willingness to subscribe, was recommended.

SUFFOLK.

The anniversary sermons for the Church Missionary Society were preached at St. Margaret's church, Lynn, Sept. 30th. The collection amounted to 371.

Wednesday, the 3rd inst., the Rev. R. J. C. Alderson, rector of St. Matthew's, Ipswich, gave a dinner at his residence, of roast beef and plum-pudding, to 118 children belonging to the Sunday-school in his parish, which has been lately established through his active instrumentality. Guardians of the Poor.-At a meeting of the Court of Guardians of this borough, on Friday, the 12th inst., the following resolutions were agreed to:-1. "That the Court of Guardians do resolve themselves into a committee to obtain information as to the practicability of usefully employing persons receiving parochial assistance in this borough, particularly as regards the cultivation of land by spade-husbandry, and the manufacture of some article of general demand; and that this committee be requested to make a report of the result of their inquiries on the next court day, or such other day as may be specially appointed. 2. That a list of all persons now receiving parochial relief in and from this borough, setting forth their age and places of abode, the nature of their trade or vocation, the amount of their allowance, and the nature of their claims, shall be printed, with a view to their employment, and the prevention and detection of abuses.". Bury Herald.

The first annual meeting of the East Suffolk Agricultural Association was held at Wickham Market, on Friday, the 28th ult. The attendance of the nobility, gentry, clergy, yeomanry, and inhabitants generally of the district, evinced an anxious desire to give a character to the proceedings of the day; an interesting feature of which consisted in the awarding premiums for good conduct and length of service to farming servants, and female dairy servants; fourteen of the former received 21. each, and three of the latter the same amount; likewise, two shepherds, one 4l., the other 31.

On Sunday, the 14th inst., an able discourse for the benefit of the charity schools, Bury, was preached at the two churches by the Rev. W. Whewell, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, upon the 1st Corinthians, chap. x. ver. 13. The collection in the morning in St. James's amounted to 41l. 16s. 10d.; that in the afternoon, to 30l. 18s. 2d.; together, 727. 15s.

SUSSEX.

On Thursday, 4th inst., at the Swan Assembly-rooms, was held the second anniversary of the Hastings Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society. Lord VOL. II.-Nov. 1832.

Chichester presided. The Secretary read the Report, from which it appeared some hundred copies of the Scriptures had been put in circulation, and a large sum remitted to the Parent Society; and though the income was not equal to the former year, it was not far below 2007.

On Thursday, the 4th inst., the Lewes Deanery Committee of the Societies for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, &c., held their Sixteenth Anniversary in the national school-house, Church-street, Brighton. The Vicar of Brighton was in the chair, supported by three of the vice-presidents, Sir David Scott and Sir Thomas Blomefield, Barts., and Nathaniel Kemp, Esq., and by the clergy of Brighton and other parts of the deanery of Lewes. The Rev. Dr. Holland detailed the proceedings of the committee during the last twelve months, assisted by the Rev. T. Cooke; the latter gentleman having been elected a joint secretary with the Rev. H. M. Wagner, treasurer, in the room of the Rev. H. J. Tayler, who has resigned on quitting the diocese. It appeared that above 5001. had been expended since the last anniversary in supplying the district with Bibles, Prayer-books, and the other books and tracts, now amounting to 450 in number, which have been adopted as affording Christian knowledge of the most scriptural kind by the society,-of Bibles, 875; of New Testaments, 485; of common prayer-books, 1239; and of other books, bound and unbound, 12,614. Of these 99 Bibles, 48 Testaments, 243 prayerbooks, and 2142 books and tracts had been offered gratuitously to the county hospital in Brighton, to the national school and Swan Downer's, and the infant school there, and to the Brighton clergy for distribution, as well as to the Cuckfield national school and Lewes parochial library. The total of books issued throughout the deanery by this committee is as follows:-10,193 Bibles and New Testaments, 16,873 common prayer-books, and 115,215 expository and exhortatory and devotional books and tracts. The grand total being 142,281. Well may the clergy of Brighton advocate the cause of this institution every year to the fluctuating congregations who assemble within its churches and chapels. The annual sermons in August produced a sum little short of 2007. A fourth part of the collections has been remitted to the society, as in part a compensation for the loss sustained by them on the books suppled to the committee. The depository at present contains books of the value of 2471.

On Thursday, the 11th inst, the twentyfirst anniversary of the East Sussex Auxiliary Bible Society was held at the Old Ship Assembly Rooms, Brighton, at which the Earl of Chichester presided. The Rev. Mr. Blake read the Report, of which

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the following is an extract :-" During the past year the Auxiliary Society has issued -Bibles, 911; Testaments, 863: issued in previous years, 39,445. Total number of copies of the Holy Scriptures issued by this auxiliary society since its formation, 41,219,"

WARWICKSHIRE.

The congregation of St. Peter's Church, Birmingham, with a view to retain permanently the services of the Rev. Joseph Harling, M.A., have recently, on their personal responsibility, offered to that gentleman treble the amount of income which he has hitherto derived from the curacy. This very liberal proposition, alike honourable to the congregation and to their minister, has, however, been declined, in consequence of Mr. Harling's previous acceptance of the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School at Chipping Campden.

Adjourned Vestry Meeting at Birmingham. Another adjourned meeting of the rate-payers, for the purpose of receiving the report of the auditing committee, and granting a churchwarden's rate for the current year, was held in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, on Tuesday, the 2nd inst. In consequence of the great disorder which had characterized former meetings, it was determined on this occasion to exclude, as far as possible, all persons who did not pay rates. Notwithstanding this exclusion, the meeting was most numerously attended, the church being crowded in every part, and the meeting was as boisterous and excitable as on all the preceding occasions. The Rector, on taking the chair, briefly stated the purpose for which they were assembled, and called upon all speakers strictly to confine themselves to the objects of the meeting. After a report from the audit committee had been read and debated, Mr. Churchwarden Salt moved that a church rate of three-pence be granted for the present year, which was seconded by Mr. Turner. An amendment was then moved by Mr. Allen, "that the Wardens having funds in hand, the Vestry will not at present grant any rate; but that a subscription be entered into for the purpose of defraying all legal and proper expenses connected with the church," which having been seconded, the Rector declared he would not put it to the meeting, on the ground of its recommending a subscription; the only question was, "would they or would they not grant a rate?" and that was the only point he would put to the decision of the meeting. After considerable discussion, the clause having reference to a subscription was withdrawn.-Mr. Salt then addressed the meeting, and declared that he had no money in hand, nor had he the power of obtaining any but by harsh proceedings, unless the Vestry granted him a rate.

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Mr. S., in reply to a question, declared that no ecclesiastical proceedings on the subject had been commenced.-Mr. Joseph Parkes concluded a speech of great length by proposing another amendment in these terms:-"That the rate be postponed, and that the churchwardens of the parish of Birmingham be requested to raise a public subscription to defray their current penses; and, in the mean time, that the rate-payers be recommended to petition the Legislature, in the first reformed Parliament, for a repeal of the laws which tax Dissenters for the maintenance of the Established Church." This amendment the Rector positively refused to put. Amidst great uproar and confusion, Mr. Parkes withdrew the amendment, and the first amendment was finally put and carried in the affirmative; Mr. Turner and Mr. S. Allport then severally demanded a scrutiny; but ultimately both gentlemen gave way, and the Rector declared the amendment carried. The meeting separated at four o'clock.-The Birmingham Gazette observes, Although the rate is thus virtually refused, no compulsory step, we apprehend, can be taken by the churchwardens previously to the adjourned meeting, the scrutiny not having been persisted in, and the votes of those present consequently not having been fully and legally ascertained. The motion of adjournment having been carried, the original question still remains undisposed of."

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WILTSHIRE.

Friendly Societies in Wilts. At the Warminster Sessions, 1831, the court ordered, that, in future, all rules for Friendly Societies, so far as relates to the scale of contributions, &c., be referred to the Actuaries of the Equitable, or the Rock Assurance Offices, or to the Actuary of the Government Life Annuity Office, or some other eminent Actuary. In consequence of this order, no Friendly Society's rules will be enrolled at the Wilts Sessions without the proper certificate.

On the 19th ult., the Anniversary of the Salisbury and Wilton British and Foreign Auxiliary Bible Society was holden, according to appointment, in the Council Chamber, Salisbury. The Dean of Salisbury opened the meeting. The Rev. F. Lear, Secretary, read the Report, from which it appeared that the Society had, since its last meeting, distributed in the city and neighbourhood 1158 copies of the word of God. Its funds were increased several hundred pounds.

The allotment system is in active operation on the estate of Lord Churchill, of West Lavington, with the happiest effects. There are at present upwards of 66 acres in that parish appropriated to 139 families.

John Benett, Esq., M.P. for Wilts, has let upwards of 50 lots of land for field gardens, to poor persons of the parishes of

Tisbury and Semley at 3d. per lug. And P. Pelham, Esq. has let 70 acres to the poor of the parish of Lyneham.

On Sunday, August 19th, a sermon was preached at the parish church, Warminster, by the Rev. Dr. Griffith, in behalf of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; and on the same afternoon, at the parish church, and in the evening at Christ Church, sermons were delivered by the Rev. R. Monro, M.A., in behalf of the Church Missionary Society. The annual meeting also of the latter society was held on Monday, at the Town Hall. The total of the collections amounted to 637. 12s. 1d.

At the quarterly meeting of the Diocesan and District Committees of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held at the Council Chamber, Salisbury, on Friday, October the 5th, it appeared from the annual Report then read by the Secretary, that there had been distributed by the committee during the past year no less than 386 bibles, 488 testaments and psalters, 785 prayer-books, 580 bound books, 4898 half-bound and stitched, and 2859 cards and papers, making in the whole the large amount of 9946 religious publications. The Report described the circulation of the Saturday Magazine as being very considerable in Salisbury and the neighbourhood, and spoke with marked satisfaction of the plan adopted by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for publishing a small portion of the Bible with explanatory notes in numbers at a cheap rate. Great regret was expressed, that, owing to the delay of the Parent Society's Reports, the committee unable to give any sketch of the general proceedings for the past year.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

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On Sunday the 14th inst., at St. Anne's Chapel, Bewdley, after two sermons by the Rev. J. Cawood, M.A., Minister, the collections in aid of the Sunday Schools amounted to 56l. 16l. Six hundred children, decently clothed, moving in orderly procession to the temple of God, afforded a most gratifying spectacle.

The Musical Festival for the relief of the National Charity Schools in Kidderminster commenced on Tuesday, the 9th inst., and was attended with the most signal success. The church on the first morning was crowded. A grand Miscellaneous Concert, in the evening, gave evident delight. The Oratorio of the Messiah, with Mozart's Accompaniments, on Wednesday, drew a fuller attendance than on the preceding morning. The result has exceeded the sanguine expectations of the most zealous promoters of the Festival. The total receipts, including collections and donations, amount to about 13007.,

which will leave a considerable surplus for the several schools, after deducting the expenses necessarily incurred. Numerous liberal donations have been received.

Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. Sermons in aid of this Society were preached on Sunday, the 7th inst., at St. Martin's and St. Clement's Churches, and at St. Oswald's Chapel, Worcester.On Tuesday, the 9th inst., the anniversary meeting of the Ladies' Association was held at the Guildhall; Richard Spooner, Esq., in the chair. The Rev. M. S. Alexander, who has been converted from Judaism, in his address to the meeting, spoke feelingly of the present state of the Jews, when compared with the high exclusive privileges they once enjoyed; but he observed that he was not without hopes of the conversion of his brethren to the religion of the Redeemer, because Christians had now began to manifest an interest in their eternal welfare.

YORKSHIRE.

On the 11th inst., the tweny-third anniversary of the Leeds Auxiliary Bible Society was held in the Music Hall, Leeds; John Hardy, Esq., in the chair. The Rev. J. Scales read the Report. In the past year, 1058 Bibles and 1564 Testaments have been disposed of by the Auxiliary, making a total of 39,693 copies of the Scriptures distributed since its formation. The income of the Leeds Society for the past year was 8971. 16s. 2d. The sum of 7971. 6s. 11d. had been remitted to the Parent Society. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. R. W. Hamilton, J. Fawcett, J. Acworth, R. Wood, and the Rev. J. Burnett.

The West Riding Charitable Society for the relief of the Indigent Clergy of the Archdeaconry, and their widows and orphans, distributed, at its recent annual meeting, the sum of 7951. among thirty-eight different families, many of whom would be utterly destitute but for the assistance afforded by this excellent institution.

It has been incorrectly stated in some newspapers, that on Sunday, the 7th inst., the Archbishop entertained the Gentlemen of the Bar at Bishopthorpe. This was not the fact; for though it had been the ancient custom for them to dine at the Palace on the Second Assize Sunday, his Grace has judged it proper to change this practice; and accordingly he invited the Counsel in parties on the week-days, giving them the choice of days most suitable to their convenience.-The only individuals who dined at Bishopthorpe Palace on Sunday, were the Judges and the High-Sheriff, the dinner being strictly private.

Ripon. The inhabitants of Ripon, in compliance with the earnest wish of their clergy, kept Wednesday, the 12th Sept., as a day of fasting and humiliation before

Almighty God, as well as in thankful acknowledgment of his goodness, in having hitherto preserved that town and neighhourhood from that desolating scourge the cholera morbus. The churches and chapels were all opened for divine service, and the day was observed with a solemnity befitting the interesting and religious occasion.

By the demise of the late Earl of Mexborough, the valuable rectory impropriate of the parish of Mexborough, near Doncaster, has reverted in full right to Mr. Archdeacon Markham, who, in consequence, has expressed to the Rev. L. J. Hobson, Incumbent of the parish, his determination to endow the living with the Rectory House, formerly the seat of the Saville Family, and also with the contiguous premises. As the old house is too dilapidated to admit of being put in complete repair, this gentleman has apportioned a large sum of money towards erecting a new parsonage-house, which sum, with the materials of the old building, it is computed, will be sufficient to defray the expenses of erecting a neat, substantial, and in every respect commodious dwelling.

Morley District Parish Church.-On the 4th inst., a meeting was held in the vestry of the church, for the purpose of levying a church rate for the necessary repairs and expenses for the ensuing year. The vestry was crowded to excess, various means having been resorted to for the purpose of exciting the feelings of the people, such as hand-bills, placards, the bellman, and anonymous scribblings on doors and buildings. The village walls for some days previous were abundantly placarded; an orange one, headed in large letters "Threaten'd Church Rate," was every where to be seen. The following is a verbatim copy of one of the written placards stuck upon the walls with yeast:-" Atend the church Meting at morley to a Pose the church Locustes Oct. 4. 10 o'clock fornoune." A large assemblage of the Dissenters was present, headed by the most influential of their body, and assisted by a Mr. Greaves, solicitor of Osset, who was allowed to be present as a spectator, but who kept prompting others what to say. Among the leaders of the opposition were Messrs Asquith and Bradley, John Webster, glue maker, John and Samuel Webster, clothiers, John Garnett Dixon, &c. Nearly all the operatives employed in the Morley mill, in the occupation of Mr. W. Dixon, were present. The most rancorous hostility was displayed by the trustees and others of the new Calvinistic meeting house, who have been for many years, and are at present, enjoying great benefits from a churchman. Not one of the people addressed the meeting against the rate but an attorney who has not been a year resident in Morley. But the persons

before mentioned having nothing to say themselves, they employed a man to bawl as they prompted, a duty which he performed with great zeal. Mr. Swinden, Surgeon, the churchwarden, briefly addressed the meeting. He entered into a detail of the creation of the district parish of Morley, a large portion of the parish of Batley having been set apart for that purpose; and he pointed out the advantages of the measure, which were now apparent, and which, he said, would after a certain period be very great, as after the death of the present vicar of Batley, single dues could only be demanded for the Morley district. The objection that dissenters could not be expected to pay to a church to which they did not belong was met by a remark that dissenters partook of the sacramental elements, that dissenters anxiously claimed burial in consecrated ground, that baptisms and marriages required books for their protection, that the poorest had a right to interment in the church-yard, &c. He then noticed the inflammatory placards, the hired men to stir up the people, and the system of private slander which had been resorted to to swell the opposition; notwithstanding this, great difficulties had been met in rousing the people, who were beginning to find out that all the bubbles of Catholic Bills, Test Bills, nay, Reform Bills, were blown to amuse them and draw off their attention from their own grievances. He proceeded to remark, that the Dissenters themselves had erected for themselves establishments over which they had less control than they were willing to allow. Who could question the decisions of a conference!-of a chapel trustee meeting!-of any little junto of great little-men assembled to deliberate and decide! Yet such persons railed against the church as having too much power-Did ever the power of Dissenters tend to create peace and unity in a village! In nothing were they united, but in hostility to the church.

He then congratulated the churchmen that a better state of things was dawning for since the erection of the National School, 148 children of Dissenters were educating in the principles of the Church of England, and in despite of all their efforts, the people yet rally round the church, and that the principle of dissent, however opposed to sound government, and neighbourly acts of charity, and kindly feelings, would ere long be greatly modified, if not wholly counteracted, by the information which the people generally were daily requiring; for whatever might be said favourable to the principle, the conduct of those who had any influence in that body tended more to keep the people down than to make them happy and contented at home. He concluded by observing that, as churchwardens, they were

bound to submit an estimate of expenses to the rate payers; and that they (the rate payers) were equally bound to make a sufficient rate to meet those necessary expenses; that he distinctly wished them to understand that he asked for no favour at the hands of a Dissenter; that he would receive none; and that if the law would not authorize him to compel them to pay for the items he should mention, he would not receive a gift from them; what they claimed was their right. Having read the estimated items of expenditure, he proposed a rate of three pence in the pound, and after an uproarious discussion, the meeting voted three farthings in the pound. The amount asked was 58l. 16s. The sum granted was 14l. 17s. 6d. We understand that great difficulty will be experienced in collecting so small a rate. For instance, a house rated at 11. would have to pay three farthings; but a house rated at only 10s. would have to pay one half of three farthings,

WALES.

The Duchess of Kent, with that charitable liberality for which she is so remarkable, has presented 50%. in aid of the subscription commenced by Lady Willoughby d'Eresby for founding an infant school in Carnarvon.

SCOTLAND.

In our occasional emigration notices this year, we have alluded to the vast number of Highlanders who have gone to America; and, as emigration to an alarming extent has taken place in the West Highlands this year, we herewith present to our readers the following table, for the accuracy of which we vouch, and which will shew, at a glance, the counties and places that have furnished the greatest number of emigrants: -To Canada-Argyle, 258; Isle of Skye, 137; Perth, 322; Lanark, 541; Renfrew, 320; Dumbarton, 29; Stirling, 54; Inverness, 74; Ayr, 83; Mid Lothian, 60; Banff, 12; Wigton, 11; Fife, and other counties, 52; To Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton-Argyle, 71; Skye, 130; Uist, 672; Perth, 55: Lanark, 141; Renfrew, 56; Ayr, 128; Inverness, 27; Stirling, 8. By this table it will be seen that Argyle, Skye, and Uist, have furnished 1,268, which is more than a third of the emigrants in this enumeration; while Lanarkshire, with a greater population, gives only 541; and Renfrew, 376.- Glasgow Chronicle.

The following interesting account of the late Rev. William Henry Marriott appeared in one of the Edinburgh papers, and is a just tribute to his high attainments and eminent piety:

It were unsuitable that so estimable a person as Mr. Marriott should be removed from us by death without some notice being taken of him, and the more that he came to reside among us

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as a stranger, und was possessed of a kind of character and accomplishments not very usual among ourselves. Distinguished as a scholar at Cambridge, he came here on the first institution of the Edinburgh Academy, and was generally acknowledged to be, in point of learning and acquirements, equal (perhaps superior) to the very eminent rector himself, though by no means so well qualified as that skilful master for the first breaking in of a raw and yet unruly school. His health soon gave way under the toil and annoyance of so irksome an employment, and it seemed to afford him a relief that he was enabled to receive orders from the late Bishop Sandford, though, from the circumstance of Scotch orders not being recognised in the English church, his ambition was necessarily thenceforth limited to one of the small appointments which are all that belong to the primitive Episcopacy of this land. From the moment, however, that he dedicated himself to the clerical profession, ambition seems to have been dead in this amiable and pious man. was soon nominated to be the pastor of a small, but a highly respectable, and the oldest Episcopal congregation in Edinburgh, who meet in the little chapel, designated from St. Paul, in Carrubber's Close; and never, we believe, was there a spiritual teacher more devoted to his calling, or one who, even in the few years that he was permitted to minister among them, acquired more of the affections of his people. His heart from that moment seemed warm with a steady and apostolic glow, and all his learning and all his talents, both of the first order, appeared to him but as mites to be thrown into the treasury of his Master. It was this evident devotedness, free from every thing like ostentation or pretension, and bearing the stamp of a truly primitive spirit, which threw a light of sanctity around the scholastic studies, the chastened eloquence, and the modest demeanour of this accomplished man; and we scarcely expect to see among us again one who, with so many of the acquirements which adorn a secular life, shall live yet so entirely in spiritual pursuits and labours. Had he flourished in an early age of the church, we doubt not that he would, if called upon, have fearlessly enlisted in "the noble army of martyrs;" but the trials with which the chitdren of the gospel have to contend are in all ages severe, and there is a martyrdom of mind and fortune not less difficult to endure than that of the stake or the arena. Mr. Marriott was doomed to suffer many private sorrows of a very peculiar and afflicting nature; his health again sunk under them, and his life was closed amidst the depression of his circumstances, and under the necessity of committing the sole guardianship of his widow and children to that Providence to which he ever looked with unfading confidence. He died greatly lamented by all who knew him: many of his congregation (not merely the male part of it) accompanied the reremains of their beloved pastor to the rustic churchyard where he had requested to be laid, near an ancient church, which must have