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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

TO THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.

LETTER 111.
Mr LORD,—I would beg you to remark, that I have
not assumed your lordship to be an actual opponent of the
practices I have been defending. Their trace is too evi-
dent in the narrative of the New Testament and the
history of the primitive Christians : they fill up a place
of too much breadth and dignity in all the records of the
early Church, for me to suspect your lordship of condemn-
ing their maintenance in the present day. So recently,
indeed, as this week, a writer, supposed to be a minister of
the Church, but whose chief credit is that he has concealed
his name, publicly admits that daily Communion was the
practice of the apostles ; yet under the assumption that
any approach to such frequency is unnecessary, boldly
claims the right to curtail it according to his own discre-
tion. For such a minister of the Church, whose respect
for Scripture is shown by a contempt for the practices of
its inspired authors, and who, so far from evincing a desire
to gather any hint which may guide him to the knowledge
of his Master's will, refuses to follow any but his own,
except on the plainest and most circumstantial commands ;
who, so far from paying a dutiful and generous treat-
ment to his mother the Church, endeavours to take
advantage of an vnavoidable exceptional provision in
her injunctions; and because she does not positively
name the occasions on which the Holy Communion is to
be celebrated, from her inability to assume upon what
occasions there will be a sufficient number to com-
municate with the priest—that is, simply because he
thinks a court could not employ the law against him—
claims for every clergyman the power of withholding this
blessed privilege from. his people not only three Sundays out
of four,but forty-nmeSundays every year : for this minister.

I say, 'Christianity and the Church of England blush ; and
I should be guilty of the gravest imputation were I to
include your lordship in the same category. But, my Lord,
a mixed feeling short of absolute contempt forthese practices
may take possession of our minds. It is impossible, we
know, that any candid-minded member of our Church can
express any sentiment but one, concerning the universal
usages of Christianity ; yet the neglect of the age may.
drag down our own appreciations to its level, and prevent
our discerning the true duty of ministers and people, in
the decadence of primitive religion.
Therefore it is, my Lord, I would ask you to reflect
whether the course you have thought proper to pursue is
consistent with a due conception of the nature of apostolic
custom in this niatter. Our Lord left behind Him a com-

to show forth His death till His coming again,
entrusting to His Church a gift, which, as St. Paul tells

, is nothing less than the Communication of His Body
and Blood, than which words no phraseology more awful
or more sublime could have been used to express its majesty
and importance. His apostles established in the Church
at the least a weekly celebration of that showing forth,
and their immediate successors continued this practice ; so
that, wherever the Gospel spread, this was, from the begin-
ning, esteemed to be the especial Christian mode of the
public worshipping of God. In every subsequent branch
of the Church, this order is maintained ; and in our own,
since the change in much of her external appearance at
the Reformation, the practice is so closely followed, that
on the occasions where she can assume there will be suffi-
cient to communicate she absolutely assumes also a weekly
celebration ; and on the others where, not knowing the
number, she cannot positively enjoin it, she arranges for
her altars to be arrayed, and her ministers to take their
place at them every Sunday and other Holy-day, to cele-
brate if the number be sufficient to communicate. Now,
undoubtedly, there were apostolic customs merely tempo-
rary in their nature and limited in their application. But
the nature of this ordinance, and the place it occupies in
the Christian scheme of religion and worship, render it of
final obligation upon us that we should ascertain the sense
in which the apostles understood their Lord's command,
and what manner of obedience they felt incumbent .on
themselves and necessary to the due service of Almighty
God. From this chain of testimony, then, to frequent
Communion, we must conclude that the modern usage is
a very grave departure from apostolic practice; and since
we must believe that the apostles had the strongest reason
for their practice, we may infer that we are very grievously
falling short of our Lord's intention on this subject.
Now, my lord, of such a consideration as this no embellish-
ment of words can increase the vast importance. It is
beyond the power of human rhetoric to add impetus to its
mighty and overwhelming force. Let me turn, then, to
the way in which this question is met on the present
occasion. A desire for the restoration of primitive usage
is supposed to be accompanied by an attachment to certain
minor features which ally themselves with that view of
the nature of common worship which was a parallel cha-
racteristic of the earliest Christianity. That system, for
instance, which treats the Church's service as a public
—rough the special presence of the all-
sailing Mediator, is likely to adopt accessories of worship
which would chiefly point towards Him, and be the aptest
expression of its great significance. Where public worship
is considered to hold so high a place as to be the active
development of the Church's life, and the special link in its
union with its Incarnate Head, so that the utmost fre-
quency of its opportunities is a Christian necessity, the
places of its performance are very likely to take another
form than that of mere suitability for giving instruction,
and mere convenience for hearing it. It is likely that
the mode of conducting such a public service, would
more prominently express its connection with. that Incar-
nate One whose especial presence was through it vouch-
safed, and the dignity of those offices—those " pipes of
His appointed means," as the puritan Richard Baxter
calls them—in which He has promised to hold communion
with His body. Now, popular feeling has imbued itself
with a different conception of public worship. Forms, too,
which are dictated by this common-sense norion that,
the worshipper being engaged with material acts having
reference to God and religion, therefore the utmost
material reverence and devotion are not only expedient
but necessary,—Are distasteful to this popular feelingi;
a feeling which I pray your lordship to mark, is
distinguished by an insensibility to the customs of
Apostles, and what is possibly the intention of our
Blessed Lord relative to the public ordinances of religion.
And the upshot is, therefore, that the great Christian
practices herein involved are to bend before its modern
and factitious reringnances, My Lord, are our prejudices
for daily prayer and weekly Communion to be placed on a
footing with, nay, to be trampled beneath the preposses-
sions of an obstinacy which persists in setting aside what
are admittedly practices of apostolic obligation, by tradi-
tions of the sixteenth century ; which scruples not to
boast that the Bible, and the Bible only, is its religion,
while it treats as indifferent and optional the rules of
observance which it embodies • which is continually ob-
truding this maxim as the charter of its belief, and the
crux of modern controversy—" Apostolic practice is the
test of apostolic descent"—yet wilfully perpetuates- a
transgression of a plain and most weighty apostolic cus-
tom of "the Churches of God" (1. Cor. xi. 16) ? Such, .I
repeat, is the question at issue. The importance of these
practices overrides every other consideration, and marks
those features of the scheme which stamp a character on
our designs, and on your Lordship's manner of meeting
them. It is not to be supposed, indeed, that a body of
laymen, engaged in the pursuits of commerce, should do
violence to the habits of their life, by venturing upon re-
monstrances with their Bishop and provoking the jeers of
an indiscriminating populace, for the purpose of providing
themselves a platform on which to cultivate what are
called the religious adaptations of histrionic art. Doubt-
less the question of ritualism is one of great meaning, as
connected with the Church's service and ministry in the '
world ; into the nature- of that connection it is not my in-
tention to enter here, but what I mean to protest is, that
the fall system of that service and ministry, is the great
idea before the minds of the promoters of this undertaking,
and not the collateral characteristics which may legiti-
mately flow out of it. I say, that they are not the com-
parative insignificancies of " mint, and anise, and cummin"
that move them on this occasion, but the " weightier
matters" of God's proper service and man's eternal im-
provement. It is not, therefore, for your Lordship to
direct your attention exclusively to some anticipated
characteristics of our system, which as isolated may be-
admittedly of small import, and then plead their popular
offensiveness as an excuse for prohibiting the system. It
cannot be accepted that weekly Communion should be.
quietly dismissed as unimportant, under the guise of pro-
hibiting an altar ornament or a credence table, or daily
prayers slighted as though only a peculiar tone of saying
them were discountenanced. The simple truth must be
bared to the Church's gaze, and that truth is, that weekly
Communion and daily prayers are treated as oat-of-the-
way notions and individual fancies. The actual result is,
that weekly Communion and daily prayers areprohibited.
We find these practices to have descended to us with the
highest and the longest sanction; we believe that the end
for which the Church was set up in the world, and its
ministry appointed, was that it might truly maintain,
what all false religions have falsely maintained, the con-
stant public worship of God. No holy man, no accredited
writer, no authority of ancient or of modern times—till
recent generations have learned to warp, not merely the
self-evident notions of Christianity, but even the natural
dictates of religion—has assumed the custom to be any-
thing but the rule of the Gospel, and the service charged
upon the Church. We look around us in this many-
peopled city which God has given to this branch of His
Church, to minister to its myriads the means of grace in
that fulness which I have assumed to be necessary ; and
we find that the administration of her work is fallen into
the hands of men who have silenced the daily voice she
ought to lift up, and who persevere in withholding the
blessings which she has provided for her children. So
far are the people from being instructed in a proper
estimate of these means of grace,
that what was in New
Testament times considered to be the Christian way of
everyid this vastcaoym b my ity
exhibiting the due place which they occupy in the
Christian scheme, is on system departed from, and even
disparaged.hinighthpeoriryvilegeofhonouringAm Lord's
D Christians, there is but ONE Church which affords the
community
eceloef-
bration of that without which the early Christians thought
that at least no Lord's Day could be duly honoured, and
in its especial reference to which that day itself received,
par excellence, the cognomen of the Dies Penis. Yet the
authors of this partial restoration are treated as visionaries
or traitors, and the utmost zeal is expended in kindling
against them the hottest antipathies of a mere negative
religion. Clergymen are heard positively counselling the
people to " starve them out" by non-attendance upon
their apostolic ministrations, and publicly exult in the
success of their efforts, viz., that, thus kept forcibly ignorant
of the obligations of apostolic example, the people prefer
the exciting harangues of the one Church to the gift-
spread altar of the other. Then the flattered preacher
points to his thronging audience as the fruits of the Gospel,
and the flattered hearers go about, in all the confidence
which a popular lip-religionism inspires, and compliment
one another " on what a very religious people we English
Protestants are !" Yet, my Lord, the zeal of that religions
service, which would have called down severe reproaches
for its apathy in those times of which the Homilies say
that they were " most holy and godly," must be rather
more than questionable. The golden-mouthed preacher of
Constantinople vehemently complains in his time that any
Christians could be found who thought that the Lord's
Day could be honoured by merely waiting on the weak
words of the servant, while they tarried not to hear the
Master's invitation to His table. But now the converse of
the invective might be taken into the mouths of the laity
themselves, and if, appealing to the chief guardian of reli-
gion, they were in their turn to complain, that whereas
they are bidden each Sunday to listen twice to the
pleasant exercitations of the pulpit, only on twelve out of
nifty-two are they IA any way kited to regin ta them,

selves in the special way of His appointment, and to join in
the public showing forth before God, of the Lord's death
and passion ; I confess I am at a loss to know what
answer your Lordship, who openly abets this state of
things, could return. Would you say that such a frequency
'al ministration, though the assiduous practice
recorded and recommended by inspiration, is
unnecessary ? Would you say that though an universal
usage, and taught universally to be an essential usage,
among the primitive Christians, it was dictated by cir-
cumstances which were temporary, or by a zeal which
was excessive ? Would you answer such complainers
by a reference to the general " zeal and fidelity" of the
clergy, and send them back to the very properlyconducted
services, where only the chief propriety of Christian wor-
ship is omitted ? Or, being forced to admit the inviolability
of their claims, would your Lordship compromise the dig-
nity of your office, and, inviting them into your confideßce,
bid them to cultivate a spirit of "forbearance," by stifling
the Christian sympathies which revolt at the offences of
neglect ? Would your Lordship tell them, that
their ground of complaint could not, in fact, be
gainsayed, yet that their desire for apostolic privileges lost
its claim when coupled with the risk of offending that
keen and faithful instinct which strains at the gnat of a
garment or a posture, while it swallows the camel of public
worship and sacraments neglected ? Or, plunging at once
into the last extreme of contradiction, would your Lordship
gravely exhort them to refrain, out of regard for the peace
of the Church, to manifest any unaccustomed zeal for the
sacrament of peace ? Yet, finally, there is one refuge from
this disastrous catalogue of anomaly ; would your Lordship,
boldly flinging aside all the restraints and hesitations of
compromise, tell them that the office of the episcopal con-
science is to be the thermometer of popular feeling, and
that it was entirely impracticable to allow a higher tone of
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The spirit which impels conduct like this, might almost
be left to work out its own extinction. Yet, in one sense,
do I most fervently pray that it may be speedily saved
from itself—l mean, by its awakening from that dream of
self-deception in which, endeavouring to banish every
voice that would intrude upon the concord of indifference,
it calls the fatal silence it creates, " peace." Moralists tell
us that, so long as the monitor within retains the last rem-
nant of that capability of utterance which condemns the
sin it cannot prevent, the lowest deep of depravity conceals
a hope of restoration. I would, therefore, beg that your
Lordship will at least consider the possibilities of that con-
dition into which the Christian world is fallen, and not use
your high office to stifle the conscience, however hopeless
you may deem it to reform the laxity, of an erring Church.
Though you may find it inconvenient to lend your active
aid to " visionary" projects of amendment, I warn you not
to precipitate for the Church of England that final stage
of corruption, in which the moral patient, dead to all sense
of his disease, is given over to a .reprobate mind, and loses
the last chance of cure.—l beg to remain your Lordship's
most obedient and faithful servant,
July sth, 1854.

VINCENTIUS,

S. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.
REV. W. POLLOCK AND "THE TRACTARIANS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—In my remarks upon Dr. Maceile;s speech at the
meeting of " the Working Men's Church Association"—
that memorable meeting at which a working-man had the
audacity, till then unheard-of, to rebuke the doctor to his
face,—there were two points upon which I expressed my
intention of saying somewhat more upon a future occa-
sion. The first of these was the comparative paucity of
the congregation at S. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the second,
Mr. Pollock's assertion that " the Tractarians" were the
first assailants. Upon looking over the report of the
meeting as given in the Mercury of June 16, I find the
speeches of Mr. Bardsley and Dr. Baylee summed up in so
few words that it is impossible to deal with them. The
latter gentleman, indeed, would seem to be chiefly indebted
for the substance of his speech to an extensive study of
the venerable and oft-quoted Cocker. One important
question, indeed, is attributed to Mr. Bardsley—viz., how
is it that so many Tractarians have gone over to the
Church of Rome ? But to this, I conceive, a sufficient
reply was given by anticipation in my last. When the
ministry of the Church of England contains fewer men
like Mr. 8., there will be fewer secessions. At present the
only wonder is that they are so few. And, as I before
remarked, those which do take place are from the ranks of
evangelical Protestantism, so-called. I may, therefore, at
once pass on to the former of the two points above re-
ferred to.

The district connected with S, Martin's is one inha-
bited almost exclusively by the poor, a very large propor-
tion of whom are members of the Church of Rome. It
contains few or none of those who, by visiting or other-
wise, might so greatly strengthen the hands of the clergy,
who, without such assistance, are not more than sufficient
for the ordinary routine work which falls upon them. The
great bulk of the population, so far as my observation
extends, go to no place of worship, excepting always the
Irish Romanists. But it will be said there must be some
who in this respect are better than the majority. Doubt-
less there are, and of these a proportion are in the habit
of attending at S. Martin's. But we have impediments
to contend against which the public generally would never
suspect. We are attacked by secret and irresponsible
agents, who teach our people that we are Romanists in
disguise ; that we do not belong to the Church of Eng-
land ; and cases have been met with of individuals who,
while admitting that they had never been within the walls
of S. Martin's, have given as- their reason for not attend-
ing there, that it was no longer connected with the
Church ; that they had been warned against it by
Scripture-readers upon this and' other grounds, and the
like. "In short, the difference between our services and
those at other churches—a difference caused by our adhe-
rence to, and their neglect of, the Book of Common
Prayer—has been industriously taken advantage of to
convince ignorant people that we do not belong to the
National Church. Even the very police seem to be agents
in this work ; for a friend of my own, on one occasion,
while turning into S. Martin's, was respectfully accosted
by one of them, who, touching his hat, informed him,
" This place does not belong to the Church." A new
servant of mine also, some time ago, after returning home
from church the first Sunday she was with us, very inno-
cently exclaimed, " Why, they do nothing at S. Martin's
but what the Prayer-Book orders." Most of our congre-
gation, such as it is, come from some distance, and many
more would come if the church were situated in a better
neighbourhood ; and, small as it is compared with what
we should like to see it, it is at least a devout, a kneeling,
a worshipping, and not merely a listening, congregation,
and contains an unusually large proportion of communi-
cants. On Easter-day there were- a hundred and fifty.
And, after all, I think I may venture to say, that if either
of us happened to possess those natural gifts which are
essential to a popular preacher, we should have-as well-
filled a church as any in the town. The itching ear would
overcome the dread of " Tractarianism," and every other
ism whatever. As I once heard the-junior Rector of Liver-
pool observe at a public meeting, if a popular preacher be
located in. a poor, or comparatively poor, neighbourhood,
his popularity soon begets a new church for him in a
fashionable part of the town, and thither he removes.
One assertion made by Dr. Bayleed must notice before
proceedhig to Mr. Pollock. He is reported to have said,
" the clergy would be glad to have daily worship, but
wherever it had been tried it had been a failure." How a
failure ? Either because of the paucity of attendants, or
because no good has resulted from it. Now as regards
the first of these, I deny the truth of the doctor's asser-
tion; for I could name many places where, so far as num-
bers are a test of success, it has been tried and found to
succeed. As regards the second, I would remind him that
faith is " the evidence of things not seen ;" and surely
faith ought to supply him with, sufficient evidence of the
truth of our blessed Lord's declaration, "Where two or
three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the
midst of them." The Church requires daily prayer ; the
doctor thinks it not good to follow her godly order : he
deems himself wiser than. her. The Saviour promises
His presence to two or three met in His name; the doctor
declares such meetings a failure.
And now for Mr. Pollock. Alluding to Mr. Hampton's
funny proposal that Mr. Wray and his friends should find
the funds for paying somebody to do his duty for him, be
said " The writer of that 1etter......... expresses the feelings
of all that body of the clergy who have been calumniated
in this matter, to my mind insultingly calumniated ;" and
he then went on to allude to the prospectus of the proposed
Free Church, signed. by Mr. Wray, and which, he said, it
was never intended that he should see. It was certainly
neither written nor printed for circulation among the
Puritan party, but among those from whom help might
reasonably be expected, or at least sympathy. Bat if Mr.
Pollock means, that Mr. Wray entertained any expectation-
or hope that the document in question would not sooner
or later be seen by the enemy, he is utterly mistaken..
Mr. Wray could not have entertained any such hope for
one moment. But Mr. P. asserts that this document is
calumnious. I deny it. The third paragraph, speaking
of Liverpool, says, "It is a town of considerable religious
activity ; within the last five-and-twenty years as many as
this number of churches have been built ; and its inhabi-
tants are certainly not behind those of other towns in
responding with praiseworthy liberality to the calls made
upon them from time to time by the clergy, to extend the
means of education and public worship." In this, instead
of calumny, we have the praise which might be fairly
expected from a candid opponent. But Mr. Wray proceeds,
" Unhappily, the prevailing religious tone is decidedly
Puritanical. Several objectionable features, both in the
internal arrangement of the churches and the mode of
conducting Divine worship, have been introduced into this
town. Devout kneeling is, generally speaking, impossible.
Rubrical conformity is not only disregarded—it is publicly
condemned. Any approach to a choral service or decent
ceremonial, is denounced by our popular preachers as
Popish. And not only are the people deprived of the
Daily Service of the Church, but the observance of her
Fasts and Festivals is discountenanced, and even the
appointed offices for Holy Week are either mutilated or
omitted altogether;" and farther on, "in many parts of
Liverpool a person must go some distance before he can
find a church where the teaching of the Prayer-book is
not directly contravened, or its rubrics transgressed." As
truth is a libel, so perhaps truth may be a calumny, and if
so, this may perhaps be calumnious ; but it is in every
word strictly true, and nothing but a wish not to seem to
be personal hinders me to bear it out by reference to par-
ticular churches. Mr. Pollock ventures upon two quota-
tions from the prospectus, viz., "Puritanism has got pos-
session of Liverpool," and " the enemy must be driven
out." The former perhaps occurs in substance, but there
is nothing to justify the latter. He seems, however, apt
at misquotation; witness his account of statements made
by a clergyman upon the sacrament of matrimony, mis-
quoted by him from the recital of " a most intelligent and
dear friend of his," and retracted in a letter of his to the
editors of the Mercury, June 27.

But if tfi; prospectUsMid not calumniate, it may be said
to have assailed the Puritan party. But even so, we can-
not be said to have been the first assailants. We and our
practices, or rather those of the Church, have been
denounced over and over again, from pulpit and platform.
Nay more, our motives have been impugned. We have
been charged with designs to lead the people back to
Popery, and to reduce England to the level of unhappy
Ireland or degraded Spain. Nothing of this kind can he
found in the prospectus. No motives are imputed. We
think our opponents wrong, and as ministers of the Angli-
can Church unfaithful ; but we do not charge them with
conscious unfaithfulness, nor impute to them a design of
leading their people into dissent. But we call them
Puritans ; true, and they call wi Tractarians, and worse;

Is are unhappily rendered necessary by
our divisions—would it were not so! They prefer to be
called Evangelicals ;- but we do not desire to concede this

and some such to

name to them, anymore than that of Catholic to the
Romanist ; and we prefer to be known simply as Church-
men, or, if some distinctive term be necessary, as Angli-
cans. One fault Mr. Wray has certainly committed; he

has evinced a want of the wisdom of the serpent ; he has
been far too candid, considering the sort of men to whom
he is opposed.

As the remarks which I wish to make upon the remainder
of Mr. Pollock's speech would extend this letter to an
unreasonable length, I must (however unwillingly) defer
them till next week. —I am, Sir, &c.,

Liverpool, July 13, 1854,

K. MiCKENZIE PIIGHE

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. J. E. Adams, LL.B., to the Rectory of Ashmore, near
Shaftesbury.

Rev. E. E. Allen, M.A., to the Vicarage of Millom, near
Ravenglas, Cumberland.

Rev.—MArgles, M.A., Canon Residentiary of Pe►erborough
Cathedral, aid Rector of Barnack, Northamptonshire, to be
a Rural Dean.

Rev. W. Blake, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. George's,
Liverpool.
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Ref. R. Bradley, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Hilda's, Mid-
dlesborough.

Rev. R.W. Browne, NT.A., Prebendary of St. Paul's Ca-
thedral, Professor of Classical Literature in King's College,
London, and Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces in the Garri-
son of London, to be Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of
Bath and Wells.

Rev. T. Carson, LL.D., to the benefice of Cloone, Ireland.
Rev. R. Cattley, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Margaret's,
King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Rjv..7:Christopher, M.A., Vicar of Little Houghton, to be
a Rural Dean for the Diocese of Peterborough.
Rev. T. B. Collings, M.A., to the Curacy of East Sutton,
Kent.

Rev. I. Dunne, 8.A., to the Curacy of Hunslet, near Leeds.
Rev. E. Hallam, M.A., to the Rectory of Kitmanagh,
Wexford.

Rev. W. H. F. Hinde, M.A., to the Curacy of Kingey,
Bucks, near 'name.

Rev: W. N. Jackson, M.A., Vicar of Kingsey, Bucks, to a
Garrison Chaplaincy, Gibraltar.
Rev. H. L. Jenner, LL.B., Minor Canon of Canterbury Ca-
thedral, to the Vicarage of Preston, near Wingham, Kent.
Rev. H. Jones, M.A., Vicar of Osmotberley, to be Organis-
ing Secretary for the Archdeaconry of Cleveland.
Rev. H. Jones, to the Curacy of Holy Trinity. Hartlepool.
Rev. C. H. Lowry, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford,
and Head Master of the Grammar School, Carlisle, to the
Rectory of South Weston, near Tetsworth.
Rev. A. H. Lulman, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Andrew's,
Dublin.

Rev. J. A. IVAlliater, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St,
imon's, Liverpool.

Rev. W. J. AtuNoy, 8.A., to the Curacy of Monkstown.
Rev. T. Nolan, M.A., to the Vicarage of Actor., Cheshire.
Rev. J. Outhwaite, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Cemetery of
Highgate.

Rev. R. Pinck, M.A., to the Incumbency of Hardrow,
Yorkshire.

Rev. J. Ruskell, 8.A., to the Curacy of Castlebar, Mayo.
Rev. F. A. Saunders, M.A., to the Rectory of Castlemac.
dam, Wicklow.

Rei. W. S. Sturges, 8.A., to the Assistant Curacy of St.
James the Great, Devonport.
Rev. J. B. Whetley, M.A., to the Prebend of Templebryan,
Cork.

Rev. J. T. G. Williams, M.A., to the Rectory of Thomas-
town, Kildare.

Rev. E. C. Woollcombe, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol Col-
lege, to be the Oxford Preacher at the Chapel Itoyal,Whitehall.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMENTS.—TheRev.John Evans has been licensed
to the perpetual curacy of the newly-consecrated church of
St. Mary, Grassendale, in the parish of Childwall, in the
county of Lancaster, on the nomination of the trustees,
the patrons.—The Rev. John Gibbons Longueville has
been instituted to the rectory and parish church of Eccle-
ston, Cheshire, void by the death of the Rev. Richard
Massie, on the presentation of the Marquis of West-
minster, the patron.

THE BISHOP OF BARBADOES, with Mrs. Parry and
family, have arrived in England for two or three months.
THE Edinburgh Advertiser states that the Right Rev.
Dr. C. Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, has resigned
his Wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond.
NEW CnuEcnEs.—The work of church-building and
church-restoration is proceeding briskly in the Eastern
Counties. In Essex three inaugural ceremonies. have lately
taken place; and at Lowestoft, in Suffolk, a handsome new
district church, to which Mr. Peto, M.P., has contributed
£5OO, has just been opened.
TIME BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND, Dr. Selwyn, is to be
created Archbishop of Sydney, New South Wales. The
Rev. Henry O'Brien, rector of Killigar, Kilmore diocese,
Ireland, and brother of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., Dromo-
land, is to be Bishop of New Zealand, a most prosperous
and civilised colony.—Morning Herald.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.—A minute of the Committee
of Council on Education, dated the 28th ultimo, announces
a system of grants in aid of training schools. At the end
of the first, second, and third years, a grant of merit is to
be made to students of merit and to the treasurers of
colleges. The scale is to come into operation for the year
ending the- 31st December, 1855, but all colleges are to be
at liberty by application before the Ist September,.lBs4,
to give effect to it for the year now current.

THE TRA.PFIC IN CHURCH LIVINGS.—During the past
month 58 advowsons or next presentations have been of-
fered for sale by public auction or through private agency,
and the aggregate annual value of these amounts to
£27,600; 46 have been offered in exchange for others of
the annual value in the aggregate of 217,140; 22 have
been inquired for by intending purchasers, of the annual
value in the aggregate of £12,112; and it appears that an
extensive business is also done in property of this descrip-
tion through the medium of lists privately circulated.
OPEN-AIR PREACHING.—The Rev. T. Sale, the vicar of
St. Mary's, having read in the service on Simday morning
the passage occurring in the gospel, " Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in,. that
my house may be filled," acted literally upon the injunc-
tion so far as to go forth in the afternoon and preach to
the multitude in one of the most frequented parts of the
town. The spot chosen was the centre of the widest part
of West-bar. Taking his stand upon a convenient eleva-
tion, the vicar began to read. a passage of scripture... A
number of stragglers, such as may be seen on any fine
Sunday afternoon loitering about in the leading thorough-
fares, soon gathered around him ; and when a crowd had
assembled, the vicar began to preach to them from the
parable of the prodigal son, seasoning his discourse with
several apt illustrations of a very touching nature. The
open-air congregation increased till there were several
hundreds present, but, though it was a very promiscuous
assembly, there was no departure from the most perfect
good order. The touching narrative of scripture was
evidently quite new to many in the crowd, and the lessons
which the text suggested were presented and enforced in a
manner which moved many to tears. The experiment—
for such it was deemed, proved so decidedly successful that
we have no doubt it will be repeated soon and freqpeutly.
—Sheffield Times.