HON. AND REV. GEORGE NEVILE GRENVILLE. The parishioners of Hawarden, Flintshire, have presented to the late Rector of that parish, the Hon. and Rev. George Nevile Grenville, a massive tripos candelabrum, wich cost nearly 3007. as a tribute of respect for the fidelity with which he has promoted the spiritual and temporal welfare of his flock, during a period of twenty years.

REV. THOMAS CLEAVE.-On Friday last the freedom of the borough of Totness was voted to the Rev. Thomas Cleave, A. M. as a mark of their esteem for his services as the officiating minister of that parish.

REV. WILLIAM BUSFIELD, A. M.-The Rev. William Busfield, A.M. has been presented by the congregation of St. Michael's Church, London, with a magnificent silver salver, in token of their attachment to him, and the estimation in which they held his services as Curate of the united parishes of St. Michael, Wood-street, and St. Mary, Staining. He has faithfully discharged all the duties of that office for nine years.

REV. WM. STEWART.-The Rev. Wm. Stewart, M.A. incumbent of Hale, Lancashire, has been presented by his congregation and friends with a gown, cassock, and bands, and a silver waiter, upon which is an appropriate inscription, as a testimony of their high esteem and attachment.

REV. R. ELSDALE.-We have pleasure in recording an additional testimony to the exemplary worth of the respected minister of Stretford, near Manchester. In our periodical of 1832, p. 713, we referred the several exemplifications of the high feeling of the township towards the Rev. R. Elsdale; and now we have to mention the present of a handsome scarf and hood from the members of his congregation. When we recollect that Stretford is not the richest place in the kingdom, and that the gown, which we previously noticed, was voted at a public meeting, where we too often find a disposition to take away, rather than to add to the gratification or comforts of the Clergy, we say these circumstance must be highly pleasing to the reverend gentleman, and must show, as do the numerous "tributes of respect," which we have hitherto published, that the spiritual pastors of this kingdom are held in higher esteem than the enemies of our Church would wish. We know this gentleman to be very active in the numerous and flourishing Sunday schools in his parish, and to have been doubly assiduous during the awful ravages made by the cholera.

REV. JOHN PEEL, M. A. A deputation, consisting of the principal inhabitants of the parish of Stone, near Kidderminster, has recently waited upon their highlyrespected Vicar, the Rev. John Peel, M.A. of Christ Church, (brother of Sir Robert Peel), to present to him an elegant silver inkstand, value 601. and purchased by the contributions of almost all the adult population of the parish. Mr. Amphlett, as senior churchwarden, presented the plate, accompanied with an address expressive of the affection, gratitude, and admiration of the parishioners towards their Vicar, referring to his kindness and condescension to all, more especially to the poor; to his munificent benefactions to their church, lately rebuilt; to his admirable sermons, and to his daily exemplary life and conversation. To this address the rev. gentleman made a reply, marked by acute sensibility, sound sense, and kindness of manner. After professing his inability adequately to express his gratitude at that time, on account of his overwhelming feelings, he proceeded nearly in these words:" Such testimonials as these are generally reserved for those who have borne the heat and labour of the day; but upon me, who have not long entered my Lord's vineyard, has the reward been conferred; a reward at all times most acceptable, but especially at the present, when the Clergy are so grossly and so unjustly vilified. I accept, therefore, this your offering, as a mark of affection to me, your appointed minister-I accept it as a token of attachment to the Clergy in general-I accept it as a pledge, as it were, of a brave yeomanry, to support our venerable Establishment, the members of which, I am bold to say, were never more distinguished for learning without pedantry, orthodoxy without bigotry, piety without superstition, and zeal without enthusiasm.”

MODEL OF ETON COLLEGE.-Mr. Bridge, of Ludgate-hill, has received orders from his Majesty for a splendid ornamental piece of plate, representing an exact model of the Chapel of Eton College, with the arms of Henry the Sixth, the founder, and “H. R.” on one side, and the present Royal Arms, with "W. R." on the other. This superb present is intended for the College, and will be given to the Provost and Fellows by his Majesty, with the express desire that it may be used every year at the Eton anniversary dinner in London.

MORE POPERY.-The new Roman Catholic Chapel, at Bishopwearmouth—a superb building is rearing its stately front in all the splendour of Catholicism, when it was the state religion of this country. It is of the Gothic order of architecture, and when finished will stand unrivalled as the finest public building in the town. It has already assumed

an imposing appearance, and its large and magnificent eastern window attracts the attention and unqualified admiration of all who have seen it. The building is of considerable magnitude, and will possess sufficient room for the display of all the ceremonials and pomp of the Romish Church.

NEW TESTAMENT TO THE SLAVES.-The British and Foreign Bible Society baving resolved to present every emancipated adult negro, who can read, a copy of the New Testament and Psalter, the Church of the United Brethren (whose missions are very extensive in the West India Islands, and whose converts in Antigua are likely to require nearly 5,000 copies) have determined to make collections in all their chapels in Great Britain, &c in aid of the Society. A sermon for the occasion was lately preached in their chapei, St. Peter's, Bedford, when the collection amounted to upwards of 10%.

CHELTENHAM INFANT SCHOOL.-The Rev. F. Close has received one donation of 3201. and another of 100l. towards the erection of an Infant School-room at the lower end of Cheltenham.

LATE BISHOP OF BRISTOL.-The interment of the remains of our late venerable and respected diocesan took place on Monday last. Early in the morning the bells of the different churches began tolling, the flags on the ships and the public buildings were raised half-mast, and the shops in the principal streets were partially closed. About ten o'clock College-green and both sides of Park-street were thronged with spectators to the amount of many thousands, who observed the strictest decorum. The large room on the Clifton road, used by the Horticultural Society, was appointed as a rendezvous for the Clergy and others who intended to join in the procession.

About half-past ten o'clock the hearse approached Rodney House, where the body lay, and the family and chief mourners were assembled, and in a short time the proces sion moved in the following order :

Hearse and six horses, with the coffin.

First coach and four, containing the five sons of the deceased.

Second coach and four, containing the Bishop's brother, nephew, Alderman Camplin, and I. Cooke, Esq.

Third coach and four, containing Drs Bernard and Dick, R. Smith and R. Lowe, Esqrs. Surgeons.

The beneficed Clergy of the Deanery and others of the neighbourhood of Bristol, in all about seventy, made up the clerical procession; the Mayor and seven Aldermen, both the Sheriffs, with many other members of the Corporation, preceded the Clergy; and the Governor of the Corporation, the Poor, with a long train of Churchwardens and other respectable gentlemen of the different parishes, led the van of the whole from the Horticultural Room at the top of Park-street. The hearse and mourning coaches, with upwards of thirty private carriages, followed. The corpse was received at the Cathedral Church by the very Rev. the Dean, the Rev. Mr. Harvey, Prebendary in residence; the Precentor, Rev. H. Barker; Minor Canons, Revs. R. W. Lambert, W. Millner, and G. N. Barrow.

The introductory sentences of the grand and sublime service for the burial of the dead (set to music by Dr. Croft) were sung by the cathedral choir with great effect, accompanied on the organ by Mr. Corfe, as were also the funeral psalms. The appointed lesson was read with solemnity by Mr. Prebendary Harvey.,

The body was then removed from the choir, where it had been deposited on tressels during the former part of the service, and conveyed to the adjoining burial ground, through a double line of gentlemen, who arranged themselves in the cloisters.

The pall was borne by the following Clergymen :-Venerable Dr. England, Archdeacon of Dorset; Rev. R. G. Bedford, Vicar of St. George, Brandon Hill, Rural Dean; Rev. T. T. Biddulph, Minister of St. James's; Rev. Robert Watson, Rector of Christ Church; Rev. J. Eden, Vicar of St. Nicholas; Rev. Fountain Elwin, Vicar of Temple ; Rev. William Knight, Rector of St. Michael's; Rev. Richard Carrow, P. C. of Westbury-on-Trym.

At the grave the office of interment was opened by the Precentor, Mr. Barker, which, after the body was deposited in its final resting-place, was concluded by the very Rev. the Dean, with that distinct and affecting pathos so admirably adapted to the most 4 Y

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solemn of all the offices of our Established Church. The inscription on the coffin was as follows:

Robert Gray, D.D. Bishop of Bristol;

Born March 11, 1762; consecrated in 1827;

Died Sept. 28, 1834.

There was no mitre on the coffin, from the lamentable fact of this symbol having been destroyed at the riots, and never replaced. The fact, too, of the Bishop's remains being interred close to the walls of his ruined palace, excited amongst most of the spectators an affecting recollection of the lamented Prelate's dignified and truly christian conduct at that appalling crisis.—Provincial Paper.

FEES ON CONSECRATIONS.-The vilest falsehoods are pertinaciously circulated by the liberal press as to the asserted rapacity of the Bishops in demanding enormous fees upon consecrations. No Bishop ever demands or receives one single farthing for any act of consecration!-the utmost amount of fees for consecrating a church is 97. 9s., to which a sum (in no instance exceeding 217.) may be added for the travelling expenses of the registrar, secretary, and other officers, but this extra expense is seldom incurred. Besides these fees, there are certain other payments for work actually done, as drawing up the petitions, deeds, &c., amounting to 97. 2s.; so that the whole expenses necessarily attending the consecration of a church cannot, in any case, exceed 397. 11s. 4d., and in a great majority of instances will not amount to more than half that sum. The fees for the consecration of a churchyard alone are 97. 10s. 4d., and the expenses of engrossing, &c., 51. 9s., making a total of 147. 10s. 4d. The whole expenses of the consecration of a - church and churchyard together are about 221.

INCREASE OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.-On Sunday, the 14th of September, Kennington Chapel, formerly an Independent meeting-house, was opened for divine service, under the authority of the license of the Bishop of Winchester. This is the fourth dissenting meeting-house which has been converted into a chapel of ease in this neighbourhood. The others are, Camden Chapel, Camberwell; St. John's, London-road, Southwark; and St. Paul's, Vauxhall; the two latter being added to the Establishment in the past year. Previous to the commission for building new churches coming into operation, Lambeth possessed one church and five proprietary chapels, one of the latter belonging to the Asylum for Female Orphans; Camberwell contained one church and two chapels of ease, and Newington one church. Lambeth now possesses one parish church, four district churches, two district chapels, and six proprietary chapels; Camberwell has two churches, two chapels of ease, and two proprietary chapels; Newington, one parish and two district churches: making an increase, in these three adjacent parishes, of twelve churches and chapels, in about the same number of years. All of them are commodious buildings, and afford church-room to a far greater number of persons than the original church accommodation. This increase is worthy of record, as the dissenters decried the new churches as useless buildings, predicting that they would be without congregations: adding their usual boast, that nearly the whole population being dissenters, the scanty accommodation afforded by the parish churches was amply sufficient for those who remained in our communion.

GROWING ABUSES OF THE CHURCH!-In the single archdeaconry of Essex, within the last eleven years, 48,000l. have been expended on the erection or improvement of parsonage houses. In the whole county of Essex there has been more than fifty new houses built within the last twenty-five years. This, we presume, is what the aspersers of the church call its "growing abuses."

FOREIGN BOOKS.-The table of new duties says-"Books in the foreign living languages, being of editions printed in or since the year 1801, bound or unbound, the cwt. 27. 10s." The old duty was 57. per cwt.; are we therefore to understand, that books printed in the English language in the United States are not to have the benefit of the reduction?

CHARITY CHILDREN IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-On Thursday, Oct. 9, a meeting of the Society of Patrons of the anniversary meeting of the Charity Children in St. Paul's Cathedral was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill; the Treasurer in the chair. The business of the meeting was chiefly confined to the receiving of a report relative to the receipts, &c. of the last anniversary meeting. The report of the

proceedings at the last assembly of the charity children was highly satisfactory. The total receipts at the doors of the cathedral were 5907.

NORTH CURRY.-The parishioners of North Curry have recently expended 1000l. in repairing and beautifying their church, and J. S. Gould, Esq. has presented them with a valuable organ, which was lately opened, in the presence of a congregation amounting to about 3,000 persons. The Rev. W. K. Coker preached an appropriate sermon on the occasion.

BISHOP OF DERRY AND RAPHOE.-The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe held his annual visitation of the Clergy of the diocese of Derry, on the 9th instant, in the cathedral. There was a large attendance of the clergy. The archdeacon, and two or three others of the clergy, stated that their churches were much too small for their congregation.

ETON SCHOOL.-The new master of Eton College has ordered the following circular to be sent to the parents of all the boys:-"Sir, I am requested by the head master to state to you that the excessive expense incurred by boys in making presents of books to their school-fellows who are leaving Eton, has made it necessary to adopt a regulation which may impose some check on the abuse of this practice for the future. He therefore proposes that the propriety of giving, as well as the value of the presents, may be left to the judgment of the respective tutors, who, on receiving letters from the parents or guardians of their pupils, will give orders or not, as may appear to them, after inquiry, to be expedient.-Eton Coll. Sept. 1834."

REV. DR. RICHARDS.-The Rev. Dr. Richards, the worthy and exemplary Rector of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, has been induced to resign that living, on account of the disputes so long prevailing in the parish. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of London.

THE PENTONVILLE TRAGEDY.-The following inscription and epitaph from the pen of Mr. Campbell, of Sadler's Wells Theatre, is to be engraved on the tombstone of the unfortunate Lefevre and her four children :—

Sacred to the memory of

Henry Lefevre, aged 5 years and 6 months,
John Lefevre, aged 4 years and 6 months,
Ellen Lefevre, aged 2 years and 2 months,
Philip Lefevre, aged 8 months,

Who were murdered by their father, Johann Nicolaus Steinberg, a native of Germany, during the night of Monday, the 8th of September, 1834, at No. 17, in Southamptonstreet, Pentonville.

Also of Ellen Lefevre, aged 25 years, mother of the above babes, likewise murdered by J. N. Steinberg, who afterwards murdered himself, and was buried according to law. "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street."-Job xviii. 17.

"Where is the flock that was given thee-thy beautiful flock?”—Jer. xiii. 20.

Poor babes, could not your innocence prevail?

And when your father heard your plaintive wail,

Did no compunction smite his guilty soul,

And thoughts of murder and of blood control?

None!

None heard your cries; in sleep the world was bound,

A deathlike stillness reigned around.

While guilt with gliding footsteps trod,

You slept on earth-you woke and saw your God!
'Neath your Creator's wings in peace you're blest,
For angels wafted you to realms of rest.

BLESSINGS OF THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. - At Worhip-street Police-office, on Saturday, October 11, Mr. James Temple, of 41, Tabernacle-walk, was charged with interrupting the service at the Tabernacle Chapel, City-road, on Friday evening. A dispute has arisen among the trustees of the chapel as to the right of appointing the preachers, and the congregation is divided between the Rev. J. Campbell, and the