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TURKEY.-The Sultan, aided by his august friend, the Emperor Nicholas, has taken such precautionary measures, that the combined fleets of England and France would find themselves in an awkward position were they to attempt to force the passage of the Dardanelles. The improvements in the forts on each side the straits have rendered them far more formidable than in 1807. The guns in them are on a level with the water's edge, and in number 319 guns, and 4 mortars on the European shore, and 416 guns and 4 mortars on the Asiatic.

All these have been examined and scaled by the Russian engineers, who have further erected lines of fortification, and dug trenches, to prevent a surprisal by land. This is something better than protocoling, my Lord Palmerston! We think the English foreign minister has well earned the soubriquet of " sayings;" let the Russian be called "doings."

RUSSIA, AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.—In all these empires a conservative policy prevails; the result is, that at home they are prosperous, and abroad feared and respected.

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UNIVERSITY, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND PAROCHIAL

INTELLIGENCE.

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TRIBUTES OF RESPECT.

REV. STEPHEN ISAACSON.-The Congregation of St. Margaret, Lothbury, on the retirement of the Rev. Stephen Isaacson from the cure of that parish, after an engagement of only eighteen months, have addressed to him the following gratifying letter:"Dear Sir,-We, of the Congregation of St. Margaret, Lothbury, cannot permit the period of your leaving us to pass, without expressing our high sense of the painstaking and ability with which you have executed your very responsible duties, in the occasional absence of the much respected and worthy Rector. We beg to express our sincere desire for your health and prosperity, feeling assured that wherever you may be called, your obliging manners, great abilities, and sincerity of devotion, cannot fail to make you a most useful minister of our Divine Master.

"We have the honour to be, dear, Sir, your obedient Servants."

"Lothbury, Jan. 4, 1834."

Signed by the Churchwardens, and Heads of every Family of the Congregation.

This was succeeded, on the 18th of January, by a second letter, containing a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of plate, which bears the following inscription :

PRESENTED TO

THE REVEREND STEPHEN ISAACSON,

BY THE CONGREGATION OF ST. MARGARET, LOTHBURY,

FROM A HIGH SENSE OF HIS SINCERITY

OF DEVOTION, AND GREAT ABILITIES

IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS RESPONSIBLE DUTIES;

AND AS A TESTIMONY OF

THEIR VERY STRONG APPROBATION OF, AND
GRATITUDE FOR, HIS EXCELLENT MINISTRY
IN THAT CHURCH,
JAN. 18, 1834.

REV. JOHN JAMES.-The Bishop of St. Asaph having preferred the Rev. John James, Curate of Mold, to the Rectory of Llansaintfraid Glau Conway, the parishioners of Mold held a vestry, at which it was unanimously resolved, that a piece of plate should be presented to him, as a trifling testimonial of their sense of the fidelity and diligence with which he discharged his duties, as Curate of the parish, for a period of nearly nine years.

REV. D. WHITTLE.-The Congregation of St. George's, Altringham, have lately presented to their minister, the Rev. D. Whittle, M.A. a full suit of robes, and a massive and beautiful silver medal, "as a small but sincere tribute of their remembrance and esteem of his social and ministerial worth, and the regret which they feel upon his removal from among them."

REV. J. A. CARR.—At a numerous meeting of the pupils of the late Rev. J. A. Carr, Head-master of Durham Grammar School, held in that city, it was agreed that a subscription be entered into to defray the expenses of a monument, to be erected to the memory of the late Mr. Carr, in Durham cathedral, and an Engraving of a faithful Portrait of him, in the possession of his family. About 1507. has been already subscribed.

REV. D. MORGAN.-The parishioners of St. Martin's, Worcester, have presented an elegant silver salver to their late highly esteemed Curate, the Rev. D. Morgan.

REV. W. DARBY.-When this gentleman, who has been for some years Curate of Heigham, preached his farewell sermon, the pews, the chancel, and the aisles of the church were all filled. All classes, old and young, seemed alike affected at parting with their highly esteemed and much beloved minister. Among the humbler class a sub

scription was commenced; and the higher and middle classes having joined their poorer brethren, nearly 207. were collected, with which an elegant and substantial coffee-pot was purchased, bearing the following inscription:-" Presented by the grateful parishioners of Heigham to the Rev. Wm. Darby, B.A. at the time of his removal from the Curacy, January, 1834."

Rev. W. Durham.—The inhabitants of St. Magnus, London-bridge, and St. Mary, Fish-street, have presented the Rev. W. Durham (Second Master of St. Paul's School) with a superb silver tea-service, as a testimony of their affection and respect for his valuable and faithful services during a period of twenty-one years that he has officiated as Curate of the parish.

REV. SPENCER MADAN.-At a vestry meeting of the parishioners of Batheaston, held on the 2d day of January, 1834, it having been reported that a new school-room had been erected at the expense of the Rev. Spencer Madan, M.A. Vicar of the parish, with the assistance of a grant of 50%. from the National Society, it was resolved unanimously, that the churchwardens (Melmoth Walters, Esq. and William Hale, Esq.) be requested to present the best thanks of the parishioners to the Vicar for this instance of his liberality, and of his desire to promote their best interests; and that an inscription to the above effect be set up at the expense of the parishioners in a conspicuous and eligible position.

EARL OF PLYMOUTH.-The executors of the Earl of Plymouth have paid his Lordship's subscription of 100l. towards the erection of an extraparochial Church in the city of Worcester; for which purpose the Rev. John Peel has also subscribed 201.

THE NEW TESTAMENT IN FRANCE!-It is an important fact, and one which will prove interesting to a large number of persons in this country, that the Minister of Public Instruction in France has given instruction that each child educated in the National Schools shall be furnished with a copy of the New Testament. In order that the demand thus occasioned may be met, no fewer than 50,000 copies of the New Testament have been ordered, and it is understood that the Bible Society is to supply an equal number.

CHELTENHAM.-At a private meeting of the friends of the Church at Cheltenham, the following resolution was put and carried with only one dissentient voice,-" That seeing that the present Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy, were adopted by the Church herself, in Convocation assembled, we protest against any change in them whatever that does not proceed from the same authority."

SUTTON COLDFIELD.-The Free Grammar School at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, is about to be thrown open for English education, in addition to the classics.

THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN.-In these times, when the dignitaries of the Church are attempted to be degraded, and are triumphantly held up to scorn and reproach by the dissolute and the wicked, it is but just to record the following circumstance, which only occurred a few days since. Our last month's obituary noticed the death of Mr. Skeels, the Rector of Kirkby Underwood. The Bishop of Lincoln, as patron of the living, had immediate and numerous applications for this preferment (the value being from 2007. to 300% a year), and most of the applications were supported by persons of rank and station in society, anxious to serve deserving friends, when the Rev. Mr. Holmes, of Sleaford (many years Curate of Billinghay, where he was much esteemed), waited upon his Lordship at Buckden, Hunts, with no other testimonials "than that of having lost his Curacy by the present Incumbent coming into residence, very much in need of patronage, and without friends to bestow it." On this humble petition his Lordship, with a full knowledge of the situation and respectability of Mr. Holmes, unhesitatingly presented him to the living of Kirkby Underwood.

EXEMPTION OF PLACES OF WORSHIP FROM RATES.-The Act 3 and 4 William IV. c. 30, (July 24, 1833,) entitled "An Act to exempt from Poor and Church Rates all Churches, Chapels, and other places of Religious Worship," consists of only two

clauses. The first, after a preamble declaring it to be "expedient that churches, chapels, and other places exclusively appropriated to public religious worship, should be exempt from the payment of poor and church rates," enacts, that from and after October 1, 1833, no persons shall be rated for places so exclusively appropriated, or for such part of any premises as shall be so appropriated, and which shall be duly certified for the performance of such religious worship, according to the provision of any Acts now in force: provided that the exemption shall not extend to any parts of churches, chapels, or other premises, not so exclusively appropriated, from which such persons shall receive any rent or profit. The second clause provides, that no persons shall be liable to rates because part of the premises may be used for Sunday or Infant schools, or for the charitable education of the poor.

CHARITY ESTATES.—By the 52 Geo. III. c. 12., all Charity Estates vested in Feoffees or Trustees, either by the act of the donor, or otherwise, are divested from them and become vested in the Churchwardens and Overseers, for the time being, of the respective parishes to which such charities apply.

A DECLARATION OF THE LAITY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. It is contemplated by a body of influential individuals in London, to circulate the following declaration throughout the country, as a desirable mode whereby an opportunity may be afforded to the Laity of the Church of England to express their attachment to that Church of which they are members :

"At a time when the Clergy of England and Wales have felt it their duty to address their Primate with an expression of unshaken adherence to the doctrines and discipline of the Church of which they are Ministers, we the undersigned, as lay members of the same, are not less anxious to record our firm attachment to her pure faith and worship, and her Apostolic form of government.

"We further find ourselves called upon by the events which are daily passing around us to declare our firm conviction, that the consecration of the State by the public maintenance of the Christian Religion is the first and paramount duty of a Christian people; and that the Church established in these realms, by carrying its sacred and beneficial influences through all orders and degrees, and into every corner of the land, has for many ages been the great and distinguishing blessing of this country, and not less the means, under Divine Providence, of national prosperity than of individual piety.

"In the preservation, therefore, of this our National Church in the integrity of her rights and privileges, and in her alliance with the State, we feel that we have an interest no less real, and no less direct, than her immediate Ministers; and we accordingly avow our firm determination to do all that in us lies, in our several stations, to uphold, unimpaired in its security and efficiency, that Establishment, which we have received as the richest legacy of our forefathers, and desire to hand down as the best inheritance of our posterity."

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