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of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate; was made Bishop of Chester in 1824, and transferred to London in 1828. He resigned his See last year, and had a pension of £6,000. The London Times gives an excellent obituary of him, from which we extract the following:

It was his large and self-denying munificence that mainly tended to stimulate the same spirit in others, and which has stamped upon his age of the English Church, amid all its unhappy divisions, a character unknown to it in any other. There are two measures, however, which bear upon them pre-eminently the impress of Bishop Blomfield's energetic mind-the systematic perseverance of his efforts to secure the building of churches, and the extension of the colonial episcopate from five to thirty-one sees, which originated in the appeal of his well kuown letter to Archbishop Howley. The improved residences of the beneficed, and the improved stipends of the unbeneficed clergy, the more effective examinations of candidates for the ministry, and the greater frequency of communions and confirmations, these were all evidences of a more rigorous ecclesiastical administration which he might be thought to have shared with his episcopal contemporaries. But it would not probably be difficult to prove that even these were attributable in no ordinary degree to the impulse of his mind, which encouraged and stimulated others in the path of their responsible duty. True it is, indeed, that the controversial spirit diffused over the later period of Bishop Blomfield's life rendered more difficult the course of one who, like him, wished to think well of all without truckling to the mistaken opinions of any. But those will be the first to make allowance for his conduct in dealing with the difficulties which such a state of opinion created. who estimate the delicate position of a prelate who is called upon to arbitrate at a moment when party spirit runs high among the clergy.

It would, however, be doing little justice to the character of so eminent a man, if we were to drop the curtain over his memory without unfolding one portion of it to delineate the consistency with which he adorned all the relations of domestic life. The best friends of his school and college career were those of his ripest years. With a memory accurate and retentive, and with an elastic cheerfulness of disposition which the severest trials of arduous engagements and often ill-requited kindness never ruffled, the store of his reading and the fund of his anecdotes diffused a charm over the society of every circle which he entered. The father of a numerous family, of which six sons and five daughters are now deploring his loss, he labored unceasingly to train them in the principles of the faith which from his heart he loved, and of which his own conduct afforded them a constant example.

THE DEATH of the Rev. J. W. Conybeare, Vicar of Axminster, is also announced. He died on the 22d of July, aged 42. His name is most honourably associated with that of Howson in The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, a work that already stands as a classic in English theology. In his death the Church has lost a valuable servant, and literature a conspicuous ornament. Close upon his death followed that of his father, who was Dean of Llandaff. He died at Itchenstoke, August 12th. His death is said to have been caused partly by grief at the loss of his son.

A COMMITTEE of several lords, clergymen, and gentlemen has been formed by the Bishop of London, to consider the subject of missionary preaching, with a view to provide clergymen duly licensed as preachers, to hold missions and to preach in such places of the metropolis as may be found suitable. All is meant to be done in aid of the parochial clergy of the city. The Committee is headed by the Duke of Marlborough, who has for some years been wellknown in Church matters as Marquess of Blandford, and a member of the House of Commons.

THE NEW DIVORCE BILL has become a law, but the voices of some 11,000 of the clergy did good service in clearing it of objectionable features. It promises at least a great improvement on the old state of things, which was about as bad as it could be. The Bill makes it lawful for divorced parties to marry again as if their prior marriage had been dissolved by death; but pro

vides that no clergyman of the Church shall be compelled to solemnize the marriage of a person divorced for adultery, nor be liable to any censure or penalty for refusing to officiate in such cases. On the other hand, it provides that a clergyman so refusing shall permit any other minister of the Establishment to perform the marriage in the parochial church or chapel. The latter provision calls forth some fierce opposition from all sorts of Churchmen. The Rev. C. H. Davis, one of the staunchest Recordites, declares that sooner than obey the law he will quit the Church. Archdeacon Denison, with characteristic spirit, has published a declaration, that he will neither marry any divorced person himself, nor allow any other clergyman to do so in his church. The Bishop of Oxford, too, has declared that he will not allow any clergyman of his diocese to intrude for any such purpose into the church of a brother. The law does not allow any clergyman of another diocese the privilege. So unless the persons who may be divorced are wary, there may be a collision between the State and the clergy.

THE REV. THOMAS G. SUTHER, D.C.L., was consecrated Bishop of Aberdeen, in St. Paul's chapel, Edinburgh, on the festival of St. John the Baptist; the Bishop of Edinburgh officiating as Primus, and assisted by the Bishops of Argyll and St. Andrew's.

THE BISHOP OF NEWCASTLE, in Australia, pleads to have his Diocese divided, as it is some 130,000 square miles larger than any other in the world. For an endowment of the new See, he offers to surrender, for ten years, his government stipend of £500, and to raise as much more in addition.

THE MISSION of the Propagation Society at Delhi, India, has been destroyed by the rebels in possession of that place. Mr. Hawkins received the news in a letter from Mr. Kay, dated "Bishop's College, Calcutta, June 5, 1857." The letter appears in the Guardian; the main items being as follows:

The Delhi Mission has been completely swept away. Rumors to this effect were current from the beginning of the outbreak; but we kept on hoping that some of the members of the mission might have escaped.

It is not, indeed, absolutely certain, even now, what has occurred. Yet even the most sanguine are compelled to believe that the Rev. Mr. Jennings and his daughter, the Rev. Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Sandys, and Chimmum Lall, were all killed. Captain Douglas, too, a warm supporter of the mission, shared their fate. Of Ram Chunder and Louis Koch (the latter of whom left college only last January) nothing is said. They may, therefore, have escaped, though our hopes are of the faintest kind.

Two native Christians succeeded in escaping to Agra. One of them says that he saw Mr. Hubbard fall, and the other that he saw Mr. Sandys' dead body.

I will not say much of those whom God has taken in this solemn way to Himself. You well know the unwearied diligence of the secretary-I might almost say, the founder of the mission; Mr. Hubbard's subdued energy, and Mr. Sandys' eager and zealous activity, and Chimmum Lall's honest integrity, were known to all.

I cannot, however, withhold from you a remarkable testimony to the character of the mission, which was sent to me by the Bishop of Calcutta only a few days before the outbreak. It is an extract from the Visitation Report of the Bishop of Madras, who, you know, went up to the Punjaub at the beginning of the present year. He says:

Of the latter missions, viz: those of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, I have already expressed my opinion, that the one at Delhi is among the most hopeful and promising of our Indian mission-fields. The intelligent and well-informed converts, holding, as they do, high and important positions independent of the mission; the superior nature of the school, with its 120 boys -amongst the best I have visited in India; and the first-rate character for attainments and devotedness of the missionaries and schoolmasters, are making an impression which is moving the whole of that city of kings.

LETTERS from Bishop McDougal are published in the Colonial Church Chronicle, giving some graphic accounts of the late outbreak of the Chinese in Borneo against Rajah Brooke, and the suffering of the English in conse quence. We can give but the following extract:

Here we have settled ourselves as well as we can, not overburdened, indeed, with our possessions, some of us without even a change of clothes. I fortunately have some twenty dollars; which will suffice to buy us rice and salt, and we try to economize the small stock of tin meats and groceries, so as to make them last until we get relief, or are able to return to Sarawak: for, now the Malays have recovered from their panic, and the whole country is roused, fearful vengeance will be taken. Thousands and thousands of Dyaks are on the track of the Chinese, who have, we hear, again been defeated. their leaders killed, and their chief fort taken; they are endeavoring to escape into the Dutch territories, whence they came. Hundreds are being slain daily; and before long there will not be a Kunsi Cainaman alive in the country. It is frightful to think of the innocent suffer with the guilty; and my heart bleeds for those of my flock who are among them, who, if not killed by their own countrymen, have fallen, or will fall, into the hands of the Dyaks, who hunt for their heads, and will not and cannot discriminate. Meanwhile, what sad loss has been sustained by us all, and what evils will this poor country suffer before this storm is allayed!-the old head-hunting and war spirit of the Dyaks is again kindled, and though this time in legitimate warfare, one hardly knows when it will be appeased. May God direct all for the best! Some good I already see out of the evil; it has proved and brought out the loyalty to the Rajah of the whole native population in a wonderful degree, and the power of the Kunsi, which was a kind of imperium in imperio-a very cancer and focus of rebellion in the heart of the country-is destroyed. In three or four years, Sarawak will perhaps be more flourishing than ever. Meanwhile we may have many struggles to go through. I wish my dear wife and children were at home till all is quiet again and settled; but, alas! I am too pauper to send them: for though, thank God, our buildings are not burnt, they are utterly plundered and damaged. £1000 would not cover my private loss, besides all my beautiful church furniture, plate, vestments, harmonium-all gone or smashed. Those that are with me fear that they have lost their all; however, we are full of thankfulness that our lives are spared, and do not fret much about the spoiling of our goods, hoping that in good time God will enable us to procure all that is needful. What I grieve most about are my papers-manuscripts, sermons, translations, &c. Some of my books, I hear, are left, and I may recover more; but the poor Rajah's, and everything else he had, were utterly lost in the flames that were meant to consume him.

AN "ASSOCIATION for making known upon the Continent the principles of the Anglican Church" has been operating more or less for some years in England. An Italian nobleman, it is not stated who, has lately written a letter to the Secretary, in which we find the following remarkable passage, true, and well put :

I think that a translation of the Bishop of Oxford's sermon against the Immaculate Conception, or, I would rather say, against the new, most useless, and contradictory dogma that the Pope has imposed on Roman Catholicism, would not only be useful, but acceptable to the Italians. This measure, instigated solely by the Jesuits, who lead the Pope by the nose, and who have thought fit to defy the opinion of the world concerning the infallibility of the papal decisions; this measure, I say, has stirred up discussions and controversies here amongst the higher Roman Catholic clergy, and several doctors and bishops of different parts of Italy have formally opposed it. and protested loudly against it. Rome, as usual, has combatted the good reasons of these adversaries by suspension, imprisonment, and excommunication. By this act of ill-timed religious despotism, Pius IX, without perceiving it, in his short-sightedness, has given a great blow to that pontifical infallibility which he believed himself to be strengthening in the sight of the whole world. The poor man does not know his century, and tries in vain, under the guidance of bad counsellors, to bring back to the Holy See the times and the policy of the middle ages.