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dently felt it very deeply. At the conclusion, though the
men had been kept standing for two hours (for we had no
seats), they requested that they might be allowed to sing
the ' Evening Hymn,' which they did with great fervour,
being led by the band of the 33d, which had also chanted
the usual portions of the evening service. The place
where we assembled was one of the upper corridors of the
great Turkish barrack, about a mile from the camp.
" Yesterday, being the Lord's-day, we assembled at the
same place to celebrate the Holy Communion. On this
occasion the majority were officers, the whole number of
communicants being between three and four hundred (we
were not able to ascertain the exact number, on account of
the inconvenience of the place). Morning service had been
already performed by the chaplains in their respective divi-
sions, so that we began at once with the Communion
Service. I gave only a short sermon, or rather a very
brief address, as the congregation were obliged to remain
standing for want of seats; and, with the help of three of
the chaplains, we were able to accomplish the whole
service within a reasonable time. It was impossible for
any one not to feel impressed with this service, nor can it be
easily forgotten by any who were present. Many were
partaking of the Lord's Supper for the first time, and
many most probably for the last. The number of very
young men was remarkable ; and the fervent and devout
manner in which all joined in the prayers and responses
• was both gratifying and affecting. And when at the close
all kneeled upon the ground, the generals and principal
officers in front, and the rest in order behind, I found it
difficult, without emotion, to pronounce the benediction.
" These services are considered, by those who remember
the habits of an English camp in former wars, to be
striking indications of the improved character of the
British army in regard to religion. And I shall be thank-
ful if they contribute, in however small degree, to advance
the improvement."
In the remaining portion of his letter the bishop deve-
lopes a plan which he has formed for the erection of an
English church at Constantinople. The want of a proper
church for the British residents has long been seriously
felt, and the religion of the English nation has
been so completely cast into the shade, that doubts have
been expressed by the Turks whether we have any religion
at all.
We learn that the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge intends to grant aid towards the -erection of
such a church at Constantinople as may be suitable to the
1 character of the English nation.

Rrrow.—A new stained glass window, representing our
Lord's command, "Go ye and teach all nations," has just
been placed in Ripon Cathedral, at a t ost of £1,250.

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN has giventhe valuable rectory
'of Warrington, vacant by the preferment of the Hon. and
Rev. H. Powys to the see of Sodor and Man, to the Rev.
W. Quekett, M.A., incumbent of Christ Church, Watney-
'Street, St. George's-in-the-East, London.
EPISCOPAL LABOURS.—The Lord Bishop of Exeter has
3ust completed the Visitation and Confirmation tour of
the southern and western portions of his diocese. Corn-
rnencing on the 18th of April, hislordship held a confirma-
tion at Kingsbridge, and since then consecrated two new
churches and six churchyards, and confirmed nearly six
thousand children, up to the 18th instant, when an ordi-
nation took place at the Cathedral Church, Exeter, and an
unusually large number of candidates were admitted into
holy orders.

MILITARY Co-sr-ncrATIGN.—On Sunday, June 18, the
Bishop of London confirmed 800 of the household brigade,
at the Royal Military Chapel, St. James's. The Rev. R.
W. Browne, chaplain to Her Majesty's forces in London,
and the Rev. C. G. Niceolay, assistant-chaplain, officiated.
The bishop's address was most impressive, and the•&-
-Ineanour of the men very attentive and serious. On this
and three former occasions the bishop has confirmed about
1,000 of the guards. After the service, 300 school children
lined the sides of the .clapel, and the bishop made-e' kind
and affectionate address to the masters and mistresses on
their important duties and responsibilities.
C.A.PB Tovra-.-4n* reference to certain statements which
have appeared in'the Record relative to the Church of St.
Mary's, Port Elizabeth, the Rev. H. Badnell, Examining
Chaplain to the Bishop of Cape Town, has written to the
lournal in question, to deny the correctness of the alleged
facts. He says:—" The Port Elizabeth Mcfcury, the
Paper you quote'from, and the chief organ of the dissen-
tients, is editeirby an active Independent. Mrvar'of what
has recently happened at Port Elizabeth would, no doubt,
find its solution in this somewhat significant fatt. Certain
it is, that the 'congregation of St. Mary's,' according to
any ordinarruse of terms, is on the same side with the
Bishop and Clergyman of the parish, and that the condi-
tion of 'the English Church, as a body, has never' been so
flourishing or hopeful, at Port Elizabeth, as within the
last few-months,"

INCORPORATED 011IIRCII BUILDINCT SOCIETY.—This
Society met an Monday last, the Archbishop-ef Canterbury
in 'the chair. The committee had before them 25 applica-
tions for assistance. Grants of money *ere made in aid
of 'the 'follorAng objects :—Building churches at Nether-
field, in the parish of Battle; Wrexham,. Denbighshire ;
llatfield Heath, near Harlow ; Devoran, near Truro ; Up-
Der Tooting,-Surrey; Ambleside. Weshnorlend ; rebuilding
churches at Heptonstall, near Halifax ; Long Load, Somer-
set; and eropton, near Pickering, Yorkshire ; enlarging,'
or otheriise increasing the seat-room in bile churches at
Newark,: Notts ; Spofforth, near Wetherhy ; Leake, near'
Thir§k ; Islip, near Thrapstone ; St. Ives, Hunts; Debach,
'Sear Woodbridge; and Steventon, near Abingdon. .The
'Sleeting of this society in the next month 'will be the last
for the present session.
SACRILEGE. Some few days since, says' the • South
Eastern Gazelle, being in the ancient town of Sandwich,
And calling-upen a tradesman there, we were offered by him
two fine old'flagons, and upon our expressing astonish-
rnent at seeing such things thus offered for -sale, we were
informed that they had recently belongeffto the church
of St. Peter's. .Still greater wasuour astoniklunent to learn
that the.churehwardens had sold them through a lack of
funds. Really a want of cash cannot be stifficient justifi-
cation for such an act; and it surpasses the act of the
Worthfleet chuochwardens some ten years since, who tore
1p many ancient brasses in that church and sold them for
cld metal.
PHoPAHA:TIOV OF THE GOSPEL.—OH 'Monday, the
19th, the annual meeting of the Rithmoxictbranch of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was held at the
Pestle Hotel. 'The room was crowded in every part, not
less than nine hundred being present, and.the chair was
r4tEen by the Rev: Harry Dupuis, the vicar. -The Bishop
.°F New- Zealand gave a full and interesting account of his
diocese, and made a forcible appeal to all present to sup-
Port more ably and liberally the great missionary and
colonial works of our Church. The meeting-was after-
Wards addressed-ly Mr. Roundell Palmer, the' Bishop of
Adelaide, the Rev. Mr. M`Dougal, of Borneo.; the Rev.
Thomas Jackson, Vicar of Stoke Newington; and the Rev.
lenry Mackenzie, vicar of St. Martin's4n-the-Fields.
46 .17s. sd. was collected at the doors.

~LSCTION OF .A BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS.—A
.440- d'aire having passed the Great Seal, empowering
the Dean and Chapter of Wells to elect a bishop for the
see of Bath and 'Welk., the Dean and Canons, residentiary
and ;non-residentiary, assembled in Great Chapter on
,4-turaday week for that purpose. An unusual tegree of
olitereit was excited on this occasion, from the..eircum-
4anee of this being the first instance, during more-than
O 0 years, on which the non-residentiary prebendaries-and
exercised , their statutable right of voting at
the election of a bishop. The proceedings were formal,
eeptiog a protest by'Prebendary Downes Willis against
practice of translating bishops from one see to
but he hased his opposition to the election on no personal
l'ounds. The votes were then taken with the -usual
forms,
when 13 were found to be in favour of the Lord
Bishop of'Sodor and Man, and 1 against. The Dean then
decreed that the .Right Hon. and Right Rev. John Baron
Auckland, Bishop of Sodor and Man, was elected
Bishop of Bath and Wells ;.and the name of Prebendary:
Jo:limes Willis, as the only, dissentient, was inserted in
thg body of the:certificate.
A. NEW Bisuoraic.—At a -meeting of the Newcastle
Town Council, :held on Wednesday, the following motion
,
submitted by Sir John.Fife,cai alderman of the town,:
1,. That this Council adopts a. memorial -to the Ecclesias-
'&4l Commissioners, and to the Secretary of State for the
"Zorne Department, showing that the Diocese of Durham
,too extensive for its proper adrnixiistration, that it is
`4Pedient to institute a Diocese ,of :Northumberland, to
ttlrehase the Vicarage of Newcastle 'from the Bishop of
'lisle, to make St. Nicholas's Church, in Newcastle, the
Cathedral, the Vicar.a Dean, four of the senior clergy
Canons, and to raise Neuseastle-upOn-Tyne to the dignity
a Metropolitan City:" Sir John, in introducing his
'lotion, said, on purely secular gronndsit,would be appa-
te,:tt to every one that there wanted a more equal distri-
, tion of the emoluments the Church, and that the
;;,I:esent Diocese of Durham was too extensive for the
I;`,Pervision of one individual, ,containing as it,did a popu-
,un
n of four hundred and eleven thousand, and in
Orthumberland three hundred and three thousand ; and
ling at the large revenues' of the clergy of Durham,
st for the whole of the clergy is Newcastle there was
a sum of £1,500 per annum, it was evident that the
IRlsien
was a very unequal one. fhen.the See of Car-
was instituted, the Rector's tidies of Newcastle were
Aken to aggraudiselhat Bishopric,. It was a matter of
tt4terest to every man who had property or business inthe
Ovia, that £15,000 a-year, which had been divided, should
spent in Northumberland, instead of part of it going
tho part to the principality of Wales, and part to
to county of Cornwall. With reference, said Sir John,
41 our grand "old church St. Nicholas, there was
;nando
41,1'e worthy in the empire of being a cathedral
k•uougli Newcastle was not so large as other towns that
):4'ht put in a claim for secular honours, yet it had impor-
t claims that they had not.• It was an assize town—it
Lae now the second port in the empire, for it exceeded
Lerpool in tonnage, ships, and men. The motion was
Zo ded
n bdiy Mr. Aldermannts Ingledew, and adopted, with
"II two ssentie,

4,PEOPLE go according to their brains. If these lie in
teir head, they study ; if in the stomach, they eat ; if
sile heels, they dance.
Oussra. Ix 1826.—Society at Odessa seemed as free and
qrestrained as in London ; and there was nothing appa-
qlt to a stranger from which it could at this time be
kisPeeted that a conspiracy existed to destroy the Emperor
ktexander and subvert the government of the country.
Qa. public ball, however, a circumstance occurred to me
night, which arrested my attention, and excited a
th,!Dicion that the a ffairs of the country were not in so
fo-:et a state 23 the surface indicated. After conversing
tpla.a time with Count de Witt, Prince Serge Volhonsky
OPered in my ear, " Take care what you say ; he is the
tiO3eror's spy ;" Which afterwards was actually proved to
t the case.—Lee's Last Days of Alexander, and First
41Y of Nicholas.
f,„`v,,, uo WOULD DE WITTIOrT A. NEWSPAPER ?—A man
h?S's Dr. Franklin) as often gets two dollars for the one
3Pends on informing his mind, as he does for a dollar
44 lays out in any other way. A man eats a pound of
ptia'r, and it is gone, and the pleasure he has enjoyed is
tt% ed; but the information he gets from a newspaper is
lairtred up in his mind, to be used whenever occasion or
th`e4nation calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of
1101 an, or two men ; it is the wisdom of the age, and of
ages too. A family without a newspaper is always
Kfle an age behind the times in general information; be-
41q,,S,they can never think much, nor find much to talk,
And then there are little ones growing up in igno-
Ve, without any taste for reading. Besides all these
there's the wife, who, when the work is done, hag to
t;el,' vvn with her hands in her lap, and nothing to amuse
tirh4vert er nd from the toils and cares of the
"tic circlhe, Who then would be without a newspaper ?