLONIAL Bisitors.—On Wednesday the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Cape Town resigned his see, in order
that the diocese might be divided into three bishoprics,
Cape Town, Natal, and Graham's Town. The Rev. Dr.
Colenso and the Rev. Dr. Armstrong will be consecrated
to-morrow to the sees of Natal and Graham's Town, in
the parish church, Lambeth, Surrey.
THE REV. Du. H. B. WI LSON, rector of the united parishes
of St. Mary Aldermary and St. Thomas the Apostle,london,
died on Monday last week, in the 80th year of his age. In a
letter recently addressed to his parishioners, Dr. Wilson ex-
pressed a hope that he might die in the reading-desk or at
the communion table, and that he might be buried in the
church without being taken home; adding, that a London
incumbent, whom lie had for years esteemed as a friend,
had promised to read the Burial service over him.
APPOINTMENTS VACANT.—The rectory of Mount Bures,
Essex, value £4OO a year. The rectory of Epperston,
n ear Sonthwell, value 2320 a-year ; patrons, Hulme Trust ees.
The wardenship of St. Thornas'sTheologicalCollege,Colombe,
value £4OO a year ; patrons, the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Professorship of
English Literature and Modern History in King's College,
London ; patrons, the Council. The office of vice-principal
in the Worcester Diocesan Training College for Masters,
at Saltley, near Birmingham, value £l5O a-year ; vacant at
Christmas. The Rev. C. Sparkes has resigned the Incum-
bency of St. Mary's, Prince's-road, Lambeth.
EPISCOPAL CENSURE.—One of the curates of a popu-
lous parish in Dublin having, it is believed without due
consideration of the subject, affixed his signature to the
protest against the appointment of Bishop Gobat, has had
his license withdrawn by the Archbishop of Dublin. This
mark of ecclesiastical censure has caused great regret to
the friends and parishioners of the rev. gentleman, for a
more efficient or zealous clergyman could not be pointed
to within the whole range of the diocess, and it is to be
hoped that some explanation will be afforded, which may
induce his Metropolitan to reconsider his decision in the
matter. It is reported that the correspondence which has
passed between his Grace and the offending curate will be
shortly laid before the public. The whole affair has cre-
ated considerable interest in Dublin.
PROPOSED ERECTION OP AN ENGLISH CHURCH IN
PARlS.—Several meetings have been lately held in Paris
of lay members of the united church of Great Britain and
Ireland resident in Paris, with the object of obtaining the
1 erection of a church in some measure commensurate with
the requirements of the English resorting there in such
numbers, and creditable to the British nation. The
amount of church accommodation provided in two small
chapels and a room at the embassy is utterly inadequate
to the very large number attached to her communion who
are at all times resident in and passing through the me-
tropolis of France, so that many hundreds are every Sun-
day prevented from joining in public worship who would
otherwise attend. Both the small chapels above alluded
to are private property, and unconsecrated ; and while the
English constantly resident number 10,000, and the
English visitors are seldom fewer than 10,000 more, and
i
sometimes reach 20,000, the accommodation n such chapels,
and in the room in which divine service is performed at
the embassy, does not exceed 2,000, a considerable portion
of which is occupied by American residents, who are very
numerous, and have no place of worship whatever in Paris..
The promoters of the work wish to obtain from govern-
ment a contribution equal to about one-third of the outlay
required to erect a church capable of accommodating not
fewer than 1,500 people, 500 of the sittings to remain for
ever free; and on condition ' that this assistance is given,
the church is to be solely the property of the crown.
ST. Savioun's, LEEDS.—The annual commemoration
commenced on the eve of the festival of SS. Simon and.
Jude, and continued throughout the octave. Holy com-
munion was celebrated daily at 7 30, matins at 11, with a
sermon, evensong at 7 30, also with a sermon. On the Sun-
day within the octave, and on both the festivals, that of
SS. Simon and Jude, and that of All Laints, there was a
second celebration of the holy communion after morning
service. Amongst those who were present were the Rev.
Cecil Wray. Liverpool ; Rev. G. F. S. Perry, Tottington,
Lancashire ; Rev. Parker, Rochdale ; Rev. James Col-
lins, Wilinslow, Cheshire, &c. At the morning services
the attendance was comparatively scanty, almost the
whole population of the parish being poor, and engaged
in the work of the factories ; but the evening services
,were attended by large and most attentive congregations.
The most striking feature about the services of St. Sa-
viour's is the hearty way in which the whole of the people
join in them. They are all choral, and the entire body of
the congregation join in the chants and responses in a
manner most striking and beautiful. It realises the idea
of united worship, and was remarked by many strangers
present as the most congregational service they had ever
been present at. The singing of the Litany on the Sun-
day, when, of course, there was the largest congregation,
reminded us forcibly of St. Ambrose's description of the
united prayers of the Christians of his day, that it re-
sembled the roar of the sea. At St. Saviour's, without
any organ, without any paid choir, with only a few boys
of the parish, taken out of the school, a most effective and
congregational service is performed, and the people are
deeply attached to it.—Leeds Intelligences..
THE ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE relates the following cir-
cumstances occurring at the city church Oxford, on
Sunday week, when the Rev. H. Pritchard,' 8.D., Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, and late Junior Proctor,
preached morning and evening :—" In the evening the
church was crowded, and the heat was so great that to-
wards the close of his sermon, the preacher fainted, and
fell back on the pulpit seat. This circumstance created
quite a sensation among the congregation, but after a
lapse of a few minutes, and with the aid of a little cold
water and a smelling-bottle, the reverend gentleman re-
vived, and was enabled to finish his discourse. It is a
singular circumstance that the subject of the sermon was