thing as religion in general.—In Europe, and in our days, religion means Christianity. Let our popular schools then be Christian; let them be so entirely and earnestly.'

And we cordially agree with this enlightened Frenchman, let our popular schools be Christian, not in name only, but in reality and very deed, and which can only be so "entirely and earnestly" in connection with the Church of Christ happily established in England. Christ left the care and teaching of the lambs of his flock, as a sacred legacy, to those who represent his person, to continue that endearing condescension with which he embraced and blessed little children. His solemn com. mand to St. Peter,-feed my lambs, feed my sheep,-might perhaps be intended to intimate to the Church, that the care of her ministers should be extended to the rising generation, as well as to those of more mature K. C.

years.

Sacred Poetry from the Elder Writers.

PRAYER.

BY GEORGE HERBERT.

Or what an easy quick access,
My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly
May our requests thine ear invade!

To show that state dislikes not easiness.
If I but lift mine eyes, my suit is made:
Thou canst no more not hear, than thou canst die.

Of what supreme almighty power

Is thy great arm, which spans the east and west,
And tacks the centre to the sphere!
By it do all things live their measur'd hour:
We cannot ask the thing which is not there,
Blaming the shallowness of our request.

Of what unmeasurable love

Art thou possess'd, who, when thou could'st not die,
Wert fain to take our flesh and curse,

And for our sakes in person sin reprove!
That by destroying that which tied thy purse,
Thou might'st make way for liberality.

Since then these three wait on thy throne,
Ease, Power, and Love; I value prayer so,
That, were I to leave all but one,

Wealth, fame, endowments, virtues, all should go :
I, and dear prayer, would together dwell,

And quickly gain, for each inch lost, an ell.

Review.

Short and Familiar Lectures on the Lord's Prayer, for the Use of Little Children. By a Lady. Edited by the REV. J. EDWARDS, M. A., King's College, London. John W. Parker, West Strand.

THIS is a very useful little book, well suited to answer the purpose for which it is intended. It is evidently written by one who is familiar with the ways and wants of children; the preface, indeed, tells us that it was written in the first instance, merely for the benefit of the author's own children." Mrs. Hannah More, in her " Spirit of Prayer," has the credit of originating these "familiar lectures." "An intelligent mother," she says, "will seize the first occasion which the child's opening understanding will allow for making a little course of lectures on the Lord's Prayer, taking every division or short sentence separately; for each furnishes valuable materials for a distinct lecture." This excellent suggestion is very successfully acted on in the little work before us. We shall quote Lecture I. entire, as a specimen of the author's manner of treating this important subject:

"The term 'Father' is one of endearing love. You all love your earthly parentsyour father and mother: when they have been away, you are delighted to see them come home again, and to hear their kind voices speaking to you; you fly to them for advice and comfort, when you are frightened or in trouble, and feel that you are safer under their protecting care than with anybody in the world besides; you know it is your duty to obey them, and to do whatever they bid you, whether they see you or not; and I am sure you are all sorry, if you are naughty and grieve them; you ought, too, to be thankful for the anxious care they take of you, for the warm clothes and wholesome food they give you, and for the pains they take that you should be taught your duty to God, and the way to be good. You also very well know the pain it gives them to see you naughty and to be obliged to punish you.

"When you want them to do anything for you, to give you a new book, or a toy, or to take you to see some pretty sight, you run to your father or mother without fear, or doubt, and beg and entreat them to grant your request; and, if they do not seem to hear or attend to you, you never get tired of waiting and asking, but go on begging and entreating until they do listen.

"And these are exactly the feelings you ought to have towards God, who is Your Father in heaven.' He is just as ready to hear the prayers of those who love him, and ask in earnest, as your earthly parents are to hear your petitions. Ought you not then to love God? For he it is who gives you those earthly parents you so much love, and enables them to provide you with clothes and food, and all the good things you enjoy, and to make you so comfortable and happy.

"It is God who gives you the wish to please them, and the desire to be good-it is He who gives you ears to hear, minds to understand, and memory to remember what you are taught; and, above all, He it is who has given you his only beloved Son to die for you, and save you from the effects of sin; and, feeling that you owe so much to God, ought you not, my dear children, to 'love him with all your heart, and all your mind, and all your soul, and all your strength,' and to try earnestly to obey Him and

to do his will.

"The Bible tells you He is your best friend, and it bids you in your prayers confess to him through Christ, all your sins and all your sorrows; to ask Him to forgive you when you are naughty, and to thank him for helping you when you are good. And all this you must do with as much earnestness, as if you were asking your parents for something you wanted from them; and God will see into your hearts; and if you really ask in sincerity and truth, and it be good for you, He will grant your prayer: because He, the God of all things, both in heaven and earth is your Father in Heaven' and loves and cares for all his children."

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD. In a very full Convocation holden on January 31, the following Petition was unanimously adopted :·

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.

"The humble petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford. Showeth.-That the Church of England has been the instrument, under Divine Providence, of countless blessings to the people of this country. That it be longs to the very essence of a national church, that her spiritual ministrations should be co-extensive with the spiritual wants of the whole community, offered freely to all, though not enforced upon any. That it is at present notorious, and has been admitted in public and authentic documents, that the population of England and Wales having of late increased with a vast and unwonted rapidity, has outgrown the resources of the National Church and a large proportion of the people are altogether excluded, without their consent or fault, from her public worship, religious instruction, and pastoral superintendence. That this spiritual destitution, which is ever least regarded by those to whom it is most pernicious, has chiefly befallen districts the least capable, even if they felt the want, of supplying the remedy. That its immediate consequences, not to advert to future and higher interests, are ignorance, vice, and disunion; and the partial and inadequate, however laudable, endeavours of other religious communities to supply the deficiencies of the Established Church, even while they restrain demoralization, tend to multiply our unhappy divisions. That the only effectual, remedy for these evils is the extension of the National Church, and nothing has hitherto been accomplished in order to this great end in any degree commensurate with its magnitude and importance. That your petitioners do not overlook the benevolent exertions of individuals and societies, who have laboured, even beyond their means, to supply the national want; and they are deeply grateful to the Legislature, and to your Honourable House, for the encouragement and facilities extended to these endeavours, and more especially for that enlightened policy which dictated the acts for building and enlarging churches, and for the liberal grants in furtherance of these objects in the sessions of 1818 and 1823. But these supplies, admitted at the time to be inadequate to the occasion, have been exhausted. Private munificence and the public bounty have only palliated the evil, and the spiritual destitution of the country, notwithstanding these exertions, has increased and is still increasing. That this deficiency of religious ordinances and instruction is a national evil; and it ill becomes a great and wealthy people to rest for the supply of a national want either upon private liberality, or upon the voluntary efforts of those poorer districts in which the want especially prevails. That by no altered management or distribution can the remaining resources of the National Church,—a great proportion of whose original endowments have been long since diverted by the State into other channels,-be rendered sufficient to meet the growing evil. The nation alone can counteract it permanently and effectually. Di. vine Providence has intrusted the nation with unexampled resources; and your peti tioners believe that it is the duty of Government and the Legislature to direct them to this end; and the people at large, they do not doubt, will rejoice to see a portion of the national wealth devoted to the honour of Him who gave it, and employed in relieving the spiritual necessities of those by whose industry it has been developed. Your petitioners, therefore, with the utmost earnestness, implore your Honourable House to take the spiritual destitution of England and Wales into your most serious consideration, and to meet this great and acknowledged evil by such prompt and effective measures as to your wisdom shall seem most expedient, in order to arrest the progress of demoralization, prevent the increase and perpetuation of disunion, provide for the best interests of the community, civil, moral, and religious, and draw down upon a Christian people the blessing of Almighty God. And your petitioners will ever pray." CAMBRIDGE. The following will be the Subjects of Examination in the last week of the Lent Term, 1841 : —1, The Gospel of St. Mark; 2, Paley's Evidences; 3, The First Book of Herodotus; 4, Cicero de Senectute.

The Rev. John Brown, M.A., of Aberdeen, has placed at the disposal of the President and Fellows of Queen's coll. in this University, a prize of ten guineas to be

awarded to such member of that society, (who is not of sufficient standing for the degree of Master of Arts), as shall write the best English poem on the subject of the marriage of her most gracious Majesty. The poems are to be sent privately to the President's Lodge on or before the last day of the present term.

ORDINATIONS.

At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, at the Cathedral, Norwich, on Sunday, the 5th inst., the following gentlemen were ordained: — Deacons. E. Curtis, B.A., Magd. hall, Oxford; J. Mansfield, B.A., Trin. coll., Oxford; J. H. Spry, B.A., Jesus coll., Oxford; G. H. Bidwell, B.A., Clare hall, Cambridge; J. Fountaine, B.A., Emm. coll., Cambridge; D. Gillett, B.A., Magd. coll., Cambridge; J. Grisdale, B.A., Emm. coll., Cambridge; J. H. Payne, B.A., Gonville and Caius coll., Cambridge; F. C. P. Reynolds, B.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge; R. B. Scholefield, B.A., Trin. coll., Cambridge; R. B. Slipper, B.A., C. C. coll., Cambridge; M. J. Rackham, B.A., Student of St. Bees. Priests.-E. Graves, B.A., Worcester coll., Oxford; R. H. Gwyn, B.A., Exeter coll., Oxford; R. G. Lucas, B.A., Univ. coll., Oxford; C. W. Bewsher, B.A., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; H. J. Ellison, M.A., Trin. coll., Cambridge; J. Freeman, B.A., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; A. Gilbert, B.A., Emm. coll., Cambridge; T. R. Grigg, B.A., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; F. G. Goodwin, B.A., C. C coll., Cambridge; J. B. Meadows, C. C. coll., Cambridge; N. J. Raven, B.A., Queen's coll., Cambridge. At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, on Sunday the 19th instant, the following gentlemen were admitted to Holy Orders :-Deacons.-W. J. Bennett, B.A., St. Edmund's hall, Oxford; G. T. Hyatt, Wadham coll., Oxford; S. F. Marshall, B.A., Wadham coll.; Oxford; T. W. West, B.A., Magd. hall., Oxford; E. Forbes, B.A., Trin. coll., Dublin. Priests.-D. R. Godfrey, M.A., late Michel Fellow of Queen's coll., Oxford; G. Roberts, B.A., Magd. hall., Oxford; G. A. Rogers, B.A., Trin. coll., Cambridge. At an Ordination at the Cathedral, Chichester, on Sunday the 5th inst., the following gentlemen were admitted to Holy Orders by the Lord Bishop :Deacons.-G. How, Magd. hall., Oxford; A. Anstey, B.A., Worcester coll., Oxford; J. H. Theed, B.A., Sid. Sus. coll., Cambridge; G. K. Fennell, Literate. Priests.-J. D. Macfarlane, B.A., St. Edmund hall, Oxford; E. S. Lewis, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford; E. B. Ellman, Wadham coll., Oxford; R. Blakiston, B.A., Queen's coll., Oxford; B. Addison, B.A., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; G. A. Clarkson, B.A., Jesus coll., Cambridge; F. J. Durbin, B.A., Trin. coll., Cambridge; H. Cogan, B.A., St. John's coll., Cambridge. On Sunday, January 5th, the following gentlemen were admitted into Holy Orders in the Cathedral Church of Ripon, by the Lord Bishop of Ripon ;-Deacons.-T. D. Wintle, M.A., Scholar of Pemb. coll., Oxford; G. W. Brameld, B.A., Lin. coll., Oxford; J. H. Micklethwaith, B.A., Trin. coll., Cambridge; J. O. Routh, B.A., Christ coll., Cambridge; S. Sowden, B.A., Magd, coll., Cambridge; T. G. Graves, B.A., Trin. coll., Dublin; A. L. W. Bean, B.A., Pemb. coll., Oxford; St. John Mitchell, B.A., St. Edmund hall, Oxford, lett. dim. from the Abp. of York. Priests.-J. L. Simcox, B.A., Wadham coll., Oxford; J. Topham, B.A., Worcester coll., Oxford; J. T. Darby, B.A., St. John's coll., Oxford; J. R. Quarmby, B.A., Lin. coll., Oxford; W. Thomson, B.A., Jesus coll., Cambridge; E. S. Murphy, B.A., Trin. coll., Dublin; H. Evans, Licentiate of Durham; J. H. F. Kendall, St. Bees; J. H. Abbott, St. Bees; W. Lamb, St. Bees; J. Collins, A.M., Trin. coll., Dublin. Candidates ordained by the Lord Bishop of Hereford, in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, on Sunday the 26th day of January, 1840:-Deacons. H. G. Coope, B.A., Christ Church, Oxford; H. Downing, B.A., Trinity coll., Oxford; N. A. Garland, B.A., Christ Church, Oxford; T. J. Lingwood, B.A., Christ coll., Cambridge; R. Phelps, M.A., Fellow of Sidney coll., Cambridge; J. D. Matthias, B.A., Brasenose coll., Oxford; M. Anstis, B.A., Exeter coll. ; Oxford, by lett. dim. from the Bp. of Exeter; T. Atkinson, B.A., Lin. coll., Oxford; H. Stamer, B.A., Trin. coll., Dublin, by lett. dim. from the Bp. of Ripon. Priests. -T. J. Hogg, B.A., C. C. coll., Cambridge; J. H. Mapleton, B.A., Worcester coll., Oxford; H. B. Mason, B.A., Fellow of Christ coll., Cambridge; W. Newton, B. A., Balliol coll., Oxford; W. Nevins; W. Taylor, B.A., All Souls coll., Oxford. On Monday, the 21st ult., being St. Thomas's Day, an Ordination was held in St. Andrew's Chapel, Aberdeen, by the Right Rev. Bishop Skinner, D.D., when Mr. William Christie, M.A., of King's College, after passing a strict examination by the

Rev. P. Cheyne and the Rev. Wm. Browning, was promoted to the order of Deacon. He was thereafter appointed by the Bishop to proceed to Arradoul, to supply the vacancy in the congregation there.

PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. A. Arnold, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Langho, Blackburn.-The Duke of Argyle has appointed the Rev. C. Bannatyne, M.A., to be one of his Grace's Domestic Chaplains. Rev. W. Brewster, to the Perpetual Curacy of Widdrington, Northumberland. Rev. C. Brigham, to the Incumbency of Dodding Green, near Kendal.-Rev. W. R. Browne, M.A., to the Chaplaincy, of the Knutsford House of Correction.-Rev. T. T. Cuffee, has been appointed Minister of Carlisle Chapel, parish of St. Mary, Lambeth.-The Duke of Buccleugh has appointed the Rev. W. Darnell, B.A., to be one of his Grace's Domestic Chaplains. Rev. Joseph Dovell, M.A., to the Rectory of Martinhoe, Devon. Rev. Wm. Dusautoy, to be Curate of Frome Selwood, Somersetshire.-Rev. J. W. Geldart, LL.D., to the Rectory of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire.-Rev. W. Gurney, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Lightcliffe.-Rev. J. Hassell, M.A., of Trin. coll., Cambridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the Earl of Sefton.-Rev. A. Hewlett, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Clunbury, Salop.-Rev. A. W. Langton, M.A., to the Rectory of Little Fransham, Norfolk. -Rev. G. Lea, M.A., to Christ Church, Birmingham, with the Prebendal Stall of Lichfield, annexed.- Rev. E. S. Lewis, M.A., to the Rectory of Southease, Sussex.Rev. J. T. Maine, M.A., to the Rectory of Brinkhill, Lincolnshire.-Rev. W. N. T. Marsh, B.A., to the Episcopal Chapel of St. Mary, Leamington.-Rev. G. Martin, to the Rectory of St. Pancras, Exeter.-Rev. T. Maurice, M.A., to the Rectory of Harnhill, Gloucestershire.-Rev. C. Mayne, to a part of the Union of Newport, Ireland.Rev. J. Mayor, Rector of South Collingham, and the Rev. H. R. Harrison, Rector of Alston, are appointed Rural Deans for the Deanery of Newark. - Rev. J. M'Cheane. to the Union of Kilmaganny. To the remaining portion of this Union the Rev. S. C. Foot has been promoted.-Rev. H. I. Nicholson, to the Vicarage of Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire.--Rev. R. Pearce, M.A., was unanimously elected to the office of Custos in the College of Vicars of Hereford Cathedral.-Rev. R. B. Perkins, to the Mastership of the Scholar's House, Wootten Underbridge, Gloucestershire. — Rev. M. Phayre, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Threadwood, Flintshire.-Rev. P. Plucknett, M.A., to the Rectory of Horsted Keymes, Sussex.-Rev. J. H. Pooley, as Rural Dean in the Deanery of Corringham, Leicester.-Rev. A. B. Power, M.A., to be Clerical Principal of the Norwich Diocesan Training Institution. - Rev. J. H. Randolph, Rector of Mistley, and Vicar of Bradfield, Essex, to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of Tendring. Rev. J. Rawes, B.A., to be a Minor Canon in the Cathedral Church of Bristol.- Rev. J. Roberts, to the Rectory of Templeton, Devon.-Rev. J. Rose, to the Perpetual Curacy of Dowland, Devonshire.-Rev. W. Shaw, to the chaplaincy of the Langport Union Workhouse.-Rev. E. Shuttleworth, to the Perpetual Curacy of Penzance.-Rev. J. Singleton, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of the Union House at Linton.-Rev. T. Stoneham, M.A., to the Living of Ketley, Shropshire.-Rev. F. Studdert, to the Vicarage of Clonlea.-Rev. W. Tucker, to the Living of St. Pancras, Exeter. Rev. G. N. Turner, M.A., to the Rectory of Kettleborough, St. Andrew, Suffolk. Rev. F. E. Tuson, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Huntingdon.Rev. W. C. Twiss, M.A., to the Vicarage of Eyeworth, Bedfordshire.-Rev. P. J. Watherstone, M.A., to the Vicarage of Charlton Horethorn, Somerset.-Rev. C. K. Williams, M.A., has been appointed by the Diocesan Board of Education one of the Inspectors of Schools in the Diocess of Exeter.-Rev. J. Williams, M.A., to the Living of Trinity Church, Sheerness.-Rev. T. Woodward, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Oranmore.-Rev. J. Wrey, to the Rectory of Combinteign head, Devon.-Rev. H. W. Wright, to be Chaplain of the Northern Asylum of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb, at Newcastle.-Rev. Mr. Wrightson, to the Vicarage of Hemsworth, Yorkshire. - Rev. W. J. Yonge, Rector of Brockborne, Hants, to be Rural Dean of the Western Division of Fordingbridge Deanery.

DEATHS.

Dec. 5, Rev. J. Nurse, B.A., Curate of Bridgtown, Barbadoes, aged 31.-Dec. 28, Rev. J. Hutchins, M.A., Rector of the parishes of St. Anne and Agnes, with St. John Zachary, Aldersgate, London.-Dec. 30, aged 51, the Rev. W. Pattinson. He had