offerings of the faithful, which are to be added to those collected by his brethren in different parts of Europe, for the purpose of founding a new establishment in place of their convent, which was razed to the ground by the Christino troops.

Revolt of Two Parishes in Normandy from the Church of Rome.-The following article is copied from the Courrier Français:-" Two legitimist newspapers bitterly complain that the inhabitants of a parish in Normandy have gone over to Protestantism, and that another is on the eve of doing the same thing. They relate that, in consequence of a dispute with the Bishop of Coutance, on the subject of changing a curate, the inhabitants of Siouville engaged their mayor to enter into treaty with the Protestant minister of Cherbourg, for his coming to celebrate divine worship in their commune. The minister at first started difficulties, but finally yielded to the repeatedly-urged wishes of the municipal magistracy. On his arrival,' says one of these Legitimist papers, he found a temporary church already, but as the weather was fine, the service was conducted in the open air, and about 2000 persons were present. During this time, the Abbé Guilbert, curate of Pieux, officiated at Siouville in a deserted church, there being only about 30 persons present, although it was the parish patron saint's holyday.' We are assured,' says the same paper, 'that the inhabitants of St. Croix de la Hogue are ever ready to follow the schismatical example of their neighbours of Siouville.' The Legitimist newspaper from which wẹ borrow this information, deeply groans over such important facts, and perceives in them one of the fruits of the Duke of Orleans' marriage to a princess of the reformed religion. It would be much more natural to attribute them to the obstinacy of the bishop, who refuses to comply with the wishes and representations of the inhabitants of the commune.

INDIA.

A Christian Lady Embracing Hindooism.-The chotee knee of Rajah Mittrajit Sing, was born of Christian parents; but from the day that she was placed in the Zenana of the Rajah she has become a perfect Hindoo, having given up the Christian mode of praying and the Christian customs to which she was brought up. She is in fact turned a great devote, and her whole time and attention is absorbed in the observance of ceremonies according to the tenets of the Shastras. She lately expressed a desire to dedicate a temple to Shiva, and the question, whether the Shastras permitted her doing so, was put to the pundits in the neighbourhood; but their opinion, that she could not be permitted so to do, on account of the defect in her birth, dissatisfied the convert; and at her request the Rajah sent to Benares for a number of pundits to settle the point. These came, and after a somewhat lengthy discussion, they unanimously agreed in the opinion that there was nothing in the Shastras against her dedicating a temple to Shiva; but what she could not do was performing the poojah of the god personally; she could, however, visit the temple, keeping herself at a distance from the sacred part of it. The ranee and the rajah were well pleased with the opinion; and the latter lost no time in ordering 10,000 rupees for build

ing the temple. The foundation of the temple is laid, and it is expected in the course of a short time to be finished.—Akhbarkõl-Cubbeer, Jan. 7, 1837.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

On Tuesday, August 1, at the parish church of Bridstow, Mr. Nevins and his six children publicly conformed to the doctrines of the Church of England. Mr. N. was a most respectable member of the Society of Friends.

The Bishop of London has taken Beacon Lodge, near Christchurch, as a residence for his family during the bathing season.

The Dean of Salisbury has taken a house at Mudeford.

Installation of Dr. Stanley, the new Bishop of Norwich.-On Thursday (17th of August) the enthronement of the Bishop of Norwich took place in the cathedral. The dean read the congratulatory address of the chapter. The bishop headed a procession of the ecclesiastics of the cathedral, the mayor and corporation of Norwich, &c., with more than 300 of the parochial clergy of the diocese; he proceeded to the throne, before which he took the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to the queen, and of canonical obedience to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The dean, holding the mandate of installation in his hand, and at the same time conducting his lordship to the throne, said, " By virtue of this mandate, I induct, install, and enthrone you Bishop of Norwich, in the diocese of Canterbury." His lordship then preached a sermon to a crowded congregation, in aid of the funds of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge; after which a handsome collection was made in aid of the funds of that society. After a dinner in support of the above-named society, at which the bishop attended, Archdeacon Glover alluded to Lord Bayning's omission of a request to print the Right Rev. Prelate's sermon; the Rev. Lord Bayning replied that he did so because, although he agreed with the chief parts of the bishop's discourse, he was unwilling to commit himself to all the principles contained in it. The bishop said he had been misunderstood in his allusions to education. It was hinted that he advocated education without religion, which was not the case. . . . . The bishop consented to allow his sermon to be printed, in order to put an end to all misconception with respect to his sentiments.

THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND HIS CLERGY.

To the Editor of the St. James's Chronicle.

SIR,-In your extract from the Norwich Mercury, it appears that after the installation of the new-appointed bishop, his lordship dined with his clergy, having himself preached a sort of inaugural sermon for the benefit of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. As an address delivered before 300 of the assembled clergy, in the cathedral of the diocese by the chief pastor of it, it is impossible to conceive that one more directly opposite to what was either suitable or fitting to the occasion could have been fabricated. Infinitely more political than religious, it was, to say the least of it, in the worst style and taste. First

impressions are generally the strongest, and every thing appears to have been said and done at Norwich in this beginning of a new state of things, to increase disunion and excite deep and serious feelings of regret. When his lordship declared that" some persons refused to sanction education unless connected with religion, but with whom he presumed to differ," could the clergy, could any Christian auditory, believe that such a declaration could fall, in such a place, in such a congregation, from the lips of a Christian Protestant bishop? When he proceeded to exhort" that no man should accuse his neighbour of schism, because he was a dissenter from his creed," could any Churchman, Protestant, or Romanist, believe that his lordship knew anything of his profession, or that he was acquainted with any history but that of these radical times? Under such circumstances no vote of thanks could have been conscientiously given by the clergy to the bishop, and they judged it best for the public, and infinitely more kind to the bishop himself, and at the same time more becoming to themselves, to make no request that such a sermon might be printed; for had it been so at their instance, they would have been looked upon as involved in the approval and belief of the opinions and doctrines it advocated. They, therefore, were silent; and well had it been had the matter here rested; but alas, a Marplot, in the person of Archdeacon Glover, in his zeal for the political honour of his new superior, rises, and in the effulgence of a discerning judgment and the voluptuousness of charitable fervour, accuses his brethren of an omission in feelings of respect and duty towards their new bishop, in not thanking him for his promised support of education free from religion, and for declaring schism to be no schism in those who sincerely followed the dictates of their private judgment in matters of doctrine. Now, no more fruitful sources of schism could be opened than the maintenance of these two principles-of moral education without religion, and the unlimited exercise of private judgment in matters of Christian doctrine. By these, the flood-gates of heresy may be opened with a vengeance. And who is he that would give free vent to this source of discussion and contrariety of religious belief? None other than Mr. Archdeacon Glover, who apologises to the bishop for the intentional remissness of his clergy in not accepting with gratitude and thanks the recipe which his lordship offers them for making schism-that Archdeacon Glover, who, forgetful of his own sentiments when he was less of a politician, and less wedded to the cause of dissent than he is now,* said in a sermon which I have redeemed from the chaos of my lumber-room-" With respect to conscience, it is by no means what the ignorant usually think it, a feeling which can of itself instruct them in their conduct, and justify their actions. No feelings of conscience can make that right which is radically wrong, and a thousand instances must occur to you in which you have known or heard of the most atrocious crimes being committed under that delusive sanction. The man who tells me that his conscience assures him he is right in deserting the faith of his forefathers, and in abandoning the worship of our Church, for some novel and unauthorized mode of discipline and doctrine, would be told by me, that my conscience as clearly and unequi

He is lately married to a Socinian lady (a widow).

vocally convinced me he was wrong. Are we then both right? Must not one of us be undoubtedly mistaken? And must not both of us, in common sense and reason, acknowledge that some better criterion is necessary, and some more infallible rule of judgment to be sought for?" Modes of faith are not so unimportant as they are generally in these times esteemed."t

Here, at least, the bishop and his archdeacon are at issue. The former says, "He who separates from the Church in consequence of conscientious belief is no more guilty of schism than he who conscientiously remains a member of it." The other, writing on "the sin of schism," says, "Conscience is by no means what the ignorant think it; and some more infallible rule of judgment must be sought for." The archdeacon seems to have fallen from his first faith, which is sound; the bishop, in adopting another, fortunately gives the people of Norfolk and Suffolk this consolation-that he shall "feel and preach that all are within the pale of salvation, however much opposed to his own belief.” I would then, Mr. Editor, merely ask who it was that gave "the most glaring insult to the Bishop of Norwich," when dining with his clergy, they who desired to maintain silence upon what had occasioned them so much pain to hear, or he who charged them with disrespect, and compelled them openly to manifest that disapprobation which they were anxious to suppress? I am, sir, truly yours, CLERICUS.

The parishioners of St. Mary-le-Wigford, Lincoln, have shown their sense of the high character and valuable services of their late pastor, by subscribing for a piece of plate to be presented to him, as a lasting memorial of their respect and attachment. The article selected is a massive silver waiter, fourteen inches diameter, and the following inscription is engraved in the centre:" 1837. Presented to the Rev. George Davies Kent, M. A., by the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Wigford, Lincoln, in testimony of the respect and esteem which they entertain for his character, and of their deep sense of obligation for the zealous, intelligent, and exemplary manner in which he discharged the ministry during a period of more than twenty-five years."

Mr. Sturt, one of the members for the county of Dorset, has built, at his own expense, the parsonage house at Mintern, and is now building another at Sutton Walden. A few years ago Mr. Sturt built a rectory house at Long Critchley. In consequence of these acts of liberality and affection for the Church of England, the Archdeacon and Clergy of the county of Dorset have presented an address of thanks to the honourable gentleman.

The Sin of Schism," preached in the parish church of Cromer, by the Rev. George Glover, A. M. Rector of South Repps, Vicar of CroNorwich, 1812.

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TEXT. "Where is the Flock that was given thee-thy beautiful Flock?"-Jerem. xiii. 20.

It is recorded of an ancient monarch, that when he was reviewing the millions that composed his mighty army, he burst into a flood of tears as the thought crossed his mind, that the ravages of time would soon number every one of them with the dead. But if to this thought another and more overwhelming be added, that death is but the transition to another state of being, a state unalterable and eternal, the happiness or the misery of which is in exact accordance with the moral dispositions with which it is entered, then who can survey the mighty multitudes of mortal immortals, living without God and without hope in the world, hourly passing into eternity, and not feel the throbbings of compassion proportionate to the estimate formed of the destiny which awaits them. Such, it would seem, were the reflections stirring in the breast of Him who knew the value of the creature man, as he surveyed the multitudes around him, and was moved with compassion because they fainted, and were as sheep having no shepherd; and afterwards, as he stood on the brow of the murderous city, and contemplated their privileges, which had exalted them to heaven, and their neglect and their iniquities, which would sink them low as hell, he wept tears of divine compassionO Jerusalem! Jerusalem and if we profess to be his fol[No. 10.]

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