the noble sacrifice of income which he is ready and willing to make, it must be remembered that his living is very far above the average of similar parishes. For one case in which the plan could be carried out as he proposes, there are ten too ill-endowed to permit it. Bradford is a case in point; and Dr. Scoresby, though personally able and willing to sacrifice income, holds it needful to snipulate that the mother church, for the sake of his successors, shall retain unimpaired its certain endowments, of only £140 per anuum, and an equivalent for the fees and dues, which barely treble it (£437), and out of which a Curate must be maintained. We shall hope to see, especially in the case of large towns, the advantages of the present connection with the mother church, and its incumbent, separated from all the disadvantages as to questionable or inconvenient rights and claims; and yet all that now are, and ought to be, Chapelries, made into distinct Parishes, ard yet remain, as they now are, united. We would gladly see all the numerous now disunited and small parishes in our old cities and towns, and in our country districts, collected into actual and efficient Rural Deaneries, on the model of those large parishes. Might not the present Chapelries and Perpetual Curates, be made Vicarages and Vicars, and the present Vicar of the Parish be called Rector, Warden, or, (as at Wolverhampton, Battle, Heytesbury, Middleham, &c.,) have the title of Rural Dean? Rector would seem the best; but if it be true that certain dormant Rectorial claims are likely to throw unexpected difficulties in the way at Leeds, the title Warden, or Dean, perhaps the former, would be the best, and not without numerous precedents. The Vicars of the Parish (and the word Vicar means substitute) would then form a sort of Rural Chapter under and with, yet for all practical purposes independent of, the Warden, Dean, or Rector, of the Mother Church, The old and strong affections of the people of those towns and Parishes fer the Mother Church, would thus be satisfied and preserved, for all really useful purposes: while the local spiritual wants would be provided for in a manner fully efficient. The topic, long practically worked upon, is now publicly mooted, and good must result from its careful consideration by all concerned; but we desire unity of the old Ecclesiastical Parishes in some way to be preserved; as that of the parishes, in a civil point of view, would continue.

* CLERICAL LIBERALITY.—The Rev. A. Barnaby, M.A., rector of Ashfordby, near Melton Mowbray, has caused to be erected, at his private cost (besides giving ground for the site), two spacious and handsome school-rooms, each capable of containing sixty children.

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

Reeeived, with thanks, "W. R." Edin.-" J. M."—"C. H. D."-" A Churchman." "Elizabeth."—"T. Guernsey."“ J. T. S.”—“ J. F."-" An admirer of the principles on which the Magazine is now conducted."

We hope "W. R.'s" fears will not be realized; he will see that our general intention is coincident with his own; last month was a single and unsuccessful exception. We had hoped to give him the information as to the "Parker" publications. We are always glad to hear from him; and, although we have always too much matter for use, the more we have, from which to select, the better.

The best way would be to address to "The Editor of the Episcopal Times, 1, East Rose Lane, Edinburgh." Lendrum, Warwick Square, is the London Agent. It is now published weekly.

Can "Reginald" give us his address? We suppose the tale to be in form fictitious but nearly every incident we have known to be realized in fact. We do not comprehend the precise objections to the tale, although it does not dwell on more than general Christian principles.

"J. T.s" lines, and most of "Elizabeth's" stanzas next month.

"Rev. J. B." a Pauline, remarks, that the cut of St. Paul's School does not represent its present state We have not had the opportunity to verify it ; but the engraving was recently made for a forthcoming account of London. Our correspondent supposes it represents the former edifice, not the new one erected about 20 years

ago.

THE LATE REV. HENRY BLUNT.

(From a Sermon by the Rev. F. Close, of Cheltenham.)

"A RIGHTEOUS man has perished"—a merciful man has been taken from the evil to come. A christian family has lost its head:-such a fathersuch a husband-such a companion, adviser,-friend! A parish has been bereaved of a godly pastor, and a faithful preacher; the Church has been deprived of one of its highest ornaments, the world has lost a faithful monitor,—and I have lost my oldest friend. When I mention the name of Henry Blunt, many will be prepared to appreciate the loss which we have sustained. Perhaps I may in some respects be considered to have a peculiar claim to raise a tribute of affection to my departed friend, since no less than thirty-four years have rolled by since my intimacy with him commenced. There have been intervals in our subsequent lives, when, for a while, we have lost sight of each other, but our friendship has never been dissolved until now! We were school-fellows, and companions in our early days. And this part of his history should be peculiarly impressive and instructive to the young. There are instances of persons who were thoughtless, and even vicious in their youthful days, who have been subsequently converted, and have become useful members of society, and even ministers of the Gospel of Christ. But more frequently it happens that those who are moral, studious, obedient, and amiable in their younger days, grow up to be lights of their generation. Thus, in Scripture, we read of Joseph, and Samuel, and Daniel, and Josiah, and Timothy, and others. And thus it was with my departed friend. He had not indeed the spiritual advantages which are possessed by many, nor was this early period of his life marked by distinguished piety—but he was always strictly moral, studious, and extremely amiable. He was a general favourite alike with his teachers and his companions-a guileless being-every boy who knew him, loved him. He was always of delicate frame, and rather feeble in person-but he exercised an extraordinay influence over other boys. The nascent talent, afterwards more fully developed, even then discovered itself: his powers of description, and narrative, riveted the attention of all who listened to him

and his school-fellows were willing to oblige him in any thing upon the condition that he would thus amuse them. Many still live who can attest the accuracy of my present statement. I lost sight of him for three years before I went to the University-there I found him, still the same amiable, virtuous, and interesting person-and likely to distinguish himself in academic honours. This he did in 1817, when he took his degree as ninth Wrangler, and bearing also a high character for classical attainments. The following year he was admitted into Holy Orders. Retiring to the country village of Clare, in Suffolk, he devoted himself to the work of a parochial Minister; at the same time receiving a few pupils into his house. It was here, in the conscientious pursuit of his spiritual duties, that a change passed over his opinions and his heart: without any human instructor-by the light of God's own Word and Spirit, he was guided into those truly scriptural, evangelical, and protestant principles which he subsequently maintained with so much steadfastness, and so much purity and talent. As these principles deepened in his mind, he was impressed with an earnest desire to devote himself more exclusively to the blessed work of an Evangelist; and though the most flattering prospects opened before him in the way of pupils, and several persons of distinction were anxious that he should educate their sons, he declined all these tempting offers, and entered on one of the most extensive and laborious parochial cures in the vicinity of the Metropolis. This was in the opening of the year 1824. From that time our intimacy ripened into closer friendship-and I have subsequently had the privilege of enjoying his confidence to the sad moment of his departure from among us.

As Curate of Chelsea, his indefatigable zeal, his attractive manners, his persuasive simple eloquence and his scriptural fidelity, soon attracted the attention not only of his parishioners but of many others and at length, in the year 1830, greatly to the satisfaction of a numerous and attached people, he was presented to the new Church of the Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea. There his character, his principles, and his peculiar talents fully displayed themselves for five years he pursued a course of unrivalled usefulness; drawing around him the most influential congregation in London or its neighbourhood. Nobles, peers, commoners, tradesmen, and the poor, alike hung upon his fascinating discourses. And what was their peculiar charm? His manner was calm and sedate-his voice was feeble, yet wherever it reached it riveted attention there were no high flights of eloquence, no rhetorical flourishes, no meretricious embellishments-certainly no puerilities, nor conceits-he never stooped to such means to produce a momentary effect. The charm of his preaching was its simple truth-its evangelical fidelity— he preached the truth in love-he was affectionate, earnest, persuasive his style was chaste, I might almost say elegant and he had a singular power of adapting the word of God to the peculiar habits, feelings, and circumstances of his auditors. Abstract truth by the touch of his pen became a living and practical principle-comprehensible, and individual— that each man felt himself addressed. Wonderful certainly was his success at that period and few men could have sustained the weight of applause which was laid upon him with such unaffected modesty and humility as he did.. But how inscrutable are the ways of God! Just when hundreds of the great and the noble were crowding around him-not only in his church, but in his more private and domestic instructions-(for no one despised the