WILTSHIRE.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury will hold a confirmation at Ilsley, on Tuesday, the 19th, Faringdon, Wednesday, the 20th, Malmesbury, Thursday, the 21st, and at Calne, Friday, the 22nd, days of August next.-Salisbury Herald.

The Venerable Liscombe Clarke, Clerk, M.A., Archdeacon of Sarum, will hold his visitation at Sarum, on Tuesday, the 1st, Hindon, Wednesday, the 2nd, Devizes, Wednesday, the 16th, and at Warminster, on Friday, the 18th, days of July.--Ibid.

The church of Fisherton Delamere, having been rebuilt by the munificence of John Davis, Esq., of Bampton, was reopened on Thursday, the 19th of June; on which occasion a sermon was preached by the Rev. Archdeacon Clarke to a congregation comprising all the neighbouring clergy and families of distinction.-Ibid.

The extravagant demands of the dissenters, and the blustering zeal displayed by their infidel coadjutors, has at length fairly aronsed the members of the establishment to action. Even the Devizes Gazette is fain to admit that there is "scarce a village in this county, the inhabitants of which have not come forward to sign petitions to both Houses of Parliament, stating the blessings they derive from the established church, and imploring the Legislature to protect her against the fury of her enemies. Petitions from Bishop's Cannings, Potterne, Rowle, Allcannings, Chirton, Bromham, &c., have been zealously signed."Ibid.

The inhabitants of the manufacturing chapelry of Holt, belonging to the parish of Bradford, are endeavouring, with the sanction of the Bishop of Salisbury, to convert their Sunday School into a National School in union with the Central School in London; a measure which has become the more desirable in consequence of the Act of last Session, prohibiting the employment of their children under the age of ten years in factories; and, as the Sunday-school room is in a ruinous state, it is intended to build new school-rooms sufficient for the instruction of fifty boys and as many girls. Donations to the amount of 1061. have been already received, and the promoters of the schools have applied to the National Society for pecuniary aid, as also to the Lords of the Treasury for a portion of the second grant of 20,000l. voted by Parliament for the education of the poor. We have little doubt, therefore, that we shall soon be able to congratulate the subscribers on the success of their benevolent undertaking.Ibid.

On Sunday, the 27th of May, after an appropriate sermon by the Rev. J.S. Stockwell, rector of Wilton, the sum of 81. Os. 2d. was collected in aid of the Incorporated Society for Building and Enlarging Churches in England and Wales.-Ibid.

The bells of the different churches in this city rang merrily on Wednesday last in honour of his Majesty's birth-day. The joyous demonstrations were repeated on Thursday, in celebration of the restoration of church and state in these realms

thus calling to mind an epoch well worthy of remembrance at the present crisis. This latter anniversary was improved in an admirable sermon at our cathedral, by the Rev. Canon Fisher, chaplain to her Royal Highness the

Duchess of Kent.-Ibid.

City of New Sarum.-At a Common Council, held on Friday, the 13th day of June, 1834, it was unanimously resolved that the following loyal and dutiful Address be presented to his Majesty by his Grace the Duke of Wellington.

"TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

"

WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New Sarum, in Common Council assembled, humbly beg leave to convey to your Majesty, the expression of our heartfelt gratitude for your Majesty's late Declaration of firm and devoted attachment to the Established Church of these realms, and your resolution to maintain inviolate its rights and privileges.

"We cannot, without grief and apprehension, contemplate the combined attempts openly and undisguisedly made to weaken, if not overthrow the Establishment; and, whilst we remember that its privileges and possessions were secured by the same Act of Parliament which conveyed the Crown to your Majesty's family, we hail with delight your Majesty's fixed purpose, determination, and resolution, being convinced that the appropriation of any portion of the means of usefulness, now possessed by the United Church, to other, and perhaps, adverse purposes, would be a violation of justice, an infringement of the British Constitution, and would shake to its foundations the stability of every kind of property.

As members of that pure Protestant, Church, established by our forefathers with their blood, we fully estimate the value of those blessings, which, in common with all your Majesty's subjects, we enjoy under its mild and tolerant sway; and actuated by that sacred duty which we owe to ourselves, our country, and above all, to our God, most heartily do we respond to your Majesty's Declaration, and openly avow our sincere attachment to our holy religion, and to the Constitution in Church and State; and our determination to support your Majesty in the maintenance of those principles which called your illustrious family to the throne of these realms.

Given under our Common Seal, this 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1851."-Salisbury Herald. (Addresses on the like subject have been most numer

ously signed by the Clergy and Laity of Salisbury.)

We are happy to record several very recent instances of the Marquis of Bath's uniform liberality in promoting religious objects in the several parishes with which he is connected. Within the last few weeks his Lordship has given 100l. to the erection of a National School at Cheddar; 2001. for a similar purpose at Warminster; 2001. to defray the expenses for rebuilding, on an enlarged scale, the Church of Corsley, near Longleat, to which object (happily now accomplished) his Lordship had previously contributed 3001.; 500l. towards providing a parsonage-house at Imber, a secluded village on the Wiltshire Downs, the inhabitants of which have never had the benefit of any clergyman permanently residing within three or four miles of them.-Ibid.

WORCESTERSHIRE,

Petitions very numerously signed in favour of the church establishment and against the claims of the Dissenters, have been forwarded from the Parish of All Saints in the City, for presentation to the two houses of Parliament. Worcester Journal.

YORKSHIRE.

Visitation of the Clergy at Leeds.-The Right Worshipful Robert Markham, Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry of York and the West Riding, held his annual Visitation of the Clergy &c. in the Parish Church of Leeds, on Wednesday 18th. Prayers were read in an impressive and effective manner by the Rev. James Layton Brown, Curate of the Parish Church of Leeds, and an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. William Williamson, Incumbent of Farnley, near Leeds, from Acts, xv. 35. "And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do."-Leeds Intelligencer.

Corporation Address to the King.-On Monday, June 16th, a Court of Mayor, Aldermen and Assistants of the Borough of Leeds, was held at the Court House, for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting a Loyal Address to the King, thanking his Majesty for his late declared determination to maintain the Established Church. An address to the foregoing effect was unanimously agreed to, ordered to be sealed with the Common Seal of the Borough, and forwarded to the Duke of Wellington for presentation to his Majesty. -Ibid.

Meeting at Leeds on the Church of England. -A requisition very numerously signed by the friends of the Established Church in Leeds, has been presented to the Mayor, requesting him to convene a public meet

ing of the members of the Established Church resident in the borough, to give them an opportunity of recording their gratitude to the King for the constitutional and Christian sentiments contained in his reply to the address of the Archbishops and Bishops of the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, and of expressing their unabated attachment to the institutions of the country. The Mayor has promptly responded to the call, and appointed the meeting to be holden at the Court House, on Wednesday, June 25th. We trust that all the friends of our venerated Church Establishment will make it their business to attend on the occasion, and shew that in the hour of need they will not be wanting in the defence of our holy religion.-Leeds Intelligencer.

Visitation at Doncaster.-On Monday, June 16th, the Ven. Archdeacon Markham held his annual visitation of the Clergy in the Deanery of Doncaster, at the parish church of Doncaster. The sermon was preached by the Rev. H. Markham, Vicar of Conisbro'; and at its conclusion, the Archdeacon delivered a Charge, similar in substance to that delivered in Leeds on Wednesday. A memorial or address to the King, respecting his recent Declaration of attachment to the Church, was signed by the Clergy present, and is intended to be speedily presented to his Majesty. When the business of the visitation was concluded, the Clergymen of the Deanery held a meeting in the vestry of the parish church, to form an association similar to the one established at Ripon, in January last, to support the interests of the Established Church. A provisional Committee was formed to carry that object into effect. -Ibid.

The inhabitants of Barton, near Richmond, last week presented the Rev. WM. ATKINSON, of Hartforth, with a handsome piece of plate, in testimony of respect and esteem, and as a token of the sense they entertain of the services he has rendered in establishing a Sunday School, and officiating for some months past in the duties of the parish, during the illness of his father, the present incumbent.

WALES.

Breconshire Clerical Meeting.-On Wednesday, June 4th, a monthly clerical meeting was held in the parish church of Ystrad vellte, at which, among a numerous and respectable congregation, there were ten clergymen present. The Rev. Gentlemen who took part in the service of the day, were the Rev. Mr.Jenkins, Dowlais; Rev. Mr James, Laleston; Rev. Mr. Jones, Vaynor; Rev. Mr. Hughes, Devynock; and the Rev. Mr. Parry, Llywel. The devout and earnest manner in which the service was performed produced a deep and most salutary impression, and the congregation derived great advantage from the powerful and eloquent sermons which were delivered. After the

evening service it was announced that an address to his Majesty, thanking him for his late firm Declaration in support of the Protestant Established Religion, lay for signature in the church; and it was truly gratifying to witness the readiness with which hundreds thronged to sign this testimony of attachment to the Christian Church, and of loyalty to their King, on his pathetic appeal to his people.-Merthyr Guardian.

Church Petition.-A petition to the House of Lords against the admission of dissenters into the Universities, signed by the principal gentry in the vicinity of Swansea and Neath, has been forwarded to his Grace the Duke of Wellington for presentation. The petition bears the signatures of the High Sheriff of the county, nineteen magistrates, twenty clergymen, thirtytwo gentlemen of the army and navy and of the learned professions of law and medicine, and of thirty-four other gentlemen of high standing in the county, from property and education. The cordial feeling of the well educated and respectable portion of the community has, with few exceptions, been expressed in favour of the petition, which speaks the sense of nineteentwentieths of the intellect and property of the country. The Rev. Edward Thomas, of Briton Ferry, has been favoured with a reply from the Duke of Wellington, stating that he will present the petition at the earliest opportunity that the forms of the House of Lords afford.-Ibid.

The Carmarthen Journal says, "We are happy to state that the petition in behalf of the Church has received the signatures of numerous Dissenters in this town, several of whom expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the privileges they enjoy at present, and intimated their dislike of the violent political courses pursued by many of the dissenting bodies."

A Clerical Meeting was held at Lampeter on the 28th ult., when a declaration was very numerously signed by clergymen and other gentlemen, contradicting in the most unequivocal manner the statement made by John Wilks, Esq. M.P.-"That the Churches in Wales were, generally speaking, so deserted, that when banns were about to be published, in any of these Churches, the clerk or sexton was obliged to go round to collect two or three families. Hereford Journal.

A petition, most respectably signed by the Laity of Cardigan and its vicinity, in favour of the Established Church, has been presented to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for presentation to the House of Lords.-Ibid.

IRELAND.

The Archbishop of Armagh presented to his Majesty, at the levee held upon his birth-day, the Address, of which the following is a copy. The address, we are informed, was signed by 17 out of the 20 Irish prelates, and by the clergy, with few exceptions, of those dioceses in which it was circulated: 1441 names are affixed to it. The Archbishop of Dublin and

the Bishop of Kildare, it is understood, objected to the address. The Bishop of Meath approved of it, but did not sign it.

"TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "We, the undersigned archbishops, bishops, and clergy of the Irish branch of the united Church of England and Ireland, dutifully crave permission to approach your Majesty with a declaration of our deliberate, unshaken, and cordial attachment to the polity, the doctrine, and worship of the church, as by law established.

"Admitted, as we have been, to the ministry of that church, on the faith of our avowed adherence to its principles and institutions, such a declaration on our part might be deemed superfluous in ordinary seasons.

But the times in which our lot is cast are not of an ordinary character. We trust, therefore, that it will not be deemed unbecoming in us if, actuated solely by a sense of duty, we openly make profession of our sentiments, hoping that we may thereby contribute, under the Divine blessing, to check the prevailing fondness for innovation, to give mutual encouragement and support to each other, and to remove that disquietude and distrust which have been produced by the apprehension of ill-advised changes in the minds of those who are committed to our spiritual care.

"We conscientiously believe that the polity of our church is modelled, as closely as diversity of circumstances will permit, on the ecclesias tical institutions founded by our Lord's apostles, and transmitted to us by their successors; that the system of our doctrine embodies the faith once delivered unto the saints;' and that our liturgy is framed after the pattern of the best remains of primitive Christianity, conveying at all times the fundamental truths of the Holy Scripture, and not seldom in its express words. "In a church thus pure in doctrine and apostolical in formation, whose religious ser

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are endeared by long usage to the devotional feelings of its members, and whose polity harmonizes with the institutions of the state, to which it has ever proved itself a faithful and judicious ally, we deprecate the introduction of undefined changes and experiments; and we humbly trust that no alteration will be made in the discipline and services of our church, but by the sanction and recommendation of its spiritual guardians.

"Should, however, abuses be found to exist in our ecclesiastical establishment, we profess our readiness to co-operate for their removal.

"But we humbly submit to your Majesty, in the language of the preface to our Book of Common Prayer, that 'experience sheweth, that where a change hath been made of things advisedly established, no evident necessity so requiring, sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued, and those more and greater than the evils that were intended to be remedied by such change.'

"That accordingly it is wiser to submit to small and questionable inconvenience, than by impatiently attempting its removal to expose

"That if it be reasonable,' as in the language of the same Preface we admit it to be, that upon weighty and important considerations, according to the various exigency of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made in our forms of divine

worship, and the rites and ceremonies appointed to be used therein, as to those that are in place or authority should from time to time seem either necessary or expedient-it is no less reasonable that such alterations as are at any time made should be shewn to be either 'necessary or expedient;' and that we do not apprehend this to have been done in respect of the changes which various persons, widely differing among themselves, are understood to have in contemplation.

"That a general agreement as to the things requiring correction, the nature and extent of such correction, and the mode of applying it, may be reasonably demanded from the persons desirous of change, as an indispensable preliminary to the concurrence of others with their

views.

"That an opening once made for innovation gives occasion to alterations not limited to the particulars which were supposed to stand in need of redress, but indefinitely extended to others which were previously esteemed to be free from all objection.

"And that thus incalculable danger, arising from comparatively small beginnings, may accrue to our apostolical form of polity, and to

the purity of the Christian doctrine incorporated in our public services.

"All which is dutifully submitted, &c."

Lord Headley and the Protestants of Aghadoe have, by memorial, acquainted Bishop Knox of the inconvenience they suffer by resorting to the distant Church of Killarney, which is insufficient to accommodate its own congregation, and praying to have a Church built in the parish of Aghadoe. His Lordship has promptly expressed his intention to forward the views of the memorialists by every means in his power; and Dr. Forster, the new Archdeacon, has signified his determination to appropriate two years' income to this laudable object. His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam held a visitation in the Church of Ardnare, at which, with but one or two exceptions, every individual possessing a spiritual charge in that jurisdiction was present. A numerous and respectable congregation was also in attendance to witness the interesting ceremony. The Rev. Joseph Rev. George Birmingham, Vicar of Lackan, Verschoyle read the morning service, and the preached an admirable sermon; immediately after which, his Grace the Lord Archbishop ascended the reading desk, and delivered an eloquent and affecting address, which was lis

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Henry A. Herbert, Esq. of Muckross, Killarney, has determined on building a church of Cloghereen, Kerry, and endowing the at his own expense, for the Protestant villagers clergyman with 100l. a year from the Muckross estate.-Limerick Chronicle.

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