Consecration of Bishops.

On Thursday, October 13th, the following persons were consecrated as Bishops of the Church: The Rev. William H. Odenheimer, D.D., as Bishop of New-Jersey; the Rev. Gregory T. Bedell, D.D., as Assistant Bishop of Ohio; the Rev. Alexander Gregg, D.D., as Bishop of Texas; and the Rev. Henry B. Whipple, D.D., as Bishop of Minnesota.

Missionary Bishops.

During the General Convention, the Rev. Henry C. Lay, D.D., and the Rev. Joseph C. Talbot, D.D., were appointed Missionary Bishops. The former to the South West, and the latter to Nebraska and Utah.

The Rev. Jacob L. Clark, D.D., was appointed to the NorthWest, but he declining the appointment, the Rev. Dr. Talbot was nominated and elected.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ANTIGUA. The last West-Indies mail brought the news of an event which is as unexpected as it is deplored, and which confers an important piece of ecclesiastical patronage on the new liberal ministry. The Right Rev. Stephen Jordan Rigaud, D.D., F.R.A.S., Lord Bishop of Antigua, and member of the Executive Council of that island, died on the 16th of May, of yellow fever, after a brief tenure of his sacred office. Dr. Rigaud's career in England was in many respects a distinguished one. He was son of the late Stephen Peter Rigaud, M.A., formerly Fellow of Exeter College, who was an eminent astronomer, and held the post of Radcliffe Observer at Oxford from 1827 to 1839. In Michaelmas Term, 1838, he gained the highest honor of his university, a first-class both in classics and mathematics. After having been some time Fellow and Tutor of Exeter, where he obtained considerable reputation for his success with his pupils, he became head master's assistant at Westminster School, whence, after narrowly missing the head mastership of King Edward's School, Birmingham, (on the promotion of Mr. J. P. Lee to the bishopric of Manchester,) a most valuable as well as honorable post, he was transferred to the head mastership of Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich. This school was in but little reputation when Mr. Rigaud took it. Mr. Rigaud's great ability, indefatigable industry, popular manners, and earnest Christian life, contrived very shortly to reverse the state of things entirely, and Ipswich School became widely known beyond the limits of Suffolk. A new and splendid school was built in 1852 so numerous were the applications for admission; and it prospered continuously. Dr. Rigaud, who had a year or two before taken

the degree of D.D., at Oxford, and Select Preacher before the University in Michaelmas Term, 1856, was nominated in 1857, by the Right Hon. H. Labourchere, M.P., Secretary for the Colonies, under Lord Palmerston's last administration, to the Bishop of Antigua, with a salary of £2000 a year; and the clergy, gentry, and people of Ipswich on that occasion presented him with a splendid testimonial indicative of their sense of his merits in promoting every educational, philanthropic, and religious improvement in their town. In Antigua his career was short, but sufficiently long to mark him as an ornament to the Episcopate; for his activity, cheerful disposition, and deep piety, impressed his flock so thoroughly, that he was honored with a public funeral, the Lieutenant-Governor heading it. The office is now in the gift of the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary for the Colonies.

The intelligence of the death of the Bishop of Antigua excited much regret in Ipswich.

THE GREAT REVIVAL.-The extensive religious awakening in Ireland, greater than heretofore in the country, is extending to Scotland and Wales. It has reached the colliers of Staffordshire, and in one place it is estimated that there are five hundred converts. From among their own number, a collier has been raised up who daily preaches the word with great power. In many of the coal-pits daily prayer-meetings and Bible-readings are held. In South-Wales, so extraordinary is the revival interest that all the churches and chapels are crowded on week days as well as Sabbaths. Prayer-meetings in churches, in school-rooms, in work-shops, and even in fields, are held morning and evening. In one town eight public houses have been closed since the work began. It is now spreading into North-Wales. A clergyman of the Established Church writes: "There is no enthusiasm, but a deep, profound, and awful solemn impression." In some districts notorious for blasphemy, an oath is now never heard, and drunkards in thousands have become total abstainers. It is estimated that in two counties only, 9000 persons within the last five months have been turned to God.

THE BISHOP OF SIERRA LEONE.-The African and Sierra Leone Weekly Advertiser of June 3d, announces the death of the Bishop of that Diocese, the Right Rev. John Bowen, LL.D., appointed to the see in 1857. Having had several attacks of the yellow fever, so often and so fatally prevailing on that coast, and having got over them, it was hoped that his life would be spared for many years. The following letter to the editor of the Record presents an interesting and important question:

"After reading the Dean of Carlisle's letter in the Record of last Wednesday, urging the appointment of a native bishop as a successor to the late deeply-lamented Dr. Bowen, I remembered reading an account of the salubrity of our colonies; namely, the results some years back of the Statistical Society, showing the deaths per annum among 1000 soldiers to be-in Great Britain, 14; in Jamaica, 48; at Madras, 25; in Sierra Leone, 483; in the Ionian Isles, 25; in Malta, 16; in Canada, 16; in Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick, 14; at Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town, 131.

"Now, I think the above results fully justify the Dean of Carlisle's appeal for a native Bishop at Sierra Leone; yet, nevertheless, not altogether, as he observes, on account of the climate, (for Dr. Weeks, the instructor of that great African missionary. the Rev. Samuel Cowther, was a missionary there seventeen years before he was made Bishop,) but it would, I think, do away with an unchristian prejudice and pride that seems to exist in high quarters against a man of color being made a Bishop of the Church of England."

BISHOP MALTBY.-The deceased was the son of George Maltby, Esq., of Norwich. He was born in 1770. He was a visitor of Durham University, and a member of the senate of the University of London. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated as B.A., in 1792, M.A. in 1794, B.D. 1801, and D.D. in 1806. He gained the prize medals for Greek odes in 1790 and 1791, and the Chancellor's medal in 1792 for classics, in which year he was eighth wrangler. He published an edition of Morell's Lexicon Græco-Prosodiacum, "Sermons," etc. He was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in 1831, and was translated to Durham in 1836. He resigned the latter see under Act of Parliament, in September, 1856, which took away his seat in Parliament, and left him an annuity of £4500.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.-Several prominent members of this Society dined in London under the presidency of Lord Lyttleton, when some interesting speeches were made by the chairman, the Bishop of Capetown, Earl Nelson, Sir John Harding, A. J. Beresford Hope, Esq., Thomas Turner, Esq., Henry Hoare, Esq., the Revs. J. E. Kempe, D. Moore, T. B. Murray, and E. Hawkins. The Guardian gives a full account of the festival: "The great increase in Colonial Bishops from eight to thirty-eight during the last eighteen years, and of the income of the Society from £800 in 1818, to £80,000 in the present year, were dwelt upon as cheering tokens of recent activity, whilst the necessity of more Bishops for the Indian Empire, and the example of the free Synodical action of the Colonial Churches were urged as works full of promise for the future." At a meeting of the incorporated members of this Society, the subject of missionary bishops to the heathen beyond British territory was introduced by the Bishop of Capetown, and underwent a long and learned discussion, in which Lord Lyttleton, the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Grahamstown, took part. Any decision on the subject was, however, deferred till the Committee of Convocation should have made their report.

CONSECRATION OF THREE BISHOPS.-On the 13th ult. the ceremonial of the consecration of Dr. J. C. Campbell to the see of Bangor, Dr. P. C. Claughton to the see of St. Helena, and Dr. E. W. Tuffnell to the see of Brisbane, took place in Westminster Abbey. We find the following account in the London Record:

"There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Oxford, Salisbury, Columbia, Western New-York, Llandaff, Brechin, and Cape Town; the Dean of Westminster, the Sub-Dean, (Lord John Thyne,) the Rev. S. F. Jones, M. A., Rev. J. C. Hayden, M.A., Rev. C. M. Arnold, Rev. Ernest Hawkins, B.D., and a large number of clergymen in their robes, who were accommodated within the rails of the communion table.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury commenced the Communion Service, with which the Consecration Service is incorporated, the Bishop of Cape Town reading the Epistle, and the Bishop of Salisbury the Gospel."

CONSECRATION OF A FIFTH NEW-ZEALAND BISHOP.-The Wellington (NewZealand) papers announce the consecration of the Ven. Archdeacon Williams to the Bishopric of the Maori district of Waiapu, making five New-Zealand Bishoprics in connection with the Church of England. The ceremony was performed on Sunday, April 3d, at Wellington, by Dr. Selwyn, Bishop of New-Zealand, who was assisted by Dr. Hobhouse, Bishop of New-Zealand, Dr. Abraham, Bishop of Wellington, and Dr. Harper, Bishop of Christ Church.

JUNE 2d, 1859, in Norton, Mass., the Rev. Henry B. Goodwin, of Charles Co., Md., in the 57th year of his age.

August 24, 1859, in Marsh, Chester Co., Pa., the Rev. Levi Bull, D.D., aged seventy-eight years.

August 17th, 1859, in Naugatuck, Ct., the Rev. Joseph Scott, age fifty-nine years.

June 12th, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa., the Rev. Charles S. Williams, D.D., aged sixty-seven years.