vated upon by lawyers anxious to draw all fish into their own net. Their method is to claim all interpretation to themselves. For a long time they ruled supreme over the temporalty in trials for treason and libel, by claiming as judges to decide on the law, leaving the fact only to the jury. They have since established in the House of Lords a power as law-lords in cases of appeal which the whole peerage would resist in an impeachment. The Judicial Committee is a device of the same nature to oust the sovereign of the jurisdiction previously vested in the " King in Chancery," and the "King in Council." Those tribunals were confessedly inadequate, but there was no more reason (except on the principle of "nothing like leather ") to replace them by lawyers than by divines. The Royal Supremacy would have been preserved in the one case as well as in the other. The judgment was in any case the Crown's the question was how to provide the Crown with the most competent advisers. On many points this duty would be best discharged by lawyers, on some it can only be properly done by divines. This is admitted by the lawyers themselves. Lord Brougham tells the House of Lords that, "in some cases, he required the aid of a spiritual body in forming his judgment.' Yet in the confession he betrays the animus we have to contend with. It must still be his judgment, not the Crown's, nor the Church's, but the lawyers'. Their incompetency to form one is well exposed by the late Bishop of London :

"There are many grave questions in Theology, and those the most likely to come under the consideration of the Judicial Committee, which scarcely ever engage the attention of the laity, especially of those whose time is otherwise taken up, and whose profession necessarily leads their minds to other subjects. It is easy to conceive a case submitted to the decision of the Court in which the subjectmatters would be altogether new to the members, and very hardly to be understood by them in the absence of previous study and thought. The terminology itself might be puzzling, and they might hardly comprehend the exact meaning of such expressions as, to persons versed in Theology, would appear the mere alphabet of the science. It must be said that, under such circumstances, the members of the Court would be quite incompetent to decide satisfactorily questions involving, perhaps, in their consequences the peace and unity of the Church, when all their previous studies had lain in an entirely different direction, and when their minds had been prepared by the habitual consideration of such matters to take an exact and comprehensive view of the case before them in all its bearings."-Pp. 101, 102.) Mr. Joyce adds a proper protest against judicial cram :"No opinion of any value can be formed by running to text-books, or turning out a word in an index, and referring to isolated passages bearing on the matter. Some of our most renowned text-books mislead most grossly, and a cursory application to a new subject does not qualify any one for forming a correct judgment."—(P. 103).

The moment, however, that it is proposed to refer a doctrinal point to any portion of the spiritualty, the cry is raised that the Royal Supremacy is in danger. Strange that the Royal Supremacy should be endangered by the very course on which it was expressly based in the Statute of Henry VIII! Strange that the Crown should be supreme when advised by lawyers, and not supreme when advised by divines! Here, however, the lawyers are supported by the whole force of Whig statecraft. The Whigs, in spite of their Protestant pretences, have no conception of any priesthood but a Popish one. It is nothing that the clergy are under the Crown-restrained by lawpatriotic in their sentiments-pledged more than any other persons whatsoever to sustain the Royal Supremacy. For a Churchman "to do the work that is proper to him," (to use the language of the Restoration,) is in the eyes of a Whig to subordinate the State to the Church. Clerical disfranchisement and State oppression are their only expedients for upholding the union.

Another fallacy is the cuckoo cry that the Court is one of construction, not of legislation; it cannot alter the standards of the Church, but only explains them. But if construction is harmless in the hands of the lawyers, who do not understand the documents, why should it be dangerous in the spiritualty, who do? Of the two, is it not obvious there must be more peril of altering the law by an unskilful exponent than by a skilful one? The truth is, as Bishop Blomfield unanswerably remarked, that the decisions of Courts of Final Appeal establish "precedents, and precedents settle or modify the law, and at last become

law themselves." To define the doctrines of the Church in the last resort is the highest exercise of the pastoral office. When Lord Brougham decides what a clergyman may or may not preach, he preaches himself far more potently than if he mounted a tub in Hyde Park. In the one case he would only exhort a single congregation: in the other he prescribes to all the pulpits of the National Church. Lord Derby disposed of this fallacy when, in answer to Lord Lansdowne's platitudes, he said that

"He should much regret if either the one tribunal or the other had the power of establishing new articles of faith; but if he were to choose which of the two should have the power to bind the Church, of which he was a humble and unworthy member, he would not hesi tate to take the power from a body who might not be members of the Church, and confer it upon those who were authoritatively set forth as the spiritual guides and instructors of the Church."-(P. 206)

In these few honest words the Chancellor of Oxford University (to whom Mr. Joyce is permitted to dedicate his work) has exhausted the question. Mr. Joyce offers a number of suggestions for giving practical effect to them; but the only one that really answers to his array of precedents and arguments is the old constitutional Court of Convocation. Bishop Blomfield's Bill of 1850 proposed to refer questions of doctrine to the Bench of Bishops; but he was immediately reminded that in England other orders have a voice in defining the doctrine of the Church. The Upper House of Convocation, referred to in the 24 Hen. VIII, contained more abbots and priors than bishops; and in the present day the Lower House enjoys a concurrent jurisdiction with the Upper on questions of heresy.

Mr. Joyce would very much clear the way for Convocation, in this and other points, if he could establish his position (p. 195), that the Canon of Windsor, A.D. 1702, enjoining the Archbishop of York to obey the Archbishop of Canterbury's summons to Council is still in force, and included in the Statute 25 Hen. VIII. c. 19. That Canon, however, was shortly after overruled by the bull of Pope Honorius (Wilk. i. 407), as contrary to the institutions of Gregory I. and, we may add, to the metropolitical authority established by the Council of Nice. All subsequent National Synods in this country were convened under the Pope's legate, as the common superior of both archbishops; and when Edward II. tried to bring the two provinces together by royal authority, and the archbishops obeyed, the clergy twice protested that they could not be cited out of their own province, and the metropolitans were obliged to return within their respective jurisdictions (Wilk. Conc. ii. 442, 547.)

This, however, is comparatively of little moment, since, after the tampering which the Constitution has undergone by legislative enactments, a new Act of Parliament would be requisite to restore the appellate jurisdiction, and in that case provision would doubtless be made for the union of the provinces. Mr. Joyce does not propose to displace the Judicial Committee; all that is needed is to withdraw the inefficient and delusive episcopal element, and provide a proper tribunal to which the Judicial Committee may refer points of doctrine. For this purpose, the two Convocations may elect a standing Committee of Appeals: Mr. Joyce suggests the two Archbishops, two Bishops of the province of Canterbury and one of York, with four Presbyters of the southern and two of the northern province. The Crown might appoint a Judge as Assessor without a vote, like the Lord Keeper in the House of Lords; and to this tribunal the Judicial Committee might refer specified questions to be certified of the Church's doctrine, much as an equity judge sends a case to be tried in a court of law. answer to these questions would be the verdict of the spiritualty, and the judgment upon that answer would be the act of the Crown, advised by the. Judicial Committee, as at present. Thus all parties would perform their proper functions, according to the Constitution in Church and State. Mr. Joyce has done a good service in stating the case so intelligently. May we not hope that with two new archbishops uncommitted by personal complicity in the present disgraceful state of things this urgent Reform. may be initiated next Session?

The

Venetian Diplomacy.

HE wonderful city of Venice, whose influence upon the world is among the miracles of history, owed much of that influence to pure intellectual force. M. Baschet has just issued the first volume of a work which shows how its diplomatic intellect was cultivated. Between such a diplomatist as Michieli, and such a diplomatist as Lord Cowley, the difference is as great as between Titian and a mediocre

academician. The ambassador of Venice was not a mere lay figure; his duty was to study mankind, and to tabulate the results of his study; the Venetian Senate required from him, when he returned to the civic republic, an elaborate relazione concerning the persons with whom he had held intercourse. These relazioni are among the richest historic treasures hitherto uninvestigated: M. Baschet has been rewarded for his labours in this direc

tion by remarkable revelations in reference to Spain, France, England, and Rome.

England naturally attracts the English reader. The Venetian sketches for us Henry VIII. in his youth, the handsomest prince in Europe, courteous and generousand Wolsey the magnificent, more potent than if he were Pope, laborious, learned, and superb. Mary is admirably depicted in her crowned misery, married to a man as stern and inexorable as herself, hating her sister for her religion, and because she was certain to succeed her, haunted by strange superstitions and the victim of strange diseases. Of Elizabeth we catch but a passing glimpse, for Venice during her reign appears to have terminated its diplomatic relations with England. But the picture of Mary and her husband is very remarkable. A great historical essayist might find a noble subject in Philip II. of Spain and his wives. That fierce, and stern, and indefatigable brain deserves careful study. M. Baschet illustrates his work with autographs: among them we find a despatch from Antonio Perez, annotated by King Philip. It is wonderful to look at. "Voyez," says our author, "cette écriture fievreuse, presque indéchiffrable, à force d'être rapide! Sont-ce des chiffres ou des caractères, sont-ce des signes convenus ou des lettres alphabétiques ?" Tens of thousands of such despatches so annotated exist; and the king, in his gloomy solitude of the Escurial, not only wrote himself perpetually, but made his darling daughter, the Infanta Isabella, his secretary.

M. Baschet's documents in reference to Rome, extends from the Papacy of Alexander VI. to that of Clement VIII. Alexander VI. (Roderigo Borgia) was the Pope on whose daughter Pasquin bestowed the famous epitaph

"Conditur hoc tumulo Lucretia nomine, sed re Thais, Pontificis filia, sponsa, nurus. Maria Sanuto wrote a thrilling account of the murder of Lucretia Borgia's third husband by her brother Cæsar, in 1500. "Thrilling" is not a favourite epithet of ours, but the Venetian ambassador's narrative deserves it by reason of its straightforward simplicity. The cool way in which he talks of Cæsar Borgia's killing "four or five noblemen or bishops every night" bishops every night" is almost amusing. This man had a genius for murder; he was the Napoleon of assassins. As to Pope Alexander himself, the ambas

sador describes him, at the age of seventy, as getting younger every day. "His cares and annoyances last but a single night; he has no ambition save the aggran

disement of his children. Nè d'altro ha cura."

Pius III. ruled for twenty-six days only. Julius II. was a soldier-pope. Of him Pasquin wrote

"Obtulerat, Juli, tibi quæ sors Julia claves:
Clavas, erravit, credo, datura fuit."

Michael Angelo was finishing his statue, he asked the pope whether he would have a book in his hand. "No," replied Julius, "give me a sword; I am not a theologian." Leo de' Medici came next-most magnificent of the princes of the Church; whose magnificence, however, did not satisfy all his contemporaries, if we trust to Pasquin's

evidence:

"Raptorem si quis forsan mirare Leonem

Ignoras uncis unguibus esse feram.” Adrian VI. and his four successors do not require detailed notice, although Paul III. was unquestionably a ruler of no ordinary class: but to Paul IV. belongs the terrible renown of having restored the Inquisition. To him Pasquin has consecrated one of his fiercest epigrams :"Hic Carapha jacet superis invisus et imis:

Styx animam, tellus putre cadaver habet.
Invidit pacem terris, et vota precesque.
Impius et clerum perdidit et populum.
Hostibus infensis supplex, infidus amicis.

Scire cupis paucis cætera? Papa fuit."

Venetian diplomacy paints Sixtus V. in his true colours -a great man and a great pontiff, although he arose from absolute obscurity. The wit of Rome could find nothing

worse than his obscure birth and low connections wherewith to taunt him. The statue of Pasquin was one morning arrayed in a dirty shirt, and Marferio was made to ask the reason. "My laundress has become a princess," answered Pasquin: the allusion being to the Pope's sister, who had gained an honest livelihood by washing linen. Pope Sixtus offered 10,000 crowns for the author of this pasquinade, and its writer betrayed himself. The Pope gave him the money, and ordered his right hand to be cut off.

Of course M. Armand Baschet devotes a large part of his volume to Venetian revelations concerning France. The most interesting portion of the book relates to Catherine de' Medici and the Massacre of Saint BartholoWe have a sketch of her in her youth, when Ariosto referred to the uncertainty of her future life:"One branch, with little foliage, still is green :

mew.

'Twixt hope and fear I tremble, for I know not Whether the winter days will kill or spare me." Catherine de' Medici was the Duchessina, then-the "little Duchess," la fanciulla. Everybody petted her, as one might pet a baby tigress, for the beauty and the grace of the creature-without thinking of the possible cruelty lurking in those dark dangerous eyes. She was petite, the fanciulla-with much vivacity and charming wit-with the great Medici eyes. Hers was a strange career. was married ten years before a child was born to her, and the birth of her first child was simultaneous with her husband's estrangement from her, and passion for Diana of Poitiers. She" played a waiting game." She sat calm while to the fair Diana minstrels sang in her presence rhymes

Que voulez-vous, Diane bonne,
Que vous donne?
Vous n'eustes, comme j'entends,
Jamais tant d'heur au printemps
Qu'en automne?"

She

Quietly she waited, knowing well that the reign of the fair Diana could not last for ever. Lorenzo Contarini, the Venetian ambassador of that epoch, fathomed her capacity, and wrote thus: "no doubt she would be apt to govern." So indeed she proved herself, when the days of her triumph came; when, with sons who were kings of France, she was the real monarch of France.

The Venetian view of the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew is rather original. Catherine, if those diplomatists judged rightly, cared nothing for religion-cared only for herself and her family and the regal power. And Coligny, her chief enemy, was, in the astute eyes that watched him from Venice, as crafty an intriguer as herself. Charles IX. was wild for war; he desired excitement, rapid action: Coligny, seeing this, imagined that he might efface Catherine's influence if once he could induce the king to declare war with Spain. Hence Catherine, eager to maintain her power, looked with jealous dismay upon the admiral's influence, and made religion the pretext for getting

rid of him. There is said moreover (but here M. Baschet is doubtful) to be a letter in existence, in the hands of M. Crétineau-Joly, which indicates that the admiral himself had projected a massacre of the Roman Catholics! This letter will soon be published, when we may judge for ourselves of its real import.

The history of Catherine de' Medici is very curious. How came the Duchessina, the fanciulla, to develop into the tigress? How could the woman, who was so fierce and resolute in the after-time, tolerate the sway of Diana of Poitiers? It is an enigma. We quote, by way of conclusion, a passage from a letter to her daughter, Queen of Spain, just after her husband's death-curious both for its spelling and its sentiment :

"Et Dyeu me l'a haulté (le Roi) et ne se contente de sela, m'a haulté vostre frère que je ayme come vous savés, et m'a laysée aveque troys enfans petys en heun reaume tout dyysé, n'y ayant heun seul à qui je me puise du tout fyer qui n'aye quelque pasion particoulyère.”

There is a tenderness in this strange passage which seems to show that the tigress of the Medici loved her whelps.

Large as the revenue under this branch had become in preceding years, the year 1861 has produced a further increase of fire revenue, the premiums having attained the sum of 292,402/., being an increase in a single year of 29,425/

The fire revenue has more than doubled in the last six years, the total increase being upwards of 160,000l., an advance by natural expansion, which is probably without parallel.

The government returns of duty place the Royal, as respects increase of business, at the head of the offices.

LIFE BRANCH.

The prominent feature is the increase and great amount of the new business transacted by this Company, the sum assured under new policies alone for the past year amounting to 521,101.; exceeding, by 70,000l., the new insurances of the preceding year, which again had shown a great advance on its predecessors.

This large amount of business (and upon which the current year shows a yet further advance), is believed to result from public confidence, and from the signal advantage the life branch possesses in being so lightly burdened, the fire branch, from its magnitude, bearing by far the larger share of the general expenses of management, an advantage few companies possess to the like extent.

The total paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds of the Company were certified by the Auditors to amount to 846,000l.

October, 1862.

THE

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTONE, Secretary.

Church-Rates.

HE COMMITTEE of LAYMEN, while they congratulate Churchmen on the renewed rejection of the Abolition Bill, frankly and earnestly call upon all friends of the Constitution to fupport them with the pecuniary means requisite to ensure similar success for the future. The Committee have hitherto not received a tenth of the annual revenue placed at the disposal of those whose projects they have had to watch and counteract.

It is requested that contributions may be addressed expressly to "The Committee of Laymen," at the banks of Messrs. Hoare, 37, Fleet Street; and Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin Lane, London; or to the Honorary Secretary, 16, Manchester Buildings, Westminster, S. W.

June 30, 1862.

CONTENTS.

VICTOR HUGO ON THE GREAT FRENCH PUZZLE.

CAXTONIANA.-PART XI.

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SOCIETY. 12, Bucklersbury, London, E. C.
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tion under eminent masters, both at home and abroad, will receive a few Young Ladies after Christmas, to whose education they will give unremitting attention. References to Clergymen and others. Prospectuses, &c. forwarded on application.

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Oriel College, Oxford.

Terms of Admission.

Pupils not nominated to pay

Sons of Laymen, 651. per annum.

Sons of Clergymen, 551.

Pupils nominated to pay 10l. less in each case.

Donors of 100l. entitled to have always one pupil in the School. Donors of 261. 55. entitled to nominate one pupil.

The holidays will be at the same times of the year as at Eton and Harrow. The School will be opened on Thursday the 11th of Sep

tember next.

W. Haskoll, Captain, R.N., Bursar.

Rev. R. S. Wilson, M.A., Fellow of Brasenose Coll., Oxford. Rev. E. N. Reynolds, A.M., Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge.

Rev. A. L. Hussey, M.A., Ch. Ch., Oxford.

C. A. Houghton, B.A., Exeter Coll., Oxford.

R. F. Clarke, B.A., Fellow of St. John's Coll., Oxford.

W. W. Jackson, B.A., Balliol Coll., Oxford.

R. Laing, Esq., Wadham Coll., Oxford.

George Wharton, B.A., Queen's Coll., Cambridge.

ASSISTANT TUTORS.

Rev. W. G. Longden, M.A., Fellow of Queen's Coll., Cambridge. Rev. R. Gibbings, A.M., Trinity Coll., Dublin.

Lecturer in History-Sidney Owen, M.A., Ch. Ch., Oxford. Director of French-M. Jules Buè.

Drawing (Military Drawing and Water Colours)-W. H. F. Hutchisson, Esq.

Gymnasium-A. Maclaren, Esq. The College reopened on the 12th Sept., 1862.

The Scholarship of 30l., founded by Sir Walter James, Bart., for annual competition by candidates under eighteen years of age; and the Scholarship of 20l., founded by William Gibbs, Esq., for candidates under fifteen years of age, will be competed for at Michaelmas

next.

For particulars apply to George Price, Esq., St. Peter's College, Radley, Abingdon.

St. Mary's College, Bampton,

Oxon.

A

Dorset.

PREPARATORY SCHOOL for the Sons of the Clergy and Laity of small means. Principal-The Rev. Charles Woodcock, M.A., late Student of Christ Church, and Vicar of the Parish.

Head Master-The Rev. Francis Allen, B.A., Exeter College, Oxford, assisted by a competent staff of Masters.

cation, Ten Guineas a quarter, paid in advance. This charge covers Terms: Entrance fee Two Guineas; board, washing, and eduFull particulars forwarded on application to the

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T. MARGARET'S COLLEGE, NORTHEND, London, S. W. (near the Kensington Station), for the Education of Young Ladies.

Principal-Rev. ALEXANDER LENDRUM, M.A.
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The education and discipline are conducted, under the direction and superintendence of the principal, by talented and accomplished Governesses, English and Foreign, assisted by eminent London Professors. The buildings consist of a spacious Mansion, with grounds of considerable extent, and large and lofty rooms. Twenty of the senior pupils have separate sleeping apartments.

The next term will commence, after the Midsummer holidays, on Tuesday, the 23rd of September.

N.B.-No day pupils are received.

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The course of Instruction includes Theology, the Classics (with special regard to Prose and Verse Composition), Mathematics, French, German, English, Drawing, Vocal Music, and Drilling.

Fee for Board, Tuition in all Subjects, Washing and Stationery, 9l. per quarter, in advance. Printed particulars on receipt of two Stamps.

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Private Tuition.

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Wynard House, Magdalen Hill, Exeter.

Church was burned down by the Spaniards in 1579. The roofs of nave and two aisles, the internal walls, and the irregular pews, are all sadly dilapidated; the population is 5,500, chiefly the "Mountsbay fishermen." We have preserved our church-rate to support public worship, and we have just succeeded in rebuilding our Church Town Schools, and opening them for boys and girls under certificated teachers. We have obtained a set of plans for reseating and restoring our Churchfe om Messrs. Salter and Perrow, Architects, 7, Wood Street, Westminster; 315 additional sittings will be secured, and declared free and unappropriated for ever. Will Christian friends help us to procure the required fund of 1,000l.?

CONTRIBUTIONS, either in donations or four or five annual instalments, may be paid to the "St. Paul Church Fund," at the Bank of Messrs. Drummond, Charing Cross, London: and Messrs. T. S. Bolitho and Sons, Penzance. "It pitieth us to see her in the dust."

JOHN GARRETT, Vicar of St. Paul. WILIAM HARVEY, Kerris, WILLIAM ANGWIN, Mousehole, St. Paul, near Penzance, 28, October 1862.

Churchwardens.

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INSTITUTION for the EDUCATION of

CAPETOWN.

ITS OBJECTS.-This Institution was founded by Sir G. Grey and the Bishop of Capetown, with a view to the Civilisation and Conversion of the native tribes of South and Central Africa. It was believed that such an Institution would

(1) Help to render less probable those native wars which have cost England so vast an expenture of blood and treasure.

(2) Promote the civilisation or tribes beyond British territory, by giving a plain English industrial and Christian education to the children of the leading people of those tribes.

(3) Provide a body of Native Teachers to aid in the spread of the Gospel in South and

Central Africa.

ITS PLAN. With a view to these objects an estate was purchased of about 150 acres in the immediate neighbourhood of Capetown, with buildings upon it, capable of providing accommodation for the Warden and his wife; a Female Missionary; Schoolmaster and wife; cabinetmaker and carpenter; shoemaker, tailor, agriculturist, and fifty boys and girls. Also a Chapel, Schoolroom, carpenter's shop, shoemaker's ditto, tailor's ditto; and Teachers have been provided for all these branches of instruction.

ITS PROGRESS.-The Institution has now been founded four years. All the children have made great improvement during that period in reading, writing, English history, geography, arithmetic, drawing, music, in Scripture knowledge, and in the Christian Faith. Many of the boys work sums in decimals with great rapidity and ease. The writing is exceedingly good. The whole of them sing well in parts, some having fine voices. Nearly all are well grounded in the Catechism and the leading Articles of the Christian Faith.

ITS RESULTS.-The_Institution has not been long enough in existence to show what its fruits are likely to be. There can be no doubt, however, but that nearly all the children have silently undergone a great change. Their habits, manners, tone of mind, have gradually and greatly improved. One by one, without invitation, the greater number have expressed a desire to be baptized. Several have been confirmed, and are regular communicants. What their future life, conduct. occupation, will be, remains to be seen, and must depend greatly upon circumstances. Nearly all are anxious to come to England to complete their education. Some probably will become Schoolmasters ;-others Catechists;-others, again, it is to be hoped, will be ordained. Four are now completing their education at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury; being maintained there by the Archdeaconry of Hereford, and are doing very well. Others are prepared to go with a Clergymen from the diocese of Capetown to aid him in establishing a Mission-work in Independent Kaffraria; one has proceeded to take charge of a Kaffir School in the diocese of Capetown.

ITS PRESENT POSITION AND DIFFICULTIES.-The Institution has received hitherto a sum of 1,000l. a year out of the grant made by the British Parliament for the purpose of introducing civilization into Kaffraria. That grant was made for four years, and ceases within a few months. When it drops there will not be sufficient funds to maintain the Institution, unless they should be supplied by English Churchmen. It will then be possessed of two farms in Kaffraria, which at present produce nothing; several houses which are let for about 150l. a year; and 400l. a year from the S. P. G., which provides stipends for the Warden, Female Missionary, and Schoolmaster.

If fifty individuals, or parishes, would each adopt a child; or if a few wealthy Churchmen would aid in its endowment, an Institution might be maintained which is calculated to have a considerable influence upon the future of South and Central Africa ;-which seems to be essential to the success of any great work through native agency; and which it is hoped may with God's blessing provide what England is likely to be less and less able to supply, as the field of her operations becomes enlarged--a body of faithful teachers for Africa, drawn from the people of that country, educated at a small cost, and capable of being maintained at a small cost, to labour amongst their countrymen, under the leadership of English Clergymen. It would be a great pity were such an Institution, which has hitherto been conducted with marked success, and which is so full of promise, to be abandoned; but there is apparently no hope for it but in the liberality of English Churchmen.

Sir G. Grey and Dr. Livingstone have both repeatedly shown their deep interest in it, and their sense of its importance; and Bishop Mackenzie, in one of his last letters to the Bishop of Capetown, expressed a hope that he might be able to send speedily two lads from amongst the Manyanja to be educated within its walls.

Any contributions towards this object will be thankfully received by the "Bishop of Capetown, 20, Porchester-terrace, Bayswater;" "Bishop of Capetown's Special Fund, Office of S. P. G., 79, Pall-mall;" or "London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square, London ;" and S. G. Harrison, Esq., 294, City-road, London, E.C.

The cost of maintaining each child is calculated at 161. a year. It is hoped that in five years' time the lands of the Institution will at least help towards its support, and that the natives themselves may be induced to contribute something.

December, 1862.

R. CAPETOWN.

ENGLISH CHURCH, BADEN BADEN.

English Churchmen are earnestly requested to AID in a

Cuddesdon Theological College.

THE NEXT TERM COMMENCES, (D.V.)
On SATURDAY, January 31, 1863.

An EXHIBITION of 50%., tenable for one year by a Graduate of an University, will be VACANT at Christmas. Candidates are requested to apply immediately to

The Rev. the PRINCIPAL, Cuddesdon College, Wheatley.

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T. ANDREW'S COLLEGE, Bradfield.-On January 29, 1863, there will be an Election of Two Boys under the age of fourteen, to the Foundation of this School, one of whom must be either fatherless or the son of a poor gentleman or clergyman. By the Statutes it is provided that-"The Founder's boys shall be lodged, boarded, and instructed gratuitously, and upon terms of equality in all respects with the Commoners." A printed form of application for admission as a Candidate may be had from the Secretary. The Examination will begin on January 28, at 11 o'clock.

Chaplain (the Rev. W. B. FLOWER) has endeavoured to set forth the true character of the English Church by means of daily prayer, weekly and Saints' Day Communion, &c. The Town of Baden will kindly give the site. The movement is supported in England by the Revs. T. T. Carter, J. Skinner, J. L. Galton, W. H. Westmore, W. E. Brendon, C. Wray, and G. Wakeling, &c. Subscriptions will be received in London by the Rev. W. R. Cosens, 7, Whitehall; Messrs. Masters and Co., 78, New Bond Street; in Baden Baden by Messrs. Müller and Co. to the account of the Rev. H. C. Hildyard, Treasurer, and also by the

Rev. J. F. RUSSELL, B.C.L., F.S.A., Hon. Sec.
S. Mary's Greenhithe, Kent.
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Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia (1st don.)
Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia (2d don.)
Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia (3d don.)

A Friend, through H. M. the Queen of £ s.
Prussia

Countess Blucher and Miss D. Dallas
The Duke of Hamilton & Brandon (1st

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Mr. Gaus (Burgomaster)

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Mr. Tyrrell (Dublin)

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His Excellency G. R. Gordon, Esq.

A Friend at the Holland

100

Mr. Mainwaring

Mr. F. Hamilton

Rev. J. L. Galton

Miss Burdett Coutts

Mr. Nugent

Mr. Easton

Mrs. Marston

Mrs. Lawrence Bicknell

Mrs. Winthrop M. Praed

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CIVIL ENGINEER has a Vacancy for an Article PUPIL, out of doors. Terms and particulars may be known by appling to " M. Inst. C. E." care of Mr. Roberts, 197, High Street, Broadgate, Exeter.

and Education.-An English Lady, of mature age, and of great experience in training the mind and forming the female character, with substantial references extending through many yearsto a bishop, to nobility, and to beneficed clergymen and gentryRECEIVES under her especial care a few LADIES to BOARD and EDUCATE. A Parisian governess. Terms moderate, and open to family circumstances. Cassel is a first-class station on the Paris and Belgian line, and within easy distance of Dunkerque steam communication with London, Hull, and Liverpool. The locality is most healthy and beautiful, and a favourite resort of the continental tourist. Adult ladies, desirous of completing their education, may here receive individual attention and the comforts of an English home. Address, Madame H. H., Cassel, France (Nord).

ASSEL, France (Nord).-Sound Education. -An English Clergyman, residing in the beautiful and proverbially healthy neighbourhood of Cassel, RECEIVES a few PUPILS to prepare for the Army, Navy, and Civil Service Examinations, also for other professional pursuits of life. He has had great experience as a tutor, and offers all the comforts of an English home. Cassel is a first-class station on the Dunkerque, Lille, and Paris Railway, and is reached from Dunkerque in three-quarters of an hour. Steam communication with London, Hull, and Liverpool. Address, Rev. D. D., Cassel, France (Nord).

O LADIES, domesticated and educated.A Clergyman, Chaplain on the Continent, offers a superior Home to a Lady of position and of sound Christian principles, having a small capital. Address, Rev. D.D. (affranchée 4d.) Cassel (Nord), France.

HE Rev. E. J. LUCE, M.A. (late Head Master of the

and stands in a park of thirty acres, a select number of PUPILS, to prepare for the Civil Service Examinations, for Public Schools, or for the Universities. The Pupils have every privilege which a married Clergyman's home can afford, being treated in all respects as members of the family. Delicate, dull, or backward Pupils receive especial attention and care. Terms from sixty to eighty guineas per annum, according to age and requirements.—Beel House, Amersham, Bucks.