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Yorkshire; diocese of

Lear of Dewsbury. Elkstone,
Staffordshire; diocese or : value £72; patron. Vicar
of Alstonfield. L mbeth, St. Mary, Prince's-road. Surrey;
diocese of Winchester; patron, the Rector of Lambeth. Leeds,
St. Mark, Woodhouse; diocese of Ripon : value -el4o, with
residence; patrons, Trustees of Vicarage. Shepscombe; dio-
cese of Gloucester: value ''6s; patron, Vicar of Painswick.
Thornthwaite., Cumberland; diocese of Carlisle value ./EBO ;
potion, the Vicar of crostliwaite and Perpetual Curate of St.
John-in-the-Vale. Warslow, Staffordshire ; diocese of Lich-
field : value £96, with residence ; patron, the Vicar of Alston-
field. —Prineipaiship: Huddersfield College. Chaplaincy:
West Herts Itfirmary, Hemel Hempstead.

The Bishop of Oxford is engaged on a tour of observa-
tion in Switzerland, visiting alternately the Protestant
and Roman Catholic cantons, and taking personal notes
of their relative social condition, with the intention of
using hie information during the next session of Parlia•
ment. His lordship also intends to carry his researches
through the Papal States, as a supplementary confirming
evidence to the celebrated Gladstone Letters.—Post.

The Christian Journal seys :—The Scottish Episcopal
Church is rapidly increasing in numbers and influence.
In 1835 it numbered about 60 congregations ; at present
they are nearly double this. At Millport there is a college
being erected, at great expense, under the patronage of
the Hon. Mr. Boyle, the presumptive heir to the earldom
of Glasgow—so that this place is likely to become the seat
of an educational institution in connection with Episco-
pacy, and probably the residence of the Bishop of the Isles
in whose diocese it is.

CONVERT TO PROTESTANTISM.—A gentleman named
Alfred Clarke, a resident of Taunton, and for many years
a stanch adherent of the Roman Catholic Church, has
publicly renounced that communion, and been openly
received into the fellowship of the Church of England.
The ceremony of renunciation was celebrated at the church
of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, the officiating minister
being the Rev. Temple West. At the conclusion of the
service Mr. West presented the convert with an elegantly
bound Prayer-book of the Reformed Church.

DR. PusEY.—Our good friend of the Standard is
surely rather too sanguine in exulting over Dr. Pusey as a
reclaimed and repentant Protestant. Still we admit, and
that with great satisfaction, that there is a marked im-
provement in the tone of his last published sermon. The
late advances of Popery seem to have produced similar
effects upon him and upon the legislature. Both, after
showing signs of predilection for Popery during a long
series of years, have been obliged, at last, to begin a retro-.
gade movement ; and both, it is satisfactory to observe,
have their faces turned at last in a right direction. The
change in Dr. Pusey is a marked one ; but it is not yet
complete or final.—Morning Herald.

The Oxford Herald contains an appeal, from a corres-
pondent, to the Simeon trustees to take more pains in the
appointment to the immense patronage now in their pos-
session—a self-sought responsibility, which, the writer
justly remarks, equals that of a Bishop " without his call
and the grace which the Church believes is imparted to
him for the work of his ministry." The case referred to
is the vicarage of Farringdon, in Berkshire, to which
about two years since they appointed Mr. Wilson, a
nephew of the Bishop of Calcutta, and a cousin of the
present vicar of Islington, but whose pecuniary difficulties
were so great that he was obliged almost immediately to
leave the place, and the living continued under sequestra-
tion to the time of his death.
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DRRESPONDENCE

—ln the early part of

last weeh _ iviorning
Chronicle such as has seldom appeared in any public
journal. A few months ago it was considered desirable to
make some provision, in the way of church accommoda-
tion, for the numerous foreigners likely to be attracted to
the metropolis by the Great Exhibition. The Bishop of
London was applied to for the use of some of the metro-
politan churches, but, as the foreign Protestant ministers
who were to officiate had not received episcopal ordina-
tion, a legal difficulty arose ; and his lordship, in refusing
the application, was considered to have other, and more
serious objections, whilst he merely availed himself of that
already stated as the ostensible one. However, arrange-
ments were subsequently made, and the use of several
proprietary chapels granted. Shortly after, a person calling
himself W. Francis, and professing to be a " conrertfrom
Dissent to the Established Church," wrote to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, wishing to know whether his Grace
coincided with views attributed to the Bishop of London,
and considered foreign Protestant pastors as " mere lay-
men." His Grace replied in a private note that he
" hardly imagined there were two bishops on the bench,
or one clergyman in fifty throughout the Church, who
would deny the validity of the orders of these clergy
solely on account of their wanting the imposition of epis-
copal hands." Though marked " private," this note was
soon talked about, and ultimately published. Several se-
vere criticisms having been passed upon his Grace's senti-
ments, inquiry was made about his correspondent, when
it was discovered that, instead of being a Protestant
churchman, he was a Roman Catholic named Gawthorn.
And according' to his own confession, in the correspond-
ence already alluded to, he sought the Archbishop's
opinion in order to make use of it against the Church of
England, and aid in the conversion of some of her minis-
ters and members to the Church of Rome. " I cannot,"
writes this specimen of Romish duplicity, when alluding
to the discrepancy between the opinions of the Bishop of
London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and address-
ing himself to a clergyman whom be wished to convert,
"believe that those who wish to be Catholics in heart and
doctrine will much longer put faith or confidence in such
an episcopate and such a system." And having acknow-
ledged that he had availed himself of falsehood in order
to obtain the Archbishop's opinion, he has the audacity to
say be did not think he had done anything wrong; " nor
did others who were better able to judge." 'lhe corre-
spondence also contains a letter from the same individual
to the Bishop of London, under the fictitious signature of
"W. Rees." The instinctive feeling of every candid
reader will prompt him at once to condemn such conduct.
The effect of such exhibitions are already apparent. The
Chronicle says—" If Roman Catholics of authority, if
those who have the care of souls, permit this case to pro-
ceed unnoticed—if they fail, not only to disavow Gaw-
thorn, but to visit him with the most severe ecclesiastical
censure--then we must say advisedly that no condemna-
tion can be too strong, no vituperation too severe for a
system which permits this." _

'espondence was published in t

ATTEMPTED SIMONY IN CHELSEA.—The recent at-
tempt at trafficking in the souls inhabiting this populous
metropolitan parish has met with the following castigation
at the hands of the Daily News:—" Now just as the
Duke of Bedford is the great proprietor of Bloomsbury ;
as the Marquis of Westminster is the owner of Belgravia;
as Lord Fitzhardinge rejoices in the freehold of the Strat-
ton estate to the north of Piccadilly ; as the Duke of Nor-
folk is lord of the Strand in the neighbourhood of St.
Clement Danes ; and as Bishop Blomfield and his lessees
revel in the bricks and mortar of Tyburnia, so the Earl of
Cadogan is the principal owner of Chelsea, its growing
streets and squares ; its narrowing walks, its decreasing
nursery-grounds, and its projecting piers and jetties.
Thence he derives the viscountcy which his eldest son
bears ; and in addition to the wealth and power he has
there, Lord Cadogan is also the patron of the two recto-
ries into which Chelsea is divided. Chelsea and its people
have been bountiful to the Cadogans, and will, as leases
drop in, be more bountiful still. If they be poor, or em-
barrassed, or needy, Chelsea is not to blame ; and, on
every ground, past, present, and future, Chelsea deserves
to be well and handsomely treated by that brave peer of
England and pillar of the state,' its freeholder, Lord Ca-
dogan ; for ' to whom much is given, of him much is re-
quired.' Amongst the aristocracy so placed generally,
there is a growing sense of the responsibilities of their po-
sion and of their great property. They don't, to be sure,
even the best of them, take less than the full value of their
houses • but usually, in agreeing on the rent, they recognise
the duties it involves. To this rule Lord Westminster,
stern in the economy of his boundless wealth, is known to
be a hopeless exception ; and now it turns out that on
Lord Cadogan, or those who act for him, the spirit of mo-
dern improvement has not yet descended. For whilst
Lord Westminster, to save his pocket, keeps a highway in