"Did he," thought the latter, "use his leisure and retirement well, and repent him truly of the past? The Blanquetts, with its lonely walks and shady groves, did they witness heartfelt contrition and earnest cries for pardon? Did these avail? The great day alone can decide. When will man see that the Supreme has placed high and startling value on human life; that he has guarded it by the most solemn denunciations from all violent waste and outrage; and that thrilling will be the account hereafter to be rendered by the homicide to him who has declared-At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man?" " Poetry. THE DEATH-KNELL *. O, it is a sound which seems Hark again! the solemn knell Miscellaneous. ST. ALBAN'S ABBEY.-The high and distinguished privileges enjoyed by the spiritual lords of this abbey gave them precedence of every other in the kingdom. "The king," says Weaver, "could make no secular officer over them but by their own consent; they were alone quit from paying that apostolical custome and rent which was called Rom-scot, or Peter-pence; whereas neyther kinge, archbishop, bishop, abbot, prior, nor any one in the kingdom, was freed from the payment thereof. The abbot also, or monk ap • From "Poems, by Thomas Powell," 1842. pointed archdeacon under him, had pontifical jurisdiction over all the priests and laymen, of all the possessions belonging to this church, so as he yielded subjection to no archbishop, bishop, or legate, save onely to the pope of Rome. This abbot had the fourth place among the abbots which sate as barons in the parliament house." "Howsoever, pope Adrian the fourth, whose surname was Breakspeare, born hereby at Abbots-Langley, granted this indulgence to the abbots of this monasterie, namely, that, as Saint Alban was distinctly known to be the first martyr of the English nation, so the abbot of this monasterie should at all times among other abbots of England, in degree of dignity, be reported first and principal. The abbot and convent of this house were acquitted of all toll throughout England. They made justices ad audiendum et terminandum within themselves, and no other justice could call them for any matter out of their libertie. They made bayliffes and coroners; they had the execution and returne of all writs, the goodes of all outlaws, with gaole and gaole deliverie within themselves." These particulars have been carefully embodied in a poem on the subject. In the prosperous days of the abbey, several apartments were built exclusively for the use of strangers. These adjoined the cloisters; and, beyond them, in a separate range of buildings, were the king's and the queen's apartments. But notwithstanding this preparation for visitors, and these indirect invitations, it would seem, on the authority of Matthew Paris, that some of the earlier "monarchs came too often, or at least with too cumbrous suites."-Beattie's Castles and Abbeys of England. COPYRIGHT OF SERMONS.-A practice has recently arisen of taking down in short-hand the sermons of first-rate preachers, and of forthwith printing and publishing them for the pecuniary benefit of the person by whom the short-hand writer is employed. We are asked whether the preacher can check such a practice by any proceedings in the courts of law or equity; in other words, whether such an act as we have mentioned amounts to an act of piracy? The two main principles upon which copyright depends are these-1st, that it is originally a species of property; 2nd, that it does not pass to other hands by the act of publication. There can be no doubt that a sermon, like a poem, a treatise, a history, or any other manuscript, is the fruit of a man's own labour; that, up to the time of delivery, it is his own property, and that until that time it is subject to his exclusive disposal. Thus there can be no doubt that the first of the two principles of copyright is applicable to a sermon. The difficulty of the question, such as it is, will be found to arise upon the second of these principles. The delivery of a sermon from a pulpit amounts to a publication. The hearer listens for his own instruction, pleasure, and improvement. For the same objects he may reduce the whole into writing; but it does not therefore follow that he may print and publish it for his pecuniary benefit. We see nothing in the relation of the preacher to his congregation which can sanction such a step. His duty is to teach and to instruct, to point out religious duty, to persuade his congregation to be zealous in discharge of it; but not to make them a present of an essay which they may publish with a profit.-Law Magazine. London: Published by JAMES BURNS, 17, Portman Street, Portman Square; W. EDWARDS, 12, Ave-Maria Lane, St. Paul's; and to be procured, by order, of all Booksellers in Town and Country. PRINTED BY JOSEPH ROGERSON, 24, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND, LONDON. OF Ecclesiastical Intelligence. JANUARY, 1842. Ordinations. Of Cambridge.-J. Bell, M.A., Clare; T. k. Birks, M.A., Trin.; F. C. A. Clifford, B.A., Trin.; T. Clarkson, M.A., St. John's; M. Cowie, B.A., St. John's; G. Currey, M.A., St. John's; A. J. B. Hanmer, B.A., St. John's; W. S. Parish, M.A.. St. Pet.; J. Woolley, B.A., St. John's; W. Young, B.A., King's. DEACONS. Of Cambridge.-J. A. Coombe, B.A., St. John's; W. H. Guillemard, M.A., Pemb.; H. L. Guillebund, B.A., Trin.; G. Halls, B.A.. Queens'; F. Jackson, B.A., St. John's; W. Keane, B.A., Emman.; N. M. Manley, M.A., St. John's; T. C. Peake, B.A., Sid., Sugs. Lit.-W. Harries (lett, dim. bp. of Llandaf; H. King, B.A., Jesus, (lett. dim. bp. of Ripon). By BP. of WINCHESTER, at Farnham Dec. 12. Queen's; J. Compton, B.A., Mert.; W. H. Cope, Magd. H.; G. De Carteret Guille, B.A Edm. H.; J. Durell, B.A., St. Mary H.; C. 3. Grueber, B.A., Magd. H.; G. Hadow, B.A., Ball.; T. G. Hatchard, B.A., Bras.; J. Hawksley, BA, Eam. H.; C. D. Kobbel M.A., Univ.; W. H. Le Marchant, M.A., Exet. Of Cambridge.-P. Fisher, B.A., Mag.. S. S. Gower, B.A., St. John's; C. Heath M.A., Jesus. DEACONS. Of Oxford. S. Clarke, B.A., St. John's R. Cooper, Wad., (lett. dim. bp. Salisbury) T. Coulthard, B.A., Queen's; J. H. Janvin, BA., Oriel; J. Meyrick, M.A., Queen's; H. E. Pettiman, B.A., Trin.; J. C. Ryle, B.A., Ch. Ch. Of Cambridge.-C. H. G. Butson, B.A., Mag.; R. C. Hales, B.A., Mag.; H. I Molesworth, B.A., St. John's (by lett. dim. bp. Exeter); E. T. Smith, B.A., St. John's; G. E. Tate, B.A., St. John's. Abbot, P., mast. Clitheroe sch. Anderson, P., E. I. chap., Bombay. Chaplains lord lieutenant of Ireland:- Worc.... vost of Trin. coll.; hon. R. W. H. Maude, W. Wall, D.D.; J. H. Singer, D.D.; R. 147 Walpole, T.... Parish County. Pop. (St. John's chap., Southwark.... Middle Chinnock (R.), Som. Matthew's, .... 216 T.C. Croome, 248 1042 1187 St. John-in-Bed Wood, J. R... wardine (V.), res, R. B., preb. Tarmonbarry, dioc. Elphin. Bates, G. F. vic. South Mims, Midds. (pat. rev. P. Hammond), and vic. West Malling, Kent (pat. T. A Douce, esq.), 67. Birmingham, R, preb. Mora, co. Tipperary (pat. bp. Lismore). Bowstead, J., D.D., rec. Musgrave, West- Purdett, J., vic. Reynagh and Gallen, Cleeve, J. K., D.D., rec. St. George, Exeter Clergymen deceased. Creswell, F., rec. Great Waldingfield, Suf- Evans, G., vic. Potters Pusey, Northampt. Eyre, W., abp. Tennison's libr., St. Mar- Hackett, T., vic. Ballysumaghan, dioc. El- Hamer, H., rec. Pointington, Som. (pat. Id. Irwin, T., p. e. Hackness and Harwooddale, Yorks. (pat. sir J. B. Johnston, bt.) Langton, G. T., rec. Barton, Norfolk (pat. Id. chanc.); vic. of Kempton, Norfolk (pat. earl Leicester). Lee, L. C., late rec. Wootton, Oxfordshire. Richardson, F., at Iron Acton, Glouc. 46. Class I.-Chase, D. P., Oriel; Hutchins, W. T., Worc.; Prichard, C. E., Ball.; Rawstorne, W. E., Ch. Ch Class II.-Ashworth, P. S., St. Alban H.; Beswick, C., St. John's; Blackett, J. F. B., Ch. Ch. ; Brine, J. G., St. John's; Butler, P., Ch. Ch; Harrison, C. R., All Souls; Hayter, G. G., Oriel; Langhorne, C. H., Exet.; Lea, W., Brasenose; Mac Lachlan, A. N C., Exet Marshall, J., Ch. Ch.; Mountain, J. G., Mert; Pocock, I. J. J, Mert; Prat, R., Mert.; Sumner, R., Ball.; Webster, A. R., St. Mary; Webster, M, Linc. Class III.-Carden, L., Univ.; Crowder, J. H, Mert.; Jones, T., Magd.; Lempriere, C., St. John's; Macintosh, J., Ch. Ch. : Phillimore, G., Ch. Ch.; Soper, J., Magd. H.; Townsend, J., Oriel; Class IV.-Belcher, B., Wad.; Chapman, E. J., Wad; Collier, IN DISCIPLINIS MATHEMATICIS ET PHYSICIS. Class III.-Brine, J. G., St. John's; Lempriere, C., St. John's; CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 27.-The Greek professor has given notice that the subject of hi- next course of lectures will be "The Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar." The lectures will be given in the upper room of the south east division of the Pitt Press, and will commence on Tu sday, the 8th day of February next, at one o'clock; to be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during term. The regius professor of Hebrew has given notice, that he intends to commence a course of lectures on the "Proverbs of Solomon," on Monday the 14th of February next, in the upper lecture room of the Pitt Press Printing-office, at 12 o'clock. Gonville and Caius Queens' Catharine hall ......... Magdalene The following is a correct statement of the number of resident members of the several colleges of the university, according to the latest returns: St. Peter's college 1841. 1840. TH St. John's 629 292 Biocesan Intelligence.—England and Ireland. LICHFIELD. Monument of the late bishop Ryder.-The monument to the memory of the lamented bishop Ryder has been finally placed in the cathedral at Lichfield. The rev. prelate is represented in the attitude of devotion, with his knees supported on a fauldstool, and his hands gently inclined forwards, as in prayer. The likeness, it is said, though not a striking one, owing to the want of an accurate portrait to work from, will be readily recognized by those who were in habits of intimacy with his lordship. The pedestal bears the following inscription :To the memory of The hon. and right reverend HENRY RYDER, D.D., lished church, accommodates about 800. With a view to provide a remedy for this lamentable deficiency of church room, either by the erection of an additional church in the lower part of the district, or by rebuilding the present incommodious chapel upon a much larger scale, the inhabitants have formed a committee, and commenced a subscription under the title of the" Kentish Town Church Extension Fund," which has already reached upwards of 11001. The rev. Johnson Grant, many years minister of the district, has contributed 1001., C. Finch, esq., 2001. and a painted window, T. Gardiner, esq. 100l., P. Hurd, esq. 521. 10s., Mrs. Browell 50l., S. Bull, esq. 504., C. Shearman, esq. 501., &c. &c. New Church proposed to be built and endowed at Successively bishop of Gloucester, and of Lichfield and Brookfield, Kentish Town.-Upon the estate of Brook Coventry, This monument is erected, In testimony of affectionate respect, By many who revered and loved him. field, the greater part of which is in the hamlet of Kentish Town, and the remainder in the adjoining chapelry of Highgate, it is intended (in addition to the above proposal), with the approbation of the lord bishop of London, His unsparing self-devotion to the duties of his high to build, in the best possible manner, of stone and oak, a office, His unaffected humility, His Christian simplicity, his expansive charity, His fervent and cheerful piety, Endeared him to his friends, and conciliated universal regard. Constrained by the love of Christ, He strove to extend the means church in the early Euglish style, without galleries, for 500 persons: the windows of the chancel are to be enriched with stained glass; there is to be an open roof of oak; the whole of the sittings, for rich and poor, are to be exactly similar-open stalls of oak; one-third of the sittings are to be for ever free for the poor; each free sitting is to be assigned to some poor person; and a fund is to be provided for the maintenance and repairs of the fabric. Of worshipping and serving him, both at home and It is not intended to apply to the church commissioners, abroad; And to diffuse the light of his gospel As a preacher, affectionate, faithful, earnest, As a bishop, paternal, vigilant, apt to teach, Mild and forbearing, yet, when duty called, inflexible; In his daily walk and conversation, or to any church building society, for a grant to Brookfield church. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chester, the proprietors of the estate, will give the site for the church, and will endow it with freehold ground rents, producing 801. a year for 99 years; and about 500l. a year, when the leases fall in at the expiration of that period. Mr. and Miss Barnett, residents in the immediate neighbourhood, will contribute 2000l. towards the building, provided that the whole requisite amount, which is estimated at 50007. more, be raised within three months; and the rev. Thomas A bright example to the flock over which the Holy Ghost Randolph, prebendary and lord of the manor of Cant had made him overseer. In meek reliance on the grace and intercession of the Redeemer, He lived, he laboured, he died; Entering into his rest, lowes, has offered to enfranchise the sites gratuitously. Upon the consecration of the church a district will be assigned to it, taken chiefly from Kentish Town, and partly from Highgate: to this arrangement the vicar of St. Pancras, the minister of Kentish Town, and the in In the fifty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-first of cumbent of St. Michael's church at Highgate, have signi his episcopate, March 31, MDCCCXXXVI., At Hastings, Where his mortal remains are deposited. LINCOLN. Nottinghamshire.-An order in council has been issued, constituting the vicarage of Southwell, in the county of Nottingham and diocese of Lincoln, a rectory, providing for the annual payment to the rector of 3001. by the ecclesiastical commissioners, and ordering that the rector shall employ at the least one curate. LONDON. Church Extension in Kentish Town, St. Pancras.The population of Kentish Town is upwards of 10,000; while the only place of worship belonging to the estab fied their assent. The patronage is to be vested in Mr. and Miss Barnett, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chester, jointly during their lives, and the lives of the survivors and survivor; and after the death of the survivor, is to become In addition vested for ever in the bishop of the diocese. to the endowment, as above stated, Mr. Chester proposes to give by instalment the sum of 1000l., and to devote all the proceeds of the adjacent property to the church, till all church, vestry-room, parsonages, and schools, are of time, whereas the former retains all its pristine | the discharge of a just demand, and your example was grandeur and magnificence; nor has the band of inoderu art attempted to trespass upon its ancient tracery. This abbey was founded by Offad, king of the Mercians, somewhere between the years 900 and 1000 of the Christian era, and was dedicated to St. Alban, the proto-martyr of this island. In the northern wing may be seen a black slab, let into the flag-stone flooring, which is the only one to be noticed throughout the whole building. Immediately over this slab, introduced into an oaken ceiling, beautifully fretted, is an old monkish painting upon a large scale, representing the martyrdom of St. Alban. The saint is represented as having just undergone the operation of decollation, whilst the blood is flowing copiously from his neck. Within the last few years, whilst some workmen were repairing the roof of the long aisle, they unmasked, under a thick and hard coating of mortar, a most beautiful painted canopy, richly gilt, which had remained concealed from the eye for some centuries. In sufficient to raise an amount to pay a very large obligation, without litigation, and without placing unnecessary burdens upon the poorer parishioners. Your whole course amongst us has been one of disinterestedness and self-sacritice. Bitter would be our reproach if you had quitted us without some attempt on our part to say how we appreciate these qualities, rarer than talents or learning, but associated with them, constituting that character whose immediate effects may be best traced in the welfare of a parish, but which extends its influence, directly or indirectly, over the whole human race. The contrast between the duties which are presented to you in the future, and those of the past, is most remarkabie. You quit the office of curate in a place over which, for centuries, the standard of the monarchy of England has waved, to become the bishop of the last-founded of England's colonies. But the power of European industry is now planted amongst the natives of those distant islands, and the church sends forth her ministers to direct and sauctify the material knowledge of civilized life, to blend these poor tribes with those who have settled amongst them, and to raise up a mighty nation in a distant ocean. May we not, without an improper pride, anticipate that when churches rise up in every valley in New Zealand, and congregations from many a scattered parish crowd round some future bishop, they may gather in their first cathedral, and, pointing to the humble offering of the good wishes of some who had known their first spiritual head in their father-land, connect our small tribute with your name, and learn that the same Christian virtues which have commanded the respect of the few may become the Presentation of a service of Communion Plate to the bishop of New Zealand.-Windsor, Wednesday.-This means of happiness, temporal and eternal, to powerafternoon a very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of ful communities, whose best blessing will be that Windsor, and the gentry and clergy of the neighbour- the language, the arts, and the religion of England. they have received, through you, and such as you, hood, was held at the town-hall, for the purpose of a service of communion plate, purchased by subscription, In conclusion, may we not, without presumption, add our being presented to the right rev. Dr. Selwyn, the bishop been in part fulfilled, you may be restored to the church earnest prayers that when your holy mission shall have of New Zealand. The plate bears the following inscrip-in England, and exercise in your native land those apostion:-"Presented to the right rev. father in God, George tolic functions which you now go forth in the spirit of Augustus, first bishop of New Zealand, by the inhabitants obedience and self-sacrifice to perform." of the borough of New Windsor, Berkshire, England, as a mark of their high esteem, regard, and gratitude. A.D. 1841. John Banister, Mayor." a vault behind the altar was, about half a century ago, by mere accident, discovered a stone coffin, which was found to contain the remains of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester. The site of the abbot's dwelling, and of the domiciles of the monks, is now occupied by the abbey grammar school. It was formerly a chapel, called queen Mary's chapel, but queen Elizabeth endowed it as a public school. Both the rev. Dr. Aubrey Spencer, the bp. of Newfoundland, and the rev. Dr. George Spencer, his brother, the present bishop of Madras, were educated at this school.-Morning paper. OXFORD. J. BANISTER, esq., the late mayor, rose and expressed the high gratification he experienced at the great honour which devolved upon him as chairman of the committee for carrying out the wishes of the inhabitants, who had subscribed to purchase a communion service to be presented to their late curate, the bishop of New Zealand. Mr. Banister then read the following address, to which was attached between 700 and 800 signatures : "To the right rev. father in God, George Augustus Selwyn, D.D., bishop of New Zealand.-The inhabitants of the parish and borough of New Windsor respectfully desire to accompany the presentation to you, as the first bishop of New Zealand, of the vessels destined for the service of the altar in the first cathedral of that English colony, with a brief expression of their gratitude for the inestimable benefits you have conferred upon them during the too short a period in which you have performed the duties of the curacy of New Windsor. This testimonial can very imperfectly express either the amount of our obligations, or the deep anxiety we feel not to be held as regarding them as the ordinary result of the relations in which we have been mutually placed. That your piety, your love, your benevolence, extending amongst whom your duties called you, are the proper attributes of the Christian minister and the best ornaments of the English church, we acknowledge with a due consciousness of the blessing which belong to our country and our times; but you have added to these demands upon our affectionate remembrance personal qualities which are rarely xercised with such advantages. You came amongst us, few years ago, a stranger. We had no claims upon r extraordinary exertions. You devoted yourself to task, not only of our spiritual improvement, but of tting our condition in every particular that came the sphere of your duty. You found our parochial ucumbered with debt. You contributed the ments of your curacy for two years towards At the conclusion of the reading of the address, The BISHOP of NEW ZEALAND rose, evidently much affected, and addressed the meeting: I am come here to-day," said the right rev. Dr. Selwyn, "quite unpre pared with any lengthened and laboured offering of tion, trusting that God will enable me to express to thanks for this mark of your kindness and attenyou, at this moment, all that my heart would dictate. Should I, however, be unable to express to you what I feel in my heart, upon this occasion, for your great kindI am personally known, will know that if I am now preness towards me, those friends who are present, to whom vented from giving utterance to my sentiments as I could wish, it is to be attributed to the depth of the feelings which I experience. The occurrences of the last few days have been to me full of import, and I find great difficulty in responding to the marks of respect I have lately met with. I feel that my tongue is almost tied when I attempt to offer you my thanks. The offering which you have this day made to me shall be dedicated, with all holiness, to the service of God in a foreign land. I wish most distinctly to state, that this is that description fering of that kind which can only be made by a Chrisof offering which goes nearest to my heart. It is an oftian people to a Christian minister; I therefore accept of it with the greatest Christian thankfulness. It reminds meet and sit down together at the supper of the Lamb. I me that, when this earth is swallowed up, we shall again pray you to accept from me my heartfelt thankfulness for the many thousand acts of kindness with which I have been blessed during my intercourse with you. May I ask, as a closing favour, to bestow upon you, for the last time, that blessing which I can now give more officially than formerly." The bishop then pronounced the benediction, and the meeting shortly afterwards broke up. RIPON. Within the last our years and a half, forty new churches and chapels have been completed in this dio |