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a Sermon will be preached at the Old Jewry Chapel , Jewin Street , Aldersgate Street , by the Rev . D . Davison , the mimister of that place .
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Proposed new Bishoprics in India . A Special General Meeting of the Society for promotiug Christian Knowledge was held on the 6 th of December , in consequence of the death of the late Dr . Heber , Bishop of Calcutta : the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair . Several resolutions were passed expressive of the high opinion the Society entertained of
Bishop Heber ' s talents , character and services , and of their regret at his death , among which was the following : " That the Society , having reference to a desire strongly expressed by the late Bishop of Calcutta , that members of the Asiatic Episcopal Churches , not in subordination to the see of Rome , should be admitted into Bishop ' s College , do agree to place
the sum of £ 2000 at the disposal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , for the foundation of two scholarships for that purpose , provided they be for ever called Bishop Heber ' s Scholarships . " But the most important part of the business of the day was a determination to apply to his Majesty ' s Ministers , and to the Directors of the East India
Company , to create two new " Episcopates " in India , one for Madras and the other for Bombay . The following are the resolutions of the Meeting on this subject : " That the Society on the present occasion , while it acknowledges with the deepest gratitude the paternal care of his Majesty ' s Government , as well in the formation of an Indian Episcopate as in the selection of the highly-gifted persons
who successively devoted themselves to the charge , feels it a paramount duty to repeat the earnest prayer of its memorial presented in 1812 for the erection of a see at each of the three Presidencies ; and to declare its conviction , that no individual , however endowed with bodily and mental vigour , can be sufficient for the exertions rendered necessary by the overwhelming magnitude of the diocess of Calcutta .
" That in the opinion of the Society , fatally confirmed by the result of the attempt to govern the Indian Church by a single prelate , nothing but a division Df this enormous diocess can prevent a continued sacrifice of valuable lives * and a perpetually recurring interruption of the great work for the accomplishment of which that episcopal establishment was formed , * That the constitution of the govern-
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ment in India is constructed on the principle of a separate administration at each of their three Presidencies ; and that in the opinion of this Society , it must necessarily be inconvenient not to assimilate the government of the Church to that system , which experience has proved so beneficial to the civil , judicial and military departments . "
If this modest request of the Clergy for two new bishoprics be acceded to , we shall be curious to ascertain how many Christians , per square league of territory , each of these spiritual overseers will have under his separate pastoral care ? The Church of England Missionary Society held a meeting on the 15 th Dec , Lord Gambier in the Chair , at which the resolutions of the other Society were unanimously adopted .
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East-India Examinations . The new regulations for the examination of candidates for writerships in the service of the East India Company , are as follows . Two examiners are appointed from the University of Cambridge ; one of them to be annually replaced . The candidates will be examined in the Greek Testament , and in the works of Homer , Herodotus ,
Demosthenes , or in the Greek Plays ; and also in some of the works of Livy , Cicero , Tacitus and Juvenal , including collateral reading in Ancient History , Geography and Philosophy . They will further be examined in Mathematics , including Euclid , Algebra , Logarithms , Plane Trigonometry , and Mechanics ; and also in Modern History , principally taken from Russell's Modern Europe , and in Paley ' a Evidences of Christianity .
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Catholic Emancipation . Letter of the Bishop of Norwich in answer to the vote of thanks of the Catholic General Meeting . Dear Sir , The approbation of good and honourable men is the best reward which an
honest man can receive on this side of the grave , for doing what he believes to be his duty . I cannot , therefore , but feel gratified by the favourable opinion entertained of me by the British Catholics . Allow me to add , that I am not leas gratified by the kind manner in which you convey their sentiments , and
express your own . Believe me , dear Sir , Sincerely yours , &c , H . NORWICH . Cheltenhanty Nov . 15 th , 1826 . E . Blount , Esq .
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140 Intelligence .- —New Indian Bishoprics , fyc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/60/
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