place, by Mr. M'Neile's congregation; St. Saviour's, Parliament-street, by subscription; and a large one, to cost about 6,000l., in Warwick-street, by John Gladstone, Esq. In addition to which, there is one at Woodside, and one at Crosby, and the Earl of Derby is about to build one at Knowsley. And yet much, very much, must be done before the whole of our population can be accommodated.-Liverpool Standard.

THE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION of the Episcopal Church of Scotland consists at present of a Chair of Divinity, and one of Church History, conjoined with what is termed the Bell Lecture. The founder of this lecture was the celebrated Dr. Bell, so well known from the connexion of his name with the Madras system of Education. The Right Rev. James Walker, D.D, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus, is Professor of Divinity, and the Right Rev. Michael Russell, LL. D., Bishop of Glasgow, and the author of the "Connexion between Sacred and Profane History," and of various other distinguished works in theology and general literature, unites the two Professorships of

Church History and the Bell Lecture in
his own person.
The annual course com-
mences on Monday (or on the Monday
next after), the 11th of November, and
continues to the end of March.

DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES.-From the official report of the Registrar General, it appears that out of every 100 men who were married during the last year according to the new mode, thirty-three signed the book with a cross, from inability to write their names; and that of the same number of women forty-nine were similarly circumstanced. Does not this afford a pretty clear indication of the character of those who, under the instigation of interested persons, clamoured for an alteration of the law? The great bulk of intelligent dissenters were perfectly satisfied with the form prescribed by the Church of England, and have manifested their satisfaction by refusing to avail themselves of the high privilege (!) which the legislature has been pleased to confer upon them, and with the majority of dissenters the new law is not popular.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Received communications from Mr. Nest.-Mr. Lander.-"A Son of the Church."-"S. N.”—“J. D.” "A Scourge of Small Cords."-"An Evangelical Terrier.”—“A Constant Subscriber.”—“ C. G.”— "G. N."-and from Segrave House.

"N. Y.'s" package has arrived, and will be very serviceable to us, either for the Magazine or otherwise. The parties may fully depend on our keeping their names in confidence. We think we have seen the same writing before.

The requests of "C." and "Z. A." shall be attended to if we find it possible; but the portraits of the Bishop of Llandaff and of Dr. Shuttleworth, the new Bishop of Chichester, and also of the Rev. Messrs. Gresley of Lichfield, Close of Cheltenham, Dale of St. Bride's London, Dr. Ainger of St. Becs'.

"A Chardean" should send us his name, and then his communication shall appear.—“ William's" inquiry about the principles on which the Protestant Association is formed, seems to be answered by himself, though not correctly, for it is certainly not formed on sound Church principles, and cannot be consistently supported by members of the Church. Our correspondent had better wait till he shall have read our next number, and then he can act to his satisfaction without any compromise of his principles. Will he favour us with his address?

"T. S. R." had better have nothing whatever to do with the publishing Quack about whom he writes, and who is, or very lately was, a rauk dissenter, and not a very honest one, as two or three Clergymen have already experienced to their cost. The terms advertised in the puffs alluded to are much higher than "T. S. R." can get his work printed for. If he will give us his address, we will write to him and tell him the best and cheapest, and safest mode of proceeding to accomplish his object, and put him into respectable hands.

L. M. A. of Bristol needs not to have called our attention to that heavy mass of Quarterly trash, which while advocating dissenting principles is labelled as of the Church of England. We never now waste our time in passing over such a "continent of mud" which has now only about such a circulation as might tolerably supply the "Isle of Dogs." The last number of the Weathercock, we did however see in a bookseller's shop, and on turning over its advertisements actually counted one puff repeated no less than TEN times over. Clerical and Lay authors must be very shy of the bait in that quarter, or it would not surely be requisite to lay it in every corner. Possibly the remembrance of a fleecing of some two or three such authors makes them look twice or thrice ere they swallow the baited hook. Öne article in The British Critic contains more sound theology and solid learning than would be found in all the numbers of the other which might be gathered from the old book-stalls in London, in a day's ramble.

An Old Subscriber and a Young Churchman will probably see his wish gratified ere long.

M. has our most respectful thanks and shall be inserted in our next, as will any other communication with which we may be at any time honoured from the same pen.

W. E. or his bookseller for him will get the article required at the office of the Protestant Association. Evangelicus Clericus should have given us his name, as has done the writer of the letter, upon which he remarks. We do not think the object of that letter was that which our correspondent states. And as to the Bible Society, there is a Church Bible Society, which is quite sufficient for every sound and consistent Churchman without his going to a Society which profligately spends money in circulating popish versions or perversions of the word of God.

W. T's letter cannot be returned, and we can very rarely return any letter not inserted, as we should almost require a clerk for the purpose. Destruction we find to be the readiest riddance. We have at this moment above a hundred letters now lying at our elbow waiting for answers. We live in hope.

Thanks to our old friend for the Wesleyan Documents. They will come in sometime or other in some way.

G. G.'s" communication will probably appear in our next, when, as it will be a double number, we hope to find room for many articles which should have appeared ere this.

"C. W." has our thanks, he will see what use we have made of his communication.

TRE VENE AND REV" G.WILKINS, D. D.

Archéeason of Nottingham?.
Genge Withers

ENGRAVED BY RICHARD SMITH

MEMOIR OF THE VENERABLE AND REV. GEORGE WILKINS, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF NOTTINGHAM.

THE REV. GEORGE WILKINS, the subject of this Memoir, was born in the city of Norwich, in May 1785; he is the youngest son of the late William Wilkins, Esq., F.S.A., and brother of the late distinguished Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy. Dr. Wilkins was educated at the Grammar School of Bury St. Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk, and was cotemporary there (and afterwards at College), with the present Bishop of London, and other distinguished scholars who emanated from that school under the mastership of the celebrated Becher.

Dr. Wilkins, from the earliest period of his life, manifested an inclination for the profession of the Church, and persevered in his attachment to it in despite of many attempts made to draw him from the pursuit of it; nor was it until his friend Dr. Turner, the late Dean of Norwich, who had long witnessed his disposition, prevailed with his father to permit him to follow the bias of his inclination, that inducements to draw him into other professions were withdrawn.

He entered as Under-graduate of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1803, and applied himself unremittingly to the University studies for nearly four successive years, residing in College during that entire period. He kept his public exercises against the first men of his year, but owing to an attack of fever, he was at the period of taking his first degree rendered incapable of making that struggle for academical honours for which he had been so assiduously labouring.

Having received his Degree, he repaired to Oxford, and there for some time prosecuted his favourite study of Divinity, under an eminent Divine, until his Ordination in 1808, at Norwich, upon the Curacy of Plumpstead, on the title given him by the incumbent, Dr. Leigh, late Dean of Hereford.

The Dean dying soon afterwards, Dr. W. entered upon the responsible and laborious cure of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, under the late Rector, Dr. Hay Drummond (uncle of the present Earl of Kinnoul), whose eldest daughter, by a second marriage, he married in September 1811. In 1814, he was instituted to the Vicarage of Lexington, in the county of Nottingham, on the presentation of the late Earl Manvers, which small living he was permitted to retain with his curacy of Hadleigh; but, in the following year, the Earl having presented him to the living of Lowdham, he became resident upon this latter preferment in Nottinghamshire. Two years afterwards, the present Earl Manvers presented him to one of the most arduous charges devolving on an individual Clergyman in the kingdom-the Vicarage of St. Mary's, Nottingham, then having a population of 28,000 souls, and now exceeding 38,000, for the entire

spiritual duties of which, as Incumbent, he has been, and still continues, alone responsible. From the time of his ordination in 1808 to the present day, we believe that he has never been for a single week (excepting in intervals of sickness) free from the pressure of the most onerous parochial duties. Equally active in body and mind, he has unceasingly, through good report and evil report, pursued the even and judicious tenor of his professional career, and has uniformly maintained amongst all parties, a popularity conceded to a long and straightforward course of consistency of principles and conduct. In 1823, the Archbishop of York, in testimony of his approval of Dr. Wilkins' unremitting labours, collated him to a stall in the Collegiate Church of Southwell, in which year he took the degree of Doctor in Divinity, at Cambridge; and, in 1827, the late Earl of Eldon, then Lord Chancellor, although even personally unknown to him, presented Dr. Wilkins to the rectory of Wing, in Rutlandshire, in testimony of his sense of what he considered as his merit; and finally in 1832, his Diocesan, the Archbishop of York, to mark still stronger the value which he attached to his character, his activity and judgment, collated him to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, a very onerous and responsible post of honour, and honour only-an appointment carrying with it undeniable proof of the Archbishop's confidence in him, as a fit person to be invested with the entire jurisdiction over the most distant part of his great Diocese. In 1839, the Archdeacon resigned all his preferment having cure of souls, with the exception of St. Mary's Nottingham.

As an author, Dr. Wilkins has distinguished himself by various useful and highly appreciated works. His "History of the Destruction of Jerusaleın,” -his "Lectures on Infidelity,"—his "Trial of the Unitarians,”—and his occasional Sermons on great and important occasions, are amongst the acknowledged productions of his pen; while there are many others of a more popular kind which have been published with great success anonymously, not, as we believe from any disinclination to, or fear of, public criticism, but from a desire to avoid controversy. In addition to them the Archdeacon has published various Charges delivered by him to the Clergy of the county of Nottingham, which have been acknowledged as useful and valuable. His Letter to Lord John Russell in 1835, on the subject of "Church Rates," made a strong impression at the time of its publication, being written with great force and moderation. The Archdeacon is now in his 55th year, in the possession of health and strength, mental and physical-he possesses a powerful voice and clear enunciation, combined with an earnest and impressive delivery.

It is by characters such as these, particularly in great over-populated towns, that the body of the Clergy holds such valuable and honourable influence; and the cause of the Church, in these times of contumely and reproach, is upheld.

THE ANCIENT UNIVERSITIES OF ENGLAND NOT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION.

Ir is gravely asserted by Roman Catholics, and hastily credited by thoughtless Protestants, that our English Universities owe their foundation to Members of the Church of Rome; and it is urged against those venerable bodies, as instances of most unpardonable intolerance and cruelest injustice, that they should now close their doors against Papists and Dissenters, considering that these seats of learning have been unjustly wrested from the hands of their original Popish founders. This, however, is another of those miserable fallacies which is, with such mischievous industry, circulated through the land, and from the high quarter whence it has been propagated of late, is likely to