the Rev. W. G. Huntingford was appointed Treasurer of the Board. The additional sum of £5 was voted in aid of building the parochial schools at Dibden, and £15 that of Baughurst. Mr. W. Potter, assistant-master of the Wonston School (son of Mr. Potter, of Stratton), has been appointed by the Bishop of Winchester master of the Farnham Common School, in the room of Mr. Martin, chosen master of the Farnham Parochial School. Mr. Martin and Mr. W. Potter were pupils of the Diocesan Training School. Eton College. It is not, perhaps, generally known that the scholars, to be qualified to be elected on the foundation of Eton, must be born of parents legally married, and within the limits of the Kingdom of England (infra regnum nostrum Anglia). Persons born in Ireland or Scotland are ineligible, Henry VI. (by whom the college was founded and endowed in 1441) having been only "Dominus Hiberniæ," while Scotland was an independent kingdom. Scholars are not admissible earlier than the age of eight, nor later than that of sixteen; and are superannuated at eighteen, unless placed on the indenture as nominated for King's at seventeen, when they may remain till they have attained their nineteenth year. Even at eighteen they may retire from the foundation, and remain at the school. as Oppidans. The election generally, though not necessarily, takes place on the last Monday in July; the statutable period extending from the feast of St. Thomas à Becket (July 7th) to that of the Assumption (August 15th). The Provost of King's names two days within this period, from which the Provost of Eton selects one. At this period the examination of the applicants takes place. The names of the successful candidates are then placed in indentures, and they succeed to King's in the order there determined, as vacancies occur in that college. The vacancies at King's thus supplied from Eton have amounted upon an average to about four in every year. For the first time since the foundation of Eton College there are no vacancies this year (at present) on the foundation of King's; nor, indeed, is there any probability of a vacancy in that college being declared within the short time now to elapse before the limited period expires. The election is vested in the Provosts of Eton and King's, the Vice-Provost of Eton, two Fellows of King's (the Posers) of the degree of M.A., and the Head Master of Eton. Eton College Chapel.-The great west window has just been fully exposed to view by the removal of the massive and unsightly woodwork on either side, which was accomplished during the extensive repairs and alterations which have been recently completed within the interior of the sacred edifice. Consider able anxiety has been manifested for some time past amongst the upper boys at the college (and, indeed, throughout the establishment) to have the present plain glass of this window (which ranks amongst the finest of any of the windows of our cathedral churches in the kingdom) entirely removed, and replaced with stained glass, containing devices and emblems from the Holy Scriptures. The upper boys of the college have applied to the authorities of the college for permission to carry this intention into effect, and to defray the whole expense from out of their own pockets. liberal undertaking there is no doubt that very material pecuniary assistance will be rendered by many old Etonians. Mr. Eastlake, the Royal Academician, has just been applied to on the subject, and he has consented to furnish a design in conformity with the views of the liberal originators of the contemplated improvement and ornament to the chapel. In this Westminster School.-The Right Rev. Dr. Carey, Bishop of St. Asaph, has lately placed in the hands of trustees the munificent sum of £20,000, for the benefit, after the death of his Lordship and Mrs. Carey, of students elected from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford. Church Schoolmasters' Association for Essex. The first meeting of the Association was held at Chelmsford on the 8th inst., the Rev. the Rector of the parish in the chair. The design is to hold. quarterly meetings on a Saturday at Colchester, Chelmsford, Brentwood, and Witham, to be presided over by a clergyman; to provide a library of books for circulation among the members; to read a paper, or to have a lecture delivered; and also to discuss some question connected with education. Secretaries, the Rev. John Bramston, Witham, and Mr. Wm. Forsyth, Chelmsford. Schoolmasters' Union for the Deanery of Bedminster.-A numerous meeting of the Clergy of the Deanery of Bedminster, which was also attended by several parochial Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses, and many ladies and gentlemen of the neighbourhood, was held at the National School-room of the parish of Long Ashton, on the 28th of June, for the purpose of forwarding the objects contemplated in the formation of the Schoolmasters' Union. The Rev. H. F. Gray, the Diocesan Inspector of Schools, examined the children The Rev. Diocesan Inspector delivered a very interesting and practical Lecture on Education, tracing the Madras system to its origin, and particularly impressing on the teachers the necessity of making the scholars thoroughly understand what they were doing, and not to be over-anxious to hasten their progress. At two o'clock, many of the clergy, and the schoolmasters and schoolmistresses dined together. There are four prizes to be given at the next annual meeting :-one of £5, kindly promised on behalf of the Bishop to the master of the best parochial school in the Deanery; one of £3, from the funds of the Society, to be given to the mistress of the best school conducted by a female teacher:- another prize of £1 from a member of the Society, to the schoolmaster or mistress who shall compose the most approved Essay on the best means of giving separate instruction to Monitors; and a prize of ten shillings to the author of the second-best Essay on the same subject. A very general desire was expressed, especially by the schoolmasters, that the meeting might be repeated more frequently than once a year, and it was proposed that local meetings should be held. Sheffield Church of England Instruction Society. A very beautiful piece of mechanism for illustrating the motions of the earth, moon, &c., has been presented to the Institution by Mr. Botham, of this town, the ingenious artist, who devised and executed the whole. The sun in the centre is represented by a globular lamp, round which a small terrestrial globe slowly moves, to represent the annual path of the earth in its orbit: the diurnal rotation of this globe on its own axis, presenting the alternations of day and night in the most beautiful manner; while the monthly phases of the moon are simultaneously exhibited with perfect accuracy of effect. There are also other illustrations of various lunar and geocentric planes, &c., which are easier understood and admired on a sight of the machine, than they can be intelligibly described in words. The whole of the mimic orbs and satellites are kept in equable relative motion by a secret spring acting through trains of exquisite wheel work. The execution of the apparatus is as highly creditable to the ingenuity, as the gift of it is honourable to the generosity, of the artist. Vocal Music as a branch of ordinary Instruction.-In all the public schools in Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, and other German States, instruction in vocal music is introduced as an elementary branch of education. The same thing is the case in military schools, in which the common soldiers are instructed in music along with reading, writing, arithmetic, and those branches of mathematics which are applicable to the military world.— Musical World. DEATH. Knox, Rev. Dr., Head Master of Tunbridge School, on Sunday, 23rd July, 1843. To our Correspondents and Readers. We have received letters from both the author and publisher of "The National School Expositor," explaining in some measure the confusion of which H. W. K. and other correspondents have complained. It appears, that there are two Editions of the work now on sale, the one from which our extracts were made, being a "New Edition;" the other, however, being still on sale by hundreds. We have the pleasure of renewing our recommendation,-only purchasers must make sure of the right edition. A PLEA FOR THE ADMISSION OF CERTAIN SCHOOLMASTERS INTO HOLY ORDERS. SIR,-I am fully aware, that in the suggestions which this letter contains, I propose that which, in the eyes of men of the world, will lower the rank and even the respectability of the clerical office; and it might therefore be natural for me to expect, that I should have the whole interest of my profession against me; but though my proposal may not meet with that acceptance with which I hope it will be received, I am convinced that it is not on any selfish ground, much less from pride, that the clergy will oppose it. We have all-bishops, priests, and deacons, entered on our awful offices as the ambassadors of God; we feel the inexpressible value of that gospel mercy, which it is our high privilege to proclaim to every creature, and I believe we are prepared as a body to give up anything, or to submit to anything, which may enable us to make fuller proof of our ministry, rejoicing that we are counted worthy to suffer shame for His name, whose we are, and whom we are bound to serve. There is not, I believe, in the whole large body of the conscientious English clergy, from the highest prelate to the lowest curate, one individual who would not gladly give up station, fortune, and all that the world holds dear, and willingly spend his life in the performance of the most menial offices, if he could hope by so doing to gain more acceptance for the message which he is commissioned to deliver. We have no worldly ends to gain, we are looking for other rewards. ease. The suggestions which I will now proceed to lay before you, are in the first place founded on the evident insufficiency of the present number of the clergy to perform the work which they have to do. Sufficient attention has not been yet generally directed towards the great waste of life in our profession, though I believe it has attracted the attention of medical men; but this waste of life does not demand less consideration, because it is caused by the slow and silent hand of disIt was lately remarked by an eminent physician, that he subscribed to no society with so great pleasure, as that for giving pastoral aid to our clergy; for no one, he said, without similar experience to his own, could believe the number of painful cases which were continually coming before him, of clergymen whose health was hopelessly ruined by over-work and over-anxiety. No army, I am persuaded, after the longest campaign in the most unhealthy climate, ever had so many of its officers on the sick-list as our church now has; and things are becoming worse every day. It is natural that it should be so; the physical strength requisite for the celebration of divine worship twice every Sunday, in a loud voice, which can be heard by the whole congregation, and not in that under-tone in which the Romish priests read their services-the weekly day of rest being necessarily taken from us, the impossibility increasingly felt, especially in country dis. tricts, of obtaining any temporary help, so as to enable us to have holidays from time to time to recruit our strength the weekly VOL. I, NO. 9. SEPTEMBER, 1843. Z parochial visiting and care of the sick-the superintendence of the schools and other local charitable institutions-the anxiety of mind which necessarily accompanies the performance of every spiritual duty, and especially when we feel that those duties are so inadequately performed, in consequence of the numbers which are so frequently committed to our individual care-these things must have a tendency to undermine the strongest constitution. It is, I believe, a well known fact, that the complaints of the throat and chest, which are so common amongst the clergy, are by no means so prevalent amongst the members of the bar, who appear to be so much engaged in speaking, nor are they as common even amongst the ministers of dissenting congregations, who might be expected to suffer as much as the clergy. Whatever be the cause, there can be no doubt that in every place frequented by invalids, either at home or abroad-at Torquay or at Naples, at the hot well of Clifton or at Nice-there are more clergymen who are completely broken down and disabled, in consequence of their professional work, than members of any other profession. To check this great destruction of strength and health in our profession, it would certainly be most desirable to lessen the physical exertion, to give the means for an occasional holiday, and to take off somewhat of his anxiety from every parochial clergyman. But if the health of the clergy as a profession is failing under their present duties, and their numbers are insufficient for the fields which they are already cultivating, what will be the case when the recent measures of government come into full operation, and new and hitherto uncultivated fields being opened to us, our already much too burdened ranks are required to provide for the duties of (I would hope) at least a thousand new churches? What will be the case when the spirit of missionary zeal shall spread amongst us, as spread it will, and hundreds of our clergy shall leave our already thinned numbers, to carry the message of the gospel to the neglected colonies of our vast empire, and to the heathen world? The suggestion, however, which I have to make, rests not only on the present waste of life in our profession, and the acknowledged inadequacy of our numbers to enter on these new fields of labour which are opening on every side around us, but it is also founded on the ascertained fact, that dissent spreads solely amongst those classes of society from which our clergy are not taken. It is well, Sir, to have a learned, well-bred, and highly educated clergy; men of refined manners and sensitive feelings, who can mix with ease as equals, equals in all that constitutes a gentleman as well as a Christian, with a Percy or a Howard. But it is well also to have a clergy with whom all classes of the people can associate with ease, men whom they can feel their personal friends and companions; who can sit down with them at their social meals, and throw no restraint over the family circle by their presence except such as the sanctity of their character may spread around them. It may be said that we are willing to mix with all classes, that we would gladly join the family party of the shopkeeper or peasant, and that so far from wishing to make our doing so appear an act of condescension, we esteem, with no mock humility, our highest title to be, "Servus servorum Dei." But it by no means follows, that though we are as willing to mix with the lowest as we are able to mix with the highest classes, that all classes can mix with us in familiar social intercourse, without any feeling of restraint. Our manners, our tastes, our subjects of conversation, even, I think, when we speak, as I trust the clergy will ever speak, on subjects connected with religion, are different from those of the middle and lower classes. The dissenting minister can visit the family of the shopkeeper; the Wesleyan country preacher can join the labourer at his evening fireside, and neither the shopkeeper nor the labourer feel restrained by the presence of persons of superior rank. They mix with them as equals, as persons of the same class, having the same class interests; they know that they have a personal acquaintance with all the circumstances of their own station, which they will never believe that the higher ranks can have, and they are therefore willing to enter freely into conversation with them. They feel them to be of themselves, and therefore naturally feel satisfaction in their success as ministers of Christ. Now, Sir, if the higher classes of our society owe much to the daily familiar intercourse of the ordained servants of God if they owe much of the tone of Christian piety which increasingly, I trust, pervades them, to the private unofficial visits of the Clergy, why should our church deprive the lower classes of this great privilege, so willingly given them by other churches, and especially by the church of Rome? for, while we refuse to give them clergy of their own class, we certainly deprive them of this privilege. We have at the present moment less influence over the masses in our parishes, than is almost universally possessed by the priests of the Romish church in Ireland; this is not, because we are less active and less zealous in the work of the ministry, or because we are not as ready to give temporal assistance to the utmost of our power; it is chiefly because the priests of that church, which so eminently possesses the wisdom of the serpent, are taken out of the masses, as well as out of the higher ranks, and these not only have the means of more intercourse and knowledge of those masses, but the masses also feel more sympathy with them. ; But while our church loses in a great measure its hold over the middle and lower grades of our people by not giving them ordained teachers of their own classes, it is at the same time certainly unable to retain many promising, and I believe truly pious members of these classes in her communion, because she will not permit them to enter in any capacity the ranks of her ordained teachers. How common is it, and I would thank God it is so common, to find young men of the lower classes, whose hearts are fully set in them to make known to others the gospel which has brought peace to themselves; they at first become Sunday School teachers, and rejoice in the work! but they soon wish to give more of their time and strength to the promotion of their Saviour's kingdom upon earth-they wish to be sent forth duly appointed and authorized for the great work. Our church, or rather our bishops, immediately shut the door in their face; for they will not as a general rule allow any to enter the ministry of our church without property as well as learning. The consequence is, that these young men, who in piety and scriptural knowledge would often yield to none |