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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 ?

Thirdly,—l did not confine the charge of &wing 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.
lam 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. GIEDLESTONE.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. A. E. Aldridge, M.A., to the Incumbency of the district
Citapelry of Worton, in the Parish of Potterne. Wiltshire.
Rev. G. Alston, M.A., to the Rectory of Studland, near
Swanag 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. tox' M.A., to the Curacy of Woburn, Bedfordshire.
Rev. J. Davidson, M.A., to the Curacy of Whitby, Yorkshire.
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., late Incumbent of Kirby Betters, to the
Incumbency of Scraptoft, near Leicester.
Rev. E. H. Gifford, Heal-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.)

RAT. E. Gunner, to the &racy of Batheaston•cum-Catherine,
in the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Rev. G. Hales, 8.C.L., to the Perpetual Curacy of Birch, in
the parish of Middleton, near Manchester.

Rev. C. K. Hay, M.A., late Curate of Thundridge, near
Ware, Harts, 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 Head-Mastership of Alford Grammar
School. Lincolnshire.

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

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1853•

the frailty and decaying nature of the earthly tabernacle,
or human body, contrasted with that which the soul would
enjoy when emancipated from its present mean and
mouldering tenement—the text being taken from the Ist
verse of the sth chapter of the 2d Epistle to the C -
rinthians, ' For we know that, if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: The
discourse was'of a solemn, impressive. and eloquent ch!t-
ratter ; and it was while the preacher was dilating 111
touching terms on the inherent weakness of the human,
frame, and its carrying within itself the very elements of
decay, that his voice faltered, his countenance became
pallid in the extreme, and he sank exhausted in the pulpit'
It was at first feared that the service would have been
brought to an abrupt conclusion, and a painful feeling was
excited throughout the congregation ; but that subsided
when, after a short interval, the preacher rallied, and Was
enabled to conclude, with undiminished power, one of the
ablest discourses that has ever been delivered from the
city pulpit."