Regulations now proposed, shall take place in the Lent Term of 1846.

No. 3.

Plan of Examination for Questionists who are Candidates for Honours.

1. That the Questionists who are Candidates for Honours be required to attend, with the other Questionists, the Examination in Paley's Moral Philosophy, the New Testament, and Ecclesiastical History, appointed to take place on the 1st Monday in the Lent Term and on the following day.

2. That the names of all such Questionists, Candidates for Honours, as shall, in the judgment of the Examiners, have passed their Examination in these subjects with credit, be published, in alphabetical order, by the Proctors, in the Senate House, upon the day of the Bachelor of Arts' Commencement.

3. That the first Examination, under the Regulations now proposed, shall take place in the Lent Term of 1846.

On proceeding to direct their attention to a plan of Examination for persons who, having been admitted ad respondendum quæstioni, are intended for Holy Orders, the Syndicate found the subject involved in difficulties; but, after mature consideration, they beg leave to recommend, in the second place, the following plan to the Senate.

No. 4.

Plan of Theological Examination for students who shall have been admitted ad respondendum quæstioni in conformity with the preceding regulations.

1. In the first or second week of the Michaelmas Term of each year, there shall be an Examination in the Greek Testament, assigned portions of the Early Fathers, Ecclesiastical History, the Articles of Religion and the Liturgy of the Church of England; which Examination shall be open to all students who, having at any time been admitted ad respondendum quæstioni in conformity with the preceding regulations, shall present themselves to be examined.

2. The Examination shall be conducted by the Regius and Lady Margaret Professors of Divinity; or, in case of the illness or unavoidable absence of either or both of them, by some Member or Members of the Senate, nominated by either or both of the Professors, and confirmed by Grace of the Senate.

3. The names of those students, who shall have passed their Examination to the satisfaction of the Examiners, shall be pub

lished in alphabetical order, and registered in the usual manner.

4. Immediately after each such Examination, a portion of the Hebrew Scriptures shall form the subject of a new Examination, for such students as, having their names published as above-mentioned, shall offer themselves to be examined.

5. The Examination in the Hebrew Scriptures shall be conducted by the Regius Professor of Hebrew; or, in case of his illness or absence, by some Member of the Senate, nominated by him, and confirmed by Grace of the Senate.

6. The names of the students, who shall have passed their Examination in the Hebrew Scriptures to the satisfaction of the Examiner, shall be published and registered in the manner already described.

7. Public notice of the days of Examination, and also of the portions of the Early Fathers and of the Hebrew Scriptures, assigned for the aforesaid Examinations in the Michaelmas Term of any year, shall be given in the first week of the Lent Term immediately preceding.

8. The first Examination, under the Regulations now proposed, shall take place in the Michaelmas Term of 1846.

The Syndicate are authorised to announce to the Senate that, should the Regulations contained in the foregoing Report be adopted, the Regius and Lady Margaret Professors of Divinity and the Regius Professor of Hebrew, in consideration of the length of time which must elapse before the plan marked No. 4 can come into operation, will commence in the Michaelmas Term of 1843, and continue in the corresponding Term of each of the two following years, Examinations somewhat similar to those proposed in that plan.

A Grace to confirm the above Report will be offered to the Senate at the Congregation on Wednesday, May 11.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

67, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
March, 1842.

The Rev. Dr. RUSSELL in the Chair. At the General Meeting of the Society, held on Tuesday, the 1st of March, 1842, a letter was read from the Right Rev. Bishop Skinner, dated Aberdeen, February 23, 1842.

After acknowledging the donation of 1000., which the Society had made towards the support of Divinity Students in Trinity College, Scotland, the Right Rev. Prelate says:

"It is truly wonderful to find, that in the short space of six months from the time that the College was brought before and sanctioned by our Episcopal College, and even less, the vast sum of almost Fifteen Thousand Pounds should have been raised in aid of our humble portion of Christ's Catholic and Apostolic Church."

A letter was read from the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, dated Bishop's College, Dec. 15, 1841, sending an early copy of a Report which he is about to publish respecting the new Cathedral of St. Paul's, Calcutta. His Lordship says:-"The munificent donation of the Society for the year 1842 (being the second) will have been transmitted, I conceive, just about the time when this Report reaches you; and I trust the Society, by the perusal of that Report, will be satisfied that their pious and noble beneficence has not been misapplied, and will not be. A number of Reports will be forwarded to the Society the first opportunity."

The following are extracts from the Report:

"In the fifteen months which have been occupied in the erection of the Cathedral up to the present time (September, 1841,) the foundations and plinth have been completed, and the superstructure raised eight feet and a half in height, or thirteen feet from the plane of site.

"It is hoped that in little more than two years from the present time, perhaps on the feast of the Epiphany, 1844, the Cathedral may be ready for consecration, if God be pleased to grant health to our excellent and honoured architect.

"The internal dimensions of the main body of the Cathedral will be 127 feet in length by 61; the height 47 feet. The 127 feet will probably be subdivided into a choir, a chancel, and a holy table precinct. MARCH, 1842.

"The body of the Cathedral, if fully pewed, will accommodate at least 800 persons; and if galleries should be added hereafter, and chairs be occasionally placed in the aisles, as is done in all our Calcutta churches on the great festivals, 1300 or 1400. The transepts also, lantern, and western verandah, should they ever be wanted for separate congregations of Catechumens or Sunday Schools, would furnish above four hundred additional seats. The capacity of the Cathedral will not be less therefore than for 1700 persons. But the arrangement of the sittings will be ruled by circumstances and the convenience of the congregation, as all the stalls, pulpits, reading-desks, pews, and benches, are intended to be moveable.

"These particulars are mentioned to give a general idea of the building, and to prevent expectations which cannot be realized being created by the use of the word

CATHEDRAL,' and by a comparison with the magnificent structures at home, which would demand, not three or four lacs, which are all we can hope to raise for our building, but sixty or seventy."

On the subject of the estimates there is the following passage :—

"If the building be taken at four lacs, and the endowments at six more, that is, TEN LACS (100,0007.) in the whole, the estimate would only be moderate; and the Cathedral of Calcutta might then be said, so far as external things went, to be sufficiently established. Nor is there the least doubt, that this amount of ten lacs will be gradually raised, as the magnitude and importance of the undertaking is understood, and the prudence and regard to practical utility with which every thing is conducted become known. In the mean time, the spiritual designs will be entered on, so soon as the consecration has taken place; and if there be only one or two Presbyters at first, in addition to the Chaplains whom the Honourable Company have promised, something important may be accomplished."

The Report then alludes to the several grants made towards this object, and proceeds thus:

"These several gifts, with the two lacs for the buildings and endowments promised by the Bishop, and the other subscriptions in India, raise the entire amount promised to about five lacs, of which somewhat more than a lac and a half belong to the endowments, and about three and a half to the building fund. FIVE LACS, therefore, or 50,0007., remain to be collected altogether for the two funds, if only the most mode

rate regard be conceded to the future efficiency of the Cathedral. The greatest efforts will be necessary on the part of all our friends in India and at home to carry through this important design with the spirit with which it has been begun. It is earnestly requested, therefore, that the friends of religion will exert themselves in procuring additional subscriptions, which are recommended to be made by instalments distributed over three or four years, so that the pressure may be less perceptible. Our changing state of society is always bringing out new friends; and it is chiefly by activity in making our design known, that such persons are secured as helpers."

A letter was received from the Lord Bishop of Toronto, acknowledging the grant of Two Hundred Pounds to the township of Adelaide, in his Diocese, and specifying the manner in which he had distributed that sum for the spiritual benefit of the district.

The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, in a letter dated Halifax, January 17, 1842, to the Society, writes as follows:-

"The ten sets of Quarto Service-Books, which the Society most kindly entrusted to me for the benefit of churches in poor settlements, have been made to supply twelve churches. In some instances a Bible had been previously presented by a benevolent individual; in others, a Bible and Prayer-Book for the desk, without provision for the altar; and I have felt duty to be careful in my stewardship.

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"I have had numerous applications from all parts of the diocese where intelligence of the Society's bounty had been carried: and as many, I thank God, very many,' new churches are in forwardness, and some ready for consecration, I shall be very thankful, as will the poor people also be in various settlements, if the Society shall be pleased to extend their bounty again in the same way.

"Another most important gift would be a complete set of all the books on the Society's Catalogue to King's College, at Windsor, which, as the Society are aware, is the nursery of the Clergy, of whom three-fourths or more have been educated at that seminary.

"I am earnestly requested by the Rev. S. Lee Street, a very zealous Missionary at Woodstock, in New Brunswick, to solicit from the Society a grant of 257. to aid a similar grant from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for the completion of a small church in a new settlement in his mission, named Jackson Town."

It was agreed to place at his Lordship's disposal twelve additional sets of books for

the performance of Divine Service; and to grant a set of the Society's Books and Tracts for the use of King's College, Windsor. The Board also voted the sum of Twenty Pounds towards the completion of the church at Jackson Town.

The Lord Bishop of Newfoundland, in a letter dated St. John's, 26th January, 1842, informs the Society, that the bounty of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel has enabled him partially to organize an institution for the training up of missionaries for Newfoundland. From this his Lordship expects results of the greatest importance to the church of that colony.

His Lordship solicits a grant of 3007. from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for the purpose of erecting a building which may serve at once as a lectureroom to the divinity scholars, a schoolroom for Sunday pupils, a library for the clergy, and a place for a printing press, which is much needed for the promotion of religious truth in this colony. He adds, "It is to accomplish the last-mentioned object that I must appeal again to the liberality of your Society. The types and the press may be conveniently had from the United States, and if the committee will give me the means of purchasing them, which would not exceed the cost of 150, 1 can defray the expense of working them from the funds of the Local Church Society.

"It is my intention (D.V.) to visit the Bermudas in the course of the present year; and if the Society would place a small sum at my disposal for the exclusive benefit of the Church and School establishments in those interesting islands, such a grant would greatly aid me in accomplishing the objects of that visitation."

The Board agreed to grant One Hundred and Fifty Pounds for a printing press and types, and Fifty Pounds towards promoting the Society's designs in the Bermudas.

On the application of the Lord Bishop of Madras the Board granted One Hundred Pounds towards the erection of a house for a missionary at Tinnevelley.

The Secretary reported that the Standing Committee recommended a grant of 50%. to be made, towards the erection of a School at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, to be called Archdeacon Hutchins's School.

It seemed desirable to some members present, that a larger sum should be granted.

It was agreed, on the motion of Mr. F. H. Dickinson, seconded by the Rev. T. F. Bowerbank, that the question of the amount of the grant be referred to the Standing Committee, for further consideration.

A letter was read from the Rev. J. B. Wittenoom, Colonial Chaplain at Perth, Western Australia, informing the Society that he had drawn on the Treasurers for the sum of One Hundred Pounds, it being the amount of the grant voted by the Board in 1836 towards the erection of a

Church at Perth. It appears that considerable difficulties had arisen in carrying into effect the object in view; but all impediments being at length removed, the first stone of an edifice, capable of containing from five to six hundred persons, in an eligible part of the town, had been laid by Governor Hutt, on the 1st of January, 1842. The inhabitants, consisting of about five hundred persons, have contributed Eight Hundred Pounds. Mr. Wittenoom returned thanks in the name of the Trustees, for the aid rendered by the Society in this instance, and for the gratuitous supplies of Books which have been granted at different times to the settlers. He added that there is now a great scarcity of Common Prayer-Books in the Colony; and that a grant of these, as well as of Bibles, New Testaments, Catechisms, and Watt's Hymns, would be highiy valued.

It was agreed to empower the Treasusers to accept the Bill for 1007. on account of the Church at Perth. Books to the value of 10%. were granted.

It was agreed to grant, on the application of the Rev. W. L. Gibbon, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, Books for the performance of Divine Service in the Church of the Holy Trinity, and a book for the Communion Table of St. John's, in that town.

The Rev. J. Endell Tyler applied for a set of the Society's Books and Tracts for a Library and School now being formed in Van Diemen's Land.

These were granted accordingly.

The Rev. T. H. Bridges, of St. John's, Newfoundland, Commissary to the Bishop of that Diocese, and Superintendent of Schools, requested a grant of Common Prayer Books for distribution among the members of the Church in the Colony, through the Missionaries and Schoolmasters of the Newfoundland and British North American School Society. There are between thirty and forty daily and Sunday Schools in connexion with that institution; and as these are chiefly in settlements where the mass of the population belongs to the Church of England, the want of Prayer Books is very great and pressing. The Lord Bishop of Newfound fand recommended this application.

Books to the value of 307. were granted. Books to the value of 221. 7s. 11d. were placed at the disposal of the Rev. W. F.

Vance, for the benefit of the inmates of the Refuge for the Destitute, Hackney Road. A Bible in large type was also granted for the performance of Divine Service.

Books and Tracts to the value of 102. were granted, on the application of the Hon. Capt. Maude, for the use of the men in the "Sailors' Home," Well-street, London Docks.

The Rev. C. Deedes having requested a grant of Bibles, New Testaments, and Common Prayer Books for distribution in Canada by his brothers, who are about to return thither, Books to the value of 5. were voted for this purpose.

Books to the value of 5. were placed at the disposal of the Hon. Mrs. de Blaquiere, Woodstock, Upper Canada, for the purposes of Schools.

A set of the Society's Books and Tracts was granted, on the application of the Rev. J. Booker, Euniscorthy, for the use of the members of the Ferns Diocesan Church Association.

Mr. F. J. Wilson applied for a gratuitous supply of seventy New Testaments, and seventy Common Prayer Books, for the use of the patients in the Westminster Hospital. These were granted.

Books were granted to the value of 51. to Mrs. Maguire, on the application of the Rev. T. Huntingford.

The Rev. E. Blick made an application for the advance of the sum of 1007. from the arrears of Mrs. Negus's Charity, Rotherhithe, towards building two new Schoolrooms in the district of Christ Church, in that parish. It appearing that there was a balance remaining in the Society's hands sufficient to meet this call, it was agreed that 1007. be placed at Mr. Blick's disposal for the purpose required.

Books were granted for four new Churches and Chapels.

Thirty grants of Books and Tracts were

made.

Several letters of acknowledgment were laid before the Meeting, including one, which was read, from Mr. Basey, VicePresident of the "Church of England Working Man's Bible and Missionary Association," established in Southwark.

Several legacies and donations were announced, and eighty-four new members were admitted.

NATIONAL SOCIETY.

The meetings of the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, &c. during the last month have been attended by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lords Bishops of London,

Winchester, Hereford, Salisbury, Worcester, and Sodor and Man.

Forty-three schools have been taken into union with the Society, and the sum of 13677. voted in grants towards building, fitting up, or enlarging school-rooms at Llannon, Breage, Middleton, Carlisle, Walderton, Retford, Gateshead, Little Bolton, Totton, Worlington, Shere, Whiteparish, Derby St. Peter's, Windsor (Liverpool), Islington St. Mary, Compton Martin, Bromwich West, Barton, Bentley, Coxley, Haggerstone St. Mary, Sunningdale, and Salford.

The number of masters appointed by the Society to organize schools has been increased, and masters are now employed in that capacity by the Leicester, Salop, Buckinghamshire, and Boston Boards of Education, as well as by the Vicar of Bradford.

The new Dormitories at the Training College, Stanley Grove, being now complete, and partially occupied, it is the wish of the Society to increase the number of the apprenticed students in the institution (hitherto limited by want of sleeping accommodation) to fifty, with as little delay as is compatible with the requisite caution in the selection of candidates. The present number is twenty-five. One of the ten free exhibitions granted by the Society at the opening of the College last spring is vacant; in addition to which ten triennial exhibitions of 101. each are offered for public competition. The object of the Society is to facilitate admission into the College of well qualified and respectable youths of slender means, and to increase the number of apprentices without lowering the general standard of qualification.

On the 1st of April it is intended to open a school for the children of labourers, artisans, and the humbler class of tradesmen, in a building erected for that purpose on the grounds of the Institution.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.

79, Pall Mall, March 4, 1842. At a General Meeting of the Society, on Friday the 18th February, 1842. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, President, in the Chair,

The several officers of the Society were reelected for the ensuing year.

J. H. Markland, Esq. having resigned his office of Treasurer in consequence of his removal from London, was unanimously resolved-

"That the Society entertain a high sense of the zeal and courtesy with which Mr.

Markland has discharged the duties of Treasurer during a period of nearly twenty years, and deeply regret that he is no longer able to favour them with his most efficient and faithful services.

"That His Grace, the President, be requested to communicate this resolution to Mr. Markland."

C. J. Manning Esq. was elected one of the joint Treasurers of the Society.

W. T. Copeland, Esq. M.P. was elected one of the Auditors of the Society for the ensuing year.

Friday the 27th of May was fixed for the Anniversary Meeting of the Society, at St. Paul's Cathedral.

The following grants were made:

Twenty-five pounds to each of the new Churches in course of erection in Prince Edward's Island, to which no money has hitherto been voted,

Fifty pounds to each of the Churches about to be erected in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland.

Fifty pounds to each of seven Mission Houses, which the Bishop has recommended to be built in various destitute settlements along the Southern and Eastern Coast of Newfoundland.

One hundred pounds towards the expense of enlarging St. George's Church, Bermuda.

The Rev. F. Goldstein has been sent, with the sanction of the Bishop of Barbanoes, as Missionary to Port of Spain, Trinidad.

NOVA SCOTIA.

Extract from the Bishop's Visitation Tour. "During the summer I have been enabled, by the mercy of God, to hold thirty-one Confirmations, at which 1173 persons were confirmed, to deliver more than seventy Sermons and Addresses,-to travel 2000 miles, exclusive of my voyage to Boston,to consecrate three Churches and Seven Burial Grounds,-to hold two Visitations of the Clergy, and three Ordinations, at which three persons were admitted to the Order of Deacons, and six to the Order of Priests. In the numerous congregations to whom I have ministered, I have met more than 13,000 attendants on our worship. Many new Churches are in progress, and resolutions have been formed to build many more. In all this I desire to be humbly thankful to the Author of all good, and especially for whatever evidence it may supply of the presence of His Holy Spirit for the advancement of His Church, and of the extending influence of the principles of the Church upon the understanding and the hearts of her professed members. The whole amount indeed is small, if it be be compared with the extended field