B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; John Dodsworth, B.A. Queen's college, Cambridge. From the Bishop of Chester. James William Worthington. PRIESTS.-John Cresswell, B. A. Catharine hall, Cambridge; John Pengree Newby, B.A. St. John's college, Cambridge; John Vaux Moore, B.A. Exeter college, Oxford; Hugh Wade Gery, B.A. Emanuel college, Cambridge; Samuel Brett Sheriffe, B.A. Wadham college, Oxford; John Bonham, M.A. Brasenose college, Oxford; William Hutchins, M.A. Pembroke hall, Cambridge; William John Crole, B. A. St. John's college, Cambridge; Charles Martin Torlesse, M.A. Trinity college, Cambridge; Francis Orton, B.A. St. Mary hall, Oxford; William Henry Pryce, B.A. St. Edmund hall, Oxford; William Thomas Hadow, B.A. Trinity college, Cambridge ; Thomas Wilson, B.A. Emanuel college, Cambridge. From the Bishop of Chichester. Frederick Borradaile, B.A. Brasenose college, Oxford. From the Bishop of Ely. Thomas Francis Hall, B.A. Trinity college, Cambridge. From the Bishop of Rochester. Thomas Nash, B.A. Trinity college, Cambridge; George Hemming, M.A. Merton college, Oxford. From the Bishop of Nova Scotia, for the Colonies. Charles Blackman, of Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge. From the Bp. of London for the Colonies. Henry Williams, Literate; Frederick Coster, Literate. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. BEDFORDSHIRE. Married. The rev. W. Wollaston Pym, second son of Francis Pym, esq. M.P. for the county, to Sophia Rose, sixth daughter of the late Samuel Gambier, esq., Married. At Turvey, the rev. James Marshall, minister of the cathedral church, Glasgow, to Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of the rev. Legh Richmond, rector of Turvey. Died.-At Apoley, aged 37, the rev. G.P. Kerr. BERKSHIRE. Married. The rev. William Drayton Carter, of Abingdon, to Emma Kingham, daughter of the late Peter Gauntlett, esq. of Winchester. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Died.-At Great Brickhill, in the 69th year of his age, the rev. A. Davies, late lecturer of Linslade, in the same county. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Died.-Aged 52, the rev. C. Muston. Died.-At Bolton Gate, aged 65, the rev. Mr. Watts, rector of Bolton. Married. At St. James's church, Piccadilly, the rev. W. Williams, B.D. of Hascomb, Surrey, to Miss Sophia Ann Catharine Lawford, of the former parish. Married. At Mary-le-bone church, by the lord bishop of Bangor, the rev. Francis Lear, M.A. of Downton, Wilts, to Isabella Mary, fourth daughter of his lordship. Married. At Stanford, the rev. Chas. Cole, of Poplar, to Harriet, only daughter of William Redifer, esq. of the former place. NORFOLK. Married. The rev. W. M. Allen, curate of Watlington, to Lucy Elizabeth, second daughter of the rev. P. Bell, rector of Stowe. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Died. At Sudborough, aged 66, the rev. Sir T. Hewett, bart. many years rector of that place. OXFORDSHIRE. Married. At Clifton, by the rev. J. Heusman, the rev. Philip Serle, rector of Oddington, and late fellow of Trinity college, Oxford, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Stephen George Church, esq. of the royal navy. PEMBROKESHIRE. Married.-At St. Nicholas, aliasMonteton, by the rev. Francis G. Leach, M.A. fellow of Pembroke college, in the University of Oxford, the rev. Edward Dewing, M.A. rector of West Rainham, Norfolk, to Thomasina Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Abraham Leach, esq. of Corston house, Pembrokeshire. SHROPSHIRE. Died.-At Beckbury, near Shiffnall, the rev. John Dehane, M.A. SOMERSETSHIRE. Married. At Walcot church, Bath, by special licence, the rev. John Simmons, of Axminster, to Mrs. Mary Drayton, of Portland-place, in that city. Died. The rev. Peter Gunning, D.D. formerly fellow of Merton college, Oxford, rector of Farmborough, and of Deinton, Gloucestershire. Died. At Stratton-on-the-Foss, the rev. Leonard Tordiffe. SUFFOLK. Married. The rev. Benjamin Philpot, of Walpole, to Charlotte, younger daughter of the rev. John Vachell, vicar of Littleport, Cambridgeshire. SURREY. daughter of the late rev. Andrew Downes, vicar of Witham, Essex. Died. The rev. J. P. Hale, perpetual curate of Cawthorne, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. WALES. Died. In the 79th year of his age, the rev. Robert Peter, rector of Sully, and vicar of Penlline, Glamorganshire. Died.-Aged 53, the rev. George Lewis, Married. The rev. Edward Conyers, rector of Knocknane, and son of Charles Died.-The rev. Henry Taylor, vicar Conyers, of Castletown Conyers, Limeof Banstead. YORKSHIRE. Married. The rev. Thomas Wilson Morley, of Kirklington, to Henrietta, rick, to Catherine, only daughter of Sir Robert Blennerhasset, bart. Died. The rev. Joseph Sandys, rector of Fiddown, in the county of Kilkenny. MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. A Speech delivered in the House of Lords, on Friday, June 7, 1822, by Herbert Marsh, Lord Bishop of Peterborough ; on the Presentation of a Petition against his Examination Questions. With Explanatory Notes, a Supplement, and a Copy of the Questions, An Apology for the Pastoral System of the Clergy. A Sermon, preached at the Visitation of the Venerable the Archdeacon of Huntingdon, May 6, 1822, and published by his Command. By J. H. Brooke Mountain, A.M. Rector of Puttenham, and • Vicar of Hemel Hempstead, Herts, and Prebendary of Lincoln, 1s. 6d. An Essay on the Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce; and on the Criminal Character and Punishment of Adultery by the ancient Laws of England and other Countries; being a Subject proposed for Investigation by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in the Diocese of St. David's, and to which that Society awarded its Premium (by Benefaction) of Fifty Pounds, in December, 1821. By H. V. Tebbs, Proctor in Doctors Commons. 8vo. 7s. An Appeal to Revelation, in support of the Doctrine of the Divinity of Christ; being a Series of Six Lectures, delivered in the Parish Church of Great Coggeshall, Essex, during the Season of Lent, 1822. By the Rev. E. Mathew, Vicar. 8vo. 7s. Uniformity of Opinion in the Clergy, essential to the Interests of the Established Church; a Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Wickham Market, on the 25th Day of April, 1822; being the Festival of St. Mark; before the Rev. and Ven. H. D. Berners, B.C.L. Archdeacon of Suffolk, and the Rev. the Clergy of the Deaneries of Wilford, Loes, and Orford. A Country Parson's Second Offering to his Mother Church; in nine Pastoral Ser mons. 12mo. 38. The Use and Abuse of Party-Feeling in Matters of Religion considered, in eight Sermons, preached before the University of Oxford. in the Year 1822, at the Lecture founded by the late Rev. J. Bampton, M.A. Canon of Salisbury. By R. Whate ley, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College. 8vo. 7s. 6d. An Examination of the Remonstrance addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids, with Answers to the Questions addressed to Trinitarians generally. By Captain J. Gifford, R. N. By a Trinitarian. 8vo. A Sermon, preached in Ramsgate Chapel, May 26,1822, in Aid of the Subscrip tion for the Relief of the Irish Sufferers. By the Rev. Thomas Boys, A.M. of Trinity College, Cambridge; Curate of Widford, Herts. 18. 6d. The Church of Christ. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Usk, in the County of Monmouth, upon Wednesday, May 8, 1822, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Usk District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. By the Rev. Barton Boucher, B.A. of Baliol College, Oxford. 8vo. 1s. The Book of Psalms, in Verse; with a short explanatory Preface to each Psalm, taken from the Works of different Writers on the Psalms, but chiefly from Bishop Horne's Commentary. 5s. Considerations upon the Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures of the Bri tish Empire; with Observations on the practical Effect of the Bill of the Right 1 HOD, Robert Peel, for the Resumption of Cash Payments by the Bank of England; and also upon the Pamphlet lately published by David Ricardo, Esq. M.P. entifled "Protection to Agriculture." By Samuel Turner, Esq. F.R.S. 3s. 6d. Considerations on the Bill now pending in Parliament, respecting the Roman Catholic Peers. By the Rev. T. Le Mesurier, B.D. Rector of Haughton Le Skerne. 8vo. 1s. 6d. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Townsend is preparing for Publication, the New Testament, in Chronological and Historical Order, on a Plan similar to his Arrangement of the Old Testament, lately published. Rivingtons' Annual Register, for the Year 1821, in one large Volume, Octavo, will be published in the course of the present Year. Hortus Anglicus; or the Modern Eng lish Garden, containing an easy Description of all Plants cultivated in this Climate, will appear in a few Days. Mr. William Cooke has in the Press, an Abridgment, with copious Notes, of Professor Morgagni's Work on Diseases. The Rev. H. C. O'Donnoghue is preparing for the Press, Prælectiones Academicæ; or Academic Lectures on Subjects connected with the History of Modern Europe. Captain Manby, Author of the Meaus of Saving Persons from Shipwreck, has, nearly ready for the Press, A Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821, with Graphic Illustrations, in one Volume, Quarto. POLITICAL RETROSPECT. THE parliamentary proceedings of the last month, embrace a great variety of interesting subjects, and, on the whole, they afford matter of congratulation to the public. The Catholic Peers' Bill has been rejected in the House of Lords by a considerable majority; and what is of still greater consequence, that majority is increased since the discussion of last year. The opposition to it was also of a more spirited character, than what we had heard on former occasions; and the speeches of the Chancellor and Lord Liverpool, were altogether unanswered. The former convicted the introducers and supporters of the Catholic Peers' Bill, of the grossest legal ignorance, and cut up the foundation of that particular measure-by shewing, that the exclusion of Catholics from the House of Lords, was not merely the result of a panic in the reign of Charles II. but that it had been subsequently re-enacted after the most mature deliberation, by that famous Parliament which secured the Protestant Succession to the throne, and the ancient rights and privileges of the people. The latter contrasted the state of these kingdoms since the Revolution, with the sufferings, and bloodshed, and violence of the preceding century; and contended triumphantly, that blessings which had been enjoyed without interruption, from the moment that the Protestant Ascendancy was established, ought not to be sacrificed, or even risqued in compliment to modern theorists and liberals. The fury of the Sectaries under Charles I. was increased by their dread of the Church of Rome. Since the Throne and the Parliament, have been exclusively Protestant, that fury has become comparatively harmless, and why should it be rekindled in the present day? Of the two Marriage Bills which have been brought forward during the present session, that of Mr. William Smith, which proposed to alter the Liturgy by way of giving relief to Unitarians, has been withdrawn by its proposer. He candidly admitted, that he found the objections to it more formidable than he had expected, and that the measure which he intended to intro duce next year, would proceed upon a different principle. The other Bill, that of Dr. Phillimore, proposes to remove a real and a very serious grievance; and though the difficulty of arranging the details, and doing justice to all the parties interested, may possibly occasion the delay of another Session before the measure is finally adopted, yet the recent debates in the House of Lords are a proof that the adoption is not distant. There seemed indeed to be but one opinion respecting the cruelty and injustice of the present law-a law, be it observed, which was enacted for civil and political purposes, with little attention to the sacred nature of the marriage ceremony. We sin cerely rejoiced at hearing the leaders on both sides of the House of Lords concur in the opinion so ably expressed by the Archbishop of Can. terbury, that when a marriage had been solemnized it ought not to be set aside. Obstacles may properly be thrown in the way of clandestine marriages, and the unauthorized union of minors. The parties transgressing the appointed rules may be punished as severely as the legis lature pleases--but to make their marriage void or voidable is punishing others rather than themselves. -It reduces the ceremony to the level of any other contract-it unsettles rank and property-divides families; and entails a mass of endless confusion upon all who have the misfortune to come within its reach. On these grounds we cordially support the present Bill. may be difficult to fix the date at which its operation shall commence; and on this subject we are prepared for much difference of opinion and debate. But the prospective merits of the measure are admitted by all, and it is to be hoped that ere long they will be secured to the country. The most important measures of the present month are those which It relate to the Sister Island, and we see no reason for witholding our humble applause from the plan which Government is pursuing. The Insurrection Act is to be renewed, and the Lord Lieutenant to be enabled to appoint special constables for carrying the laws into execution. Both measures are opposed by the regular anti-ministerial party, and by the Ex-Irish Secretary, Mr. Grant. As it is to that gentleman's ill timed supineness and lenity that the disturbances are principally attributable, his dissent from the vigorous system adopted by his successors, can occasion no surprise. Nor will the objections of his new allies, the Whigs, give any serious trouble to Government, as long as the success which has already dawned continues to attend their career, and they temper justice with mercy as judiciously as they appear to have done in the Bills for granting assistance to Irish public Works, and leasing Irish Tithes for twenty-one years. The encouragement of industry, and the supply of that subsistence which is unhappily so scarce, are measures upon which two opinions cannot exist. The contributions which are still pouring in from all parts of the kingdom in support of the suffering Irish, afford an important addition to the Parliamentary grant, and may be expected to produce some effect upon the minds of the deluded natives of that land. The tithe-leasing Bill is also a pledge that what can be done upon that difficult subject will be attempted without delay. But we trust that the time is still far distant in which Mr. Joseph Hume will be permitted to put the Clergy upon half-pay, and confiscate their property in aid of the national revenue. The tithe-question would carry us farther than our limits permit, and we postpone the consideration of it to a future opportunity. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. L. M. and R. O. have been received, and are under consideration. SERMON ON BELIEF IN MATT. X. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. THE particular and universal providence of God, his superintendance of all his works, and his interference with many of them, is a subject upon which no difference of opinion can exist among such as believe in the inspiration of the Bible. The words of my text alone, are sufficient to demonstrate, that nothing escapes the controul, or the vigilance of God-that the greatest events, and the least events are equally subject to him and dependant upon him; and that no one who believes otherwise can believe [VOL. IV. from whose presence no swiftness can flee; from whose knowledge no secret can be concealed; whose justice no art can evade; whose goodness every creature partakes of." This is the God whom Christians own and worship; and instead of stopping to prove that they are justified in such adoration, let us ask why so many of us disregard what we acknowledge, and deny by our actions, what we have professed solemnly by our words, There is but one excuse, and that a very paltry and insufficient excuse upon which such conduct can pretend to be justified. We are occasionally told that the notion of a particular providence is at the root of all superstition and enthusiasm ; and that these deadly enemies to religion can only be subdued, by cutting off the ground on which they stand. Now it is true, and it is an obvious and a very melancholy the Scriptures. The first, the indispensable condition of Christianity is, faith-and this faith, as a celebrated writer has truly observ* ed, " must not be a bare specula-vidence has been abused, by many truth, that the belief in God's Protion, but a serious, practical, and deep impression upon the mind, of à Supreme Being who created the world by his power, preserves and governs it by his goodness and wisdom, and will judge it with mercy, justice and truth. Of a Being whose glory no eye can behold; whose majesty no thought can comprehend; whose power no strength can resist; * Samuel Clarke. REMEMBRANCer, No. 44. descriptions of erroneous and fanatical men. Some have fancied that every prayer offered up by faith, would be not only heard, but need labour neither for our food nor granted-and that consequently wę for our salvation. Some have thought sity was an infallible proof of God's that temporal prosperity or adverfavour or displeasure. Some be lieve that his commands are revealed to them audibly and distinctly; and 3 M. |