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in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey.—Rev. C.
B. Lockwood, M.A., to be chaplain to the Thingo Union
Workhouse, Suffolk.—Rev. E. H. Barnett. M.A., to the
curacy of Twyford, Hants.—Rev. W. 0. A. Dupre, to
the curacy of Ashmore, Dorset.—Rev. J. Bliss,
to the curacy of Rushall, Wilts.—Rev. J. Stewart, to the
curacy of Longhorn, Suffolk.—Rev. B. Spurrell, 8.D.,
to the curacy of Deddington, Oxon.—Rev. L. B. Clot-
terbuck, to the curacy of Stanley, in Wakefield, York-
shire.—Rev. G. W. Robinson, to the curacy of Elland,
in Halifax.—Rev. A. R. Webster, to the curacy of
Broughton, Yorkshire.—Rev. F. Tonkin, to the curacy
of West Lulworth and Burton, in the parish of Winfrith
Newburgh, Dorset.—Rev. F. Fisher, to the curacy of
Highway and Fozham chapels, in Bromhill, Wilts.—Rev.
A. B. Barnett, to the assistant curacy of Alderbury, with
Petton and Farley chapels. Wilts.—Rev. M. Holmes, to
the curacy of Hasilbury Bryant, Dorset.—Rev. R. N.
Ward, M.A., to the curacy of St. Martin, Salisbury.—
Rev. C. A. Hall. to the curacy of Yafforab, in the parish
of Danby Wiske, Yorkshire.—Rev. J. Arrowsmith, to
the curacy of Trinity church, Wakefield.—Rev. A. B.
Nicholls, to the curacy of Haworth, Yorkshire.—Rev. J.
Weighell, M.A., of Pembroke College, to the rectory of
Cheddingtoo, Bucks.—Rev. N. P. E. Lathbury, 8.A.,
to the curacy of Denton, Norfolk.—Rev. W. Cresswell,
8.A., to the curacy of Fawkham, Kent.—Rev. F. Hop-
kinson, to the curacies of Walcot and Willoughby Scott,
Lincolnshire.

VICARAGE OF WARE.—The Master and Fellows of
Trinity College, Cambridge, have appointed the Rev.
J. W. Blakesley, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of that So-
ciety, to the vicarage of Ware. The new incumbent is
opposed to the innovating spirit which has kept this parish
in a ferment during the last two years.

ANTI-MAYNOOTH PROTEST.—OR Tuesday a protest
was presented to Mr. Goulburn, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and Mr. Law, the representatives of Cam-
bridge University, signed by nearly 600 members of the
senate; and the importance of the document may be
estimated by a few of the names. For example :—Alfred
011ivant, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity ; Samuel
Lee, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of
Bristol ; James Scholefield, Regius Professor of Greek ;
Charles Wordsworth, D.D., formerly Master of Trinity
College; Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., late Fellow of Trinity
College, and Public Orator of the University, and Pre-
bendary of Westminster; Christopher Benson, Canon of
Worcester, late Hulsean Lecturer, and late Master of the
Temple; Dr. Scoresby; Hon. G. D. Ryder, M.A. ;
Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, &c. &c.
BURIAL OF DISSENTERS IN CHURCH YARDS.—The
following is Dr. Lusbington's opinion, on cases submited
to him by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, the rector of
Burton Latimer, and the baptist minister of the same
place, as to the right of a dissenting minister to precede
a corpse into a church-yard, give out a hymn at the grave,
and afterwards to offer up a prayer and deliver an address
outside the church-yard ; which seems has been the prac-
tice in that parish, in the case of persons of the baptist
connection dying unbaptised :—" I am of opinion that
the law recognises no distinction as to the burial of dis-
senters. Unless the person to be buried falls within the
prohibition of the Rubric, as unbaptised, the duty of the
incumbent is to bury the corpse with the usual funeral
service, without regard to whether the person when alive
was a dissenter or not. I think, when the friends
of the deceased apply to the clergyman to ab-
stain from performing the funeral service, on the ground
that the deceased when alive was a dissenter, the clergy-
man may comply with such request; but I am of opinion
that the dissenting minister cannot claim a right to pre-
cede the corpse to the grave in the church-yard, and
sing a hymn over the remains, though he afterwards
retires outside the walls, and there offers up a prayer and
delivers an address. 2d. It is true that the freehold of
the church-yard is generally, but not always, in the in-
cumbent, but the law does not rest particularly on that
foundation. The principle is that the ground is conse-
crated for divine offices according to the rights of the
Church of England, and that the incumbent has the sole
and exclusive right, as well as duty, of performing such
offices. Even a clergyman episcopally ordained could not
perform any ceremony within the church-yard without
the leave of the incumbent ; nor even then, except accord-
ing to the form of the church."

CHURCH BUILDING Acrs.—We have received a copy
of a bill introduced into the rouse of Lords, by the
Bishop of London, "for the further amendment of the
church building acts." The first clause enacts that when
a new church has been built in any parish, the bishop of
the diocese and the patron and incumbent of the parish
may at any time certify to the ecclesiastical commissioners
that it is advisable that this new church should become
the parish church ; and that the old one should be pulled
down ; and the commissioners may then order this sub-
stitution to take place, and all rights connected with the
old church shall be transferred to the new one. Claims
to pews in the old church shall be examined, and, if
found good, the parties shall have pews in the new church
allotted to them. All tombstones, monuments, &c. shall
be preserved, and, if the bishop thinks proper, removed.
When the substituted church shall be built wholly or in
part with funds at the disposal of the ecclesiastical com-
missioners, they shall only have power to fix the rents for
such a number of yews as the new church shall contain
more than the old one. Two churchwardens shall be
annually appointed for every district or consolidated cha-
pelry—one by the incumbent and the other by the rate-
payers. When no district is attached to a church, one of
the wardens shall be elected by the pew holders. The
duties of these wardens shall be confined to the manage-
ment of the church, and they shall not in any way interfere
with the duties of the churchwardens of the parish. When
there are populous places at the adjacent extremities of
different parishes, the commissioners may, with the con-
sent of the bishop of the diocese, represent to the Queen
in council the propriety of forming these places into a
consolidated chapelry, and may advise in whom the pre-
sentation shall be vested. The minister shall be a per-
petual curate with exclusive cure of souls, unless before
the consolidation he was either a rector or vicar. The
offices of the church shall be performed in it, but, during
the life of the incumbent of the parish in which it is si-
tuated, the fees shall belong to him after, however, the
living has once been voided, the fees shall be retained by
the incumbent of the chapelry. When the ecclesiastical
commissioners have granted money for the erection of a
church, the pew rents may be applied wholly or in part to
the payment of the minister and clerk's salary. The
commissioners may make grants in aid of the erection of
a church for a consolidated chapelry, provided the popu-
lation shall exceed four thousand, with church accommo-
dation for not more than one-fourth. Unless o•herwise
provided, the freehold of sites for churches, burial
grounds, &c. shall vest in the incumbent. Hereafter, the
commissioners may alter the boundaries of new parishes
or districts within five years. The church of a district
chapelry, or a church augmented by the commissioners,
shall be a perpetual curacy, with exclusive cure of souls.

THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected to ar-
rive in a few weeks, on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Majesty gave a State Ball yesterday evening week.
The whole of the diplomatic corps, and all the foreigners
of distinction at present in town, were present. Two
thousand invitations had been issued. At ten o'clock
the Queen opened the ball by dancing in a quadrille with
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar; Prince Albert and the
Countess Deitrichstein, the Austrian Ambassadress,
forming the opposite couple. In the course of the even-
ing, the stop polka and the Bohemian polka were danced,
together with the pas de fleurs.

On Wednesday afternoon, her Majesty held a court for
the reception of an address on the throne from the Lord
Mayor and Corporation of Dublin. In the course of her
Majesty's reply to the address relative to her Majesty
visiting Ireland, the Queen said, " whenever I may be
enabled to receive in Ireland the promised welcome, I
shall rely with confidence on the loyalty and affection of
my faithful subjects." This puts an extinguisher upon
the expectation of her Majesty visiting Ireland this au-
tumn.

A grand banquet was given by the London Fish-
mongers' Company, on Wednesday last, on the occasion
of presenting the freedom of the Company to Lords
Melbourne, Fortescue, Palmerston, and Cottenham.
Prince Albert was one of the guests on the occasion.
BANQUET TO PRINCE ALBERT.—On Saturday evening
the Goldsmiths' Company entertained his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and a distinguished party of guests, at the
Goldsmiths' Hall. The entertainment was given on the
occasion of the " pis," or assay of the current coin of the
realm, which takes place periodically.
WORDSWORTH AT COURT.—Among the thousand titled
and untitled personages at the Queen's grand state ball,
the most noticeable, perhaps, was the venerable poet,
Wordsworth, who went up all the way from the lakes of
Cumberland, by express royal invitation, to do homage to
his sovereign as her poet laureate.