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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
character of the English nation.

RIPON.—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 cost of £1,250.

THE EARL or ABERDEEN has given the 'valuable rectory
Of Warrington, vacant by the preferment ,Z) f the Hon. and
Rev. H. Powys to the see of Sodor and Man, to the Rev.
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 or his diocese. Com-
lneneing on the 18th of April, his lordship held a confirma-
tion at Kingsbridge, and since then consecrated two new
churches and six churchyprds, and confirmed nearly six
thousand children, up to the 18th :Instant, when an ordi-
nation tool place at the Cathedral Church, Exeter, and an
Unusually large number of candidates were admitted into
holy orders.
MTLITARY CONFIRMATION.—Dn Sunday, June 18, the
Bishop of London confirmed 3e Yof the household brigade,
nt the Royal Military Chapel ,:St. James's. The R. R.
M
W. Browne, chaplain to Her ajesty's forces in London,
Ana tile Rev. C. G. Nicolay, assistant-chaplain, officiated.
The bishop's address was most impressive, and the de-
Tneanour 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 chapel, and the bishop made a kind
and affectionate address teethe masters and mistresses on
their important duties and responsibilities.
CAPE Tow.—ln reference to certain statements which
have appeared in the Record relative to the Church of St.
IVlary's, Port Elizabeth, the Rev. H. Badnell, Examining
Chaplain to the Bishop of Cape Town, has written to the
Journal in question, to deny the correctness of' the alleged
facts. He says :—" The Port Elizabeth Mercury, the
Raper you quote from, and the chief organ of the dissen-
tients, is edited by an active Independent. Much of what
has recently happened at Port Elizabeth woild, no doubt,
find its solution in thissomewhat significantlact. Certain
it is, that the ' congregation of St. Mary's,' • according to
any ordinary use 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
nourishing or hopefil, at Port Elizabeth, as within the
last few months,"
INCORPORATED C'EURCII BUILDING "SOCIETY.—This
Society met on Monday last, the Archbishop of Canterbury
al the chair. The committee had before them 25 applica-
tions for assistance. Grants of money 'were made in aid
(4 the following objects :—Building churches at Nether-
4eld, in the parish of Battle; Wrexham, Denbighshire ;
Hatfield Heath, near Harlow ; Devoran, near Truro : Up-
per Tooting, Surrey; Ambleside. Westmorland ; rebuilding
churches at Heptonstall, near Halifax; Long Load, Somer-
aet; and Cropton, near Pickering, Yoi=kshire ; enlarging,
La' otherwise increasing the. seat-room in the churches at
Newark, Notts ; Spofforth, near Wethcrby ; Leake, near
ihirsk ; Islip, near Thrapstone ; St. his, Hunts ; Debach,
hear Woodbridge; and Steventon, near Abingdon. The
123eeting of this sobiety in the next month will be the last
Mr the present session.
SACRILEGE. --,Eome few days since, says the South
id:astern Gnzette, being in the ancient town of Sandwich,
,411 d calling upon a tradesman there, we were offered by him
qv° fine old flagons, and upon our -expressing astonish-
kent at seeing such things thus offered for sale, we were
informed that they had recently belonged to the church
of St. Peter's. Still greater was our astonishment to learn
that the churchwardens had sold them through a lack of
funds. Really a want of cash 'cannot be sufficient justifi-
Ntion for such an act; and it surpasses the act of the
!orthfleet churchwardens some ten years since, who tore
q,ll many ancient brasses in that church and sold them for
- 'al meal. - - ,

13110PAG.A.TION OF THE GOSPEL.—On Monday, the
~49th, the annual meeting of the Richmond branch of the
society for the Propagation of the Gospel was held at the
F4stle Hotel. The TOM was crowded in every part, not
taken
than nine hundtvd being present, and the chair was
Laken by the Rev. Harry Dupuis, the vicar. The Bishop
Of New Zealand gave a full and interesting account of his
ecese, and made a forcible appeal to all present to sup-
Port more ably and 'liberally the great missionary and
!clonial works of our Church. The meeting was after-
bards addressed by 'Mr. Roundell Palmer, the Bishop of
Adelaide, the Rev. Mr. M`Dougal, of Borneo; the Rev.
iThomas Jackson,. vicar of Stoke Newington ; and the Rev.
lienry Mackenzie, 'Vicar of St. *Martin's-in-the-Fields.
"c's6 17s. sd. was collected at the 'doors.
ELECTION OF A. &GIMP OF BATH AND WELLS.—A
d'e'lire having passed the Great Seal, empowering
the Dean and Chapter -.of Wells to -elect a bishop for the
'ee of Bath and Wells, the Dean and- Canons, residentiary
and
Tnon-residentiary, assembled in Great Chapter on
hursday week for that purpose. An unusual degree of
,merest was excited on -.this occasion, from the circum-
.L'allee of this being the first Instance, .during more than
Zu years, on which the non-residentiaryprebendaries and
'i•.ons had exercised their statutable right of voting at
5 election of a bishop. The proceedings were formal,
tilleepting a 'protest by Prebendary DoWnes Willis against
tint: e!practice of translating bishops from one see to another ;
be based his opposition to the election on no personal
rftuds. The votes were Tthen taken with the usual
Pris,.when 13 were found to 'be -in favour of the Lord
01'shop of Sodor and Man, and 1 against. The Dean then
eereed that the. Right Hon. and Right Rev. John Baron
Rhn Baron
'Bishop of Sodor and Man, was elected
d:holxof Bath and Wells ; and the name of Prebendary
Wnes ',Willis, as the only dissentient,.was inserted in
the body. of the certificate.
NEW BISHOPHIC.—At a meeting of the Newcastle
Ofin Council, held on Wednesday, the-following motion
Submitted by Sir John Fife, an alderman oflthe town :
I-That this Council adopts a memorial to the „Eeelesias-
CommisAioners.. and to the Secretary of-Stain for the
konie Department, showing that the Diocese of Durham
ton extensive for its proper administration, that it is
dint to institute a Diocese of Northumberland, to
F,tirehage the Vicarage of Newcastle from the Bishop of
441'liSle., to make St. Nicholas's Church, in Newcastle, the
Othedral, the Viear a Dean four of the senior .elergy
pitllollS and to raise Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the dignity
Metropolitan :City." Sir John, in introducing Ms
Otion, said, on purely secular grounds it would be apps.
Cat to every one that there wanted a more equal distri-
ption of the emoluments of the Church, and that the
resent Diocese of Barham was too extensive for the
141)ervision of one individual, containing as it did a popu-
-11:1 of four hundred and eleven thousand, and in
I:ttliumberland three hundred and three thousand ; and
qlling at the large revenues of the clergy of Durham,
tim st for the whole of the clergy in Newcastle there was
a sum of X 1,500 per-annum, it was evident that the
rislon was a very unequal:cue. • When the See of Car-
-1 1e was instituted, the ]lector's tithes of Newcastle were
mken, to aggrandise that Bishopric. It was a matter of
tMerest to every man who had property or business in the
ks.wn, that £15,000 a-year, wbich had been divided, should
t',7,4Pellt in Northiimberland, instead of part of it going
lb burham, part to the principality of Wales, and part to
t,i.county of Cornwall. With reference, said Sir John,
b,„•our grand -old church St. Nicholas, there was none
tre worthy in the empire of being a cathedral ; and
ellgh NeWcaktle was' not so large as other towns that
4;,%41t Ptlt in a. claim for secular honours, yet it had impor-
i,z claims that they had not. It was an
.assize town—it
ti now the second port in the empire, for it exceeded
0'1)001 in tonnage, ships, and men. The motion was
qrlded by Mr; Alderman Ingledew, and adopted, with
3' two dissentients.

%e.OPLE go according to their brains. If these lie in
,_l* head, they study; if in the stomach, they eat; if
bue heels, they dance.
tkt SSIA. IN 1826.— Society at Odessa seemed as free and
4restrained as in London ; and there was nothing apps.t
IN to a stranger from which it could at this time be
feted that a conspiracy existed to destroy the Emperor
(\k Pander and subvert the government of the country.
tQlea Public ball, however, a circumstance occurred to me
414 Ilight, which arrested my attention, and excited a
yveleion that the affairs of the country were not in so
roet a state as the surface indicated. After conversing
tV time with Count de Witt, Prince Serge Volhonsky
LlsPered in my ear, " Take care what you say; he is the
i,'`ttli,leror's spy ;" which afterwards was actually proved to
e case.—Lee's Last Days of Alexander, and First
Vs of Ar•
zcholas.
(14•1'110 WOULD 33E WITIIOUT A NEWSPAPER P—A man
Vs Dr. Franklin) as often gets two dollars for the one
It spends on informing his mind, as he does for a dollar
Van out in any other way. A man eats a pound of
4102.. and it is gone, and the pleasure he has enjoyed is
ci; but the information he gets from a newspaper is
tk* tu.ed up in.his mind, to he used whenever occasion or
ttit'llation calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of
qztbaan, or two men ; it is the wisdom of the age, and of
~Att ages too. A family without a newspaper is always
age behind the times in general information ; be-
,s4s„they can never think much, nor find much to talk
tl,"'• And then there are little ones growing up in igno-
without any taste for reading. Besides all these
there's the wife, who, when the work is done, has to
o',l:ru with her hands in her lap, and nothing to amuse
NlZ,4l.ve.rt her mind from the toils and cares of the
circle, Who then would be without a newspaper ?