Of Oxford.-T. R. J. Langharne, B.A. Jesus; S. W. Mangin, B.A. Wad.; H. Turner, B.A. Queen's; S. H. Archer, B.A. Exet. (I. d. Bp. of Exeter.) Of Cambridge.-W. C. Badger, B.A. Queen's; E. Gilpin, B.A. Trin.; H. L. Nelthropp, B.A. Trin.; J. Richards, B.A. Trin.; H. T. Lee, B.A. Trin.; H. Lister, B.A. Cath. H. (1. d. Bp. of Ripon); R. M'Niell, M.A. Trin. (. d. Abp. of York); G. Babb, B.A. St. John's (l. d. Bp. of Worcester). Of Dublin.-R. Halpin, B.A. Trin. (1. d. Bp. of Clogher.) Of Lampeter.-S. Appleby, St. David's (1. d. Bp. of Llandaff.) Literate.-J. Griffiths (l. d. Bp. of Llandaff.) PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-L. Carden, B.A. Univ.; M. H. Name. ......... Estcourt, B.A. Exet.; T. C. Griffiths, B.A. By the LORD BP. OF ROCHESTER, at Rochester, on Sunday, April 14. DEACONS. Of Oxford.-C. R. Harrison, B.C.L. All Souls ; W. A. B. Cator, B.A. Mert. Of Cambridge.-G. Y. Boddy, B.A. St. John's. PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-S. Holmes, B. A. Magd. H. PREFERMENTS. Preferment. ...... Barnes, R........... Burgh, De, R. L... Carter, T. T......... Coffin, R. A... Cooke, C. Clewer, R. Val. Pop. 3113 159 414 Worcester.. Vicar of St. Michael.... £179 Oxford...... Eton College Oxford, v...... 530 (1330 802 460 3075 145 2600 203 318 133 2623 Withycombe, R... B. & W...... T. Hutton, Esq.......... Crofts, J.............. St. Saviour's, York, R.. York......... Lord Chancellor ......... Deck, J...... St. Stephen's, Hull, P.C. York......... Deedes, C.. Chilton Canteloe, R...... B. & W...... John Bragge, Esq. Halliwell, T........ Christ Ch., P.C. Redhill Winchester Johnson, J. B...... Welbourne, R............. Norwich.... Mrs. J. Johnson Ormerod, T. J...... Framlingham Pigot, P.c. Norwich.... Bishop of Norwich...... PREFERMENTS-Continued. Diocese. Patron. Preferment. (St. Nicholas, East Sarum....... ................... Grafton ... Ward, H............. CLERGYMEN Allen, J. T., Rec. of Shobdon, Herefordshire. Bass, R., Vicar of Austrey. Best, F., Rector of South Dalton. Bigge, E., Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, and Vic. Boyton, C., D.D., Rector of Tullyagnish, county Bush, C., B.A., at Weston-Point, Runcorn, Ches. Hewlett, J., B.D., Rec. of Hilgay, and formerly Hows, F., Rector of Framingham Pigott. MISCELLANEOUS [As we formerly noticed Mr. Alexander's comforting proposals to build a new church in Edinburgh, for the use of the poorer members of the Church in the Old Town, with a school, &c. attached: we are glad to announce that the scheme, though for some reasons withdrawn, has been revived under the best auspices of The Scotch laity have at length begun to move, as we learn from the following prospectus] : success. "DIOCESE OF EDINBURGH. "Proposal for Building a New Church in Edinburgh, for the accommodation of the Poor, with a School-house attached, to be situated in the Old Town. "A number of laymen, members of the Church of Scotland, have had for some time under their consideration the spiritual and educational wants of their £314 244 400 208 635 Val. Pop. 443 50 92 Gleig, G. R...... Principal Chap. to the Forces. Twistleton, F... Watkins, F...... H. M. Inspector of Schools. DECEASED. Jones, J., LL.B., Rector of Llanvyrnach and Jones, J. W., Rec. of Hubberstone, nr. Milford. Story, Dr., Chancellor of the diocese of Clogher. Wheeldon, J., Minister of St. John's Chapel, White, H., Rector of Claughton. Wodsworth, C., Vic. of Audley and Prebendary Woodcock, G., M.A., at the Rectory, Caythorpe, Worsley, H., D.D., Rector of Gatcombe, Isle of INTELLIGENCE. poorer brethren in the Old Town; and, from inquiries which have been made, it is manifest that the state of church accommodation for the poorer classes of the community in that locality, who belong to the Church, and the means of instruction for their children, are wholly unsuitable and insufficient. "In these circumstances, it is felt to be a duty incumbent on all churchmen, forthwith to endeavour to supply these deficiencies, by providing, as soon as the requisite sum is subscribed, an edifice, in a convenient situation in the Old Town, for the worship of God according to the Ritual of the Church; and, in connexion therewith, a school-house, for the instruction of the children of the poor. "It is a source of much satisfaction to reflect, that, under the sanction of the Bishop, a great deal has already been done in Edinburgh to rescue the children of the poor from the deplorable state of ignorance and irreligion in which, from the absence of the requisite means of instruction, they were so long suffered to remain. In particular, it may be mentioned that, besides the scholars attending the other Church schools, there are at present about one hundred and seventy children, whose parents are for the most part natives of either England or Ireland, assembled for daily instruction in a small hired room in the Lawn-market, under the personal superintendence of one of the Clergy of the Diocese; and there is every reason to believe that, if proper encouragement be afforded to this interesting department of ministerial duty, the happiest results may be expected. "It is considered desirable that the proposed church should accommodate not less than 600 persons, and that the school-house should be sufficient for at least 200 pupils, who will attend church regularly. The expense of both buildings cannot be estimated at less than 3,000l., including the site. It is intended that at least one-half of the sittings shall be free; but it is anxiously wished that all of them should be so; and if such a further sum shall be raised as to admit of a requisite endowment for the clergyman, that arrangement will be carried into effect. "The following gentlemen, whose names are appended, have consented to act as a committee, for carrying out the above proposal; and they confidently appeal to members of the Church everywhere, to aid, by their benevolence, the promotion of this most desirable object. A considerable portion of the sum required has already been obtained; and the additional offers of support they have received from various quarters are such as to warrant the expectation that the reproach will be speedily wiped away, E. D. SANDFORD, Esq., Advocate, 11, W. BRAND, Esq., W.S., 4, Queen-st. Walker-st. C. COLT, Esq., 15, Regent-terrace. W. FORBES, Esq., Advocate, 9, Coates crescent. EDW. FRASER, Esq., Advocate, 46, Al- R. R. GLASGOw, Esq., Advocate, 15, W. GOLDIE, Esq., W.S., 34, Melville-st. A. F. IRVINE, Esq., Advocate, York-pl. W. C. TREVELYAN, Esq., Wallington, ADAM URQUHART, Esq., Advocate, 5, W. S. WALKER, Esq., Advocate, 7, St. The Hon. HENRY WALPOLE, Wolterton- TO CORRESPONDENTS. WE have received the following"London, April 22, 1844. "SIR,I was not aware until this evening that you had spoken of the Preface to my papers on the Dark Ages, as written in reference to what has appeared in the Christian Remembrancer. As I do not know how my remarks may appear when viewed in that light, I beg to assure you that they were written and printed without my having the least suspicion that a single word on the subject had appeared in your work.-I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, "S. R. MAITLAND." With reference to the last clause of his letter, (see p. 631,) we can assure Mr. Maurice that he has, we believe, many friends among the readers of the Christian Remembrancer, and that it is only from deference to his wish that we have suppressed —though in type-a letter on the subject of his Kingdom of Christ," from the author of "Signs of Hope," as well as an interesting communication from Hiberno-Catholicus," who, formerly a Quaker, says, "that this book was mercifully made the instrument of removing every lingering doubt, and of enabling him with confidence to take the decided step of seeking for admission, by baptism, into the body of Christ's Catholic Church." The correspondence relative to the Union of the Sees of Gloucester and Bristol, as illustrating the proposed Union of St. Asaph and Bangor, arrived too late (i. e. April 27) for the present month. We have received a letter from Mr. Newman, disavowing the authorship of the life of St. Stephen Harding, reviewed in our last number. It is allowed that the prefatory advertisement is, of course unintentionally, misleading. Our mistake is, perhaps, cheaply purchased by the announcement. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. JUNE, 1844. History of Scotland. By PATRICK FRAZER TYTLER. Vol. 9. A.D. 1587-1603. W. Tait, Edinburgh. 1843. The Episcopal Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. By JOHN PARKER LAWSON, M. A. London: James Burns. 1844. SUCH of our readers, if there be any such, as have remembered the former articles we have put forward on the previous volumes of Mr. Tytler's valuable history, will not have forgotten that we have already delineated, in short, consecutive sketches, the religious state of Scotland from the Reformation to the death of the unfortunate Mary. The appearance of the learned historian's concluding volume, and also of that on the Episcopal Church of Scotland, which we have placed at the head of this article, will enable us to complete our long-intended and continued series of the religious history of the Scotch, by connecting our résumés of Tytler with that in which we digested the most important facts in Mr. Lawson's previous volume. Much as our system of "rifaciamentos" on this as well as other subjects have been called in question by some able critics, we cannot but think that in and by them, we have been at once digesting information for those who cannot, or care not, to seek its original sources, and instigating others to apply to the works from which we have so largely drawn, and from which we have selected such tasty morsels as best set forth the various qualities of the authors, and best fitted into the mosaic of our histories. The gap which we now propose to fill up, is that from the death of Mary to the Revolution; laying, indeed, our main stress on the various phases assumed by Religion during that eventful period; and at the same time working in with our narrative such secular facts and events as are necessary to a clear understanding of the real motive-causes of many a religious effect. Crafty and provident as was Elizabeth, she could neither prevent the Scottish king from hearing of his mother's execution before the explanations of her executioner, nor persuade the continental powers that she was innocent of Mary's death. It was in vain that she persecuted Davison, that she feigned to be ignorant of the great rejoicings and blazing fires that followed on the arrival of young Talbot from the death-scene at Fotheringhay; she was equally unsuccessful in misleading the Europe of her own day, as the unprejudiced of the present time. Seven days after the execution, Ashton rode into the palace yard of Edinburgh, the bearer of the tidings of Mary's death. Loud, and universal as loud, were the execrations and the threats of revenge with which the sad news was received; aye, so loud, so universal, that the crafty king himself could not refrain from chiming in with the feelings of his people, and in the apparent bitterness of his heart summoned his ablest border-chieftains to counsel revenge, whilst his invectives showed the large supply in his treasury of abuse. The position of James was highly embarrassing: the few feelings that he possessed carried him with the hearty violence of his people; and, whilst he feared to alienate his warlike nobles, to whose prowess and power he might be compelled, ere long, to appeal as his best argument for the English crown, and therefore dared not to treat with coldness their universal musterings to revenge his mother's death; he, at the same time, could not but remember that there was another powerful party in his own kingdom little disposed to revenge the death of her for whom they had refused to pray, and on whose head they had boldly and publicly heaped the terms "apostate," "traitoress," "adulteress," "Jezebel," and that while he was conciliating the nobles by prospects of revenge, he was rendering the Kirk, its preachers and its burgher-followers, his more than ever determined enemies. Could he trust to Spanish aid in his contest with Elizabeth, or look to France for help against England? Religion rendered the one as unlikely as policy did the other. It was as little likely that the Spanish bigot would aid in consolidating the Protestant powers of England, as that France would place, by its aid, under one sway, the political strength of our Island. Lastly, could he hope to be welcomed as Elizabeth's successor by the nobility of her realm, as the first that had revived the ancient and almost forgotten enmity between the nations? James weighed all these arguments, and acted with his usual craft. He determined to play one party against the other, and set off his close coalition with Elizabeth in 1588, against his acquiescence-if not encouragement-of the devastating forays |