addressed the meeting, and excited the tenderest sympathy in favour of the unhappy objects of their solicitude.

Seven hundred and fifty pounds were immediately subscribed, exclusive of one hundred pounds annual subscriptions.

DORSETSHIRE.-It must give infinite pleasure to the friends of the Established Church, to witness the continued increase of the Sunday and Day Schools for the promoting the Education of the Poor in this county, according to Dr. Bell's system. The number of scholars under tuition, are 9,193, an increase this year of 1,116; the number of new Schools, during the same period, are 14, making in the whole 52. The Subscriptions of new Subscribers, nine in number, amount to 261. 48. Several new masters and mistresses are in a course of instruction, for opening additional Schools, which inspires the pleasing hope of seeing a School in almost every village in the county.

ESSEX. The bishop of London, on Wednesday, October 27, consecrated the new burying ground at Southminster, Essex, after preaching a most impressive discourse to a numerons congregation, in aid of the National School of that town. His lordship took his text from the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, v. 4. "Fathers provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admoni tion of the Lord."

HAMPSHIRE. Died, the rev. Richard Turner, rector of Grateley in this county.

KENT.-Died, in his 82d year, the rev. John Kennedy, rector of Nettlested.

LANCASHIRE.-Died at Preston, the rev. J. Douglas, F.A.S. author of the Noenia Britannica, and various scientific and literary productions, formerly of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, vicar of Kenton, rector of Middleton, Sussex, and chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.-A very large sum has been expended this year, in repairing and beautifying the Church of Fotheringhay, which gives sepulture to some of the race of the Plantagenets, and awakens the recollection of many events in history. The Church has been new pewed with beautiful real wainscot; respect however has been had to whatever was venerable in the old fittings. The expensive improvements are made at the instance of the lord of the manor, a gentleman residing in Kent, who lately purchased Fotheringhay.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.-Died, at his father's house, the rev. Thomas Hallward, M.A. Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, rector of Stanton in the Wolds,

Notts, chaplain to the Earl of Onslow, and eldest son of the rev. John Hallward, vicar of Assington, Suffolk.

SHROPSHIRE.-Died, at Sidbury near Bridgenorth, at an advanced age, the rev. John Parsall, rector.

SUFFOLK.-Died, the rev. E. Stewart, late of Nead in this county.

Died, after a few minutes illness, the rev. Mr. Packard, rector of Middleton.

WARWICKSHIRE and BIRMINGHAM.—— The "Radicals" of this town, anxious, we suppose, to follow the example set by some of their brethren in the north, mustered in Slaney Street, on Sunday morning last, and from thence proceeded in a body to Christ Church, where they took possession of a considerable portion of those seats which have hitherto been filled with men, who having learnt to "walk humbly with their God," consider Sunday as a day set apart by divine authority, for the more immediate worship of our Creator and Redeemer. Whether such were the motives which actuated the Radicals, who assembled on Sunday, or whether any secret object is to be attained by the devotees of Wooler and Carlile, mustering their array within the walls of the House of God, is a question which can at present furnish us with matter of speculative opinion only. The mild spirit of that Religion which we profess teaches us to hope (however faint from external appearances that hope may be) that the duties of religion were the objeet of their attendance, and that their hearts were prepared to confess their sins before God, to implore his pardon, and to receive that instruction which might at once shew the error of their ways, and administer consolation to the truly penitent sinner. If such were the feelings with which any amongst the Radicals repaired to Christ Church, an opportunity more congenial to their wishes could not have of fered itself. The Reverend Minister, Mr. Spry, after the conclusion of the prayers, preached a most admirable Sermon, from a text so appropriate to the occasion, that (did we not know the contrary to be the fact) we should have supposed some “ Radical" had apprized him of the intention of "the body" to present themselves at his Church, had made known to him their spiritual wants, and solicited his instruction and advice. The passage of Scripture selected for the text was from the first Epis tle general of St. Peter, 28 chapter and 13th verse, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake." -In discoursing upon this passage, the Rev. Gentleman shewed in a most impressive inanner the necessity of obedience to the existing Government, as a precept deli

vered by inspiration to the first converts to Christianity. He then forcibly set before his audience the dreadful punishment denounced hereafter upon all those who rebel against the lawful authorities--the danger both in this world and in the next to which they expose themselves, who follow after ignorant and designing men, who presumptuously stand forward to arraign the existing authorities as not lawfully constituted. He pointed out that the same divine authority which commanded us to Fear God, coupled therewith immediately this precept, Honour the King, and finally exhorted his audience to endcavour to pass through this life in the faith and fear of God, and to manifest the sincerity of that faith by a dutiful submission to the Laws and Government of their country.

We sincerely trust that there were amongst the Radicals many upon whom this discourse was not thrown away; we feel confident that there were some who felt its full force, who lamented that they should have ever been to others "the occasion of falling," and went out with a sincere determination to return no more to those with whom they had entered the Church, the fatal tendency of whose views had not, until then, been set before them.

There were some who exhibited the true radical spirit by sneers, and smiles, and other indecorous gestures during the service. We allude particularly to three persons at the east end of the Church, who were stated to have been distinguished at the head of the procession by white hats. Others, immediately on the conclusion of the Sermon, stood up, and put on their hats. It may be possible, that, in a few instances, this was the result of mere ignorance; but, in many, it was evidently intended as an insult to the Christian part of the congregation, and to show the courage with which radicals could brave the denunciations of that Divine wrath, against which they had been so lately warned. We despise this affectation of courage which they do not possess, as much as we abhor the dreadful spirit which incited them to that insulting demeanour in a place of religious worship. We shall, however, suggest to the consideration of the Churchwardens, should the insult be repeated, that it is their duty to bring the offenders to a propriety of behaviour by exemplary punishment, and that indecorous conductin a Church may be brought under the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court.

Two facts well worthy of attention may be added to this statement: the first is, that one of the radicals has forsworn all farther fellowship with the fraternity, and has taken his name from the list, in conse

quence, as he himself says, of having for the first time heard the truth. The other, that the radicals have been plainly told by numbers of the poorer part of the congre gation with whom they mixed; that had one of them attempted so much as to lift his finger against their Minister, they would have torn him to pieces.

WILTSHIRE.-The following gentlemen were ordained at Sarum on the 21st. ult.

Deacons :-Walter Long, St. John's College; E. Wilkins, B.A. and H. Hatch, B.A. Fellow of King's College; Owen Marden, D.C.L. and C. Payne, LL.B. of Trinity-Hall, Cambridge.

Priests:-H. Gwyther, B.A. of Trinity College; F. Evans, M.A.; J. W. Arnold, M.A. Clare-Hall; J. E. Lance, B.A. of Corpus Christi College; Joseph Cape, B.A. Clare-Hall; S. T. Rudd, B.A. St. John's College; Wm. H. Roberts, B.A. Fellow of King's College; and H. Wynch, M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Died, in the 89th year of his age, the rev. Rowland Cotton Marven.

YORKSHIRE.-Died, the rev. Wm. Stevens, M.A. of Sedbergh School, and formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Died, at his lodgings in the city of York, the rev. Joseph Hargrave, M.A.

WALES.

AT a numerous Meeting of Gentlemen educated at Jesus College, Ox-' ford, held at Dolgelly on the 4th of August, 1819, Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, Bart. in the Chair,

It was unanimously resolved,

"That the cultivation of the Welsh language among the young men of the principality, particularly those intended for the church, is an object of the highest import

ance.

"That this meeting is anxious to further the regulations* adopted of late years, at Jesus College in Oxford, for this purpose.

"That premiums for the best compositions and translations in the Welsh language, among the young men of Jesus College, would be highly conducive to this end.

"That for this purpose an annual subscription be now entered into, and that all persons who are, or have been members of Jesus College, be solicited to contribute thereto.

That the stewards be requested to receive subscriptions in their respective dis

*The late Dr. Hughes introduced a regulation which has since been continued, that a part of the daily service in the chapel should be read in the Welsh lan guage, by the young men in rotation,