- of St. James, Higher Sutton, near Macles-lain to the Bishop of Killaloe. - Rev. C. field. J. R. Hope, B.C.L., to the Offices Pearson, to the Incumbency of the new of Vicar General and Principal Official in church of St. John, Isle of White. — Rev. the diocese of Sarum. -Rev. J. R. Hughes, W. Plues, to the Perpetual Curacy of to be one of the Chaplains to the Lord North Stainley. Rev. T. J. Power, to be Bishop of Chichester. Rev. G. Hulme, one of the Domestic Chaplains to his Grace jun., to be one of the Domestic Chaplains the Duke of Beaufort. Rev. W. H. Saunto his Majesty the King of Hanover.ders, to the Vicarage of Carrigtwohill, Rev. E. Illingworth, to be Second Master Cloyne. - Rev. W. Shepherd, to the Disof the Birmingham and Edgbaston Pro- trict Chapelry of Hermitage, in the parish prietary School. Rev. W. J. Irons, to of Hampstead Norris, Berks. - Rev. J. S. the Incumbency of the District Parish of Stockwell, to the Rectory of Wyle, Salop. Brompton, Middlesex. - Rev. F. Lang- Rev. A. A. Stranham, to the Chaplaincy horne, to be Curate of St. James's, Man- of Bath City Gaol. - Rev. J. J. Toogood, chester. Hon. and Rev. W. T. Law, to to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bridgthe Vicarage of East Brent, Somerset, and water, and a Prebendary of Wells Catheto a Prebendal Stall in Wells Cathedral. dral. Rev. A. Todd, to the Curacy of Rev. W. Lonsdale, to be Head Master Castle Martyr, Cloyne. Rev. J. V. Treof the St. George, Hanover Square, Com. velyan, to a Prebendal Stall in Wells mercial Schools, in connection with the Cathedral. Rev. W. Vaux, to the VicaDiocesan Board of Education. Rev. T. rage of Warnborough, Wilts. Rev. J. H. Lowe, to the Vicarage of Littleham with Venn, to a Prebendal Stall in Hereford Exmouth, Devon.- Rev. G. T. Marsh, to Cathedral. Rev. A. Watson, to be Asthe Rectory of Foxly, Wilts. - Rev. H. sistant Minister of St. John's, Cheltenham. Middleton, to the Vicarage of Barton Sta- Rev. Robert Wegg, M.A., to the Rec. cey, Hants. Rev. J. Nicholls, of Enfield tory of Frenze, Norfolk. - Rev. T. Welsh, Highway, to be Chaplain to the Bishop of to be one of the Chaplains to the Lord St. David's. Rev. M. A. Nicholson, to Bishop of Chichester. Rev. E. Wilson, the Vicarage of Christ Church, Avering- to the Vicarage of Whitechurch Canonicoton, Lancashire. Rev. P. C. Nicholson, rum, Dorset. Rev. T. L. Woolley, to a to the Incumbency of St. James, Mytholm- Prebendal Stall in Wells Cathedral. royd, Halifax. - Rev. J. Nussey, to be Rev. G. Wright, to the Chaplaincy of Derone of the Domestic Chaplains to Lord byshire General Infirmary. Rev. C. Blaney. Rev. G. W. Parker, to the Vi-Yate, to the Vicarage of Holme, in Spaldcarage of Bulkington, Warwickshire. ing Moor, Yorkshire. Rev. S. Payne, jun. to be Domestic Chap DEATHS. Aug. 12, at Beccles, aged 53, the Rev. J. W. Crabbe, Perpetual Curate of Great and Little Glemham, Suffolk. - Aug. 27, in his 87th year, the Rev. J. Greenwood, Master of the Free Grammar School of Walton-le-dale. - Sept. 1, at Wood-hall, near Selby, of typhus fever, the Rev. William Happer, aged 30. Sept. 1. aged 79, the Rev. Wm. Railton, Rector of Bywell, Northumberland. - Sept. 2, the Rev. W. Hopper, B.A., Curate of Howden. - Sept. 8, the Rev. W. Downes, Vicar of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Rector of Dennington, and Master of St. Mary Magdalen Chapel, Bawtry, Yorkshire. - Sept. 8, at Dublin, the Rev. B. Woods, M.A., Sept. 12, at his residence, Union Place, New Road, Regent's Park, the Rev. Thomas Cricklow Edgell. - Sept. 15, suddenly, at Dovor, the Rev. Charles Palmer.- Sept. 17, the Rev. John Foster, Perpetual Curate of Tossett in Gisburne, Yorkshire. Sept. 17, aged 36, at Genoa, the Rev. G. O. Miller, Rector of Milton, Northamptonshire, and her Majesty's Chaplain at Genoa. -Sept. 19, at Wisbeach, aged 91, 70th year of his age, the Rev. G. Preston, Rector of Lexden, Essex, and Vicar of Briston, Norfolk.-Aged 83, the Rev. J. Atkinson, of Bishop Auckland. — Aged 50, the Rev. C. P. Belgrave, many years Curate of Colley weston, Lincolnshire. — At his residence, in Minster-yard, Lincoln, aged 33, the Rev. G. Burton. Aged 72, the Rev. J. Carver, of Necton, Norfolk. Rev. J. Clarke, Rector of St. Katharine's Upper Canada. —At Tortworth Rectory, Gloucestershire, aged 80, the Rev. G. Cooke, D.D., Rector of Tortworth. At Salcombe, Devon, in his 49th year, the Rev. Charles E. Dukinfield, Vicar of - Edenhall, Cumberland. - At Ross, the Rev. A. Mathews, B.D., Senior Fellow of Brasenose College and Canon Residentiary of Hereford. Rev. R. Miller, Rector of Newtownhamilton, Armagh.. Rev. G. F. Molineux, Prebendary of Wolverhampton, Rector of Ryton, Shropshire, and Perpetual Curate of Acton Trussel, Staffordshire. - At his Curacy, Ruspar, Sussex, in his 41st year, the Rev. T. Smith. At St. Allen, near Truro, Cornwall, the Rev. E. Tippett, Vicar of that Parish. At Polstead, Essex, the Rev. J. Whitmore, aged 74, Rector of that parish 45 years. NEW CHURCHES BUILDING AND CONSECRATED. A school has been projected in the pa- | rish of St. George, Hanover Square, in connection with the London Diocesan Board of Education for the education of the children of the middle classes, based on the principles of the established church. On the James Hatchley, Esq., presented the site; and Lord Dartmouth gave a liberal subscription for the erection. - Subscriptions have been begun for the erection of one new church at Oldham, where the number of persons destitute of church -The first stone of another new church room amounts to 45,000! was laid on the 24th of September, at 22nd of September the lord bishop of Clapham, by John Thornton, Esq. It will Salisbury consecrated the new church of contain 1,200 sittings, 500 of which will Cann, St. Rumbold, and preached an apbe free; it is estimated to cost £6,600, of propriate sermon from St. Matt. xxxviii., which £4,000 has been subscribed al- 18-20. On Monday, the 7th of Sepready.The Rev. Edward Pryce Owen tember, the foundation stone of a new has presented a valuable plate communion church, to be dedicated to St. Pete", in the service to the new church at Willington, parish of the Holy Trinity, Coventry, was Shropshire. The townships of Clifton, laid by Charles Weston, Esq. On the with Salwick and Newton, with Scales, same day the foundation stone was laid of were separated from the parish of Kirk- a new church on Beacon Hill, near Bath, ham, for all ecclesiastical purposes, by an to be dedicated to St. Stephen. · - On order in council, dated the 10th of Au- the 31st of August the foundation stone gust, 1840, being one of the first benefices of a new church, in Shaftesbury, was laid which have been formed under the act of by the Countess of Grosvenor, to be dedi1 and 2 Vict., cap. 106. - On the 22nd cated to the Holy Trinity; the lord bishop of September the parish church of St. Tho- of the diocese officiated, attended by the mas Compton Vallance was re-opened, rural deans and a large body of the clergy when the venerable the Archdeacon of of Dorset and Wilts. On Saturday, Dorset preached an excellent and appro the 26th of September, the lord bishop of piate sermon from St. Mark, xi., 28. He Ripon consecrated the new church at Norpointed out the divine origin and commis-ton-le-Clay, ne ir Borobridge; Rev. J. R. sion of the Christian church, and the privileges and responsibilities attaching to her members. The holy eucharist was afterwards administered to about thirty of the neighbouring clergy, besides laity, and the oblations of the communicants, amounting to about £20, were given to the County Hospital. The first stone of a new church, at Golden Hill, a village in the potteries, was laid by Mrs. Smith Child, whose husband nobly gave £1,000 as an endowment, and £200 towards the cost of erection. The site was presented by Mrs. Sparrow, of Bishton, and Mr. Moreton, of Wolstanton. The Countess of Dartmouth laid the first stone of a new church at Hill Top, West Bromwich. The lord Hall, the bishop's chaplain, read prayers, NATIONAL AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS' MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. THE Members of this useful Society, which has now been established two years, dined together at the St. James' Royal Hotel, St. James' Street, on the 17th of October. The Rev. Mr. MOODY presided. Several orthodox, loyal, and appropriate toasts were drank. The Rev. Dr. SHORT delivered an excellent and suitable speech on the occasion, and several other gentlemen made some useful remarks and suggestions. THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. The Episcopal Church Society have made up the livings of the Clergy to £80, and have granted the Bishops £150 per annum, from the Society's funds. The burial-ground connected with the Episcopal Chapel of St. John the Evangelist, Prince's-street, Edinburgh, was consecrated on the afternoon of Thursday the 24th September, by the Right Rev. Michael Russell, LL.D., Bishop of Glasgow, acting by commission from the Bishop of Edinburgh, whose bad health prevented him from performing this interesting duty personally. Bishop Russell met the clergy, along with the trustees and managers of the chapel, in the vestry-room, twenty minutes before two o'clock. The petition for consecration was there presented to the Bishop, and read by the Rev. T. G. Suther; after which the Bishop, followed by the clergy and laity present, proceeded to the ground, and offered up a prayer, in which the burial-ground was solemnly dedicated to God in all time coming as an habitation for the remains of his Christian servants. The whole procession then returned in the same order, passed along the terrace on the south side of the chapel; and entering by the west door, procceded up the centre aisle, the Bishop and two chaplains taking their seats at the altar, and the Rev. E. B. Ramsay in the reading desk. The evening service was then read; after which the deed of consecration was read by the Rev. J. W. Ferguson, and signed by the Bishop upon the altar, who dismissed the congre. gation with the benediction. Among the clergy present we observed the Very Rev. C. H. Terrot, Dean of the Diocese; the Hon. and Rev. G. Yorke, of St. Paul's, Yorke-place; the Rev. R. Q. Shannon, of St. George's, York-place; and the Rev. T. G.T. Anderson, of St. Paul's, Carrubber's close. The hall is comfortably and tastefully fitted up, and the whole of the pews are fully let. By the arrangements of the managers, however, a number of strangers were accommodated, and, to prevent confusion, were admitted by tickets. The morning service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Marindin, Rector of Buxton, West Dorsetshire, who, considering the peculiar circumstances of the congregation-composed chiefly of new adherents to the Episcopal Church-addressed them upon the nature and spirit of the Liturgy, and adverted, in a spirit of most Christian charity, to the lawfulness, the antiquity, and the superiority, of a fixed form of prayer. The evening service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, from Yorkshire. The collection was liberal on both occasions; and Mr. Davidson, organist, from Leith, kindly gave his services in directing the harmony. The Kev. R. J. Mac George, a Deacon of the Diocese of Glasgow, was ordained a Priest in St. James's Chapel, Leith, by the Right Rev. Michael Russell, LL. D., the Bishop of that Diocese. The Rev. T. G. S. Suther read the morning service, and the Rev. E. B. Ramsey preached an eloquent and powerful sermon, from Acts xx, 20th and 27th, in which he inculcated the duty of the Christian priesthood to teach the whole counsel of God, as regards both the Church of Christ and the doctrines and principles of his Gospel. After the sermon was delivered, the Very Rev. William Routledge, Dean of the diocese of Glasgow, presented Mr. Mac George to the Bishop, who received him within the altar, and the solemn ordination service of the Church was then performed the Presbytery present laying on hands along with the bishop, in token of their assent, and according to the canons of the Church. After the ordination service had taken place, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was adminis On Sunday, the 27th September, the large hall in Inglis's-street, Dunfermline, was opened as a temporary place of worship for those of the Episcopal communion.tered. 1650. As soon as it was ascertained that Charles II. was coming to Scotland, the Scottish parliament, which did not scruple to exercise the most absolute sovereignty, even over the king himself, ordained that "his majesty should come from Aberdeen to Dunottar; from thence to Kinnaird, the earl of Southesk's house; thence to Dundee; from it to St. Andrews; and then to his own house at Falkland." This entirely accords with Lamont, who in his " Diary" mentions the arrival of the king at St. Andrews; he had landed at the mouth of the River Spey on the 23rd of June, and reached this city on the 4th of July. When he came to the West Port, the silver keys of the gates were delivered up to him,2 and he was welcomed by Mr. Andrew Honeyman, then one of the ministers of the parish, but afterwards bishop of Orkney. When he came opposite the gate of St. Mary's College, Principal Samuel Rutherford made an oration to him in Latin, "running much (says Lamont) upon the duetie of kings." He lodged in the house which had belonged to Hugh Scrimgeour, "near the abbey." Next day Mr. Robert Blair preached before him. When the service was over, the king honoured the preacher with a visit at his own house. When he entered the room, Mrs. Blair ran to offer him a chair: "My heart," said her husband, "do not trouble yourself, he is a young man, and can draw one in to himself." This may give us some idea of the little respect with which the Covenanters treated their lawful prince. On the day following, Charles set out for Cupar and Falkland. This was the last time that any king of Great Britain ever visited St. Andrews, though in former ages many of the kings of Scotland were in the practice of making it their occasional place of residence. 1 Sir James Balfour's Annals in loco. 2 These keys are still preserved. › Charles returned to Fife in the early part of the next year, and was feasted at Anstruther and Pittenweem, as appears from the town-council records of these burghs. We have no complete personal history of Charles from the day of his landing at Speymouth, till his escape from England in October, 1651, after the fatal battle of Worcester; but a more interesting subject for a volume could scarcely be selected. VOL. II. 4 L Having mentioned Mr. S. Rutherford, it will give us some idea of the moral and religious sentiments of the times, as well as of the description of men who were preferred to eminent stations in the universities, if we offer a few passing remarks on the history and character of this well known personage. The common designation he received from his contemporaries was, "that floure of the kirk, the famous Mr. S. Rutherford." Before the religious troubles began, he had been minister of Anwoth, in Galloway. One of his biographers says, "of the manner of his settlement in that parish (in 1627) we know no particulars, only by some means or other he succeeded in being settled without acknowledging the bishops, which was no easy matter at that time." In other words, he smuggled himself into the church, though opposed to its constitution and discipline! He was deprived of his living by the bishop of his diocese, in 1636, for preaching against the five articles of Perth, which were at that time part of the law of the church; but at the outbreak of the rebellion, being in all respects fitted for the new order of things, he was appointed, as we have seen, professor of divinity in St. Mary's College, and one of the ministers of the town; and in 1647, on the death of Howie, the aged principal, he succeeded to his office. He was one of the commissioners sent by the general assembly to the Westminster assembly of divines, where he had a principal hand in compiling the directory for public worship, the confession of faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms which are now in use in the Scottish presbyterian establishment. He subsequently joined the "Remonstrants," in opposition to the "Resolutioners," a party distinction that arose in the very year now under our review, and which we will notice presently. He wrote a book " against pretended liberty of conscience," and another, entitled "Lex Rex," in which, like John Knox, he argues that the people, being the source of all power, may lawfully deprive their sovereign of the authority which they originally gave him, whenever they think themselves warranted in so doing. But he is best known by his "letters," which were addressed to some of the leading persons of his time, both male and female, and are still read and admired by a numerous class of Christians. They abound with the most familiar, irreverend, and even indelicate expressions, when treating on the most sacred subjects.' The same year, the distinction between Resolutioners and Remonstrants had its origin. Troops being much wanted for the service of the king, 1 It has been asserted that episcopalians assisted in drawing up the Westminster standards. This is a mistake. A few, indeed, were invited to assist, but only one complied with the invitation, and he only went as a spectator of the assembly's proceedings. This motley body consisted of four barons, sixteen members of the rebel parliament, and one hundred and eighteen preachers and lay elders of various denominations, but chiefly presbyterians. They met under a positive prohibition from their lawful king, but their decisions were controlled and sanctioned by the long parliament which sat contemporaneously with it. After a sitting of ten years, it was dissolved by Cromwell. The episcopal church has its own standards, and never acknowledged those of the Westminster Assembly. 2 Mr. M. Napier calls them "the disgusting ravings of Mr. S. Rutherford, not the less loathsome that they are under the mask of religion. To the disgrace of a Christian and civilized nation, they yet find admirers." And Arnot, in his "History of Edinburgh," says of his writings, that they are 66 a composition of hypocrisy, calumny, obscenity, and nonsense- not to add blasphemy." |