Dr. Gilly's vision on this point, it will be satisfactory to our readers to know that the bulk, the great majority-almost allof the clergy in the Archdeaconry of Durham have declared that the petition speaks in parochial tones, and not, as Dr. Gilly told the meeting, "only in a cathedral voice." Let the clergy throughout England make as noble a stand as have the clergy of Durham; let them take the same high ground, maintain the same lofty principles, and all may yet be well with our Zion. We subjoin another petition agreed to at the same meeting. It may appear to relate only to temporalities; but we bid the clergy remember, that it is the policy of the enemy to demand little by little. "The humble Petition of the Archdeacon of Durham, and the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham, and of the Officialty of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and others residing within the limits of the same, whose names are underwritten, "Sheweth,―That your Petitioners are informed that a Select Committee has been appointed by your Honourable House to inquire into the mode of granting and renewing Church Leases, and into the probable amount of any increased value which may be obtained by an improved management of the same. That while your Petitioners abstain from any comment on the necessity or propriety of such an investigation, they most respectfully assert their solemn belief that the possessions of the Church are legitimately applicable to Church purposes alone; and that if the Legislature, by the interposition of its enactments, derive from those estates any increased revenue, such increased revenue must rightfully belong to that body which holds the property from which it has been derived. "Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that all increase of revenue that may arise from Ecclesiastical property may be left at the disposal of the Church, to be applied to Church purposes alone. And your Petitioners will ever pray," &c. &c. We once more call upon our readers to weigh well the terms of these petitions; and to each of our clerical friends we say in truthful sincerity, "Go thou and do likewise." ORDINATIONS. BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS, Wells Cathedral. BISHOP OF EXETER, Exeter Cathedral. April 8. BISHOP OF ELY, St. George's Church, Hanover Square. May 27. The Bishop of Winchester will hold his next Ordination on the 8th July. Thomas, W. Wood, G. Woolley, T. L.. Chap. of Llandaff. The Head Mastership of the Collegiate School, Leicester. Nailsea w. Bourton R. Somerset B. &W. {Stanton R. w. Bateman Bowen, Charles CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS. Cassan, S. H.. Cooper, James Davis, Edmund Head Master of the Collegiate School, Leicester. Sunday Evening Lecturer of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex. Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Chaplain to Naiton House, Woodbridge Union. Rural Dean of the Deanery of Kineton. Chaplain at Chumar to the Rt. Hon. East India Company. Head Master of Sedburgh Free Grammar School, Yorkshire. Chaplain to the Winchester Union. Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Chaplain to the Marquis of Queensberry. Head Master of the Ballyroan School, Ireland. Rural Dean of the Deanery of Cricklade. Domestic Chaplain to Dow. Marchioness of Queensberry. Officiating Minister at Brunswick Chapel, St. Mary-le-bone. Head Master of Kepier Grammar School. |