Oath of Abjuration," also by 230 to 195. This is regarded as an attempt to carry the principle of the Jew bill in another form. The bill stricken at was originally levelled against the Stuarts and their adherents; but the words "on the true faith of a Christian," are the important ones at the present day, which the advocates of the admission of Jews into Parliament are desirous to have erased. Mr. Spooner has had leave granted him, by 17 majority, to bring in his bill on the subject of Maynooth College; but it is not likely to result in any thing practical this session.

Besides these, we may record the passage in the House of Lords of resolutions condemnatory of the practice of torture, as still practised in India, the subject having been introduced by resolutions presented by the Earl of Albemarle, for which those passed were presented as a substitute by the Duke of Argyle; the attempt of Government on the subject of life peerages, an eminent judge, Sir James Parke, having been created Baron Wensleydale, and the condemnation of the system by the House of Lords by 92 to 57; and the triumph of ministers on the motion in reference to Kars, the most assailable point in the late campaign, by 127 majority.

Convocation met on April 15th, and adjourned on the 17th. We know of nothing in its proceedings worth mention here.

The miscellaneous items most interesting to us may be given as follows:

The Rev. Henry Melvill has resigned his secretaryship at St. Margaret's, Lothbury, the lectures delivered by him at which church were such an attraction to those strangers in London who knew of their delivery and could appreciate their merits. Having been appointed Canon of St. Paul's, he resigned this lectureship, for which candidates have not been wanting. The name of "golden lectures" has been given to them in consequence of the remuneration of £500, or thereabout, per annum. The Rev. William Goode has been presented to the living of St. Margaret's. These two nominations we take to be signs, now become numerous, that evangelical principles are rising to the position they should command, being the true principles of the Church of England.

It has been stated, and we have not seen it denied, that Miss Stanley, recently concerned in the nurse movement for the army, and whose religious principles have for some time been suspected, has joined the Church of Rome. She is the daughter of the late Bishop of Norwich, and sister of the Rev. A. P. Stanley, to whom we are indebted for the biography of Dr. Arnold. A movement (which, even if it produces nothing, is pleasing to record as set on foot) has been made for the comprehension in the Church of England of others, especially the Wesleyans, with whom it would seem easier than with any other denomination. The movement originated at a monthly meeting of clergy and laity held in the rectory of St. James', Westminster. The Watchman and the Wesleyan Times, organs of the two great divisions of the Wesleyans, both condemn the scheme.

A painful controversy, in which the Bishop of Bangor has been prominent, we mention as one of the items of the day. It is, however, with no regret that we turn aside at such an exhibition of temper and such expressions as have been

unhappily presented to the world in his letters (for which his old age and infirmities are given as an excuse) without any further enlargement on the subject. A memorial church at Constantinople has been projected, and considerable progress made in the scheme in England.

"The moiety of a fund raised by the friends of the late Dr. Arnold, has been transferred to the ministry of Oxford, in trust for the institution of a prize to be called the Arnold Prize.' The prize of forty guineas is to be awarded every year, in the Lent term, for the best essay or dissertation on some subject of ancient or modern history."

A Sunday-school canvass of the metropolis has been undertaken by the Sunday-school Union, in which, as far as can be ascertained, not less than eight or ten thousand canvassers are engaged. It has been announced that the Church of England's Sunday-school Institute is about to initiate a canvass.

The vestry of Boston, in England, have received from the Hon. Edward Everett $2000" presented in the name of the descendants and admirers of the Vicar of Old Boston, in the reign of Charles the First, for restoring the Southwest Chapel of St. Botolph's, and the erection of a monument therein to the memory of the said Vicar."

There has sprung up a difficulty at Bramford-Speke, where the Rev. Mr. Gorham has been accused, by one of his church-wardens, of brawling in the parish church, and a commission has been issued by the Bishop of Exeter on the difficulty.

THE COLONIES.

The venerable Reginald Courtenay, Archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica, has been, it was some time since stated, appointed coadjutor to the Bishop of Jamaica, under the title of Bishop of Kingston. It has also been stated that it was in contemplation to erect the Bahamas into a separate see. We have had no information since as to either subject.

Measures to allow meetings of representative bodies for the Church in Canada and Victoria have been granted by govermment. The Bishop of the latter place is of a different stamp from most of the colonial bishops; but speaking generally in reference to the colonies, if representative Church assemblies are to be granted, it is to be hoped that practical and sound men may be sent out as bishops, and not such as some of the colonial prelates are.

The Colonial Secretary having agreed that if a fund could be raised for the support of the episcopate in Kingston, the contributors should have the nomination of the first Bishop of that see, the Rev. Mr. Hinckes, an Irish evangelical clergyman, was nominated to government, and approved. Mr. Hinckes consented to accept the bishopric, if it was to be without presenting himself for election by any body of clergy or laity; but the Bishop of Toronto insisted on the new Bishop being elected by his clerical synod, and refused to give his assent to the appointment.

A letter from Calcutta gives a report that the government allowance to the Idol Temple at Pooree has been discontinued by order from home, an object ong desired.

MISSIONARY.

The remains of Henry Martyn have been removed to the garden of the Rev. Henry I. Van Lennep. The East-India Company have granted £50 to erect a monument to him, which Mr. Van Lennep proposes should bear inscriptions in English, Armenian, Turkish, and Greek, one on each face. The inscription suggested by the Court of Directors of the East-India Board, is as follows, namely:

"Here lies buried Henry Martyn, a chaplain in the service of the East-India Company. Born at Truro, in England, on the 18th February, 1781. Died at Focat on the 17th October, 1812. He labored for many years in the East, striving to benefit mankind, both in this world and in that to come. He translated the Holy Scriptures into Hindostanee and Persian, and made it his great object to proclaim to all men the God and Saviour of whom they testify. He will long be remembered in the countries where he was known, as a 'man of God.' May his grave be honored."

The conclusion of a peace, and the introduction of the Italian question into the recent Congress of Paris by Count Cavour, and in a less degree, perhaps, the birth of an heir to the Empire of France, and the probability of the marriage of the presumptive heir of Prussia, Prince Frederick William, son of the Prince of Prussia, and the Princess Royal of England, are important political events, for the Church probably as well as the State. The triple treaty of Austria with England and France seems to throw her so much in concord with those Western powers that it becomes of importance, even perhaps as connected with her concordat with Rome. A meeting of the Austrian prelates had been held in reference to that measure, (in which, by the way, difficulties have been experienced, as we recorded in our last number.) The assembly was, it seems summoned by the Papal Nuncio, the Cardinal Viela Prela, and not by the Archbishop of Vienna. Government protested against the appointment, but withdrew the protest, "being desirous to avoid any conflict with the Church." The assembly met April 6th, and over sixty prelates composed it; but its doings were not to be made known till ratified by the Emperor and the Pope.

M. Sibour, the Archbishop of Paris, has published on the occasion of the return of peace, a pastoral letter, and in it he makes some curious remarks in reference to Turkey, in which, after referring to recent events, the sentence, "At bottom, Mahometanism, what is it but a sect of Christianity?" occurs. The same prelate has also announced that the Roman liturgy will be adopted in his diocese. It will then be obligatory. Alas! for the Gallican Church spirit!

The eminent Protestant minister, Adolphe Monod, died April 6th in Paris, and has been succeeded in the Reformed Church there by Pastor Grandpierre. At Montauban, M. Bonifas has been elected Professor of Hebrew, in place

of his father, over M. Reville, which is regarded as a triumph of the evangelical section of the Church, to which the Institution is attached, over the looser section.

Dr. Reuterdahl, Bishop of Lund, has been appointed to the Archbishopric of Upsala, the primacy of Sweden.

Rev. HIRAM R. HARROLD, Rector of St. Ann's Church, Middletown, Delaware, died April 28th, in the fifty-third year of his age.

Rev. J. K. HELMUTH, late assistant minister at St. James' the Less, died Sunday, April 27th.

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Rev. BREED BATCHELLER, late of the Diocese of Delaware, died on Sunday morning, April 30th, in the city of Baltimore, in the forty-ninth year of his age.

Rev. GEORGE ADIE, late Rector of St. James' Church, Leesbury, Va., died at his residence, May 3d.. Mr. Adie had had charge of the church in Leesbury for more than twenty years, and had secured the confidence and affection of the entire community. Declining health had led him more than once to resign the charge of the church, but the people were unwilling to sever the tie which had so long bound them together, and he continued to officiate until it pleased his divine Master to call him to a higher service.

Rev. SAMUEL JOSIAH HAYWARD died at Nashotah on Sunday, the 11th May, 1856. Rev. R. SHERWOOD, D.D., died at his residence in Hyde Park, New-York, on the 11th of May, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

DIOCESAN INTELLIGENCE.

CONNECTICUT.

THE Annual Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut assembled in St. John's, Hartford, on Tuesday morning, 10th inst. The Bishop read his Address; after which the Assistant Bishop read his address, from which we gather the following statistics: Parishes visited, 85; Confirmations, in sixty-eight parishes, 573; Deacons ordained, 8; Priests, 8; Candidates for Holy Orders, 27; Corner-stones laid, 3