bench who preaches that article in its plain and obvious meaning." This conclusion is, "Were every corruption to be swept away, except union with the state, were the Prayer Book to be burnt, the Apocrypha torn out of the Bible, and the whole paraphernalia of hoods, scarfs, bands, gowns, cassocks, surplices, and lawn sleeves, thrown into the fire, that union would of itself be a sufficient mark on the forehead of the Church of England to brand her with apostacy from Christ.”—(p. 12.) The other pamphlet is entitled "Reasons for not ceasing to Teach and to Preach the Lord Jesus Christ." By L. C. L. Brenton, formerly a Deacon in the Church Establishment. "We would have healed Babylon, BUT SHE IS NOT HEALED: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies."-Jer. xi. 9. Where this worthy officiated is not stated; but on one of his blank pages is advertised a Sermon on Rev. xiv. 13, by the same author, "tending to shew the absurdity and impiety of the promiscuous use of the Church Burial Service. Preached in the parish church of Stadhampton, Oxon;" and he speaks in his advertisement of oral testimony in the city of Bath. An extract from him follows :-"Nothing will content me, and I pray God nothing ever may, but high church simplicity, combined with evangelical orthodoxy; and these never did, nor ever can meet in the person of a minister of the Church of England. For the high churchman there is some excuse; at least, after the mistake he sets out with, he has some merit of consistency. He believes the soul of the Bible to have long ago transmigrated into the Prayer Book; and, like the papist, to whom he bears a strong affinity, dares not consult the Scriptures for himself. To such, I believe, our Lord, if he were on earth, would say, as he said to the Sadducees, Ye do err...... God.' But to the half-hearted perfidious evangelical, who has so much the less honesty as he has more light, I know not that the hard truths directed against the Pharisees would be strong enough. But now ye say, we see.. remaineth.' Perhaps there is not a more offensive object in the sight of God than a hypocritical evangelical, bloated with spiritual pride, puffed up by knowledge, despising his more ignorant neighbour, endeavouring, for the sake of filthy lucre, worldly respectability, or some other bribe of the devil, to bend the Prayer Book into a forced accordance with the Bible, and prove, for instance, that the pure doctrines of the gospel are contained in the Baptismal Service of the Church of England."-(p. 7.) "To pass on to various anti-christian marks of the Church of England. The very principle of endowments appears to be unscriptural and absurd. I have no right to say that this day one hundred years, there shall be a man professing to preach the gospel, whether he knows it or not, in such or such a chapel of my building......... And yet this principle is the very life of the National Religion. I do not scruple to avow that there is throughout an atheistical combination to do without God, in his providence, by the establishment of tithes,-in his Spirit, by the exclusion of all prayers but what is contained in the Prayer Book. Thus dream they, and contrive to serve a god. The incumbrance of his own concerns," &c. And then follows an advertisement for the sale of the next presentation to the Rectory of Shepton Mallet.-(p. 10.)

FROM A LETTER BY MR. JAGO TO THE BISHOP OF BATH & WELLS. Essex Standard, Jan. 5th,

ACCORDING to the plan of a corn rent, to which I have called your Lordship's attention, the incumbent would, as I have before stated, under every change of circumstances, continue to receive his just proportion of corn rent from every cultivated spot of land in his parish, however reduced the value of the produce might be, his demand as to quantity being invariable, according to the average productive powers of the land; but the value of that quantity depending on

the price of that produce out of which his claim is paid, enables him to rejoice with the cultivators of the soil in their prosperity, and to sympathize with them in their reverses, and thus enables him to preserve his relative condition with the flock over which he presides, and from whom he draws his subsistence. The operation of this corn rent is most simple. Let a valuation be made in a parish of all the tithes, of what nature or kind soever, and of all the compositions real, modusses, and proscriptive payments in lieu of tithes, and of all dues, oblations, and obventions, such valuation being made on the average payment of the last seven years, or carried on during the whole course of that routine of crops followed in the parish and the total value of each proprietor's tithes thus determined. Supposing the average value of the tithes of any one proprietor amounted to one hundred pounds per annum, divide 100l. by the average price of a quarter of wheat during the last seven years, which will be found to be about 61s. a quarter, and it will give about 32.8 quarters of wheat as a reserved corn rent payable in lieu of tithes; the value of this 32.8 quarters of wheat to be payable half-yearly, at Ladyday and Michaelmas, or at such other times as may be agreed upon, such value to be determined by the average price of the quarter of wheat as given in the Gazette (and copied into all the country Papers) for the last six weeks or three months before the quarter day. Therefore, when the number of reserved quarters or decimals of a quarter are marked on every inclosure on the plan, and inserted in the terrier of each individual's property, the receiver has only to multiply half the total of the reserved quantity of wheat of each proprietor's estate by the average price per quarter obtained as before mentioned, and the product is the amount of the corn rent for the last half year. This is a just and equitable corn rent, because it depends upon the price of produce out of which the payment is to be made.

MONUMENT TO DR. GABELL.

M. S.

Henrici Dison Gabell. S. T. P.
hujusci Collegii Informatoris,
qui

cum peracre ingenium et doctrinæ copiam,
majoribus studiis parem,

ad puerorum usus contulisset,
teneras discentium mentes exercendo
ita firmavit,

ita subtili festivoque sermone delinivit,
ut quicquid in literis esset reconditius
facillime caperent,

quicquid elegantius ultro amarent.
Eundem Discipuli

gravissimum vitæ morumque
ex præscripto legis Christianæ
Magistrum suspexerunt;
in requie atque otio domestico
quod reliquum erat vitæ
rectè ac suavitèr agentem,
coluerunt Amicum;

morbo denique repentino sublatum
ex animo lugentes,

Viro optimo, desideratissimo

hoc marmor dedicavere, pietatis causâ.

Annos natus LXVII

Obiit die IX Aprilis. A. S. MDCCCXXXI.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

MR. TIDD PRATT has printed for the use of benefit and friendly societies, to enable them to form their contributions and payments upon sound principles, a series of "Tables, for providing relief in sickness and old age, for payments at death, and endowments for children," which have been computed by Mr. Finlaison, Actuary of the National Debt. These tables will afford a very useful guide to these excellent institutions. The author's observations at the end are worth alluding to, particularly that which shews that the payment of 3d. per month, the usual amount of what is termed spending money, by a member aged 38, would secure six pounds to his widow at his death.-Exeter Journal.

REPORTS, ETC.

SOCIETIES FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE AND FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.

PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN AND DISTRICT COMMITTEE.

Ar a Quarterly Meeting holden at the Palace on Tuesday the first of January, 1833, (the Very Reverend Dr. Turton, Dean of Peterborough, in the Chair,) the Treasurer's and Secretary's accounts were laid before the Committee; from which it appeared that the receipts for the year ending with the first of January, 1833, amounted to 1351. 178. 8d., which, with the balance of 34l. 118. 9d. in the Treasurer's hands on the third of January, 1832, make a sum total of 170l. 9s. 5d.

It appeared also from the Treasurer's and Secretary's accounts, that the Disbursements for the year ending with the first of January, 1833, amounted to 125l. 158. 8d., leaving a balance of 447. 188. 9d. in the hands of the Treasurer. From the Secretary's Report it appeared, that during the same year 217 Bibles, 232 Testaments, 447 Prayer-books and Psalters, 403 other bound books, and 1,729 unbound books and tracts on the Society's list, were distributed by the Committee.

It further appeared, that the Secretary has still in his possession 65 Bibles, 4 Testaments, 139 Prayer-books, 281 other bound books, and about 400 moral and religious books and tracts.

RESOLVED That the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, the President of this Committee, being prevented by indisposition from attending the meeting, the thanks of the Committee be respectfully offered to his Lordship for his uniform and valuable attention to its interests generally; also, to the Rev. Dr. Strong, Archdeacon of Northampton, the Treasurer, and to the Rev. J. James, Prebendary of Peterborough, the Secretary, for their valuable assistance in furthering the designs of this Committee; and to the Very Reverend the Dean of Peterborough, the Chairman, for his kind attention to the business of this day.

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY IN THE CHAIR.

GRANTS voted on the 9th of January, 1833, in aid of building or enlarging School-rooms:-To Overhaddon, in the parish of Bakewell, 257.; Knipton, near Grantham, 201.; Doddington, near Northampton, 301.; South Hackney, 1007.

TRIALS.

Essex Quarter Sessions.

REV. H. EVE, CLERK, v. SOUTH OCKENDON POOR RATE.

MR. WINGFIELD, on the part of the respondent, moved to quash the rate; to which Mr. Jessop, on the part of the appellants, consented if costs were allowed; and after considerable discussion, 40s. was awarded.

JOHN CLIFT, ESQ. v. THE PARISH OF SOUTH OCKENDON (POOR RATE). MR. JESSOP, with whom was Mr. Knox, opened the case. The learned gentleman said, that the Rev. Mr. Eve was rector of the parish, John Clift, Esq., the lessee of the tithes. The complaint of Mr. Clift, the appellant, was, that the parish had rated him in a considerable sum beyond what he was formerly charged on the poor's rate, without rating themselves; and he thought that no circumstances could be produced to shew that the tithes had so increased in value as to warrant such an augmentation. For a great number of years, the property in question had been rated at 500l., which was admitting the land to be valued at 17. per acre; but it had been raised to 7751. without any additional charge having been made on the occupiers of land in the same parish. If the original sum was just, he could not conceive upon what ground it would be contended that Mr. Clift should now pay 7751. It was important point in this case, that the farmer was not rated in the full value of his land, while the rector was rated in the full value of his tithes.

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Mr. Knox, on the same side, called Mr. Charles Matson, a surveyor, who said he had lately valued the land in the parish of South Ockendon, occupied by the several persons included in the order, and found the aggregate value to be 32817. 48., and that they were assessed in the sum of 19617. 10s. He valued the land at about 17. 10s. per acre, by which, taking a proportion of three-fifths, the assessment would amount to 5077. 118.; the arable land being 7251. 48. 8d., and the grass land 1207. 13s. 9d.; the charge per acre on arable land was about 9s. 6d.; on grass, about 38. 6d. The witness believed that very little profit had been obtained on land of late years; and that for the last five years a great deal of land had not yielded a single shilling return.

Mr. Thesiger, with whom was Mr. Round, for the respondents, elicited, on cross-examination of Mr. Matson, that he had ascertained the quantity of land in possession of the respondents by a "field book," kept by a young man in Mr. Clift's employ, and not by actual observation. He had never heard that Mr. Clift had taken 15s. per acre for potatoes; in two instances, he had compounded at 28. per acre for the small tithes, and in all others at 1s. 8d.; the small tithes included turnips, grass, and every thing.

Other witnesses having been examined, Mr. Jessop, Mr. Thesiger, and Mr. Round, severally addressed the Bench, the two former learned gentlemen at very considerable length; and the Chairman, after a few minutes' consultation, said it was the opinion of the Court that the rate should be amended, altering the 7751. to 7001.

Arches Court.

WHITE v. WILCOX.

In this case the Rev. Mr. White, the Perpetual Curate of Hampstead parish, promoted the office of the Judge in the Court below against the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, for performing Divine Service in the chapel of St. John, situate on Down

shire-hill, in Hampstead, without licence from the promoter. The Judge of the Consistory Court pronounced against the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, and admonished him from continuing to perform service. From this decision an appeal was promoted to this Court, and the Learned Judge (Sir John Nicholl) affirmed the decision of the Court below, and gave 50l., nominé expensarum, against Mr. Wilcox.

Dr. ADDAMS now applied to the Court for a decree of contempt against the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, as that gentleman had, notwithstanding the admonition of the Court to restrain him from performing Divine Service in the Chapel alluded to, still continued to act in opposition to the decision of the Court, the Rev. Mr. Wilcox having up to, and on Christmas-day, performed Divine Service, and administered the Sacrament in St. John's Chapel.

Dr. HAGGARD, on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, appeared to oppose the motion. The Court was called upon to grant a decree of contempt against a Clergyman, and to subject him to ecclesiastical punishment, for having committed no moral offence. The defendant was a Clergyman, having a large congregation; and unless the accommodation which the chapel afforded the numerous inhabitants of the district were continued, they would be left without the means of attending religious service. The Court would, he felt assured, pause before it decreed the party in contempt. The cause was in the course of appeal, and a petition to the Lord Chancellor had been forwarded, to which no answer had yet been returned.

Sir JOHN NICHOLL said it did not appear on the acts of Court that an appeal was in course of being prosecuted. The defendant was committing a direct moral offence, and a violation of the law, by continuing to preach in the chapel. If the defendant thought proper to take the opinion of a higher Court as to the validity of the sentence given in these Courts, he had a full right to do so, and the Court could not grant the motion if that appeal was prosecuted. On behalf of the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, the appeal was then alleged to be in progress.

Rolls Court.

BROWN . THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

THE following important decision has been made in the Rolls Court, in the case of " Brown v. the Attorney-General."

This was a petition praying that the report of the Master, setting out a scheme for the application of a sum left by will for charitable purposes, might be confirmed. The testator, who was a clergyman of the Church of England, and whose name was Cross, left the bulk of his property in trust to be applied "in furthering_and promoting the cause of true religion amongst the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland." A clear sum of 10,000l. was applicable to general charitable purposes, and upon a reference to the Master, he recommended that sum to be divided in various proportions amongst seventeen different charities. The Master had directed a sum of 100l. to be given to the British Reformation Society; and, as that appeared to be a controversial Society, it was thought necessary to call the attention of the Court to the circumstance. His Honour said the appropriation objected to was not against the furtherance and promotion of "the true religion," and, therefore, he should confirm the Master's Report.

Vice-Chancellor's Court, Jan. 19.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. THE SKINNERS' COMPANY.

THIS was an information filed by the Attorney-General at the relation of Dr. Knox, the Head master of Tonbridge Grammar-school, against the Corpora