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in the first instance ; but no less than £45,000 will bi

quired to carry out the intentions of Miss Coutts. The
site chosen is in Rochester-row, opposite Emery Hill's
Almshouses. A piece of ground has been cleared for.thp
new church; the first stone of which will be laid in a few
weeks. Adjoining the ground is a chapel, lately belong-
ing to the sect.ealled Irvingites, and three houses adjoin-
ing. The three houses have been purchased by Miss

FoUtts at an expense of £7,000, and the eliapel,,which is
a remarkable plain one, for £3,000 more. A district has

already been assigned to the new church, and the Irvingite
chapel was re-opened, under a licence from the Bishop 'of
nn, on Monday, when divine service was solemnised,
ime, according to the forms of the Esti

blished Churc tie officiating clergyman was the Rev.
William Tennant, M.A., the appointed minister of the
district. The cost of the site, including the buildings,
will be £lO,OOO, the endowment of the church £lO,OOO
more, and £25,000 will be expended in the erection of the
church, schools, and parsonage-house.
ADDRESS TO THE BISHOP OF RIPON.—An address will
be immediately presented by the Evangelical Clergy of
this town to the Bishop of Ripon, on the subject of the
recent conversions to the Roman Catholic Church. It
remarks with just severity on the principles commonly
known as Tractarian or Puseyite ; and it cannot fail to be
felt by Dr. Hook, who has been mainly instrumental in
introducing and snreksulincr thnan tinotrinpa In this nniah_

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bourhood. Dr. Hook endeavoured on Sunday last to
exonerate himself from all blame in the matter. We do
not suspect the Doctor of ever favouring the gross corrup-
tions of Popery ; but all persons holding evangelical opi-
nions, both in and out of the Establishment, have seen to
what his opinions tended. The author of " Hear the
Church," of " The Dictionary of the Church," and of the

. ,
.
Aetter apologising for and declaring substantial agree-
ment in Mr. Newman's Jesuitical Tract, No. 90, cannot
shift from himself the imputation of attaching that false
and dangerous authority to the Fathers, to tradition, and
I 1 to apostolical succession, which are the 'chief appeal and

reliance of Popery 'itself. We have ourselves said over
and over again that Puseyism Contained the essential prin-
ciples of Popery ; and the result has proved to be true.
We hope the recent events will he a warning to the High
Church, whether strictly Puseyite or not, that there can
he no solid foundation for any church in human authority,
however high and venerable, but only in the New Testa-
ment.—Leeds Illercury.—[The address is signed by thir-
teen clergymen, among whom are the Rev. James Faw-
cett and the Rev. W. Sinclair.]
PERVERSION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME.—ANOTHER
JESUITICAL PLOT.—Considdrable excitement has been,
caused in Leeds, by a clergyman and three other members
of the Church of England, having left the pale of the
Establishment, and gone over to the Church of Rome,
into which they were received at St. Ann's Roman Catho-
lic chapel, in Leeds, on Friday week, by the Rev. H.
Walmsley, the senior priest of that place o.fs_twal:hi
The persons who have gone over to
stheßmm Church
of Corpus Christi
are, the Rev. R. G. M I _}.l.Clllll _lin -
in the county of Durham, and re-
'lll;V. Wilkinson, 8.A., who belongs to
with
tr
ao;:,,sifeiorr
Lc:
the Rev. Mr.vAir'aortill,atsilebjenarFfOeotll.So'swto. mSaevitoiUmre's residing
Leeds
aceived his degrees at the Durham University, and who has
also been residing with Mr. Ward ; Mr. Edward Bruce, of
Leeds ; and Mr. D. H. Haigh, who lately offered to give
£lO,OOO for the building and endowing of a church in
Leeds ; and the offer having been acceptd by the Bishop.
of the diocese, the foundation stone of the intended edifice
was laid a few weeks ago ; but we suppose, whether or
not he has paid any of the money over for the purposes of
erecting the church, that it will not be erected, now that
he has seceded from the Protestant Church. On the fol-
lowing Sunday a sermon was preached by the Vicar of
Leeds, declaring against the whole transaction. But we
cannot discover in any portion of the doctor's discourse
any censure of Tractarianism, which has notoriously been
the true agent on the occaasio n. It would be not un-
becoming in him to speak a little more explicitly on this
point. But it must be acknowledged that, if he is inclined
to shelter himself behind authority, he has quite enough
of it for his example. What can be more astonishing
than to see Tractarianism still unrebuked, still unsen-
tenced, nay, winked at, nay, protected, nay patronised ?
The Bishop of Ripon has visited Leeds to make every in-
quiry into the Matter.