3501. For one in the parish of Chobham, 1007., in addition to a previous grant. Great Bedwin.-On the 3rd of May the foundation-stone was laid of the intended new church at St. Nicholas, at East Grafton, in this parish. Marylebone. On May the 9th a meeting was held at the school-rooms connected with the district church of All Souls, Langham-place, for the purpose of taking measures for the erection of a new church, or chapel of ease, in that populous portion of the parish of St. Marylebone. The Dean of Chichester, who took the chair, stated that there were in the parish 140,000 persons, and that there was only church accommodation for 22,000, the district of All Souls being worse provided for than any of the others. Towards the erection of the new church the Metropolis Churches Fund has made a grant of 2,000., and the Dean of Chichester 3007. Lord Beresford, Lord Radstock, and Mr. Hope, had subscribed 1007. each, and there were many other contributions of smaller amount from the clergy and the inhabitants of the district. The church is to be situate in Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, and an ecclesiastical district will be assigned to it. MISCELLANEOUS. The Lord Bishop of London intends to hold his visitations in October next. By the provisions of the Theological Statute passed at Oxford last week, Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity, has been constituted Chairman of the new Theological Board, and is also recognized as a public University Professor in Dogmatic Theology. The Statute, therefore, virtually rescinds the judgment passed by the University on the Professor's theological opinions, in 1836, on occasion of his appointment to the chair, by Her Majesty, on the recommendation of the late Whig Administration.-Globe. One of the five new livings formed out of the Rectory of Winwick by Act of Parliament, has become vacant. These livings the Rector of Winwick, the Rev. J. Hornby, has nobly consented to endow forthwith, at the sacrifice of not less than 2,000l. a year out of the income of Winwick. The Bishop of London, on Tuesday, May 10, held a Confirmation at the church of St. Mary, Whitechapel, for the various parishes comprising the borough of the Tower Hamlets. Upwards of 2,000 young persons of both sexes partook of this ritual of our Church, which is a greater number than has ever been previously known on one occasion within this populous_district. On Wednesday, May 11, his Lordship held a confirmation at St. Mary's Church, Islington. Upwards of 1,500 young persons were confirmed. Consistory Court. Veley and Joslin against Gosling.-Braintree Church-rate. On the 4th of May Dr. Lushington delivered his judgment in this case, which was a question as to the admissibility of the libel in a suit for subtraction of churchrate, in the parish of Braintree, Essex. The following is a brief summary of the facts. A decree had issued from the Consistory Court, founded on an affidavit setting forth that the church was out of repair, and that rates had been for several years refused; the libel also setting forth the prohibition which had emanated in the former case from the Court of Queen's Bench. That decree called upon the churchwardens and parishioners to show cause why a monition should not be granted to the church wardens to take the proper steps to put the church into repair, and to call a vestry for a certain day for the purpose of making a rate, and directing the parishioners to attend and make such a rate. The churchwardens (only) appeared, and declared their readiness to submit themselves to the lawful commands of the Court. A monition then issued to the churchwardens and parishioners to the effect of the decree; the vestry met on the 16th of July last; the rate was proposed; an amendment refusing the rate was moved; and, on a show of hands, the vicar (who was in the chair) declared the amendment carried; no poll was demanded. The churchwardens, with several others, then signed the present rate, which was not put again to the meeting. The question was, whether a rate so made is legal and valid. Dr. Lushington has pronounced it invalid, and rejected the libel. The ancient Ecclesiastical Office of Rural Dean has been revived in eighteen English dioceses since the year 1800. From a paper on accidents in Coal Mines in Belgium, read before the Statistical Society, it appears that, from 1821 to 1840, 2592 persons were killed and injured, out of a population of 28,000. In the years 1840 and 1841, the legislature voted 82,000 francs to the various institutions established for the relief of the mines.-Liverpool Journal. An Example.-Sir Henry Featherstonhaugh has increased the wages of his Sussex labourers, and given each a quantity of malt to brew their own beer-upon condition that they abstain from frequenting beer shops and public-houses. The Bishop of Norwich has revived the office of Rural Deans throughout his diocese. Navy Chaplains.-It is said that the Admiralty intend to appoint a chaplain to each of the four divisions of marines, and to appropriate some place in each barrack for divine worship. IRELAND. Dublin University.-On May the 23rd, being Trinity Monday, Mr. Longfield was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, and the following gentlemen were elected Scholars-Richard Lee, C. Kempbell, W. Battersby, John Brinkly, Charles Black, John Alcom, John Galvan, H. M'Clean, W. D. Canall, H. Wakeham, John Robinson, M. C. Howe, Thomas Kearney, C. H. M'Carthy. Of these, nine were Sizars. The Bishop of Ossory has appointed Dr. Mountford Longfield, Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law, Trinity College, Dublin, to the office of Vicar-General of the diocese of Ossory, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. Pack, L.L.D. The Lord Bishop of Cork has appointed the Hon. and Rev. Charles B. Bernard, M.A., Rector of Bantry, to the Prebend of Kilbrogan, in the Cathedral of St. Finbar, Cork, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. H. T. Newman, to the Deanery of Cork. The Bishop of Killaloe has collated the Rev. Somers Payne to the Rectory of Castle Connell, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Crampton. The Rev. William Baillie, Head Master of Kilkenny College, has been presented to the living of Clondevaddock, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. Maturin. The Lord Bishop of Meath held an ordination on Sunday, the 17th of April, in St. Anne's Church, by license from the Archbishop of Dublin. The following gentlemen were admitted Deacons :-For Meath -George Graham, A.B.; Richard Turner, A.B. For Dublin, by letters dimissoryRichard Stack, A.B; Abraham Augustus Nunn, A.B.; George Stone, A.B.; Edward Busteed Moeran, A. M. For Elphin, by letters dimissory-Henry Irwin, A.B. For Cork, by letters dimissory-William Stewart, A.B. For Aghadoe, by letters dimissory--Richard Longfield, A.B. The following deacons were admitted to the order of priesthood:- For Meath- Rev. William Coddington, A.B.; Rev. Douglas William Teape, A.B. For Clogher, by letters dimissory-Rev. R. Hogg, A.B.; Rev. Thomas Wellesley Roe, A.B. For Cork, by letters dimissory--Rev. Richard Lane, A.B. At the examination in Hebrew, held at the end of Hilary Term, the prizes given by His Grace the Lord Primate were ob tained by the following gentlemen :Reichell, (Charles); Bailey, (William); M'Cabe, (Alex.); Sir Reeves, (Isaac); Sir Moore, (Patrick); Forbes, (Armitage); Sir Jellett, (Henry); Shone, (Samuel); Sir Purcer, (William). Trinity College.-The subjects for the Vice-Chancellor's Prizes to be granted at the summer commencements are:-For Graduates-In Greek, Latin or English Prose: The Influence of the Discovery of America on the Advancement of Civilization, Society, and Religion in Europe. For Undergraduates In Greek, Latin, or English Verse: The Crusades. The compositions, under fictitious signatures, to be given to the Senate Lecturer on or before Saturday, 11th June, 1842. Church Extension.-A new church, lately erected in the village and parish of Donoughmore, in the diocese of Armagh, has been licensed for public worship. The Lord Primate intended, previous to his departure for England, to consecrate this church, but was prevented by indisposition. The consecration will take place on his Grace's return. Bottle Hill and Ballintaggan school-houses, in the parish of Kilmore, have also been licensed for public worship, on the application of the Rev. James Jones. CLERGYMEN DECEASED. Rev. Edward Herbert Kenney, Rector of Kilmeen, county of Cork: patron, the Bishop of Ross. Kenny, Rev. E. H., Kilmeen Rectory, Cork. THE CHURCHMAN'S MONTHLY REVIEW AND CHRONICLE. JUNE, 1842. SIGHTS AND THOUGHTS IN FOREIGN CHURCHES AND AMONG FOREIGN PEOPLES. BY FREDERIC WM. FABER, M.A., Fellow of University College, Oxford. London: Rivingtons. 1842. ENGLAND'S TRUST, and other Poems. By LORD JOHN MANNERS. London: Rivingtons. 1842. WE have a disposition personally to like both Mr. Frederic Faber and Lord John Manners. Mr. Faber, if we may guess at him by his writings (and in fact we have other evidence in support of our conjectures,) is a man of very estimable characteristics. In the first place, every page he writes bespeaks a cultivated mind. He is a scholar; and, on the whole, we think a good one; -the intermediate epithet in poor Griffith's eulogy we cannot venture to employ. Mr. Faber is a scholar, and perhaps a good one; but a ripe scholar we cannot call him. His knowledge is considerable, and he has reflected not a little upon what he knows; but ripeness of scholarship he has not attained. Nor indeed for this do we blame him. We only say that he is entitled to little or no authority as a teacher. Mr. Faber is young in years, and in mind younger still. There is about him much vigour, much buoyancy of spirit; he possesses much graceful skill in sporting among new, and often dangerous opinions; he is handy at whirling a tomahawk, and not unskilful at playing with a firebrand; and after all, like the Indian, he possesses the art of approaching very near to mis-, JUNE, 1842. 3 G chief without actually doing much. We never heard that his tomahawk had killed any respectable man, or his firebrand set any building in a blaze. If ever he does mischief, it is where mischief was begun before. He is, we say, far from a ripened scholar or a ripened thinker. There is about him too little that is sedate. He forms his opinions with small regard for proof, and expresses them with a strange recklessness of consequences. Still his book is entertaining. It presents us with a good deal of information, sound or otherwise, and with some clever thoughts. Unlike, however, to most young writers he is better, even as regards style, at the beginning than the close. We thought some passages in the early part of his work remarkably pleasant as well as rational; but before we had finished the book, we were sadly tired. Our Author flags much towards the close of his journey. His brisk and lively air seems to forsake him, and he creeps on finally at a very sorry and wearisome pace. But we have been blaming Mr. Faber where we meant to praise. To considerable scholarship and cultivation he adds, we suspect, a very pleasant and kindly temper,-a pleasing, chastened bonhommie seems to run through this, as through his poetical works. We everywhere discover a heart alive to what is beautiful in nature, or amiable and excellent in man ;-nor can we for a moment doubt the sincere piety, or rather devoutness, of Mr. Faber, even though we think his piety often flows in very undesirable channels. He is in fact just such a person as we incline to love, while we are forced most strongly to disapprove. Of Lord John Manners, though a far inferior man to Mr. Faber, we may say nearly the same. It is impossible to observe without pleasure a young nobleman, detaching himself from the frivolities and dissipation to which his position in society invites him, and earnestly giving his mind to the pursuit of moral and religious truth. Our pleasure, indeed, is much diminished by perceiving that his researches after truth are sadly unsuccessful; and unless their direction is altered, are likely ever to lead him astray. Still, to a certain extent, he has, as he deserves, our respect and love. We shall have to quarrel presently both with Lord John and Mr. Faber, the disciple and the teacher; but before we begin, we willingly give our qualified testimony to their merit, and cordially shake hands with two kind-hearted men before we commence our combat. After all, however, we have less to do with our Authors and their books, than with the public feeling of which their books are symptoms. There are a few writers who direct the public mind; there are many who announce to us its course. Now and then a thundercloud may rise, and have electric influence enough to alter the direction of the gale; but who can count the straws, the leaves, the floating particles of thistledown that indicate the current which they cannot guide? And the present age abounds in books of this floating character. They come wavering forth from the repositories of a Rivington, a Burns, or a Parker, with as much levity, though not as much truth, as erst the words of oracle from the Cumaan cave; or, to use that most hacknied of similitudes, "Thick as autumnal leaves which strew the brooks In Vallombrosa." On the whole, we consider Mr. Faber's book to be of this class. We are far indeed from denying to it a considerable share of power. Its diction is lively. Its imagery is often beautiful. Still it is not very original. There is scarcely one opinion maintained in it which we have not met with elsewhere: nor are the arguments more novel than the opinions. It is principally Newman and Froude presented in the shape of an elegant ragout; which is rendered rather piquant by a graceful fancy, and which a pleasant temper does its best (alas for our stomachs, in vain,) to render digestible. We consider Mr. Faber's book, then, rather as symptomatic than as initiative, rather savouring of effect than cause. Its appearance is a kind of proof that Newman and Froude, among the more objectionable writers, and Paget and the Camden Society, among the less objectionable, have not done their work in vain; a proof that a large portion of the public mind is in a transition-state, a state of altered movement, or rather, as the Cambridge mathematicians say, in a state bordering upon motion. Five years ago the book would have been laughed at, for it has not force of mind to sustain itself alone; but at present it will be rather liked, for others of stronger powers have prepared the way; and their converts and half-converts will be pleased enough with its neat illustrations and airy surmisings. We shall give, as briefly as we can, an outline of Mr. Faber's book; and then at greater length discuss, not so much its contents, as some of those opinions and lines of thought, of the existence and working of which we consider its appearance as a symptom. Mr. Faber starts upon his travels,-his third visit, it appears, to the continent. He sets out with feelings on the whole commendable. He travels not in quest of dissipation, as do so many of our countrymen; nor yet from vain curiosity, to hear or to see some newer thing; nor yet, as another class of our countrymen, with no object at all,—just to waste a tedious vacation, just to kill some weary months. He goes forth, as he wishes his readers |