the other, than that he should perform the duties of both; while the second should be at so short a distance from his residence as to enable him to visit it. The power which was given to the Queen in Council to unite contiguous benefices of small population would also tend to the diminution of pluralities; and the useful power was given by the act for the separation of hamlets, chapelries, and districts, and constituting them separate parishes. With regard to residence, the period of three months was unaltered, and every Clergyman would be held resident if he resided in a house, which should have been licensed by the Bishop, though not in the limits of his benefice, that house not being more than three miles from it in the country or two miles in a city or market town.

KENILWORTH. It is perhaps not generally known that no less than three English Bishops were born in the village of Kenilworth; viz. the Bishops of Chester, Winchester, and Lichfield.—Leamington Spa Courier.

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PASTORAL CARE.-The Rev. Mr. Champneys, Rector of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, with a view of enabling every member of his flock to be provided with family prayers at their own homes, and to receive spiritnal consolation at the hands of himself and curate, whenever their services are required, has recently published the following notice to his parishioners :— Any member of this congregation, or the head of a family, may receive a printed copy of family prayers, free of expence, on applying at the vestry after service on Sunday, and between the hours of eleven and two every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. W. WILDON CHAMPNEYS, Rector. N.B. The rector or curate will thankfully begin prayers with any family at their own homes that may desire it." This notice is likely to produce an excellent effect in this populous parish, and to bring in close communion the Rev. Gentlemen and the people entrusted to their care.—Standard.

DR. WARREN.-It is understood, and indeed there is no doubt of the fact, that the Bishop of Chester has promised ordination to the above gentleman, who, it is almost unnecessary to state, was for a time considered as the head of a party which a few years since seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists, and which body has been since designated as the Wesleyan Methodist Association. From this party, however, he seceded about twelve months ago, on the alleged ground that the constitution or body of laws by which it was to be governed was too democratic. The Rev. Gentleman is now taking those preliminary steps essential to his formal recognition as a minister of the Established Church. Sir Oswald Moseley, lord of the manor of Manchester, has generously given a site in Every-street, Ancoats, on which it is intended to erect a Church, of which Dr. Warren is to be minister. £1,500 has been promised for this object by the Lancashire Church Building Society; and when this sum is made up to £2,000 by donations, (of which no doubt exists, two gentlemen having given £100 each, and another £50) application will be made to Her Majesty's Church Commissioners for a similar sum, out of the half-million grant of 1824, and which is expected to be granted.-Liverpool Mercury.

CLERICAL PLURALITIES.-Every Parochial Clergyman throughout the kingdom has, within the last week or two, received from government a copy of " An Act to abridge the holding Benefices in Plurality, and to make better provision for the residence of the Clergy," passed 14th August, 1838. This bill, of fifty-four pages, contains no less than one hundred and thirty-three clauses, and many of them extremely stringent in their provisions and enactments. Not more than two preferments can be held in future by the same person, under any circumstances, whether in Cathedral, or Collegiate Churches, or Rural Benefices-nor two Benefices unless within ten statute miles of each other; and then under limitations as to amount in value and population. Accepting preferment contrary to this Act, vacates any Benefice a Clergyman may have been in possession of, and renders it ipso facto void. Licenses, whether for non-residence, or for curates, are made much more strict and binding in the present bill than in any former Ecclesiastical law; and a more summary power is vested in the Bishops for enforcing obedience and compliance. The power of Bishops for mortgaging the glebe of any vacant Benefice in their Diocese, to build a Parsonage House, may be called arbitrary indeed while their legal authority over the Clergy generally is greatly increased. These stringent provisions must occasion great evil to the Church.-Liverpool Standard.

POPERY AT SUNDERLAND. It is stated that in the vicinity of Sunderland, the Roman Catholic priest has sent to Ireland for two monks, who have come over and are now instructing 250 children of Protestant parents, many of whom they have induced to adopt the Romish faith. - Sunderland Guardian.

ON Thursday, Sept. 13th, Christ Church, lately erected in the Old Kent-road, received consecration. It is situated in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, and cost nearly 60007., furnished by the Trustees of Miss Hyndman's bounty. The Rev. E. C. Burton, M. A. has been appointed to it..

On Sept. 25th, the New Church at Milkhouse, near Cranbrook, was consecrated by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. Thomas King has been appointed to it. On the same day a meeting of the district Committee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was holden at Cranbrook, at which his Grace the Archbishop presided.

On the 26th of Sept. the foundation-stone of the Sunday and National Schools, for the parish of St. Mary Haggerston, near Shoreditch, was laid by the Lord Mayor of London. The schools are intended to accommodate 500 children, the necessity of which in a parish containing but little less than 15,000 souls, without one school in connexion with the Established Church, must be evident.

On Wednesday the 3rd of October the first stone of St. Paul's Church, at Bury, near Barnbrook, was laid; on Oct. the 7th a sermon in aid of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was preached in the Collegiate Church at Manchester by the Rev. A. M. Campbell, the Secretary. The claims of the Society had been likewise enforced in the Town-hall on the previous Thursday. St. James's Church, in that town, was also re-opened on Sunday, Oct. 7th, and on the one preceding, that of St. John the Evangelist, at Broughton.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10th a new Church, called Christ's Church, at Eccleston, near Prescot, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. This Church

was designed by Samuel Taylor, Esq. the proprietor of the adjoining estate, and was built at his sole charge. It is a beautiful gothic building of rough hewn stone, and is ornamented with an elegant spire. Its situation is in the village at the foot of a gentle declivity. The interior is beautiful and chaste, and fitted up with oak carvings. The ceremony was a solemn and impressive sight.

The right of the Dean and Prebendaries of Gloucester to have their names retained on the list of voters, was re-investigated before the Revising Barrister on Oct. 19th, and was fully recognized.

The new Church at Chelsea, called Christ Church, for the erection of which £4,000 were provided from the late Miss Hyndman's bounty, is just completed.

SPLENDID LIBERALITY.-We are most happy in being enabled to state that Chas. Howard, Esq., of Hyde, with a generosity and munificence not often exceeded, has defrayed the entire expense of the fine-toned organ, built by Mr. Wren, of Manchester, erected in St. George's Church, Hyde, in that parish. The cost is near 3501.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have seen the new attack upon us in The Conservative Journal and Church of England Gazette. Its allegations are as false as they are libellous. The Proprietor prefers, however, a decision of the truth by a Court of Justice to the annoyance of our readers by the occupation of the pages of The Churchman with controversial matters. If Mr. Gathercole be not the Editor of The Conservative Journal, properly so called, is he not the Editor of that part which is appropriated to the Church of England Gazette? If he wrote not the wanton attack upon us, can he assert that the ANONYMOUS (?) writer furnished it without his suggestion or knowledge? We can prove upon better authority than either Mr. Gathercole's or Mr. Ord's word, that Gathercole and Ord are joint Editors and sole Proprietors of The Conservative Journal and Church of England Gazette ! We hate equivocation; and doubt not, that the maxim, qui facit per alium facit PER SE,' has here a full application. The Conser

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vative Journal, without provocation, commenced the attack on us in no very language, and because we replied to the coarse invective, now affects to complain that our reply is an attack upon itself. We have procured from the Stamp Office the following Certificate, and, after some difficulty, copies of Writs have been served on all the parties

therein named:

"WE, Thomas Walton, of No. 321, Strand in the County of Middlesex, Printer; John Walker "Ord, of No. 18, Clement's Inn, Strand, in the said County, Publisher; and the Rev. Michael "Augustus Gathercole, of Cowley-road, North Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Clerk, do "severally, solemnly, and sincerely, declare and say as follows (that is to say)

"I, the said Thomas Walton, do declare and say that I am the Printer of a certain Newspaper, entituled 'Metropolitan Conservative Journal and Church of England Gazette.'

"And I, the said John Walker Ord, do declare and say that I am the Publisher of the said "Newspaper.

"And we, the said John Walker Ord and Michael Augustus Gathercole, do declare and say "that we are the sole Proprietors of the same Newspaper.

"And we, the said Thomas Walton, John Walker Ord, and Michael Augustus Gathercole, "do further declare and say, that the aforesaid Newspaper is intended to be printed at the "Printing-office of William Henry Cox, situate No. 5, Great Queen-street, in the parish of St. "Giles-in-the-fields, in the County of Middlesex; and to be published at No. 13, Wellington"street, Strand, in the precincts of the Savoy, in the said County of Middlesex.

"And we do severally make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same "to be true, and in pursuance of an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late "Majesty, King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to reduce the Duties on Newspapers, "and to amend the laws relating to the Duties on Newspapers and Advertisements.

"MICHAEL AUGUSTUS GATHERCOLE. "Declared at the Office for Stamps and Taxes, Somerset House, in the City of Westminster, "by the said Thomas Walton, John Walker Ord, and Michael Augustus Gathercole, this 14th "day of August, 1838, before me, H. SEYMOUR MONTAGU,

"A Commissioner of Stamps and Taxes."

In reply to several Correspondents, we repeat our announcement of last month, that Mr. Gathercole has no connection whatever with THE CHURCHMAN, the Editorship having been entrusted to a Clergyman of the Established Church, a Graduate of Oxford, who has been presumed by the Editors of The Conservative Journal, to be the respected and talented Vicar of Barkway and Rector of Reed (the Rev. W. J. Irons); but we feel it our duty to that gentlemen, to state most explicitly, that he is NOT the Editor of The Churchman, and that he has never written a single line in it. The scurrilous abuse, therefore, which has been heaped upon him, is as utterly without foundation and unmerited, as that which has been so foully and so wickedly poured out upon ourselves. We would return thanks for the hand some notices which the last number of THE CHURCHMAN has received from the Press, especially from the Provincial part of it; and we will exert ourselves to merit its equally good opinion in future. We can only make room for the following extracts:

THE CHURCHMAN.-We confess that some time ago we had our misgivings as to the continued orthodoxy of this periodical, which has gained a very considerable circulation amongst the humbler classes of the supporters of the Protestant Church and Constitution of these realms. These doubts were excited by the perusal of an article contained in the Metropolitan Conservative Journal, of which Mr. Gathercole, who formerly conducted The Churchman, had been admitted joint Proprietor and Editor. From an examination of the last and several previous numbers, we do not find any ground whatever for the charges brought against The Churchman, which appears to sustain its originally declared principles with an infinite superiority of talent, and considerably more temper than its pages formerly exhibited. The opening paper of the October number places the matter of these imputations in its proper light, and, we expect, will make Mr. Gathercole repent the rash endeavour which he has evidently made to injure the character and interests of a publication whose present Editor can so powerfully defend himself against unjust or malignant aspersions from whatever quarter they may procced.-Liverpool Mail.

THE CHURCHMAN.-The October number is as soundly Protestant in its doctrine and leading selections as any one of its predecessors." British Tithes," "The Apostacy," (in reference to the Church of Rome), "The Instruction that causeth to err," "Inconsistencies of the Clergy," and "The State of Things connected with Religion in Judea," are all truly valuable papers. It may also be added that the other selections and general intelligence are highly creditable to the Publisher.-Berrow's Worcester Journal.

THE CHURCHMAN.-This periodical for October, under an enlarged series, is rendered more than usually efficient for its pious purposes by its ampler dimensions. The Rev. M. A. Gathecole, it seems, has been dismissed from his office as Editor of this Magazine, "on account of the violence and coarseness of his writings," and has taken upon himself the Editorship of The Conservative Journal and Church of England Gazette, a virulent attack in which, on The Churchman, is ably parried in the present number of the last-named publication.-Taunton Courier.

THE CHURCHMAN.-The contents of this pillar of the Church for October are multifarious, and deeply interesting. The title of the periodical alone will commend it to the lovers of our National Establishment; and the contents of so sound, devout, and cheap a magazine, (only sixpence) in conjunction with its present temperate character, will insure a continuation of that patronage which its object, the defence of the venerable Church and Constitution of England, must extort from the generous sympathies of a people deeply roused by the wiles of the enemies of our Zion, to aid every hand that is stretched forth, in the Lord's name, to guard the national, civil, and religious liberties.-Hull Packet.

THE CHURCHMAN -We rejoice to find that this spirited, periodical is gradually winning its way into popular esteem. It deserves the support of every true friend to our orthodox, venerable, and Protestant Church. The present number contains several very acceptable and powerful papers. The remarks on "British Tithes" show the origin of that impost, and the title upon which it rests. "The Apostacy" is a striking paper on the peculiar characteristics of the Church of Rome. "The Instruction that causeth to err," is an article of great value. It contains some very seasonable admonitions. We are not pleased with the apology, (for such we must term it), for the "Inconsistencies of the Clergy." Why should there be" unworthy ministers" in the Church at all? If all such were rejected from its pale, where would be the necessity for maintaining the validity of their ministry? The remarks on "the state of things connected with Religion in Judea" give rise to a train of painful reflections. The miscellaneous ecclesiastical intelligence in the Churchman is well selected. We wish this periodical every success, as long as it steers clear of the Oxford Popery. —Liverpool Standard.

The October number of THE CHURCHMAN has been reprinted, and in order to meet the continued demand, will be kept in type during the present month.

We are making arrangements to present to our readers on, and after the first of January, a series of Engravings descriptive of the Cathedrals in England, by the first Artists, which will be accompanied with brief histories of them. Further particulars will be announced in our next number.

"A Member of the Established Church of England" is informed, that we are not acquainted with the merits of the Pictorial Bible, the prints of which, as they appeared to us in the shop windows, are strangely inconsistent with the times which they affect to illustrate. We certainly, as members of the Church of England, should feel exceedingly unwilling to admit into our libraries any theological work, much more a Bible, issued from the quarter whence the Pictorial Bible proceeds.

To"the Young Churchman.' We thank "the Young Churchman" for his favourable opinion of ourscices and our zealous endeavours to serve the Church to which we belong. At the same time, as charity hopeth all things, we hope that the scenes, which his letter describes, were confined to the places which he mentions.

"A LOOKER ON."-We have received a letter under this signature, but suspect that we should come within the penalties of the law if we were to insert it. Nevertheless, we thank our Correspondent for his information, and may refer to parts of it in a future number.

We thank "SPERANS PERGO" for his poetical article, and shall feel happy in receiving further contributions.

We receive punctually the K. O. Many thanks for the other communications. We wish our Correspondent would give us in confidence her name and address.

ADVERTISEMENTS. THE CHURCHMAN (with one exception) has, during the last three years, had the largest circulation of the Church Magazines; and it is hoped will exceed in number the Methodist Magazine (17,000) among Wesleyans, and the Evangelical Lagazine (14,000) among Congregational and other Dissenters. Advertisements of Livings, Curacies, New Churches, Institutions, Anniversaries, New Books, Schools, Teachers, Apprentices, and other Situations, Medicines, Sales, and Miscellanies, for insertion in THE CHURCHMAN for December 1st, must be sent to Painter's Printing and Publishing Office, 342, Strand, by the 27th inst.; if from the country, post free, with an order for payment in London.

PRINTED BY W. E. PAINTER, 342, strand, London.

ON THE RUMOURED MARRIAGE OF QUEEN VICTORIA WITH THE DUKE OF NEMOURS.

WHETHER this rumour rests on a stable foundation, or whether it should be enumerated among the fictions of the day, we have not the ability to decide: but since the public journals have lately attached to it credibility, and have even stated that it will shortly become the subject of Parliamentary debates, we are bound to call the attention of our readers to the dangers which must arise to the Protestant religion of this country from such an ill-conditioned marriage.

A mystery has certainly hung over the palace; the frequent visits. of the Belgian King; those in his interest surrounding the Queen; secret messengers hurrying to Belgium, and thence to the royal residence here; the weakened influence of the Duchess of Kent; and the dismissal of Sir Herbert Taylor from the confidential post with which he was honoured by the preceding sovereigns-are, collectively, causes of suspicion; and when we recollect the relationship subsisting between Leopold and the Duke of Nemours, they give a colouring of probability to the rumour that is afloat. We are aware that a similar rumour has fixed itself on a Prince of the House of Saxe-Cobourg, as the intended King-consort; but the mysterious secrecy which is maintained is its best refutation; for if a Protestant Prince were about to be proposed to the country, these secret embassies would not have an adequate object; there would be no reason for the diminution of the influence of the Queen's mother-no reason for satellites in the Belgian interestno reason why Leopold should not openly advocate his nephew-no reason why Sir Herbert Taylor should be removed from a post which would make him cognizant of the whole matter. But if a Roman

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