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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. Dr. G. Aspinall, to the Incumbency of the Episcopal
Church at Dnffus, Morayshire.
Rev. R. Dellis, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. James's
Chase►, Jersey.
Rev. T. tl. Chase. A.M., to the Perpetual Curacy of Lyd-
brook, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
Rev. J. F. Coils, D.D., to the Rectory of Laindon-with-
Basildon, Essex.
Rev. F. H. Curtis, to the Sub-mastership of Norwich
Grammar School.

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Rev. J. W. Ellaby, M.A., to Curacy of Mary-le-port, Bristol.
Rev. H. I'. Fletcher, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bicker,
Lincolnshire.

Rev. G. Fritche, M.A., to the Curacy of Littleover and
Fend-rn, Derbyshire, and to the Chaplaincy of the County
Lunatic Asylum.

Rev. J. F. Greensmith, M.A., to the Curacy of Charlton
Kings, near Cheltenham.
Rev. Frederick Harvey Freeth, late Chanter in the Collegiate
Church of Cumbrae, to nn Honorary Canonry, next in rank
to the late Provost.

Rev. ➢i. Hathaway, 8.A., Incumbent of St. George's
Church, Darlaston, Wednesbury, to the Chaplaincy of
Walsall Union.

Rev. J. Hawksley, 8.A., to the Curacy of Aylburton and
Glotfcesterslnre.

Rev. E. HOare, M.A., to the Incumbency of Trinity Chuich,
Tunbridge Wells.

Rev. E. E. Jones, to the Incumbency of the newly-con-
secrated church of St. Paul, Gorsedd, Flintshire.
Rev. J. Kynaston, A.M., to the Curacy of St. Briavel's,
Gloucester.

Rev. J. H. Lang, M.A., to be Chaplain of her Majesty's
ship Arrogant.
Rev. E. Layng, M.A., to the Curacy of Down Hatherley,
Gloucester.
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Rev. J. D. Mannington, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's,

Rev. A. Pott, M.A., Vicar of Cuddesden, to be Principal
of the new Diocesan Theological College in the diocese of
Oxford._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Rev. H. G. Randall, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. Peter's,
Bishport, near Bristol.
Rev. A. Sedgwick, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Thomas's
Church, Preston. . . .

Rev. C. V. H. Sumner, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the
Queen, and Curate of Gaston-with-West Cliffe, near Dover,
to the Rectory of Ringwould. near Deal.
Rev. D. Travers, M.A., to the Rectory of Swanage, Dorset-
shire.

Rev. W. A. Voss, 8.A., to the Curacy of Little Tintern,
near Chepstow.
Rev. G. C. White (late Provost of Cumbrae), to an Hono-
rary Canonry in the Collegiate Church, and to rank next to
the Dean of the Diocese. _ _

Rev. W. H. Wilson, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Bertley,
near Ilexham.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFEEMENTS.—The Rev. Henry Francis William
Ralph, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Nether-Knutsford,
Cheshire, on the nomination of the Rev. Robert Clowes,
the Vicar.—The Rev. Thomas Staples Pepper, to the
Stipendiary Curacy of Ormskirk, Lancashire, on the
nomination of the Rev. Joseph Bush, the Vicar.—
The Rev. Robert Vincent Sheldon, to the Curacy of
St. Matthew's Church, Liverpool, on the nomination of
the Venerable Jonathan Brooks and the Rev. Augustus
Campbell, Rector of Liverpool, on the resignation of the
Rev. R Walker. _ _

NORTHWICII UNION WousuousE.—The chapel re-
cently erected for the accommodation of the inmates of
the Northwich Union Workhouse has been licensed by
the Bishop of Chester for the performance of divine service.
MALPAS.—The land given by T. T. Drake, Esq., as an
addition to the churchyard of this parish, was consecrated
by the Bishop of Chester on Friday last, the 11th instant.
LOWER WHITEEY.—The yard or cemetery recently
attached to this chapel is to be consecrated by the Bishop
of Chester to-day (Tuesday), the 16th instant.

THE ARCHDEACONTLY OF MONTREAL has been conferred
on the Rev. H. M. Lower, late curate of St. Paul's, Wol-
verhampton. It has been accepted by that gentleman.
THE NEW BISTIOP.—The Right Rev. Dr. Higgin,
Bishop of Limerick, has been translated to the See of
Derry and Raphoe, rendered vacant by the death of Dr.
Ponsonby. The Rev. Dr. H. Griffin, rector of Clonfeacle,
in the diocese of Armagh, and formerly a fellow of Trinity
College, has been selected as the successor of Dr. Higgin
in the See of Limerick.

CONSECRATION OF THE NEW AFRICAN BISHOPS.—St.
Andrew's Day has been appointed for the consecration of
the Rev. Dr. J. W. Colenso, of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, bishop designate of Natal, and the Rev. Dr. John
Armstrong, of Lincoln College, Oxford, bishop designate of
Graham's Town. The officiating prelates will be the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Oxford, and the Bishop of Norwich.
PRESENTATIONS VACANT.—The Professorship of
Classical Literature in Haileybury College ; patrons, the
Chairman and Directors of the East India Company.
The Rectory of Deal, Kent ; value, £5OO a-year ; patron,
the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Incumbency of
Peterstone-Wentloog, near Newport, Monmouthshire;
value, £BO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of
Bristol. The Vicarage of Rumneg, near Cardiff ; value,
£BO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
The Chaplaincy of the House of Correction, Beverley ;
patrons, the visiting justices.
SONS OF THE CLERGY.—At the Annual Court of the
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, on Thursday, the
Archbishop of Canterbury was re-elected president; Lord
Denman vice-president; Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P.,
Mr. Alderman Copeland, and Mr. Freshfield, M. P, joint
treasurers ; and 42 noblemen and gentlemen, Clergy and
laity, headed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, were elected members of the Court of Assistants
for the year ensuing. During the past year the governors
have distributed 15,000/, among necessitous Clergymen,
their widows, unmarried daughters, and children. The
corporation will celebrate its bicentenary festival next year.
v.n..,..EAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. The monthly
meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Christian
Knowledge was held on Tuesday, the Lord Bishop of
Capetown in the chair. The report states that the society
has, since 1840, made grants to the amount of upwards of
£BO,OOO in aid of colonial bishoprics, cathedrals, and
colleges alone. During the year 1853 the income of the so-
ciety, though equal to that of former years, has been found
insufficient to meet its greatly increased expenditure, the
audit sheet showing a deficiency upon the transactions of the
year amounting to 1:5,684. Between April, 1852,and April,
1853, the number of books and tracts issued has amounted
to 4,284,310, namely—Bibles, 163,799; New Testaments,
79,483 ; Prayer Books, 324,928 ; other books, 1,154,253 ;
tracts, &c., 2,571,847. Since the year 1733, when the
Society began to report its issues of books and tracts, it
has circulated 110 millions of publications. Translations
of the Scriptures have been made during the, past year into
French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Maltese, Polish,
Arabic, the Ogybwa language, the language of New Zea-
land, and the language of the Arawak Indians. The
Prayer Book has been published in French, Dutch, Ger-
man, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Modern Greek,
Modern Armenian, Maltese, Arabic, Turkish, Amhanck,
New Zealand, Ogybwa, and Muncey.

THE REV. DR. M'NEILE AND THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW

THE following letter has been addressed by the Very
Rev. W. D. Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff, to the Rev. Dr.
M`Neile, in reply to his letter which we published last
last week " Llandaff, November 8.

"Dear Sir,—As you have thought it advisable to publish
in the Times a letter, heavily criminating a most dear and
valued son of mine for an article in the Edinburgh Review
on church parties, which you attribute to him, I trust you
will allow me in return to communicate, through the same
channel, some observations, which may, I trust, plead his
justification. The different schools of theological opinion
prevailing at the time in our country must surely be ad-
mitted, on all hands, to form a very fit object for investi-
gation in a publication which professes to exhibit to the
public a general review of the opinions, &c., which have
been introduced to the public mind.
" In executing such a task, it appears as difficult to treat
such a subject without a general classification of the
several prominent schools as it would be to draw up an
elementary view of the Greek philosophy without a pre-
vious specification of the various sects of the Lyceum,
Academy, Portico, &c. I conceive that, in treating of
these schools and their adherents, much must depend on
general impressions which have been conveyed to the
judgment by various channels, although the critic may
have probably never thought at the time of keeping a
journal of the several items on which the general opinion
was founded. In some instances the opinion may in part
have been derivative from the judgments inculcated by
parental education ; and I feel it very probable that I may
myself have been the party to mislead my son—l myself
(while warmly attached to the old evangelical party of
Wilberforce and the Christian Observer, which all who
have known my Oxford life know that I embraced at a
period when to do so was almost to attach a black letter to
one's name in the eyes of the most influential clerical party,
i. e. from 1810 to 1820.) Yet I must confess that the pages
of the Record from its commencement nearly were regarded
by me with strong regret, and, as I thought, deserved
reprobation. I certainly thought that it often took a very
objectionable view, tending to discountenance those prac-
tical exhortations to morality which the Apostles them-
selves never shrunk from delivering with the greatest
plainness, fulness, and boldness. I have not preserved
any reference to individual passages, but I have a general
recollection of one which will sufficiently explain what I
mean. I distinctly recollect a paragraph in which that
paper expressed regret that our communion service had
collected into one series a body of scriptural texts like
those which accompany the collection of alms ; fearing
that such a collection and concentration of all these texts
might give an undue weight to the imporauce and meri-
torious character of such acts of benevolence. Now, the
scruple is in its motive certainly not to be condemned ;
but yet, the allowing any scruple of our own minds to
lead us to suppress any portion of the teaching of our
Lord and his inspired followers has, I think, a clear Anti-
nomian tendency—tendency I say, because the reviewer
and myself would equally feel averse from asserting, or
believing even, that the Recordites are capable of wilfully
and openly proclaiming doctrines which, in their naked
form, they would probably themselves shrink from, as
hostile to the very foundations of Christian truth.
" I have given this particular instance, although I
cannot, at present, exactly refer to it ; but if the Record
shall deny that it has ever published a paragraph substan-
tially agreeing with my citation, I shall willingly go to
the expense of having its columns searched and re-pub-
lishing its very words.
" I must now proceed to a second point, in which I shall
be most reluctant to say anything which may hurt your
feelings, for my son has always taught me to look with
high respect (in exact accordance with the note in the
Review) on your general influence of character in the
second commercial city of our empire; and yet I fear that
I may have been the very person who first taught him to
consider you as a leader of the violent and extravagant
ultra-Evangelical party. I never, indeed, thought that
you meant deliberately to inculcate unchristian views, but
I thought you very commonly suffered yourself to be
hurried into the most intemperate and indiscreet language.
I will mention the circumstance which first impressed me
with this opinion ; it was the first time when I ever heard '
you speak of the Bible Society. I cannot give you the
exact date, but I believe it was between 1830 and '35 ; the
place was London, and, therefore, I suppose, as I am not
familiar with any other London platforms given to that
cause, the locality was in Exeter-hall.
" The speech I allude to, of course—not having taken
any note of at the time—l cannot give very minutely ; but
I believe I report its substance and, particularly the
Phrases I object to, very exactly.