vice and consent of the standing committee of the diocese to which he belongs. In a diocese where there is no bishop, it is sufficient that the recommendation be signed by the standing committee. Communications on this subject may be made to the secretary as above.

"Editors of the Episcopal periodical publications are requested to insert the above."

Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in the State of Mississippi.

A society with this title was formed at Natchez (Mississippi) on the 24th of January. The Hon. Chancellor Clarke presided at the meeting, and Dr. A. P. Merrill acted as secretary. The following gentlemen were chosen the first officers of the society:-President, Gov. David Holmes ; Vice-President, Rev Albert A. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. James Pilmore; Recording Secretary, Joseph Dunbar, esq.; Treasurer, Dr. A. P. Merrill; Trustees, Rev. James A. Fox, Rev. John W. Cloud, Hon. J. G. Clarke, Hon. Peter Randolph, Hon. Edward Turner, Hon. George Winchester, Dr. A. Merrill, John T. Griffith, Henry W. Huntingdon, Joseph Barnard, Robert Moore, and James G. Wood, esqrs.-Church Register.

German Universities.

In Germany, for a population of about thirty-six millions, there are twenty-two universities; six belonging to Prussia, three to Bavaria, two to the Austrian states, two to the grand duchy of Baden, two to the electorate of Hesse Cassel, and one to each of the following states-Saxony, Wirtemburg, Denmark, Hanover, the great duchies of Mecklenburg Schwerin and Saxe-Weimar, and Switzerland. The Roman Catholic part of Germany, containing about nineteen millions of inhabitants, possesses only six universities; while the Protestant part, for seventeen millions of inhabitants, has no less than seventeen,Christian Observer.

Meteors.

Professor Brandos, of Breslau, Prussia, states, that he has traced the course of thirty-two of the meteors called falling stars, and concludes from the phenomena that they are probably subject to the earth's attraction, and that they have a motion of their own, but that the greater part of their motion is only apparent, and arises from the earth passing near them in its annual circuit around the sun.-Ib.

Romish Intolerance.

The highly intolerant spirit of the see

of Rome is strongly shown in a circular, just issued by the pope, ordering all Jews to dismiss their Christian servants, females as well as males, not excepting such of the former as may be employed as nurses. This papal bull also prohibits introducing into the houses of Jews, any Christian for the purpose of lighting fires on Friday evenings, on Saturdays, or on any Hebrew festival whatever. The violators of this inquisitorial order are liable to severe penalties, to be inflicted "at the pleasure of the supreme holy congregation."-Ib.

East-Indian Drawings.

Amongst the presents made to the museum of the Calcutta Asiatic Society, are various drawings of Buddha shrines and temples in Nepal: the drawings are the work of a native artist. The artists of Nepal commence their education at ten years of age, and hence acquire great manual dexterity: their apparatus is only a piece of charcoal, an iron style, and one small brush made of goat's hair. The government have agreed to make over to the Asiatic Society, for publication, all documents of a description calculated to tory of India. Ib. illustrate the geography, statistics, or his

Products of the Burmese Empire.

Among the chief natural products of the Burman empire, which are articles of exportation, or likely to become so, are aloes, sugar, saltpeter, salt, teak timber, rice, cotton, indigo, cardamoms, pepper, stick lac, terra japonica, areca nuts, fustic, honey, bees' wax, ivory, rubies, and sapphires. The mineral products are iron, marble, limestone, and coal. The teak copper, lead, gold, silver, antimony, whiteforests are described to be equal to any possible demand, for a period beyond computation.-Ib.

EPISCOPAL ACTS.

In the Diocese of Connecticut. On the afternoon of the third Sunday in Lent, the holy and apostolic rite of confir Rev. Bishop Brownell, in Christ church, mation was administered by the Right Hartford, to 44 persons, nine of whom were members of Washington College.→ Episcopal Watchman.

On January 21st, in Christ church, Hartford, William Lewis was admitted to the holy order of deacons by the Right Rev, Bishop Brownell; and has since been engaged as an assistant to the Rev. Mr. Judah, at Bridgeport.-16.

In the Diocese of New-York. On the second Sunday in Lent, March

11th, the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart held an ordination in St. John's chapel in this city, when Mr. William K. Whittingham, an alumnus of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and the li brarian of that institution, was admitted to the holy order of deacons. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D. D., professor of biblical learn. ing, and the interpretation of Scripture, in the said seminary; and after a sermon by the bishop, the exhortation to the candidate was delivered by the Rev. William Berrian, an assistant minister of Trinity church, New-York. The candidate was presented by the Rev. Dr. Turner.

On Thursday the 22d instant, St. John's church, Stillwater, was consecrated by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart; who offi ciated at Waterford on Friday, at Lansingburg on Saturday morning, and at Troy on Saturday evening, and on the morning, afternoon, and evening of Sunday. In the morning, in the church at Troy, after a sermon suited to the occasion, a collection was made for missionary purposes in this state, to the amount of 130 dollars; and in the afternoon, confirmation was administered to 73 persons.

Diocese of Nova Scotia.

At a convocation held in King's College, Windsor, on the 7th of February, 1827, the Rev. Hibbert Binney, M. A., was admitted to the degrees of bachelor and doctor in civil law, by acclamation. And the honorary degree of doctor in civil law was conferred on the following gentlemen :The venerable Aubrey George Spencer, archdeacon of Bermuda; the venerable George Okill Stuart, archdeacon of UpperCanada; the Rev. John Millidge, rector of Annapolis; the Rev. Thomas Boulby Rowland, rector of Shelburne; James Stuart, esq., his majesty's attorney-general of Lower-Canada; Benjamin De St. Croix, esq. M. D. of Charlotte-Town, in Prince Edward Island.

cultivated, and highly poetical mind, and the uniformly correct and moral bias of his character-these have been fully acknow. ledged; and they will be long attested in the regrets of a large circle whom he had most cordially and sincerely endeared. His kindness and affection also in more retired life, in the sphere of his immediate connexions and relatives, are the subject of unqualified praise; and have caused his loss to be most deeply lamented there, where he was best and most intimately known. His whole life indeed gave evidence to what on his dying bed he declared, that he had ever maintained a conscious sense of his immortality, and had endeavoured to live under a feeling of his accountability to God.

But grateful as it was to him to reflect, that so far as his example had extended its influence, it had always been on the side of virtue,-yet he confessed himself too sensible of numerous omissions of duty, and especially too sensible of the absence and neglect of religious motive in his best actions, to repose upon any plea of merit, a claim to the Divine approbation and reward: on the contrary, he embraced with thankfulness, and endea. voured earnestly to improve, the time and space which were extended him, to review the tenor of his life; expressing the frequent wish that it had been more devoted to God, and the resolution, if still he should be spared, to seek supremely His favour. And while in the full possession of his reasoning faculties, and with his native acuteness of mind entirely unclouded, his spirit calm, collected, and unmoved, even by the actual approach of death, looked out upon the tract of being which was before him, with a clearness of perception, and an undoubting belief of the certainties of a future state, which philosophy might have gloried to behold, yet realizing also the purity and holiness of Him, in whose presence he was about to appear, and the clains which He possessed to the service and devotion of all to whom He had given opportunities to know His will, and talents to promote His glory, he bowed down all pretensions before Him, with the humility of a confirmed Christian and the submissiveness of a child.

Penitent, prayerful, but patient and entirely resigned, he placed his only hope of pardon and eternal life in the sacrifice,

the mediation and intercession of the Son

of God and firm in the belief of His divinity, he breathed out his soul with a tranquillity which faith only could inspire, and his last words of exultation and of triumph were, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

[In unison of feeling with their correspondent on this lamented occasion, the publishers of the Christian Journal have

thought proper to close this article with the following offering to departed worth, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle shortly after the decease of Mr. Bleecker.]

A DIRGE.

Weep, ye who feel the spring's warm sun,
And watch its earliest flowers-
They'll blossom o'er the grave of one
Of enviable powers.

Oh! weep that from the list of men
Life's polish'd circles claim,
Death's messenger, with cruel pen,
Has stricken Bleecker's name.
Mourn, ye who love refinement, taste,
Who talent can admire-
The tomb encloses one who graced

The bar, and strung the lyre.
Oh! mourn that the cold sod shall press
Upon a heart so warm;
Where virtue, with its loveliness,

To honour gave a charm.
Grieve, ye who walk this transient earth,
And heedlessly pass on-

For one who added to its worth,

Is now for ever gone.

And ye who talk of friendship's name,
And with it pleasure blend,
Long will ye grieve, if ye may claim
The title of his friend.

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ESTELLE.

Died in this city, on Sunday, March 25, in the 66th year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM BROWN, father of the Rev. John Brown, of Newburgh. Less than a week before, he was in his usual excellent health, having been taken ill only on the preceding Wednesday. The esteem in which he was held by a large circle of friends, was manifested by the unusual number who assembled to pay the last offices of respect and affection. And that esteem was richly merited. The strictest honesty and integrity, and an amiable, frank, and friendly deportment, marked his intercourse with society. To a large domestic circle he was endeared by the fidelity with which he discharged the obligations arising out of the domestic connexions.

He had been, from early life, connected with the parish of Trinity church, in this city; and uniformly ma nifested a great love of order and har mony in the church; an affectionate attachment to his pastors; and an exemplary regularity in attendance on divine service. Although advanced in life, his death was sudden, and adds to the many monitions which we have of the uncertainty of the continuance of our probation. On that probation, from which we may, at any moment, be called, an awful issue is depending. May the momentous truth be duly, and by God's grace, effectually, laid to heart!

Died in London, on the 5th of January last, his royal highness the Duke of York, presumptive heir to the crown of Eng.

Died on the 27th of January last, at the lodge of All Souls' College, after a long illness, the Hon. and Right Rev. EDWARD LEGGE, lord bishop of Oxford, and warden of All Souls. His lordship was elected fellow of All Souls from Christ church. In 1815, on the death of Dr. Jackson, he was promoted to the see of Oxford; and, in 1817, succeeded Dr. Isham as warden of All Souls. His lordship was born in 1767, took the degree of B. C. L. in 1791, and of D. C. L. in 1805. He was the seventh son of William, the second earl of Dartmouth.-Christian Remembrancer.

Died, SEPTIMUS COLLINSON, D. D., provost of Queen's College, Oxford, Margaret professor of divinity, prebendary of Worcester, and rector of Dowlish Wake and Dowlish West, Somersetshire, in his 88th year. The duties of his provostship, to which situation he was unanimously elect ed, and which he enjoyed for a longer period than any former provost, were discharged by him with great ability, diligence, and discretion. By the society, over which he so long presided, his me mory will be cherished with grateful veneration. In 1798 he was unanimously elected Margaret professor of divinity. In his office of professor he laboured with unexampled efficiency and zeal. The lectures on the thirty-nine articles of the Church of England, which he delivered in that capacity, evinced deep research, views of religion, and great moderation. sound judgment, correct and enlarged He was justly esteemed by the university, as having rendered a most important ser. vice by those lectures. So great was his that he delivered a course of lectures at anxiety to be useful in that department, the age of 80. He frequently preached before the university, even when he had arrived at a very advanced age. The ser mons which he delivered before that audience, exhibited decisive proofs of a vigorous and acute mind, habituated to calm and patient inquiry, and to close and accurate reasoning. His delivery was pecu duce a very powerful effect on the minds liarly impressive, and never failed to proof his numerous hearers. His character was marked by very high independence. To all public institutions of acknowledged utility he was a liberal benefactor. In social intercourse he exhibited a disposition singularly benevolent. No uncharitable nor unkind expressions fell from his lips. He possessed remarkable urbanity of manners, and retained, even to the last con

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clusion of life, unabated cheerfulness and unimpaired energy of mind. Though his frame was weak and delicate, yet he enjoyed almost uninterrupted health, the reward of the regular habits to which he had adhered from his earliest years. After a very short illness, he closed a long and useful life, which had been uniformly distinguished by unaffected piety. Dr. Collinson took his degree of M. A. in 1767; B. D. in 1792; and D. D. in 1793. In 1778 he was presented to the rectories above mentioned, of which J. Hanning, esq. is the patron. In 1796 he succeeded Dr. Fothergill as provost of Queen's College; and in 1798, as before stated, was elected Margaret professor of divinity, in the room of Dr. Neve, of Merton College. Dr. Collinson was for some years one of the city lecturers, but resigned in 1795. -lb.

Died in Ireland, the Right Rev. Dr. PLUNKETT, bishop of Meath, aged 89 years.

Died at Three-Rivers, Lower-Canada, the Rev. R. Q. SHORT, aged 68, and for 26 years rector of the Protestant Episcopal

church there.

Died at Baltimore, on the 14th February, 1827, JACOB NURSER, in the 114th year of his age-called the Patriarch of Baltimore. He was 27 years old when he came to this country from Germany. He then served five years in the military service, and was at the battle and surrender of Lewisbourg in the year 1745, after which he came to Baltimore, and remained till his death. At his arrival, he found but two houses on the west side of Marketstreet bridge, one belonging to Alexander Lawson, the other to Daniel Bernard, who kept a tavern and made soap. Soon after came a single man, by the name of Andrew Steiger, a butcher. On the other side of the bridge there was a little vil lage, he believed of seven houses.

Died suddenly, on the 5th of March, 1827, near Pottsville, Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, JOE WEBB, the Natty Bumpo of the Schuylkill mountains. Joe was a hunter. His language, his manners, his hunting shirt, his rifle, and his faithful hound, to which he was much attached, almost led one to believe he sat to the author of the Pioneers for the interesting picture of the Leather Stocking. Joe inhabited, for many years, a rude cabin in the wild and romantic defile formed by the Sharp and Second Mountains, remote from the habitation of the rest of his spe

cies. There he lived and there he died. Though rough in his language, and uncouth in his exterior, he possessed much of the milk of human kindness in his composition, and will be remembered.

Biblical Reader.

We have been favoured with a copy of this compilation, which was published last year at Boston. The compiler is the Rev. J. L. Blake, a respectable clergyman of the Episcopal Church. The compiler states his object to be the presenting, in a single volume, such selections from the Scriptures as are particularly interesting and instructive to the rising generation, and also to revive in our seminaries the reading of the holy Scriptures, which, of late years, has been too much neglectedthis being designed as a class book. The selections, as far as we have examined them, are judiciously made, and calcu piler. The Bible abounds in passages of lated to effect the purpose of the comthe most attractive character for youth, and we would have them early made acquainted with them. We have never met with any well founded objections to placing the Scriptures before them in schools. This volume is well adapted to this purpose. The mode chosen by the compiler, is that of presenting connected passages in the form of a chapter, with a few questions appended to try the memory of the pupil; these are followed by some brief practical observations," most of them selected from commentators of acknowledged talents and piety."

The work is not, perhaps, unsuitable for Bible classes, and might be found useful in Sunday schools and the family circle.

It is well printed, and ornamented with a number of wood cuts.- Church Register. The Biblical Reader is for sale at the office of the Christian Journal.

The Gospel Messenger.

We have received some of the numbers of a weekly paper under this title, published at Auburn in this state, and edited by the Rev. Dr. Rudd, principal of the academy, and rector of St. Peter's church, in that village, and for many years rector of St. John's church, Elizabeth-Town, NewJersey. As the first numbers, published in January, did not reach us, we have not seen the prospectus. We learn, however, that it is afforded at the low price of one dollar and a half per annum. It is evidently intended, as might be expected, to sup port good morals, and to maintain the doctrines and principles of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as set forth in her excellent formulary; and there is no doubt but this object will be faithfully maintained. The number for the 10th of March