clearly and could form a more accurate idea of the probable working of the system adopted by himself, with the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is visitor. The students were between the ages of nineteen and twentytwo, and appeared to be well-conducted and gentlemanly young men. One was a probationer, if I recollect rightly. The probationers are received on trial, and if it be found that they are not likely to become efficient and active clergymen, they are sent away. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge have lately founded some scholarships there, and the Masters of Eton intend founding one to be competed for by Eton boys. An old and intimate friend of the Bishop of Sydney was about endowing one or more scholarships for young men coming from this diocese. The expenses of each student are calculated at about 357. per annum. The dress of the students is a black gown and college cap. In chapel they wear surplices on Sundays and plain festivals, as at Westminster and elsewhere.

"At 7 p.m. we had tea in the Hall. Both at this meal and at breakfast, bread and butter only, with tea or coffee, is provided. The young men chat with each other, and no more restraint is put upon their conversation than if they • were at their own home. At nine we went to evening prayers. The chapel is rather small, and perhaps not sufficiently well lighted, but in every other respect it is faultless. The west window is a triple lancet; the east one is Early Decorated. The lights in both windows are filled with stained glass, which is very good in colour and design. The floor is paved with encaustic tiles, the pattern of which about the communion table is relieved by some blue as well as the two more ordinary colours. The stall work, roof, and screen are all of oak, and are very handsome. There are two rows of stalls on either side. A light oak screen divides the chapel from the ante-chapel. The Warden read prayers, and the psalms were well chanted by the students, who are placed with a view to antiphonal singing. In the evening, whilst sitting at the end of the long gallery, I had listened with great pleasure to their practising for the Sunday services; the sound of their voices echoing along the roof had a very pleasing effect, and I could have sat there for hours listening to the sacred strains.

"The next morning (Sunday) we had breakfast in the hall at eight, and the service commenced at half-past ten. The Warden said the prayers, the Litany excepted, which was read by the Senior Fellow. The Warden preached on the Gospel for the day, passages in which gave him an opportunity of more particularly addressing the students on the work to which they had devoted themselves, and the solemn responsibilities which they were about to incur. There is a weekly celebration of the Holy Communion, attendance at which is not compulsory. We again dined together at two, and we all repaired to the afternoon service at the cathedral, where the students may also attend if they choose. At nine the day closed, with

evening prayers in the chapel. On week-days the morning service is at seven. There are lectures every day. The greatest possible attention is paid to the moral culture of the students' hearts and minds, and in this most important respect they have advantages which cannot be sufficiently estimated, especially when we regard the hardihood of habits, the self-denial, the burning zeal, and above all the personal piety, with which they must be armed. The qualifications which the task of evangelizing the heathen (especially the learned and subtle natives of India) demands can hardly be acquired except in a place specifically devoted to this purpose: St. Augustine's will in this respect supply a want that has long been feit; and from the high character of its officials, from the interest taken in it by the present Archbishop, and from what I saw of the students themselves, and the way in which they are trained, we may hope that this noble college will justify all the expectations that have been formed of it by its munificent founders. I left St. Augustine's with great regret, and with feelings of gratitude at the kind way in which I had been entertained."

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

CANADA. The Rev. F. Fulford, D.D., has been nominated Bishop of Montreal,the present Bishop of that title resuming the designation of Quebec, the city in which he dwells. It is expected that a third Diocese will ere long be formed in Lower Canada, and a second at least in Upper Canada, which is now all included under the see of Toronto.

THE NEW BISHOPRIC IN NEW ZEALAND. It has been arranged that the chief town of the new settlement of Canterbury, in the Middle Islands of New Zealand, shall be named "Lyttelton, in honour of the Noble Lord, the chairman of the committee. The seat of the new Diocese will be in that town; and Dr. Jackson, who is about proceeding thither, will take the title of "Bishop of Lyttelton."

The Standing Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have given notice that on Tuesday, the 1st of October, they will propose a grant of 1000l. towards this Bishopric.

DIOCESE OF NOVA SCOTIA.-PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.-We learn from the Church Times that a movement similar to that recommended in the Circular (printed above) of the Lord Bishop of Montreal is being made in this Island in favour of the abolition of Post-Office labour on Sundays. It appears also that the Halifax Post Office is wholly closed on the Lord's Day.-Canadian Ecclesiastical Gazette.

QUEBEC.-Mr. Thomas Pennefather, B.A., T.C.D., has recently arrived in the Diocese, having been sent out by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to the Bishop, as a candidate for Holy Orders. He is at present acting as Catechist and Lay Reader, under the direction of the Rev. T. Johnson, in the Mission of Abbotsford and parts adjacent. Another candidate for the Ministry, Mr. Frederic Augustus Smith, also sent out by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, is shortly expected.

THE Consecration of a Colonial Bishop has, happily, ceased to be the rare event that it once was in the Church of England; yet the division of Lower or Eastern Canada into two Dioceses, which has just been accomplished, and the promised extension of a similar boon to Canada West, call for a few thankful reflections. Nearly 150 years have passed since the first Protestant Missionaries were despatched to America by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The moment their work began to have practical effect, they felt the necessity of a resident Episcopate. This advantage, however, was steadily denied by the political Ministers of the Crown, till the American war had torn its richest colonies from the British allegiance, and established the United States as an independent power. The first act of the new republic was to procure the consecration of two Bishops from the Church of England, from whom there are now derived not less than twenty-nine Prelates, of ou

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own Communion, presiding over and sustaining a free Protestant Episcopal Church which contains above two millions of souls. One of these Bishops is a missionary in China, and another in Constantinople.

Far different was the fate of Episcopacy in the colonies which remained under the British Crown. Commencing with the two Bishoprics of Nova Scotia founded in 1787, and Quebec in 1793, no addition was permitted in all British America till the West India Islands obtained two Bishops in 1824. The continent of America, though rapidly increasing in population, was not granted a third Prelate till 1839, when Upper or Western Canada was assigned for the Diocese of Toronto. The same year witnessed the erection of the island of Newfoundland into a Bishopric, which, however, in the narrow and penurious spirit which ever marks the religious expenditure of the State, was encumbered with the Archdeaconry of the Bermudas-a thousand miles distant. The Church now began to take the matter into her own hands by collecting the voluntary offerings of her children through the means of the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund. Under this system British America has obtained the additional Bishoprics of Fredericton in 1845, Rupert's Land in 1849, and now Montreal in 1850; while several Dioceses have been founded at the same time in other parts of the world. This recital is surely enough to convince us of the importance of relying upon our own exertions, instead of wasting time and strength in soliciting favours from worldly-minded politicians. When will the clergy and congregations of the Church so understand their means and power, as to have their Parochial and Diocesan organization for Missionary, and other spiritual, objects complete in themselves?

But our subject is the Church in America. This article is illustrated with a representation of a Canadian village. From such humble beginnings the great cities and towns of British America have sprung up; and it is marvellous how rapidly they grow. We well remember the anecdotes related to us, many years ago, by the American Bishop Chase, of his own labours as a missionary in that country. He was in the habit of seeking out the emigrant settlers, in their first efforts to establish themselves in the backwoods. He would often leave the more advanced settlements, and plunge into the recesses of the forest, where, forgotten by the world, the poorer class of adventurers were toiling for their existence. Attended by a single servant, each armed with a stout axe, the bishop would commence his operations by cutting down a tree. The sound of the axe would bring to the spot one or two who might be labouring near; to these the bishop communicated his design of building a church in the wilderness. Uniformly, and with a glad heart, they agreed to assist. Their method was simple and expeditious. The little party slept upon the ground till they had completed a log-house to protect them from the weather. Then felling the trees, and squaring them into the rude beams which they call logs, they raised their

wooden church and covered it in, without leaving the spot. The humble edifice completed, the bishop would then disperse his labourers far and wide in the forest to give notice to all its solitary inhabitants whom they might meet with, of the day on which it was to be opened for public worship. To many these tidings came after long intervals, during which they had been strangers to Christian worship, and Christian fellowship. The monotony of a rude, unsocial life was broken with the good news that GOD was going to set up His house among them. Many received them as good tidings indeed. "Lo! we heard of it at Ephrata; we found it in the fields of the wood; we will go into His tabernacles, we will worship at His footstool."

On the appointed day the good bishop was sure to find his little log-church filled from end to end; and when, after a brief preface, to bespeak the longestranged attention of his hearers, he commenced the solemn Liturgy of their father-land, the tears were often seen stealing down the aged cheeks of those who remembered it many a long year before. Young persons, too, who had never yet borne a part in the worship of the Church, but to whom its customs and meaning had been spoken of by their elders, were seen with the much-prized Prayer-book in their hands, reading loudly and earnestly their appointed portion. Surely those were days of refreshing from the presence of the LORD and eagerly was the time expected when the bishop's other engagements would admit of his renewing such happy meetings.

From the moment the church was built it became the centre of the infant society. Those who could, removed their habitations to its neighbourhood ; new comers settled around it, and in a very little time the lone forest sanctuary was found in the middle of a rising village. As wealth increased they grew ambitious of improving their church. Then they wished for a resident minister, and began to make provision for his support.

In this way Philander Chase founded one church after another, saw them supplied with clergymen, and was at last, by those clergymen, elected the first bishop of a diocese which his own hands had carved out of the forest. Good and constant old man! how much nobler is thy humble and purely spiritual episcopate than that which "lifts its mitred front in palaces!" Would that all our colonies were covered with bishoprics of the same modest and practical description! It is in these, not in such wide, unmeaning lordships as one of the Canadas, or half the Indies, that a true pastor finds his work. Bishops of this kind are, as our colonies can now abundantly testify, the real working clergy. We hope to see their number increasing every year, and may they never forget that the highest dignity in CHRIST's Church is to be the servant of all; and that souls, sought and won through never-ending toils, are the jewels which will sparkle in "the crown of glory which the LORD, the righteous Judge, will give in that day."