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To the Convention of the Diocese of Western New- York :
MY BRETHREN— THE CLERGY AMD LAITY
OF THE CONVENTION:—
Having, as announced to you in my Conventional Address, been ap
pointed,* with the Bishop of Michigan, to visit England, to attend the
concluding services of the Jubilee of the Venerable Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, it accords alike with my
feelings and my duty to present to you a record of my proceedings in
the Mission.
On Saturday, the 29th of May, 1852, we left New York in the
Steamer Atlantic, Capt. James West, accompanied by my wife, Mrs.
Frances De Lancey, the Rev. J. V. Van Ingen, of Rochester, and the
Rev. Walter Ayrault, of Auburn, who were Visitors to England. A
dense fog detained us at Sandy Hook until Sunday morning, the 30th,
at 5 o'clock, when we started for Liverpool.
On that day, with the cheerful assent of the Captain, public services
were held in the cabin, where the Rev. Dr. Van Ingen read Prayers and
the Bishop of Michigan preached. During the entire voyage the full
daily service was held, in the morning at 10 o'clock and in the evening
at 6 o'clock, in the lower cabin, with the intermission of one day, Sun
day, the 6th of June, when the state of the weather disqualified the
Clergy from officiating.
On June 9th, at 12 o'clock, we came to anchor in the river at
Liverpool. A Clergyman, the Rev. G. W. Warr, came on board the Steamer to
welcome us in behalf of the Society, with a communication from the
Rev. Ernest Hawkins, the Secretary, assuring us of a cordial reception.
* See Appendix — A.

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On the 10th, we proceeded* by railway to London, which we reached
about 4 o'clock P. M. At the station we were met by the Chaplain of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. John Thomas, D. C. L., who,
with the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Prebendary of St. Paul's and Secretary,
the Rev. John Russell, D. D., Canon of Canterbury, and Robert Mow
bray, Esq., Treasurer of the Society, had come to receive us. In the
Archbishop's carriage the Bishop of Michigan, myself and Mrs. De
Lancey, were taken to London House, the city residence of the Bishop
of London, where we were met by the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, who intro
duced us to the Bishop of London, by whom we were taken to Fulham
Palace, five miles from London, and kindly received under his roof.
On the 11th, we were taken by the Bishop of London to Lambeth
and introduced to the Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom we were
kindly and courteously welcomed to England and invited to his palace.
On the 12th, we attended a confirmation held by the Bishop of Lon
don in the Parish Church, Fulham, who administered the rite to about
230 persons, preceded by an earnest address of wise and affectionate
counsels to the candidates.
On Sunday, the 13th, I preached and administered the Holy Com
munion in Curzon Chapel, London, on the invitation of the Rev. Ernest
Hawkins, Minister of the Chapel, who read prayers and aided in the
Holy Communion.
The Bishop of Michigan, on the same day, preached in Trinity
Church, Marylebone, on invitation of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, the
Rector of the Church.
On the 14th, we partook of the hospitality of the Archbishop at his
table, in company with a number of the Bishops and Clergy.
On Tuesday, the 1 5th, we attended the Jubilee Services, in Westminster
Abbey, in the morning. The Archbishop and the Bishop of Gloucester
were at the altar, and sixteen other Bishops, including four Bishops from
Scotland, two from the United States of America, one from the English
Colonies, one from Jerusalem, and two who had been in the East
Indies, were present. It was allotted to the Bishop of Michigan to read
the Epistle for the day, and to myself to read the Second Lesson, (the
fifteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Mark.) The Sermon
was preached by the Bishop of Oxford. We also aided in distributing
the elements at the Holy Communion, in which duty, at one time
twelve of the Bishops were engaged, while about one thousand commu-

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nicants partook of the Holy Supper. About two thousand persons atten
ded the impressive services in the Venerable Abbey.*
I refrain from attempting to describe, I leave to your own minds
and hearts to imagine, the feelings excited by this sight of Christian
Bishops, Clergy and Laity from the four quarters of the Globe, attesting
the reality of catholic unity among Protestants, by mingling their
voices in worship, praise and prayer, reciting the Creeds of the earliest
ages, kneeling together in love at the Holy Communion, and receiving
from the able and eloquent lips of a Minister of God, a Bishop of the
Church, whom many before had never seen, the soul-stirring truths of
the blessed Gospel of the Son of God. Our hearts swelled with the
joyful confession — " Lord, it is good for us to be here."
In the evening of that day, I preached the concluding sermon of the
Jubilee Services to a large congregation, in St. James' Church, Pica-
dilly, Westminster, and shared the hospitable attentions of the Rector,
the Rev. John Jackson.
On Wednesday afternoon, the 16th of June, the services were held in
St. Paul's Cathedral, in commemoration of the two Societies, viz : the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Society for the
Promotion of Christian Knowledge. The Archbishop and nineteen
Bishops attended, with an immense congregation .f The sermon was
preached by the Bishop of Michigan, whose commanding figure, power
ful voice and fearless enunciation of his views of truth and duty, filled
the eyes, and ears, and hearts of multitudes with joy and admiration.
The Lord Mayor was present on the occasion, and after the services,
proceeded, as usual, with the Archbishop and Bishops, to the Mansion
House, where more than two hundred and thirty ladies and gentlemen
were hospitably entertained, and where, both the Bishop of Michigan
and myself, responded in brief speeches, to the cordial expressions from
his Lordship, of regard and welcome to us as Bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States. J
On the 1 *7th, we visited Winchester Cathedral and College, and attended
the Cathedral Services as Bishops, and the Bishop of Michigan preached
an appropriate sermon in behalf of the Society. A public meeting was
held at 2 o'clock, at which the Dean of the Cathedral presided and an
address of welcome was made to us, to which we both responded. We
were accompanied in this visit by the Rev. J. M. Wainwright, D. D.,
the Rev. J. V. Van Ingen, D. D., and the Rev. Walter Ayrault, the first
* See Appendix — B. f See Appendix — C.
\ See Appendix — D.

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of whom also responded to an address at the meeting. And all of us
were hospitably received and entertained by the Dean, the Rev. Thomas
Gamier, D. C. L., and by the Warden and the Master of the College,
the Rev. R. S. Barter, D. C. L., and the Rev. George Moberly, D. C. L*
We returned to London on the 18th, and on that day, in the Society's
Rooms, No. 19 Pall Mall, at a public meeting, were received and wel
comed by the Propagation Society, the Archbishop of Canterbury
presiding, and the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishops of London,
Winchester, Bangor, Oxford, Ripon, Litchfield, Chichester and Salis
bury ; Bishop Spencer and Bishop Carr, and the Bishops of Edinburgh,
Glasgow and Argyle, I think, being present, with many of the dignita
ries of the Church, and prominent clergymen and laymen. The Bishop
of Michigan was placed on the right and myself on the left of the Arch
bishop. A very cordial address of welcome was made to us as Bishops
of tie American Church, to which we respectively responded. I annex
the published account of the proceedings on these occasions, which;
though ably, are not in every point fully and accurately reported-!
On a previous day, before our arrival, under the belief that the Bishops
from the United States would not be able to attend the Jubilee
Services, a public reception had been given to the Rev. Dr. Wainwright,
the Secretary of the House of Bishops, who had been requested by the
Bishops that met in New York, to convey, as their Secretary, a copy of
their proceedings to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President of the
Venerable Society, and who, to our great satisfaction, had done so in
person, and been in public and private most cordially welcomed, not
only as our representative, but as a prominent, conspicuous and able
Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His relations to our
visit were fully stated by us on this occasion and at other times, and our
thanks and acknowledgments publicly given, as they are herein warmly
renewed, for his most valuable, acceptable and courteous services. He
also, at this time, made an address to the meeting.
The copy of the proceedings and resolutions of the American Bishops
on the 29th of April, in New York, responsive to the invitation of the
Venerable Society, brought out by the Reverend Secretary, on parchment
and illuminated, has been framed, and is suspended on the walls of the
Society's Rooms.
At this meeting an appropriation of five hundred pounds was made
by the Society towards the erection and endowment at New York of a

*SeeAppendix-E. f See Appendix-F.

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Free Hospital for the use of Emigrants from Great Britain and its
dependencies arriving at the port of New York, to which Hospital a
Chapel is to be attached, in which divine service is to be performed
in accordance with the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Ameripa. In compliance with the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
we went to Lambeth Palace where we were very kindly and hospitably
entertained by his Grace until the following Monday, when we proceeded
to Cuddesdon Palace.
On Saturday, the 19th, we were invited by the Bishop of London to
join the Bishops in an entertainment at Fulham Palace, in commemo
ration of the Queen's accession, where we met many of the Prelates.
On Sunday, the 20th of June, I preached and administered the Holy
Communion in St. John's Church , Paddington, on invitation offjthe
Rev. James S. Boon, the Incumbent.
After the services I had the gratification of meeting, at Mr. Robert
Mowbray's, the Bishop of Capetown, the Rt. Rev. Robert Gray, who
was prevented by ill health incurred in his laborious field, from being-
present at the Jubilee Services at Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's
Cathedral. In the afternoon I preached for the Rector, Rev. H. Howarth, in St.
George's Church, Hanover Square.
On this day, the 20th, the Bishop of Michigan preached in the morn
ing, in St. Mary's Church, Lambeth, on invitation of the Rev. Charles
B. Dalton, the Rector; and in the evening, at St. Bartholomew's
Church, Cripplegate.
On the 21st, on the cordial invitation of the Bishop of Oxford, we
went to Cuddesdon Palace, where we remained under his hospitable roof,
in connection with our visit to Oxford, until the following Thursday.
At Oxford, on the 21st, we attended St. Mary's Church, where the
Bishop of Oxford preached an impressive charity sermon for the Rad-
cliffe Infirmary. After this we visited Exeter College Gardens, where,
in the presence of about four hundred ladies and gentlemen, compri
sing Bishops, Noblemen, Clergymen, Masters, Tutors and Fellows,
Graduates and Undergraduates, we were presented, without, on our
part, any previous knowledge of the movement, with a Silver Gilt
Alms Basin, of beautiful design and workmanship, for the American
Church, in an address by the Rev. William Jacobson, D. D., Regius
Professor of Divinity, in behalf of the donors.

8 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
This splendid Offertory Dish represents the offering of the Magi in
antique chasing, and bears the inscription —
Ecclesia? Americanse,
Dilecta? in Christo
Oxonienses. 1852.
I insert the account of this occurrence as published in the Guardian.*
This noble and touching gift was to be placed in the charge of the Rev.
Dr.Wainwright, the Secretary of the House of Bishops, to be conveyed to
the United States.
An entertainment followed at the Hall of Exeter College, where most
gratifying expressions of regard, affection and interest for our beloved
Church in the United States, were feelingly and eloquently uttered by
Bisftops, Clergy and Laity, and respectfully and warmly acknowledged
by the Bishop of Michigan, f
* Testimonial to the American Bishops.
On Tuesday afternoon a splendid gold salver was presented to the American
Bishops who are on a visit to this country, by the members of the University
of Oxford.
Shortly after two o'clock the company assembled in the gardens of Exeter
College, and the two right reverend prelates were warmly greeted on their ar
rival. Amongst those present were the Bishops of London, Exeter, Chichester,
Oxford, Argyle and the Isles, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Lothian, Lord
Sandon, the Due Serradifalco, Sir William Heathcote, Bart., Sir H. Brydges,
the Provost of Oriel, the Principal of St. Mary Hall, the Rev. Dr. Pusey, the
Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, the Principal of Magdalen Hal), Arch
deacon Clerke, Sir Gardner Wilkinson, the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge, Dr.
Wainwright, the Rev. W. Sewell, B. D. (Sub-Rector of Exeter College,) the
Rev. Ernest Hawkins, B.D. (Fellow of Exeter College,) and a large number of
leading members of the University. Several ladies were also present.
The Rev. Dr. Jacobson, Regius Professor of Divinity, read the following
address : —
" Right Reverend Fathers in God — It was an ancient custom in this great
University that eminent guests should bear with them from its walls some little
memorial of the reverence and joy with which their visit had been welcomed.
And few occasions could suggest a revival of the usage more full than the
present of deep reflections and affectionate sympathies. We pray you, there-
fore, to bear with you from Oxford this offering from various members' of the
University, as a memorial of this joyful day, to be preserved by that branch of
Christ's Holy Church in America, which we venerate and love, as so nearly re
lated to our own, and which at present is so worthily represented by you in
this country. We pray you to receive with this offering the full assurance of
our motherly love, and of our earnest prayers that Almighty God may in His
infinite mercy, continue to bleBS and preserve your branch of Christ's Holv
Church, and pour down upon it the abundance of His grace, that each day He
may bind more closely us to it, and it to us, so that we may together hold fast
and guard the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and maintain that which
•f See Appendix — G.

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On the 23d, we attended the Commemoration at Oxford University,
in the Theatre, where, in the presence of an assemblage of three thou
sand persons, the honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law was conferred
by the Vice Chancellor, the Rev. Frederick C. Plumptre, D. D., Master
of University College, on the Bishop of Michigan, myself and the Rev.
J. M. Wainwright, with others, amidst vociferous manifestations of
enthusiasm on the part of all present.*
A Latin Oration, delivered in the Theatre by the Professor of Poetry,
the Rev. T. L. Claughton, of Trinity College, and Rector of Kidder
minster, contained a cordial and eloquent welcome to the Bishops of the

is the only security for the glory of God and the welfare of men^apostolic
truth and apostolic order.
"Signed on behalf of the contributors — William Jacobson, Regius Professor
of Divinity ; J. L. Richards, D.D., Rector of Exeter College ; C. C. Clerke, D.
D., Archdeacon of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church; H. Exeter; Lothian ;
Sandon ; Wilbraham Egerton ; Schomberg Kerr ; Osborne Gordon, B.D. ; J. T.
Coleridge, M.A. ; William Heathcote, D.C.L. ; E. B. Pusey, D.D., Regius Pro
fessor of Hebrew ; E. C. Woolcombe, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol ; James
Riddell, M. A., Fellow of Balliol ; Edwin Palmer, M. A., Fellow of Balliol ;
William Charles Salter, M.A., Fellow of Balliol; Frederick Lygon, B.A.,
Christ Church ; Frederick Meyrick, M.A., Trinity College ; S. W. Wayte, M.A.,
Trinity College; J. H. Parkin; J. H. Burgon, M.A., Oriel College; A. Brook;
Sidney W. Owen, Worcester College; Charles Marriott, B.D., Oriel; J. W.
Woolcombe, B.D, Exeter; Gardner Wilkinson; J. G. Livingstone, B.A., Mag
dalen Hall ; P. C. Claughton, M.A., University College ; T. Chamberlain, M.A.,
Christ Church ; H. W. Long, Trinity College, &c."
The gold salver was then presented to the Right Reverend Prelates. It bore
the following inscription : — Eeclesue Americans deleette in Christo Oxonienses,
1852. The Bishop of Michigan, who was received with loud manifestations of ap
plause, said : I cannot express — I cannot find words to express my feelings on
this occasion, and I know that is the feeling of my right reverend brother on
my left, for this unexpected and beautiful testimonial of affection and regard.
We do not consider it due to us, but as a gift to the Church we represent, and
as its humble ministers, we receive it. But there has been a still stronger gift
received by us since we came to this country, for a deep impression has been
made upon our hearts, an impression which no time can ever efface. I cannot
say more at present. [Cheers.]
' The Bishop of Western New York, who was also received with much ap
plause, said: Allow me .to express the feeling which now stirs my bosom to
such an extent as almost to deprive me of that power. I beg to declare my
hearty concurrence in what has fallen from my right reverend brother, and to
say that we shall carry to our distant homes an impression of your kindness
which no time can efface, and which we trust will last through the ages of
eternity. We are here in the presence of an assembly unexpectedly called
upon to receive a splendid tribute of your respect, and the remembrance of
this moment will never be lost to us. We shall carry it to our distant homes
and place it before those whom we unworthily represent, and by them it will
be cherished as it is cherished by us, with the deepest gratitude. When we
remember what has passed in England since we have been amongst you, that
remembrance can never be effaced. We beg to return you our most sincere
and cordial thanks. [Cheers.]
* See Appendix — H.

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American Church, with which, at my solicitation, the Professor has
courteously furnished me, and which, with warm acknowledgments, I
insert in the Appendix.*
In the proceedings at the Theatre in Oxford, it was peculiarly grati
fying to us to witness the cordial and marked applause elicited by.the
allusions to our Church and our country, from the Undergraduates of
the University, hereafter to be among the Divines and Statesmen of
England. These proceedings were concluded by a hospitable entertainment of a
large party by the Vice Chancellor, in the Hall of University College,
where, by the Vice Chancellor and several of the Bishops and others,
expressions of regard, sympathy and interest were earnestly expressed,
to which I made a brief and hearty response.
On the 24th, by invitation of the Rev. C. J. Vaughn, D. D., Head
Master of Harrow School, Middlesex, we attended the public declama
tion and distribution of prizes, at Harrow on the Hill, interesting to me
as the place to which my father had been sent from America more than
eighty years ago, for his education. As we descended from the Hall to
the collation at the residence of the Head Master, the American Bishops
were respectively cheered, with others, by the youth of the Venera
ble Institution whose creditable and attractive exercises we had
witnessed. On the evening of this day we attended the House of Commons
and the House of Lords, admitted by the courtesy of the Hon. A. F.
Kinnaird, M. P. for Perth, who escorted us through the various parts of
this magnificent edifice.
On the 26th, the Bishop of Michigan, under previous arrangements
with his friend and fellow-traveler, H. P. Baldwin, Esq., of Detroit,
which could not properly be longer deferred, proceeded to the Continent.
On the same day, on invitation of Archdeacon' Hale, I attended ser
vices in the Chapel of the Charter House, of which he is the Master
and in company with the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, and the Rev. Dr. Van
Ingen, inspected the various parts of the establishment, and conferred
with him on his views, in regard to the Diaconate and Sub-Diaconate.
On Sunday morning, the 27th, I preached, by request of the Rev. J.
J. Toogood, the Rector, in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, on the sub
ject of Missions, in behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the

* See Appendix — I.

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Gospel. The application of the Rector and Wardens, for a copy of the
sermon for publication, I respectfully declined.
In pursuance of arrangements, I proceeded to Canterbury, on the
28th. We were hospitably entertained at the Deanery, by -the Rev.
William Rowe Lyall, the Dean..
On the 29th, I preached the Commemoration Sermon, in the Chapel
of St. Augustine's College, and administered the Holy Communion, assist
ed by the Rev. Henry Bailey, D. D., the Warden of the College, of
whose hospitality we afterwards partook. Among the twenty-two stu
dents of this Missionary College, preparing for the Ministry, were an
Esquimaux Indian, and an African youth from Guiana.
At the entertainment in the Hall of the College, I responded to the
kind expressions of interest in the Church in the United States, from
the Warden and others, and expressed the sympathy felt in our land
for this most important Institution.
On the 30th, we attended the Cathedral services in the morning, after
which, a public meeting of a branch of the Propagation, Society was
held, at which the Rev. John Russell, D. D., Canon of Canterbury, pre
sided, and an address of welcome to the American Bishops and Clergy
was made to us, by the Rev. William S. Chesshyre, Rural Dean, to
which I responded, followed by the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, and the Rev.
Dr. Van Ingen.*
In the afternoon, we again attended the Cathedral services, and I
preached in behalf of the Society's Missions, in the Cathedral, to a large
congregation. We returned to London on the 1st of July, on which day, the Bishop
of Edinburgh, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Terrott, called and left with me the fol
lowing most gratifying communication :
"Rt. Rev. and Deae Brothee : —
"I am directed by our Primus to communicate to you, in his name, and in
that of the Bishops and Clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church, our congrat
ulations on your arrival in this country, and more especially on that happy
demonstration of the unity subsisting between the different branches of the
Reformed Catholic Church, in which it has been our privilege in common with
you, so recently to partake. The Primus desires me to express his hope that
you will be Sole to extend your visit to Scotland. Should that be the case, I
have to offer you in his name, for Aberdeen, and in my own for Edinburgh, a
cordial and brotherly welcome. I ought, however, to mention that I shall not
probably be at home till about three weeks from this date.
* See Appendix — J.

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" We assure you that we feel a'very deep interest in the progress and destiny
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, which we consider as God's
appointed instrument for the propagation of unadulterated Christianity
throughout the western half of the world ; and it is our wish to add the ties of
personal acquaintance and esteem for her rulers and her members, to the more
general ties by which we trust that we are already, with you, one body in
Christ. " I am, Rt. Rev. and dear Brother,
" Very truly yours,
" C. H. TERROT,
" Bishop of Edinburgh.
" 18 Cecil Street, Strand.
"London, July 1st, 1852."
For this invitation I personally tendered our grateful feelings, and
arranged, by Divine permission, to visit Scotland and share the fraternal
hospitality of the venerable Primus and our brethren of the Church of
Scotland, which, unshackled by the State, had so readily and cheerfully
stretched forth her straggling hands to aid and bless her feeble and
grateful Sister with the Episcopate.
In the evening of this day, July 1st, I attended the Quarterly Meet
ing of the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-fields in behalf of the Prop
agation Society, held at Archbishop Tenison's Library, Leicester Square,
at which the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, Vicar of the Parish, presided. In
this room it was stated, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts, had its origin under Archbishop Tenison, one hundred
and fifty years before.
On being introduced to the meeting by the Vicar, I made a brief
address in this Cradie of the Society. Among the speakers on the oc
casion was Sir Edward Oust, a distinguished Layman, from whose lips I
was most gratified to hear the full and explicit testimony to the greater
liberality of the English clergy in sustaining the societies and insti
tutions of the Church, beyond the Laity, whom he eloquently urged to
imitate and aid them ; and also, the result of his observations and
inquiries, having been in America, in favor of the character and exer
tions of the Church in our own land, and in the colonies.*
On the kind and courteous invitation of the Bishop of Winchester
I visited Farnham Palace on the 3d, with the Rev. Dr. Wainwrio-ht
and the Rev. Dr. Van Ingen, to share the hospitality of himself and
family, and to attend an Ordination to be held on the 4th of July. "We
had the gratification of listening to his concluding Charge to the Candi-

* See Appendix — K.

THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE. 13
dates for Holy Orders, on preaching, imparting sound, judicious, and af
fectionate counsels to the candidates, (nine for Deacons' Orders, and
fourteen for Priests' Orders,) who had been for the four preceding days
in personal intercourse with the Bishop at his residence, on their exam
ination for Holy Orders.
The Ordination was held on the 4th, in the Chapel at Farnham Palace.
At the request of the Bishop, I preached the sermon on the occa
sion, and united with him in the imposition of hands on the Priests
ordained, in which act, also, the Rev. Drs. Wainwright and Van Ingen
united, with the Chaplains, the Rev. Philip Jacob, the Rev. John M.
Sumner, the Rev. George H. Sumner, and the Rev. Robert G. Peter.
This was probably the first time that an English and an American
Bishop had united in the act of Ordination, and that an American
Bishop had in England preached the Ordination Sermon, and all together,
Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, on such an occasion, partaken of the
Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Subsequently, in the presence of
the Clergy, his family, friends, and of ourselves, the Bishop expressed
his personal gratification at our presence, his thanks for my assistance
in the services and the sermon, the pleasure this combination of services
had afforded him, his warm interest in our American Church, his
felicitations to us on the day — the Fourth of July — as the era of the
Independence of the United States, to be regarded as a Providential
event for the advancement of the Church, and the good of both nations.
To these kind remarks, I responded in the same spirit, as did also my
brethren, the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, and the Rev. Dr. Van Ingen.
We returned to London on the 5th, and on invitation of George
Peabody, Esq., united with a large body of American citizens and others,
in commemorating the Declaration of Independence at a sumptuous
entertainment at Blackwall, hospitably provided by that gentleman ; at
whose desire, I invoked the blessing of God on the feast, and on our
far off and beloved land.
I was at Cambridge on the 6th, and enjoyed the courteous attentions
of the Vice Chancellor, the Rev. Richard Okes, D. D., the Rev. John
Cooper, of Trinity College, the Rev. Charles Clayton, of Caius' College,
the Rev. John Fenwick, of Corpus Christi College, and Prof. James.
Challis, who, in the evening, afforded us the opportunity of viewing the
stars through the telescope.
I have to regret that I was unable on account of previous engage
ments, to comply with the invitations to attend the last meeting for the

14 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
season, of the Society for the Promotion of* Christian Knowlege, whose
most valuable and extensive Depository, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, I sub
sequently visited.
On the 11th, I visited and addressed the Sunday Schools of St.
Mary's Church, Little Bardfield, Essex county, and also preached in the
Church, at the request of the Rector, the Rev. Mordaunt Barnard,
whose hospitality, as a personal friend, I had for several days enjoyed.
In the afternoon I preached in St. Mary's Church, Great Dunmow,
in the same county, at the desire of the Rev. H. L. Majendie, the Vicar,
and in the evening I visited and briefly addressed an interesting adult
and boys' school, connected with the Parish. The adults numbered
about sixty, of all ages, from youthful manhood, to the age of seventy
years. The 13th I spent at Eaton College and Windsor, enjoying the hospita
ble attentions of the Rev. R. J. Gould, Curate of New Windsor, with
whom I attended the Chapel services, at Eaton, where six hundred boys
were assembled, was introduced to the Rev. Francis Hodgson, the Pro
vost, the Masters, and several of the Fellows, and examined the interest
ing matters connected with the Venerable College, the Rev. Dr. Van
Ingen, and the Rev. Walter Ayrault being with me.
Under the same kind auspices I visited Windsor Castle, and the sev
eral apartments, accompanied also by the Rev. T. O. Fosbery, Incum
bent of Sunningdale, who had interested himself to facilitate our visit
and render it agreeable.
On the 14th I attended the Chapel services in St. George's Chapel at
Windsor, and was introduced, at his desire, to the Venerable Dean the
Hon. and very Reverend George Neville, by the Rev. David F. Mark-
ham, Canon of Windsor, the grand-son of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Markham
the Archbishop of York, who assisted in the Consecration of Bishop
White, and Bishop Provost, at Lambeth, in 1787.
I attended, on the 16th, the last meeting for the season of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, memorable for an appropriation
from the Jubilee Fund towards the erection and endowment of the three
Bishopricks of Borneo, Mauritius and Graham's Town ; for an endow
ment in aid of a College and Theological Institution in Newfoundland
and for the sight of a splendid gift, by private contributions of the mem
bers and managers, of a Silver Tea Service and Candelabra to the Rev
Ernest Hawkins, the able and indefatigable Secretary of the Society'
in testimony of his long, faithful, and most efficient services.

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On Sunday, the 18th, I preached at the desire of the Perpetual
Curate, the Rev. George Proctor, in St. Lawrence's Church, Stroud, Glos-
cestershire, where I was enjoying the hospitality of a relative the Rev.
William De Lancey Lawson.
At this point I am compelled to terminate, for the present, the record
of my mission in order that it may be forwarded to New York in time
to reach the Reverend Dr. Proal, the Secretary, before the Convention
shall assemble.
To the cordiality, interest, and brotherly affection uniformly, and in
all directions, evinced by the Bishops, Clergy and Laity to ourselves,
in this Mission, as Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the
United States, their desire to understand our system, their joy in our
past success, their concern for our further progress, their disposition to
closer intercourse, their satisfaction at the opening prospects of the
Church of Christ in our portion of the world, their respect avowed for
our country, and their anxiety to learn fully, and weigh accurately the
workings of a religious body so diversely situated from their own in
its relations to the State, my Rt.-Reverend Brother and myself can bear
the testimony of the eye, the ear, the judgment, and the heart.
Of the religious establishment in this country, it does not become me,
on so slight an inspection, to speak beyond presenting the facts, as they
are presented to us. We see before our eyes a majestic engine of good,
in actual operation. Its influence is seen and felt everywhere. In all
directions we note its cathedrals and churches — -we meet its clergy —
we see its schools and colleges and universities — we mark its societies
and institutions of religion and charity, all betokening an awakened
agency, mighty for moral good, and laboring for eternal ends, inter
woven with every phase of life, and needing for its present guidance,
and for any attempted modification of its workings, the richest combi
nation of piety, wisdom, and talent, overruled by an eye looking
only at the glory of God, in the perpetuity and expansion of the Church,
and the enlightenment and salvation of the people, and Calling upon
us, while we thankfully rejoice in our own happy exemption from State
union and control, to bless God for the immense good already achieved
by the Church of England, and to pray for His continued protection,
grace, and guidance in all her future counsels, enterprises, labors and
exposures. The visit to Scotland, in which I hope to be accompanied by the Bishop
of Michigan, and the fulfilment of the invitations of several of our
Right Reverend Brethren, to their respective Dioceses, will prevent my

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returning, so as to be with you at the Convention on the 18th of
August. With cheerful confidence, my Brethren, I commit to your piety and
judgement whatever subjects the business of the Convention may bring
before you, at the annual meeting, praying God to bless and guide all
your deliberations and proceedings to His glory, and the good of His
Church and people.
Most fervently commending you, beloved Brethren, to God our
Saviour, and imploring that " the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, may be with
you all," forevermore, "
I remain, affectionately, Your Brother,
WILLIAM HEATHCOTE DE LANCEY,
Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York.
London, July 24, 1852.

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To the Convention of the Diocese of Western New-York :
MY BRETHREN— THE CLERGY AND LAITY
OF THE CONVENTION:—
The report of my proceedings transmitted to you from England,
reached to the 24th of July, 1852, and comprehended the principal
earliest items of the mission on which the Bishop of Michigan and my
self were deputed by our Right Reverend Brethren who met in New
York on the 29th of April, 1852.
I continue the record.
On Sunday morning, August 1st, I preached in St. Mary's Church,
Hursley, Hampshire, for the Rev. John Keble, who read the Ante-
Communion Service and administered the Holy Communion. For
several days we shared the warm hospitality of a relative, Sir William
Heathcote and his family, at Hursley Park, Hampshire.
On the 2d, I had the pleasure of meeting the Rt. Rev. John Medley,
D. D., Bishop of Frederickton. In the evening, we attended a Paro
chial meeting at Hursley, which was opened by an address from the
Rev. Mr. Keble, and from Sir William Heathcote, introducing the
Bishop of Frederickton and myself, both of whom addressed the meet
ing in an exposition of the progress and state of the Church in our
respective spheres of labor. On the same day, we had visited the hand
some gothic edifice, St. Mark's Church, Ampsfield, erected and endowed
by Sir William Heathcote for that part of the Parish.
We had the gratification of meeting again the next day, at the table
of the Rev. Mr. Keble, and attending the daily Service at his Parish
Church. B

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On the polite invitation of the Archbishop of York, the Most Rever
end Thomas Musgrave, D. D., we spent Friday, August 6th, at Bishop-
thorpe, where, beside his Grace and his family, we had the pleasure to
meet the Venerable Archdeacon Musgrave and others, with whom we
passed a pleasant evening.
The next day, we attended the Cathedral Service at York Minster,
and viewed the magnificent edifice in company with Major Henry
White. We were met, on the 6th, at the Station at Ripon, by the Bishop of
Ripon, who took us to the Palace and entertained us until the 9th.
On the 8th, in the morning, I preached in Ripon Minster, on the
invitation of the Rev. Robert Sutton, Canon of Ripon, having also read
the Ante-Communion Service.
In the afternoon, at the Chapel at Ripon Palace, the Prayers were
read by the Bishop of Ripon, and I preached the Sermon.
I had the pleasure to meet at the Palace at Ripon, Dr. Samuel B
Bruce, a brother of the Rev. N. F. Bruce, of our own Diocese.
On the 9th, the Rev. Mr. Ayrault joined us, and the Bishop of Ripon
accompanied us to the view of the magnificent ruins of Fountain's Abbey.
We attended the evening Service at the Cathedral, on the same eve
ning at Durham, where we met the Venerable Bishop of Exeter, who,
as Canon of Durham, was in residence, and accompanied us, after view
ing the Cathedral, to examine the College and the grounds, and with
whom we subsequently dined in company with the Hon. and Rev. John
Grey and the Rev. H. J. Maltby, Canons of Durham, and Mr. Croft.
The Bishop of Durham was not at Durham, and the vacation at the
University had commenced. We were invited to visit Durham again on
the 28th, at the meeting of the Archaeological Society, but were com
pelled to decline the invitation.
After visiting Warkworth Castle and Hermitage, on the 10th, we
spent the night at Melrose, where, after viewing the Abbey, we had the
gratification of a brief interview with the Rev. Herbert Randolph,
of Trinity Church, Melrose, and the Rev. Thomas A. Purdy, of Gala
shiels, Clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who called upon us
with offers of hospitality as soon as our arrival was made known to
them. On the 11th, we were kindly received by the Bishop of Edinburgh,

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the Rt. Rev. Charles H. Terrott, D. D., at his residence in Edinburgh, by
whom every effort was made to render our visit agreeable, and at whose
house we met the Rev. Messrs. J. W. Ferguson, Berkeley Addison, T. G.
Suther and J. Alexander, our Clerical brethren of the Scottish Episco
pal Church.
We had the pleasure also of meeting at Edinburgh the family of
an American Layman, once a resident of our own Diocese, Alexander
Duncan, Esq., whose kind and urgent invitation to visit him in the
Highlands at Castle Menzies, Mrs. De Lancey and I were most reluc
tantly compelled, by want of time and an engagement to be in Glasgow,
to decline.
On our way to Aberdeen, we paused a few hours at Perth, where,
with the Rev. Mr. Ayrault, who left us at this point, we visited St.
Ninian's Cathedral, and had the gratification of a brief interview with
the Dean, the Rev. E. B. K. Fortescue.
We spent the night of the 13th at Aberdeen, but the letter apprising
the Venerable Primus, Rt. Rev. W. Skinner, D. D. of our intended visit
not having been received by him, he was not in Aberdeen, to our great
disappointment. I have only to record a short and agreeable interview
with the Rev. Patrick Cheyne, of St. John's Church, on whom I called
and who spent a part of the evening with us.
I append the Venerable Bishop's letter, subsequently received, in
explanation of his regretted absence.*
We reached Glasgow on Saturday, the 14th. The Bishop, the Rt.
Rev. WTalter John Trower, D. D., unapprised, as we found, of the day of our
visit, was to our regret away from the city, officiating in a neighboring
Parish. On Sunday, we attended the Services in St. Mary's Church.
The Rev. Thomas Medland, an English Clergyman, Vicar of Stey-
ning, Sussex, officiated, and on his kind invitation I preached in the
afternoon. Mr. D. 0. Kellogg, the American Consul, and the Rev.
Mr. Medland called on us. The Clergy of the city were to our regret
many of them absent, and the efforts of the Consul to apprise the
Bishop of our visit in time for us to see him, did not succeed, to our
great disappointment.
On Monday, August 16th, the Bishop of Michigan joined us at
* See Appendix — L

20 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
Glasgow, having returned from the Continent and passed rapidly
through England to Scotland to overtake us.
We all left Glasgow in the steamer on the 16th, in the afternoon, and
the next morning, the 17th, by six o'clock were in Belfast, Ireland.
We proceeded the same day to Armagh, to pay our respects to the
Venerable Archbishop, the Primate of all Ireland, L.ord John George
Berresford, D. D., by whom we were most kindly and courteously re
ceived and welcomed, and at whose table we had the happiness to meet
amongst others the Lord Bishop of London and his family, the Rt. Rev.
James Thomas O'Brien, D. D., the Lord Bishop of Ossory Ferns and
Leighton, and his Lady, and the Rev. James Jones, the Archbishop'B
Chaplain, who had most attentively showed to us the grounds, the Cathe
dral, the schools, the admirably arranged Poor House, and other objects
of interest, and had introduced us to several of the Clergy and Laity,
who cordially welcomed us to Ireland and urged the prolongation of
our visit.-
On the 1 8th, we proceeded to Dublin, the Bishop of Michigan by
way of Portadown to proceed to Wexford to visit the near relatives of
one of the Clergy of his Diocese, and Mrs. De Lancey and myself by way
of Castle Blaney, Culloville and Dundalk, to visit E. J. Shirley, Esq., on
our route. Rain and the want of a vehicle detained us at Culloville for
several hours, deprived us, to our great regret, of our proposed visit, and
afforded us an opportunity of entering and examining some of the rude
cottages in the neighborhood and conferring with the inmates, who
were both astonished and gratified, as shown by the Irish warmth of
expression and compliment, at the presence of an American and an
American Bishop and his wife in their dwelling, the very reverse of the
neat and tidy cottage of an English laborer we had visited in Essex.
We had to decline drinking of the bottle of whiskey that was pro
duced, and to confess our utter inability to supply them with any of the
tobacco which they seemed to identify with the presence of an Ameri
can, but which I repudiate in all its forms.
We reached Dublin that night. The Archbishop of Dublin was
not in the city. I had the pleasure, the next day, of seeing at the
Palace for a few moments his Chaplain, the Rev. William Fitzgerald
td whom I was introduced by Thomas Pamell, Esq., who kindly accom
panied me in my unsuccessful efforts to see some of the Clergy unfor
tunately for me, not in the city.
We met at Dublin on the 19th, to our joy, the Rev. Frederick
Ogilby, of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, who in a short interview

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21

favored us with the latest intelligence from our native shores, and
through whom we received very polite invitations, which we were unable
to accept.
The kind invitation of Acheson Lyle, Esq., who called upon us, and
whose hospitality I had on a former visit enjoyed, we were also com
pelled to decline.
We left Dublin on the 20th, by way of Kingstown to Holyhead. ,
But I ought not to terminate the record of my brief visit to Ireland
without stating the result of my inquiries as to the signal movement
towards the Church of England on the part of the Roman Catholics in
the western and other parts of the Island. It is presented in the great
fact stated to me, that within the last five years „sixty thousand Roman
Catholics, including those in Ireland and those who have emigrated, have
dissolved their connection with the Roman Catholic Church, avowed
their Protestantism, and joined, the most of them, the Church of
England.* We spent the night of the 20th at Bangor, where, most unexpect
edly, we enjoyed the pleasure of the company of the Rev. C. R. Duffie,
of New York. •
The next day, after viewing the Tubular and Suspension Bridges, we
were joined at the Station by the Bishop of Michigan, who had fol
lowed us from Ireland, and together we proceeded to St. Asaph, in time
to attend the Cathedral Service in the afternoon with the Bishop of St.
Asaph, who, though not at home at our arrival, had provided for our
reception at the Palace, and with whom we were resident until the
following Tuesday.
We attended the Service at the Cathedral on the 22d twice, and in
the morning had the gratification of listening to a discourse from the
Bishop of St. Asaph, and in the afternoon of hearing his Lordship
publicly catechise the children on the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for
the day.
The sudden illness of the Bishop prevented him from accompanying
us on the 23d in our visit to Denbigh Castle, after attending the
evening Service at the Cathedral. The Rev. William Gill, Vicar of
Kirk-Malew, Isle of Man, was with us, and we were met at the Castle by
the Rev. T. Wynne Edwards, Vicar Choral of St. Asaph and Vicar of
* See Appendix — M.

22 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
Khuddlan, Flintshire, who explained to us the peculiarities of the ruins
of the Castle, and from its walls pointed us to the locality where he
was born, which had been in the occupancy of the family since the
time of the Romans.
We partook of the hospitality of the Dean of St. Asaph, the Rev.
C. S. Luxmore, in the evening, and the next day, the 24th, taking an
affectionate leave of the Bishop of St. Asaph, still confined to his roofri,*
we proceeded to Chester and viewed the venerable Cathedral and City,
the Bishop, to our regret, being absent.
After visiting Birmingham, Warwick Castle and Stratford-on-Avon,
we proceeded to Worcester, from whence the Bishop of Michigan
diverged to Liverpool, on his way to Leeds, where he was invited and
expected to preach on the 2d of September, and Mi's. De Lancey and I
went on to Malvern to visit a relative, and then to follow him to Leeds,
on a similar engagement. To the regret and disappointment of very
many of his English friends, Clerical and Lay, as well as of ourselves,
the Bishop of Michigan, as we subsequently learnt, received letters in
Liverpool which induced him to relinquish his passage in the steamer
of September 8th, and to start for America on the 28th of August.
We remained at Malvern, enjoying the hospitality of our relative,
Miss Susan De Lancey, until the 31st.
On the 29th, we attended the Services in the Minster, where, on the
invitation of the Rev. John Rashdall, the Vicar, I read the Ante-
Communion Service and administered the Holy Communion.
The next day, I met at his table several Clergymen and Laymen of
the Church of England, and a larger party in the evening.
On the 31st of August we reached Leeds, where, until the 4th of
September, we enjoyed the hospitality of the Rev. Walter F. Hook
D. D., who met us at the Station with a cordial welcome. The Rt.
Rev. William R. Whittingham, D. D., Bishop of Maryland, joined us
in the evening.
On September 1st, the Rev. Dr. Hook accompanied us in a visit to
the Earl of Harewood, at Harewood House, by whom we were cour
teously entertained at luncheon, and after viewing his residence and
. grounds, visited and viewed the handsome Gothic Church and Parson
age he is erecting.

See Appendix — N.

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In the evening of the same day, we attended a public meeting for the
Propagation Society at Leeds, at which the Bishop of Ripon presided
with an address at its opening, and at which the Rev. Dr. Hook, the
Hon. M. T. Baines, M. P., the Bishop of Maryland, and myself and others
made brief addresses* -Having just received intelligence from the
Rev. Dr. Shelton, of Buffalo, Western New York, of the munificent
bequest by Judge Samuel De Veaux, of Niagara Falls, of $150,000, as
estimated, to establish an Institution for orphan and destitute children,
under the control of the Church, I took occasion to name it, as a speci
men of lay liberality in the American Church, to the meeting, by whom
it was received with marked gratification and applause.
On Thursday, the 2d, a Service was held in commemoration of the
Consecration of St. Peter's Church, Leeds. Three Bishops, one hundred
and twenty Clergymen, and more than two thousand people attended this
Service, with a choir of more than seventy persons. The Cathedral
Service was performed. The Bishop' of Ripon administered the Holy
Communion. The Bishop of Maryland read the Epistle. I read the
Gospel, and preached the Sermon on the occasion, after which the Holy
Communion was administered to about five hundred persons.
A still larger congregation, computed at four thousand, assembled in
the evening. In the absence of the Bishop of Michigan, and owing to
the inability of the Bishop of Maryland to. officiate, by reason of ill
health, I preached a second time. It was the largest congregation that
I ever addressed, and excepting those of Westminster Abbey and St.
Paul's Cathedral, and at Canterbury, it was the most imposing and
impressive Service that I attended in England.f
The extent of this Parish Church of Leeds is shown in the fact that
the average number of marriages annually, is about 1500, and of
Baptisms about 2000.
I attended with the Bishop of Maryland a public meeting in behalf
of the Propagation Society at Ripon, in the Town Hall, on the 3d, to
which we were introduced and welcomed by the Bishop of Ripon, who
presided. Both the Bishop of Maryland and myself, with several Cler
gymen, the Mayor of Ripon and other Laymen, addressed the meeting.
We responded warmly to the hearty and gratifying expressions of
regard for the Church, our country and ourselves which fell from the
several speakers, and especially from the Right Reverend Prelate whose
* See Appendix — O. f See Appendix — P.

24 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
Diocese, formed about the same period as that of Western New York,
and whose Consecration occurring the same year as my own, were
touchingly referred to as furnishing an additional chord of sympathy
and affection under the pressure of the weighty responsibilities of our
similar but far separate spheres of labor for the Church of our common
Lord and Master.
Among the speakers was the Rev. P. Percival, a Missionary from the
East, who, originally a Methodist Minister and Missionary, following
the imperative convictions of truth and duty, as he openly avowed, had
entered the Church and become one of the ordained Missionaries of the
Church of England at Ceylon. i
The Bishop of Maryland proceeded to London on the 4th, and Mrs
De Lancey and I to Liverpool to fulfil my engagements there, made
under the expectation of taking passage in the steamer of the 8th
of September.
We were received most cordially by the Venerable Archdeacon of
Liverpool, Jonathan Brooks, D. D., Rector of St. Peter's Parish Church;
with whom we staid and in whom we unexpectedly recognized, to our
gratification, a relative by marriage.
On Sunday, the 5th, I preached at his request, in St. Peter's Church,
in behalf of the Propagation Society, and also administered the Holy
Communion, assisted by the Archdeacon and his Curates.
In the evening of the same day, I preached for the Society in St.
Augustine's Church, Everton, for the Rev. John Herbert Jones Per
petual Curate.
At the morning service, I had the pleasure to meet the Rev. Roswell
Parke, D, D., President of the new College at Racine, Wisconsin then
in Liverpool on his return to America.
On the evening of the 6th, I attended a large public meeting in the
Collegiate Institution, in behalf of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, at which the Rt. Rev. John Graham, D. D., the Lord Bishop
of Chester, presided and made an address of cordial welcome to which
I responded, followed, as seen in the Appendix, by several speeches in
the strain of comity, respect and kindness for our Church and our
country.* The next day, the 7th, I rode with the Archdeacon to Prescott
about seven miles from Liverpool, on invitation of the Rev. L w'

* See Appendix — Q.

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Sampson, Vicar of Prescott, and attended a public meeting for the-
Society, at which the Venerable Archdeacon presided, and which was
opened with an address from him. I presented and advocated one of
the resolutions adopted on the occasion. We afterwards partook of the
hospitality of the Rev. Mr. Sampson. I made on this occasion the
acquaintance of several of the neighboring Clergy ; and having recently
received an account of the Proceedings of the Diocesan Convention
which met at Syracuse in August, as published in the Buffalo Courier,
I read it to the meeting, by which it was received with manifestations
of interest and pleasure.
We had the pleasure of attending a breakfast given by the Mayor of
Liverpool, on the morning of the 8th, in honor of the American Bishops
on the eve of their departure for New York, at which about sixty ladies
> and gentlemen, including the Bishop of Chester, the Archdeacon, of
Liverpool, Mr. Turner, Member of the House of Commons, and several
of the prominent Clergy and Laity, were present.*
To the complimentary sentiment offered by his Worship, the Mayor,
and enforced by his own excellent remarks and those of the Lord
Bishop of Chester, I made a brief response.
With the Archdeacon we examined the Prison at Liverpool, arranged
partly on the principle of solitary cells and partly on that of laboring
together in a room. The former was the plan preferred. The arrange
ment of the Chapel, which would seat five hundred persons, was
peculiar, being so constructed that each prisoner sits in a box by him
self, and can see no one but the officiating Clergyman and the Keeper.
The Parish Industrial School we also visited, where a thousand
children, boys and girls, taken from the Poor House, are educated.
Each department is under a competent instructor, with assistant
teachers who have been educated in the schools. I heard the boys
examined, and witnessed their exercises and evolutions, under their
band of musicians, in marching and on a ship arranged for the pur
pose, all highly creditable to them. In the girls' school I read the
evening prayers with which the school is closed, at the request of the
intelligent and able Instructress.
We returned to London on the 9th, to complete our preparations for
returning home.
On the 12th, I attended Service in the Savoy Church, memorable as
the Church in which Bishop Thomas Wilson, of Sodor and Man,
* See Appendix — R.

26 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
was consecrated, and more remotely, I think, for the Savoy Conference
held in its vicinity.
On the 13th, I received irt London, from the Secretary of the Con
vention, a copy of the Resolutions adopted by the Convention on the
19th of August, which I transmitted, in the original, to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, with a brief letter, and which I also had printed and
distributed among the Bishops and other dignitaries of the Church in
England, Ireland and Scotland, and sent to several of the Church
papers, as well as to individual Clergymen and Laymen.
The letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of
Ripon, will evince the friendly and touching spirit in which the Reso
lutions of the Convention have been received.*
* To the Might Honorable and most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury : —
Most Reverend Father in God — I have the honor and the great satisfaction
of conveying to your Grace, and through you to the Archbishops and Bishops,
and the Clergy and Laity, of the Church of England and Ireland, the Primus
and Bishops, and the Clergy and Laity, of the Church of Scotland, and the
Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the ac
companying Copy of the Resolutions of the Convention of the Diocese of
Western New York, unanimously adopted by that body at its Session of August
19, 1852, in Syracuse, Western New York, on receiving from me a Report, to
the 24th of July, of the reception of the Bishop of Michigan and myself in onr
Mission to England, on your Grace's inyitation, to attend the closing services of
the third Jubilee of the Venerable Society- for the Propagation of the Gospel.
Most heartily concurring in the sentiments and feelings expressed by my
Clerical and Lay Brethren in their Resolutions, and fervently imploring the
continued blessing of our divine Lord and Master on your Grace, and on all
our Brethren in England, Ireland, and Scotland,
I remain, sincerely and faithfully,
Your Friend and Brother in Christ,
WILLIAM HEATHCOTE DE LANCEY,
Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York,
London, September 13, 1852. United States.

Utica, W. N. Y., Trinity Church Rectory, )
27th August, 1852. I
Right Reverend Dr. De Lancey :
My Dear Bishop,— The Convention of our Diocese have rendered it my duty
to transmit to you the following resolutions. They were passed with entire
unamimity and the kindest and most cordial good feeling; and it gives me
great pleasure in being the instrument of communicating them.
Hoping soon, by the blessing of a beneficent Providence, to be able to wel
come you to your own Diocese, and once more meet face to face,
I remain, in all regards of love and duty,
Your faithful friend and servant for Jesus Christ's sake,
P. A. PROAL, Secretary, &e.
Resolved, That this Convention have heard, with sentiments of gratitude
and joy which it would not disguise, and cannot adequately express, our Right
Rev. Bishop s Report of the cordial and affectionate welcome which the Bishops
Clergy and Laity of the English Church have given to him and the Right

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I was compelled, by an engagement to be at Derby on the 19th, to
decline the invitation of the Bishop of Oxford, to preach the Sermon
Rev. Bishop of Michigan, expressing, as we are so well assured it does, the
feeling of that venerable and ancient Church towards her daughter in the
United States.
Resolved, That this Diocese, as an integral portion of the American Church,
acknowledges with gratitude her indebtedness, under God, to the Church of
England "for her first foundation and a long continuance of nursing care and
protection," and rejoices in the continued and increasing prosperity of that
Venerable Society through whose instrumentality, in former days, that great
and holy work was effected.
Resolved, That this Convention fully reciprocates the noble and fraternal
sentiments expressed by the members of the Church of England towards this
Church and towards our nation; and will welcome the day when those senti
ments shall find a more free development and utterance in the solemn councils
of the mother and daughter Church.
Resolved, That this Convention recognizes with devout thankfulness, the
good Providence of God, which has conducted our revered Diocesan and his
companions, safely and happily in all their journeyings by sea and land ; and
offers its earnest prayers for their return in safety to their homes.
Resolved, That a certified copy of these proceedings be immediately trans
mitted to the Right Reverend the Bishop of this Dicocese by the Secretary of
this Convention; with the respectful request that they be communicated by
him, in the way that shall seem most proper, to the venerated and beloved
Prelates and others, Clergy and Laity of the Church of England, to whom we
are indebted in his person for such great and Christian kindness.
I certify the preceding to be a true copy,
PIERRE ALEXIS PROAL,
Secretary of the Convention of the Diocese of
Western New York.

Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of Western JVew York.
Addington, Sept. 16th, 1852.
My Dear Bishop, — I have the gratification of thanking you, and through
you, of thanking the Convention of Western New York, for the kind expression
of sentiment towards the members of the English and Scottish Church, and of
the Society for Propagating the Gospel, as conveyed in the resolutions passed
at their recent Assembly.
We who are thus affectionately addressed, were merely obeying the dictates
of our feelings when we gladly welcomed to this country and to the Jubilee
meetings of the Society, our brethren in the same faith, and fellow-workers in
the same cause.
It is the characteristic effect of our holy religion, to produce this cordiality.
I rejoice in every event which tends to display and cement it, as in the case of
the visit of our American brethren. And I trust that an increased zeal in the
cause to which we are alike devoted, may result, under the Divine blessing,
from the intercourse and fellowship which we have enjoyed.
I am, my dear Bishop, your faithful friend and brother,
J. B. CANTUAR.
Right Rev. the Bishop of Western New York.
Letter from the Bishop of Bipon to the Bishop of Western New York.
Palace Ripon, Sept. 17th, 1852.
My Deae Bishop, — I must thank you for the high gratification you have
afforded me in sending me a copy of the resolutions of the Convention of your

28 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
at an Ordination on that day at Cuddesdon. I append his letter.*
On Wednesday morning, the 15th, just three months after the
Jubilee, we attended the daily Service in Westminster Abbey, and
enjoyed for the last time the solemn and impressive associations of the
venerable Minster.
Having transacted the business which had delayed my departure, we
left London on the 1 8th for Derby, where I was engaged to advocate
the cause of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
We were most hospitably and kindly entertained at Derby by Mrs
Jane Mozley and her family. I preached on the 19th, both morning
and evening, in St. Peter's Church, for the Rev. William Hope, the
Vicar, and made the acquaintance of the Rev. Messrs. J. Deans, W. F.
Wilkinson, D. Anderson, G. Wright and others, both Clergymen and
Laymen, during our short visit.
We met here, as elsewhere, much earnest inquiry into the condition
and prospects of the Church in the United States, its organization and
action, its forms and usages, its Conventional and Parochial relations.
Diocese of Western New York. They breathe a spirit which certainly is recip
rocated on this Bide of the Atlantic, and tend to confirm more strongly than
ever, the conviction in my mind, of the benefits, substantial, I believe, and
lasting, which will result to both our Churches from the opportunities for the
interchange of kind offices afforded by the visit of yourself and your Episcopal
brethren. Allow me to add that the visit of yourself, and your brother of Maryland, to
our very quiet city of Ripon, (whose repose is undisturbed by the bickerings
and bitterness of any local newspaper,) has left a savor and impression for good
which I hope will not soon be forgotton.
Believe me, my dear Bishop,
Your very faithful friend and brother in Christ, 0 T TiTPOlST
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Western New York.

* Letter from the Bishop of Oxford to the Bishop of Western New-York.
Aldermaston House, )
Sept. 14, 1852. )
My Dear, Bishop— I return yon very heartily your brotherly greeting, and
greatly lament that you cannot spend your last Sunday in England with me
and my young men.
May the blessing of the Almighty overshadow you, and return you with
abundant increase all the encouragement which your visit here has given us.
I beg my very kind remembrances to Mrs. DeLancey,
And remain, most sincerely and affectionately,
Your Friend and Brother,
The Bishop of Western New York.

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Taking leave of our friends on the 20th, we proceeded to Liverpool,
where we were again welcomed to the roof of the Venerable Archdeacon
Brooks. On Tuesday night, the 21st, I received, by a special messenger from
the Rev. Charles Marriott, of Oxford, a box containing the Alms Basin
presented at Oxford, through the Bishop of Michigan and myself, to
the Church in the United States, which I had supposed was already in
America, and which has been placed by the Bishop of Michigan and
myself, under the care of the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, the Secretaiy of
the House of Bishops, subject to the order of the Presiding Bishop, for
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
I had addressed a letter from London to Archdeacon Brooks, solicit
ing the favor of partaking of the Lord's Supper with our brethren at
Liverpool, before we embarked. The request was cheerfully complied
with,* and on Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, we had the gratifica
tion and comfort of uniting, at St. Peter's Church, with the Venerable
Archdeacon and about thirty of our Clerical brethren and the same
number of the Laity, in the participation of the Lord's Supper ; on
which occasion I administered the Holy Sacrament, assisted by the
Bishop of Maryland, the Venerable Archdeacon, and his Curate, the
Rev. Thomas Halton, thus parting with our brethren of the Church of
Eno'land at the altar of our Divine Lord and Master, and we trust in
the grace and comfort of the Holy Ghost.
It was a peculiar gratification to us that to meet us at Liverpool on
our departure, the Rev. John Keble, of Hursley, had hastened his
return from the Isle of Man, had joined us at the table of the Arch
deacon, and was present at this parting celebration of the Supper of
the Lord.
We embarked, on the 2 2d, at one o'clock, P. M., the Venerable Arch
deacon attending us with his carriage to the wharf, and his Curate, the
Rev. Mr. Halton, with the Rev., J. Lester and the Rev. G. W. Warr,
Minister of St. Saviour's Church, and others, accompanying us to the
steamer ; the last named brother having been the first to welcome us
to England, was now the last to grasp our hands with an affectionate
farewell, and with a fervent invocation of the Divine protection and
blessing on our voyage home, and on our longer voyage to the haven
of eternal restf
In the return passage across the ocean in the Steamer Atlantic, Capt.
West, among our companions were the Rt. Rev. Dr. Whittingham,

* See Appendix— S. t 9e» Appendix— T.

30 THE MISSION TO THE JUBILEE.
and the Rev. Walter Ayrault ; and the christian courtesy of the Com
mander was shown, as before, in allowing us to have the morning and
evening service in the cabin every day that the weather and our ability
to officiate, would allow.
On Sunday, the 26th, the Rev. Mr. Ayrault read prayers and I
preached in the morning ; and in the evening, I read prayers and he
preached. The morning service was read by myself, and the evening service by
the Rev. Mr. Ayrault, on the 23d, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th of Sep
tember, and on the 1st and in the morning of the 2d of October; on
the evening of which day we arrived in New York.
More than forty-five of the passengers were of the Protestant Epis
copal Church and the Church of England.
We'did not omit, on the 29th and 30th of September, to unite our
prayers with those of our brethren on land, imploring our Divine Master
to be present with the Council of His Church, then assembled in New
York in His name and presence, whose peaceful, harmonious and
happy proceedings betoken, we trust, the continuance of His blessing.
With my arrival in New York on the 2d of October, at 8 o'clock P.
M., terminated the mission on which the Bishop of Michigan and
myself had been deputed by our brother Bishops in New York, on the
29th of April last.
Of the high personal gratification enjoyed by ourselves in this visit,
of its instructive and beneficial effect upon our minds, of its animating
and cheering influence on our own hearts, and of the rich spiritual
blessings which we trust and pray will flow to our own souls from this
intercourse and association with our brethren in England, Scotland and
Ireland, I need not speak.
Our reception has been frank, cordial and affectionate. Our services
at the altar and .in the pulpit have been kindly and attentively received.
Our intercourse has been the intercourse of brethren.
We return with stronger convictions of the stability, power, efficiency
and influence of the Church of England, with a higher estimate of her
spiritual character, educational control, and intellectual attainments,
with firmer confidence in her strength as the bulwark of Protestantism
and in her unflinching adherence to catholic truth as presented in the
Bible and maintained in the creeds, liturgy, offices and articles of the
Prayer Book ; with more earnest desires for synodical union and inter
course between the independent Churches of England and Ireland, Scot-

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land, and the United States,* and stirred to more fervent prayers for the
Church of England, that the blessings of the Holy Ghost may rest on all
her missions, her societies and institutions, her universities, colleges and
schools, her parishes and congregations, and on her bishops and all her
clergy and laity, to the widest extent, and to the end of time.
And now, my brethren of the Convention, with my warmest acknowl
edgments for your kind and liberal proposal to reimburse the expenses
of my mission to England, the more gratifying as the unsolicited
prompting of your own hearts, and with my congratulations to you and
thanks to God for the continued peace and harmony of our mutual
counsels and labors, I fervently commend you all, of the Convention
and in the Diocese, to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the grace, guidance
and blessing of the Holy Ghost, and remain affectionately,
Your Brother and Bishop,
WILLIAM HEATHCOTE DE LANCEY,
Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York.
October 4th, 1852.

* These Churches now comprehend about one hundred and twenty-five
Bishops, twenty-three thousand Clergymen, and many millions of Christian
people throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

APPENDIX. APPENDIX— A.
Invitation and Appointment to Attend the Jubilee.
New- York, March 9th, 1852.
Right Reverend and Dear Sir: — By the last Steamer from England, I
received the Documents, a copy of which I have the honor of transmitting to
you herewith.
In Letters to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to the Reverend
the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, acknowledging
the receipt of their communications, I have simply stated that the request ha6
been complied with, and that I wait such commands as I may be entrusted with
by the Bishops. I am, Right Reverend and Dear Sir,
Your Friend and Son in the Church,
JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT,
Secretary of the House of Bishops.
To the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Western New-York.

19 Pall Mall, February 20th, 1852.
Rev. and Dear Sir, — You will receive by this mail a letter from the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, accompanied by resolutions which have this day been
passed unanimously by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, inviting
the House of Bishops to depute representatives of* their body to attend and
take part in the concluding services of the Jubilee.
The year will terminate on the 15th June, (Tuesday,) on which day, I have
no doubt that a solemn service, with Holy Communion, will be celebrated at
Westminster Abbey.
We have thought that you, as Secretary of the House of Bishops, were the
proper person to address upon this subject, and we trust you will kindly under
take to communicate the wishes of the Archbishop, and the Society, to the
several Bishops of your Church, and to honor us with an answer as soon as —
by correspondence, or otherwise — their wishes can be ascertained. The servi
ces of such a deputation as, we trust, may be sent, will of course, be more
available to us a certain time before, rather than subsequently to, June 15th,
With sincere esteem, I am, my Dear Sir,
Yours, very faithfully,
ERNEST HAWKINS.
Reverend Dr. Wainwright,
Secretary of the House of Bishops.

Lambeth, February 20th, 1852.
Reverend and Dear Brother : — It is my gratifying duty to transmit the
accompanying resolutions of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
with a request that you will have the goodness to communicate them, in such
manner as you may think most fitting, to Ihe House of Bishops.
The Society, and, I may add, the Church of England generally, has derived
real satisfaction from the cordial manner in which the proposal, contained in
my letter of March 20th, 1851, was received; and I feel assured that the cele-

34 APPENDIX.
bration of the Society's t'nird Jubilee in America, as well as in this country, and
its wide spread colonies and dependencies, has done much to diffuse an interest
in the cause of Missions, and to promote a spirit of Christian good will and
harmony among the members of our communion, in all parts of the world.
With a view to the further advancement of these great objects, and to mani
fest still more strikingly the essential unity of the sister churches of America
and England, the Society is anxious to secure the presence and co-operation of
some representation of the American Episcopate on occasion of the concluding
services of its Jubilee year.
I trust, therefore, that in accordance with the resolutions accompanying this
letter, the House of Bishops may be induced to depute two or more of their
body to join in the religious services, which will close on Tuesday, June 15th;
and I am specially required to claim for the Society the privilege of bearing
the expenses of such a deputation.
As soon as I am honored with what, I trust, will be a favorable reply, I will
see to the suitable arrangements to be made for the reception of the Bishops,
and for the order of the services in which they will be solicited to take part.
Meanwhile, with a sincere prayer to the great Head of the Church, for a
blessing on our common labors, I remain,
Reverend and Dear Sir,
Your affectionate Brother in the Lord,
J. W. CANTUAR.
Rev. Dr. Wainwright,
Secretary of the House of Bishops.

At a General Meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, held at the House of the Society, on Friday, February 20th,
1852,_ the following resolutions, proposed by the Standing Committee, were
unanimously passed :
1. Resolved, That the Society desires to acknowledge the cordiality with
which the BiBhops and Clergy of the American Church received, and acted on
the invitation of his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to join with their
brethren of the Mother Church in celebrating the Society's Third Jubilee ; and
that, with a view to a fuller and more complete intercommunion between the
distant portions of the Church, his Grace the President, be requested to address
a communications to the Bishops of the United States, inviting them to dele
gate two or more of their number to take part in the conelcding services of
the Society's Third Jubilee Year, which will end on June 15th, 1852.
2. Resolved, That his Grace be requested, in transmitting the invitation, to
intimate to the House of Bishops the desire of the Society, that it may be per
mitted to bear the expens es of the delegation.
(A true Copy.) ERNEST HAWKINS, Secretary S. P G
February 20th, 1852. J

Hartford, March 11th, 1852.
Rt. Rev. and Dear Sir :— Upon the receipt of the foregoing communications,
it being obvious that prompt action on the part of the Bishops was essential to
render the invitation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel availa
ble, and ascertaining that it would take a number of days to write to the Senior
Bishop, and to receive in return his instructions, I immediately conferred with
Bishop Chase of New Hampshire, and Bishop Whitehouse, tie only Bishops
m the city of New-York at the time, as to what course it was proper for me to
pursue. At their instance and by their advice, I proceeded without loss of
time to Hartford, to consult Bishop Browne", the Senior Bishop east of the
mountains. He instructs me to say to you, that in his opinion, an informal
call of the House of Bishops is necessary, or at least expedient. As however
there is no canonical provision for making such a call, he further instructs me
to send you the accompanying letter, with the request that if the measure ac
cords with your judgement, you will sign it at your early Convenience, and re-

APPENDIX. 35
turn it to the Secretary ; who, upon the receipt of a sufficient number to indi
cate the wishes of the Bishops, will immediately forward them to the Senior
Bishop for his action in the premises.
I am, Rt. Rev. and Dear Sir,
You Friend and Son in the Church,
JONA. M. WAINWRIGHT,
Secretary of the House of Bishops.
To the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Western New- York.

PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING OF BISHOPS,
HELD IN THE OTTY OF NEW YORK, APRIL 29TH, 1852.
The Rt Rev. Bishop Brownell, of Connecticut, the senior Bishop east of the
mountains, having invited his brethren in the Episcopate to meet him in the
city of New York on the 29th day of April, 1852, to take into consideration
absolution of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, transmitted by
his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Secretary of the House of
Bishops, the following named Bishops assembled pursuant to said invitation :
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D, LL D., Bishop of the Diocese
of Connecticut; the Rt. Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D. D., Bishop of the Dio
eese of Vermont; the Rt. Rev. George Washington Doane, D. D, LL. D,
Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey ; the Rt Rev. Samuel Allen MeCoskry,
D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan ; the Rt. Rev. William Heathcote
De Lancey, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York ; the
Rt. Rev. William RoUinson Whittingham, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of
Maryland ; the Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of
Massachusetts; the Rt Rev. John Kewley Henshaw, D. D., Bishop of the
Diocese of Rhode Island ; the Rt. Rev. Carlton Chase, D. D., Bishop of the
Diocese of New Hampshire, and the Rt Rev. John Williams, D. D., Assistant
Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut
The Bishops attended divine service in St John's Chapel, where Morning
Prayer was said by the Rev. Jona. M. Wainwright, D. D, Secretary of the
House of Bishops, assisted by the Rev. Benj. I. Haight, D. D, who read the
Lessons. The concluding Collects were ottered, and the Benediction pro
nounced by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hopkins.
After the service, the Bishops retired to the room attached to the Chapel,
appropriated to their use. The Rt Rev. Bishop Brownell was called to the
Chair, and the Rev. Dr. Wainwright was appointed Secretary.
The following preamble and resolutions were then adopted :
Whereas, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
by a resolution transmitted through their President, the Archbishop of Canter
bury, have requested the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America to " delegate two or more of their number to take
part in the concluding services of the Society's Jubilee Year, which will end
on June 15th, 1852; and whereas, a very large majority of the Bishops of
the said Church have expressed their desire that a meeting of the Bishops
should be convened, in order that a respectful and suitable notice might be
taken of the resolution of the Venerable Society,
Therefore, be it resolved by the Bishops now assembled,
I. That our thanks are due to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
for their act of brotherly kindness and Christian courtesy ; and that in cor
dially responding to the same, we regret that no such communication between
the Bishops of this Church as would authorize the formal appointment of a
delegation from their number, in compliance with the request of the Venerable
Society, has been found practicable.

36 APPENDIX.
II. That the Bishops now present, on their own behalf, and in the belief
that their action will be approved by their absent brethren, do request the
Rt. Rev. the Bishops of Michigan and Western New York to be present, and
participate in the solemn services with which the Society's third Jubilee Year
will be closed.
III. That the Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States is deeply
indebted for its planting and early nurture in this western continent to the
charitable efforts of the Venerable Society, and that the Bishops of Michigan
and Western New York be requested to express to the Society our grateful
sense of obligation for the same.
IV. That we devoutly bless God for the great success which has crowned
the labors of this first Protestant Missionary Society, in planting the Church
of Christ, and causing His Gospel to be preached on every continent, and in
the islands of the sea.
V. That the proceedings of the Venerable Society, with a view to strengthen
the bonds of Christian union, and to promote closer and more frequent inter
course between the mother and daughter Church, by inviting the latter to
join in the services at the commencement of the Jubilee Year, in June, 1851,
and by now renewing the invitation at its close, call forth the warm sympa
thies of the Bishops now assembled ; and they assure their brethren, the
Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England, that it would afford them the
sincerest pleasure to welcome any of their number at the next Triennial Meet
ing of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, to be held during the Meeting of the General Convention, which
assembles in the city of New York on the first Wednesday in October, in the
year of our Lord 1853.
VI. That the Secretary be appointed to convey these resolutions to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, as President of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel.
The meeting then adjourned.
Attest, THOMAS CHURCH BROWNELL,
Jona. M. Wainwright, Bishop of Connecticut,
Secretary of the House of Bishops, Chairman.
Secretary.

APPENDIX— B.
The Services in Westminster Abbey, June 15th, 1852.
Yesterday morning divine service was performed at Westminster Abbey, in
celebration of the third Jubilee of this Society. The doors were besieged at
an early hour by persons anxious to obtain admittance ; and before the com
mencement of the service, the choir was filled by a numerous congregation,
the north and south transept being also much crowded. Shortly after ten
o clock a procession, composed of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, fol
lowed by a number of Bishops and the metropolitan Clergy in their robes, passed
through the choir to the altar, after which divine worship commenced. There
was a full Cathedral Service. The musical arrangements included the respon
ses, chant, and service by Tallis, which were given with very impressive effect ;
also the anthem, "Comfort ye my people," (Handel,) sung by Mr. Benson,
followed by the chorus, " And the glory of the Lord." Mr. Turle, organist of
the Abbey, presided with his usual ability at the organ. The prayers were
read by the Rev. Mr. Lupton, the first lesson by the Bishop of Argyll, and the
second lesson by the Rt Rev. W. H. De Lancey, D. D, Bishop of Western
New York ; the sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Oxford.
The text chosen by the Rt Rev. Prelate for his discourse, was from the
3d chapter of Ezra, verses 11, 12, and 13. His lordship, in commencing his
sermon, briefly referred to the circumstances attending the return of the Jews
from the Babylonish captivity, and described their feelings at being able once
more to look upon the altar of the God of Abraham ; and thence drew an
analogy between the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord and the
glorious temple in which they were then assembled. Three half-centuries had
passed away since the operations of the Society had commenced, and they
might well pause to see whither God had led them. He proceeded to notice
those imperfections which had rendered their exertions less efficatious than
they might have been, a consideration of which might help them to direct
their further course. Among these he enumerated an unbelief in the real
spiritual character of the Church, a low estimate of the cross of Christ, and a
low sense of that which constitutes the indwelling of the Holy, Ghost. Not
withstanding all the efforts they had made, how scanty were their services
when weighed against their opportunities. Adverting to the persecutions en
dured three centuries ago by our forefathers, who had to brate the fires of
their own martyrdom, he asked what would have been their feelings could
they have beheld the wide-spread exertions of the Society, in North America,
in India, and in Australia, and what would they have expected at the consum
mation of so wonderful a vision ? Yet, compared with such anticipations, how
scanty had been the fulfilment. He then specified the various obstacles which
impeded the progress of the Gospel, both m the early history of the Society
and at the present time, and pointed out what might have been done had its
efforts been less divided, and its organization more perfect. One of the chief
imperfections, he observed, was, that their services lacked the grace of unity,
with which every great success in the evangelization of the world had ever
been connected ; and he directed their attention to the conduct of the Apostles
in striving together for the faith of the Gospel as the great example they were
bound to imitate. The real hindrances were in their own miserable divisions ;
for with grief and shame it must be confessed they were earnest enough, and
had gifts enough to do great things, if their dissensions were subdued, and they
were made sensible how important it was to combine and conquer. But what
wonder was it their efforts were weakened, when sections were seen contend
ing against sections, and even good men lost sight of the principle of unity in
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38 APPENDIX.
would be impossible to estimate the amount of benefit that would result._ Yet,
notwithstanding these imperfections, there were also reasons for rejoicing;
and, like the Jews, there were voices that "shouted aloud for joy" at the great
and increasing progress of the Gospel. In North America, three centuries and
a half ago, there had been a truly religious colonization, and now the earth- —
which is girdled by our colonies — is beginning to be gemmed by our colonial
sees. They had cause to rejoice, not so much at the large increase in their
funds, as that they had been able to add three new sees to colonial Episco
pacy. The marks of unity were likewise increasing, and the stain of reproach,
top often pointed against them by the finger of triumphant scorn, that they
were the Church only of a single nation — false though it was — was now re
moved. His lordship here referred impressively to the fact of two Bishops of
the Episcopal Church in America, and other chief pastors of the Church who
had labored to spread the Gospel in Africa and China, being then present
among them, and whose ministrations in so many lands, he said, took away
the reproach levelled by their enemies, and recalled those early times of the
Apostles when men were seen coming up to Jerusalem to declare all that God
had done for them. In conclusion his lordship exhorted them to lay aside the
pride of self-assumption and jealousies which had so often proved injurious to
their progress, leading only to schism and corruption, and expressed a fervent
hope that in the future operations and destiny of the Society, the latter end
would be more glorious than the beginning.
The Offertory collection, which is to be added to the Jubilee Fund, was then
made, and the amount collected deposited on the altar. The Communion wag
afterwards administered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, first to the Clergy
at the altar, and next to the laity in the body of the cathedral, and the service
then terminated.
In the evening a sermon was preached at St. James' Church, Piccadilly, by
the Rt Rev. Dr. De Lancey, Bishop of Western New York, the text being
taken from Malachi, second chapter and third verse. The chief subject of his
discourse was, the applicability of the language of ancient prophecy, and espe
cially that of the text, to the ultimate diffusion and final triumph of the reli
gion of Christ It was not to be expected that he should urge any new views
on Missionary efforts for the conversion of the heathen. He was there among
them, with his brother of Michigan, to express his heart-felt sympathy with
the noble Society, and those who labored to promote its success, and make the
extension of the Gospel co-extensive with the limits of the earth. He dwelt
on the words of the text as intended to indicate the unlimited diffusion of the
knowledge of God. The conviction of this great truth was often derided as
fanatical and visionary, even by those whose faith and sense of duty could not, in
other respects be called in question ; and it was true that the obstacles to this
universal religious development seemed almost insurmountable, when even
nominal Christianity occupied only a small portion of the globe. Yet, though
their hopes might seem chimerical, they rested their expectation on the Rock
of Truth, in humble reliance on the divine veracity and power. To effect
God's purposes human agency was the means employed, and hence the neces
sity and appointment of a permanent ministry. After referring to the various
gifts possessed by different individuals, each calculated to promote this great
work, the 'Rev. Prelate said there was no man on whom the obligation did not
rest, to spread the same knowledge of divine truth that was experienced by
himself, and who was not bound to contribute to that end in proportion to his
means. He remarked that the land he came from had supplied ample evidence
of the gradual accomplishment of the prediction contained in the text; for,
where savage idolatry once prevailed, the name of God was magnified by a
thousand tongues, and a striking attestation was thus afforded of the words of
the prophecy. He impressed upon his hearers, in ..conclusion, the duty of self-
examination, lest they should be guilty of impiety and ingratitude, not pre
cisely of the same nature, but similar in spirit, as those charged by the Prophet
against the Jews. J l
A collection on behalf of the Jubilee Fund was made at the close of the
service. London Morning Ctironicle.

APPENDIX— C.
The Services in St. Paul's Cathedral, June 16th, 1852.
The one hundred and fifty-first anniversary, or close of the third Jubilee
Year, of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was
yesterday commemorated by divine service at St. Paul's Cathedral, before the
Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, a large number of the prelates of the Church,
and an exceedingly numerous and highly attentive congregation. The doors
of the north and south transept were open for the admission of persons pos
sessing tickets; those without tickets were admitted at hali-past three o'clock.
Shortly after three o'clock the Lord Mayor, preceded by the mace-bearer,
sword-bearer, and other civic dignitaries, arrived at the west entrance, and
proceeding through the nave, was conducted to the- place usually set apart
tor him. A large number of prelates, wearing their canonical robes, shortly
after arrived, among whom we noticed the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishops of London, Winchester, Rochester, Ripon, Salisbury, Oxford, Bangor,
Carlisle, Ely, Chichester, Lichfield, St. Asaph, Llandaff, Moray and Ross,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Argyle, with Bishops Carr, De Lancey, MeCoskry, and
Bishop Designate Boones. The seats round the altar were occupied by Cler
gymen. Full cathedral service was performed by the choir of St. Paul's,
assisted by the choirs of Westminster and St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The
whole of the musical arrangements were under the direction of Dr. Elvey, of
St. George's Chapel Royal ; and the anthems, " Hosanna to the Son of David"
(Gibbons), given after the third collect, and " How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the Gospel" (Handel), were most effectively given, Mr. Goss
presiding at the organ with his usual ability. The lessons were read by the
Rev. Canon W. T. Hall ; the 6ermon was eloquently and fervently preached
by the Rt Rev. the Bishop of Michigan.
The text selected by the Rt. Rev. Prelate was taken from St. Matthew, chap.
xxiii., verse 8, "And all ye are brethren." In commencing his dicourse the
Right Reverend preacher 6tated that, notwithstanding the clear statement of
Holy Writ, that " God had made of one blood all nations of men," there were
not wanting philosophical men of a. speculative character who had attempted
to show that all members of the human race were not brethren. Sin had
brought strife and contention, and with it unhappiness and misery, into the
human family, and made its various members enemies to each other, instead
of friends and brethren. But, God be praised ! a plan had been devised by
his Son, which would effectually remove from the human race the effects of
sin, and bring all together into one family, with one head, Christ Jesus. This
family was the Church of the living God, and it became a matter of important
inquiry how we might obtain admittance into that family, and what were the
consequences which would flow to us from our adoption into it. Under the
first inquiry, the Rt. Rev. Prelate stated that the only door of entrance
was Christ himself, and the rite of admission was holy baptism. The distinct,
emphatic and uncompromising way in which the Bishop announced, in all its
completeness and"* extent, theMoetrine of baptismal regeneration, and the evi
dent intention which he displayed to make himself clearly understood on this
point, created a. deep and marked impression on the congregation. Every
person who received this rite was, he said, made a new creature, or, in the
words of the Catechism, "a child of God and an inheritor of the kingdom of
heaven." No previous qualification was necessary in order to obtain the
privilege of baptism. All were invited to enter into the family of God, and
the only condition prescribed in order to a full participation of the privileges
of membership of the family was personal holiness, " without which no man
could see the Lord." This relation, once established, would always continue

40 APPENDIX.
to exist — the prodigal was still a son, even in the midst of his wildest excesses
and greatest depravity. Hence arose the necessity of a continual confession
of sin, and a return, as the penitent prodigal, to the bosom of the Great Head
of the family ; for although there could be no second regeneration or new
birth, any more than there could be a second birth into this world, still there
might be many renewals or conversions. One of the consequences of this new
relation was that, being made brethren by our love of God, we should then
not fail to love one another. This love was one which, springing from a pure
heart, would seek only the welfare of others; it was that love which kindly
beareth all things, hopeth all things, and believeth all things; it was a love
which would survive when every thing earthly had faded away — when faith
should be lost in sight, and hope in the full enjoyment of eternal happiness.
This love was, moreover, not confined to the narrow limits of family or coun
try, but reached to the furthest extremities of the world ; it sought to bring
into one great family the whole of the children of men, and to unite all the
nations of the earth into one great kingdom of our God and of his Christ. It
would, in short, compel us to devote our whole lives to the service of our
Great Master, the adorable Son of God. They met together upon that occa
sion as brethren of Christ ; they had come from almost every part of the earth
to mingle their joy together for what had already been accomplished in extend
ing the family of God upon earth. There had never been such a union of the
different portions of Christ's family, Bince the period of the Reformation, as
that which he now witnessed. It gave some slight idea of the communion of
saints, and shadowed forth the glorious anticipation of that day when the
Church of the living God from among all nations should be united together in
one common Christian brotherhood. This was the Jerusalem to which, as in
times of old, they came up from all nations to make their reports to the
Apostles. In America they could not at present keep pace with the demands
made upon them for pastors, and places in which but a few years since only
the yells of savages were heard, now echoed with the sounds of prayer and
praise. The broad Atlantic could not divide the two Churches ; their members
spoke one common language — one which would, sooner or later, become the
most widely spoken language of the world. What prospects were not opening
up before our view ! We have Oregon, California, and sooner or later we must
have Mexico. The Saxon nation must sooner or later possess the whole South
American continent. It was our duty to be up and to be diligent. Let us not
rest satisfied until the sound of the glorious Gospel was heard around the Jericho
of error and superstition, which, her walls fallen to the earth, would lead to the
deliverance of the sons and daughters of God from that spiritual bondage
in which they had been so long held. It was only for us to resolve, in the fear
of God, and the work would bedone. Let us pray, said the Right Reverend
Prelate in conclusion, that God in his infinite mercy may enlighten our minds
increase our zeal, and enable us to spend and be spent for the service of our
common Lord : and then it will not be too much to hope that, at the next
Jubilee of the Society, hundreds of the successors of the Apostles will meet
within these consecrated walls to tell of the glorious works which have been
achieved in the name of the Lord.
The Benediction having been pronounced, the Hallelujah Chorus was most
effectively given by the united choirs.
At the service held on Tuesday, at Westminster Abbey, upwards of four
hundred pounds was collected in aid of the funds of the society and the Com
munion was administered to about a thousand communicants. Chronicle.

APPENDIX— D.
The Lord Mayor's Dinner, June 16th, 1852.
The Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to the prelates and a great
number of the other dignitaries of the Church, upon their return from St.
raala after the sermon to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts. Covers were laid in the Egyptian Hall for three hundred and
fatty. The Bishops of Michigan and Western New York were amongst the guests,
as a deputation from America.
The company consisted of the following :— The Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Michigan, the Bishop of Western New
York, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Ripon,
the Bishop of Salisbury, and Mrs. Denison ; Bishop of Worcester, Mrs. and
Miss Pepys; Bishop of Chichester, and Mrs. Gilbert; Bishop of Lichfield, and
Miss Lonsdale ; Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of St. Asaph, Bishop of Sodor and
Man, and Lady Auckland; Bjshop of Glasgow, Bishop of Moray and Ross,
Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, Bishop Carr, Bishop Spencer, the Dean of St.
Paul's, and Mrs. Millman ; the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ;
Archdeacon Hale, Archdeacon Sinclair, the Master of the Temple, and Mrs.
Robinson ; Archdeacon Glover, Archdeacon of Barnstable, the Hon. and. Rev.
Montague Villiers, Rev. Thomas Dale, Rev. W. W. Champneys, Rev. Dr. Van
Lagen, Rev. Dr. Wainwright, Rev. Dr. Russell, Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Rev. Dr. and
Mrs. Major, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Vivian, Rev. Dr. and Miss Waters, Rev. Dr. and
Mrs. Rice, Rev. Dr. Croly, Rev. Dr. Donaldson, Sir John and Lady Hansler,
Mr. Masterman, M. P., Mr. Chaplin, M. P., and Mrs. Chaplin ; Rev. Walter
Ayrault, Rev. James Blomfield, Rev. J. Thomas, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wrench,
Rev. James Edwards, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, and Mrs. Edwards ; Rev.
R. Hooper, Rev. J. Pratt, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Rooksby, Rev. Ernest Hawkins,
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Murray, Rev. D. Williams, Rev. A. M. Campbell, Rev. H.
Vernon, Rev. W. T. Bullock, Rev. D. Moore, Rev. M. Moore, Rev. M. Martin,
Rev. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Richardson, and Miss Richardson ; Rev. Mr. Povah,
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Heath, Rev. Stephen and Mrs. Cattley, Rev. Cornelius Hart,
Rev. Mr. Balearts, Rev. Mr. Rushdale, Rev. Mr. Sawbridge, Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
Panter, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson, Rev. J. M.
Sykes, Rev. A. Oakes, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Rev. W. R. Townsend, Rev.
W. W. Hutt, Rev. C. Marshall, Rev. Mr. Whittemore, Rev. J. Stratton, Rev.
K. B. and Mrs. Kennard, Rev. C. Roberts, Dr. Tweedie, M. D., Dr. Colledge,
M. D., Dr. Tulloh, M. D, Alderman Thompson, M. P., and Mrs. Thompson,
Alderman Humphrey. M. P., and Mrs. Humphrey, Alderman Farebrother and'
Miss Farebrother, Alderman and Mrs. Wilson, Alderman. Sir George Carroll,
Alderman and Mrs. Hooper, Alderman Farncomb and Mi6S Stone, Sir John
Musgrove, Bart., Alderman Challis, Alderman Sidney, M. P., and Mrs. Sidney,
Alderman Moon and Mrs. Langmore, Alderman and Mrs. Finnis, Alderman
Sir Robert Carden and Lady Carden, Alderman and Mrs. Wire, Alderman and
Mrs. Carter, Alderman Cubitt, M. P., and Mrs. Cubitt, Mr. Sheriff, Mrs. and
Miss Cotterell, Mr. Sheriff and Mrs. Swift, Mr. Commissioner Harvey Mr.
Chamberlain and Mrs. Brown, Mr. Under-sheriff and Mrs. Millard, Mr. Under-
Bheriff and Miss Hopwood, Mr. Mowbray, Mr. Cazenove, Mr. and Mrs. Uzielli,
Mrs. and Miss Richardson, Mr. and the Misses Caldecott, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah
Pilcher, Mr. and Mrs. Burder, Mr. Knyvett, Mr. and Mrs. Overall, Mr. and
Mrs. W. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss BridgemaD, Mr.
and the Misses Curling, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter,
Mr. Christopher Hodgson, <fec. Chronicle.

APPENDIX— E.
; The Visit to Winchester, June 17th, 1852.
On Thursday the Anniversary Meeting of the Winchester District Associations,
in connection with the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge and for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was held in this city, on which
occasion an eloquent and effective sermon was preached at the Cathedral, by
the Rt Rev. Dr. McCoskry, Bishop of Michigan, who, with Bishop De Lancey,
of Western New York, and the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, Secretary to the House
of Bishops, form a delegation sent by the American Church to the Church of
England, on the occasion of the third Jubilee of the Society for the Propaga
tion of the Gospel.
The text was taken from St. Matthew, chap. 23, v. 8, "And all ye are
brethren." The preacher, after speaking of the general brotherhood of all
mankind, enlarged on the sacred brotherhood of all the members of the
Church, the Body of the Lord, and concluded by a feeling expression of the
delight with which he and the other members of the American Delegation
came to their " Jerusalem," which he hoped they might some day again revisit,
by hundreds and thousands, to take counsel " with the Apostles and Elders."
Soon after the conclusion of divine service, a meeting was held at St. John's
House, for the purpose of hearing the Reports read, and other business.
The Dean of Winchester presided, and in addition to the Delegation from
the United States, were seated on the platform the Warden of Winchester
College, the Rev. Dr. Moberly, Archdeacon Wigram, Rev. Canon Carus, Rev.
R. D. Buttemer, Rev. D. Coekerton, &c, &e.
The Dean of Winchester, (after prayers had been offered up,) said they were
assembled there to-day not only for the purpose of advocating the claims of
two ancient societies — the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and
the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts— but to receive from
the highest sources of information some account of the success of missionary
labors in various parts of the world. They were honored on that day by the
presence of two Right Reverend friends, and the Secretary of the American
House of Bishops, and of some others who had left their distant homes with
hearts beating with anxiety to deliver a message of love from the American
Church, and to invoke the blessing of God on our Church ; they now stood
as it were, on the foundation of their own mother Church. They came here
not as strangers, but as Christians, to offer their thanks to this country.
The Rev R. D Buttemer, at the request of the Very Reverend the Chairman,
then read the Annual Report of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowl-
??£?' ?!£ TI^t* aPPeared that the issues of books have been as follows :—
Bibles 137,441; New Testaments, 76,037; Common Prayer Books, 290 174-
other bound books, 905,445; Tracts, 2,807,137 ; total, 4,216,234. More than
220 schools have been assisted by gratuitous supplies of publications during
the year; and 139 grants of Bib es and Tracts have been voted for parochial
distribution during the same period. About 239 lending libraries have been
established or augmented by donations of books. Upwards of 109 sets of
books have been presented by the Board, for the performance of Divine Ser
vice in new and additional churches and chapels, and in licensed sehool-rooms
Many grants have a so been made towards the promotion of objects of Try
great importance and interest in the Colonies. The sale of books and tracte
10, l%r4d fc dU"Dg the year haS amounted t0 ^e sum of IS
10s 1 3-4d. the Treasurer's accounts are n<s filling. «„v,„„ • i- "*">"*'
tions and sales, £466 4s lid ; expens^ ^Z^l^f^^l'- tit
ing in the Treasurer's hands, £76 lis 6d. ThisVm being required to melt

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outstanding claims for books supplied, the Association has not been able to
remit any donation to the Parent Society.
The Rev Dr. Moberly, Secretary to the Winchester Branch Association of
the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, made a statement of
the receipts of the past year, of which the chief items are as follows :— District
bociety, 1851, £91 8s 8d; Twyford Association, 1850, £7; Hursley ditto, 1851,
£40 16s 6d ; Romsey ditto, £26 6s; Sherfield English ditto, £4 3s ; St. Swithin's,
Winchester, ditto, £59 0s 2d; St. Michael's, (two years,) £30 5s; Jubilee col
lection at the Cathedral and St. John's House, Dec. 2, 1851, £276 16s 2d;
Jubilee collections in the Deanery of Winchester, £67 7s 7d.
The Rev. Mr. Hawkins said he should consider it extremely presumptuous,
and in bad taste, if he were now to enter into any minute details of the Socie
ty^ operations, as they had been so fully pointed out of late, especially on
Tuesday night at Westminster Abbey, where its Jubilee had been celebrated.
It had been celebrated in various parts of the world, and in none with more
earnestness than the United States of America. Letters had been sent by the
Society to not less than 107 Bishops, in different parts of the world, of our
communion, from among whom, Bishops of Scotland, America, Asia, and (had
it not been for the illness of the Bishop of Cape Town, he might have added)
Africa, took part in the glorious celebration of last Tuesday. The receipts of
of the Jubilee Year amounted to about £1000 a week for the whole year; and
their offerings were bestowed principally upon the foundation of Theological
Colleges in the Colonial Dioceses and the establishment of Episcopal Sees in
Borneo, the Mauritius, and the eastern parts of the overburthened Diocese of
Cape Town.
The Bishop of Western New York (De Lancey) said it was utterly out of his
power to express the feelings which had been awakened within him on account
of the kind reception which had been given to his Right Reverend brother and
himself wherever they had been met by members of the Church of England,
and especially of the kind manner in which they had been received on that
day. He would now, without further preface, proceed to give some account
of the Church to which he belonged. They were laboring for God's Church
and the institution which the Lord had established, and which they were not
authorized, in the slightest degree to attempt to change ; in this view they
6trove to promote Christ's cause. They believed that in the Church only in
this world were the means of salvation given to miserable man ; therefore they
were unwilling to sacrifice them, and desirous by every means to promote
them. The ministers of the American Church held a position exceedingly
different from those of the Church of England, for they were disconnected
with the State ; they asked to be let alone. The State extended just as much
protection to the Church as it did to other religious societies, and no more ; it
merely inquired whether they had acted in accordance with their own pro
fessed principles ; if either party had deviated from the rules of their religion,
of whatever denomination, and simply whether they had acted according to
their own laws — if so, then they were supported and protected. Such was
the position in which they stood with regard to the State. They were eligible
to any position in the State, and many filled the office of Judges and other
important appointments, who were members of the Episcopal Church. There
were twenty-three millions of inhabitants in the United States, while there
were only a million and a half belonging to the Church ; but happily they
were an increasing body. In his own Diocese there was an Episcopal church
on one side of the street, and a Presbyterian chapel on the other ; and it was
a striking thing to the neighbors to see, as they had seen, the Presbyterian
minister, and his two deacons, become a clergyman and the two church
wardens in the Episcopal Church. On the average he confirmed 500 or 600
a year. This would, no doubt be reckoned a small number in England ; but
in his Diocese it was very considerable. Of these, one-half were converts
from other religious denominations. In his own Diocese, one-fourth of the
one hundred and twenty clergy were originally clergymen of other denomina
tions. One of the Bishops now presiding over the Church in America was
originally a Presbyterian. These were facts, (and the Bishop added several

44 APPENDIX.
more to the same effect,) which tended to show that the Church, where it had
free scope, was making great progress. In America the clergy needed the
support of their lay brethren, and he supposed this was the case in England.
The great instrumentality by which the Church was to be assisted was the
laity, who must come forward, and see that it was their bounden duty to con
tribute liberally to the promotion of this object. He trusted that the effect of
the Jubilee would be to extend a greater warmth of feeling and brotherhood
in every part of the Church of God.
The Bishop of Michigan, after some preliminary remarks, said he stood there
as the representative of the daughter of the English Established Church, and
could readily account for the agitated feelings of the Very Reverend the
Dean, for there were few mothers who could calmly welcome their children.
The letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of the Jubilee had
struck a chord which had vibrated through the length and breadth of their
land. There was not » parish in the United States that did not rejoice at it.
He had some hundreds of the children of the forest in his own Diocese, who,
on every Lord's Day, might be heard, in their own language, joining in the
chants of our Liturgy : which showed that our service was not only suited for
the white man, but for every savage. The Jubilee had not only been kept in
the civilized world, but in the wilds of America by the savages. With respect
to the Church of America, as its position had been so admirably explained by
his Right Reverend friend on his left, he should not occupy time by making
further allusions to it In endeavoring to extend the Church of Christ, there '
could be no compromise — we must maintain the full and unbroken organiza
tion which the Lord had given us. We were met, on the one hand, by Roman
Catholics ; and on the other by different sects. Episcopacy, he considered,
was necessary, not only for the well-being of the whole Church — he conceived
it to be essential to the very existence of that Church. They could then meet
the Roman Catholics at all points, by referring back to the earliest times —
expose their corruptions, and tell them that we were descendents of the primi
tive Church of Christ, in approaching the dissenters, they could meet them
in a spirit of kindness and Christian love, and win them by the force of truth
and the great safeguards of the Church. In this country, people had no idea
of the evil of dissent. It was in America only that they could feel its real
magnitude. There sectarians abound — their name is legion — of these indeed
many were received into the Church which was the conservative principle of
their society and government, and though not connected with the State, the
State could not do without it. In point of numbers they were, indeed, but as
a little leaven ; but a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Although the
members of the Church did not exceed a million and a half, ''t was gratifying
that a portion of her children could come home to their mother, and speak
their minds freely ; and he trusted the recollection of that day would never
be blotted out of his mind.
The Rev. Dr. Wainwright rejoiced most heartily that the American Bishops
had been enabled to come to this country, and make a statement of the posi
tion of their Church, for many members of the Church of England were not
aware that they had Bishops in America. When he entered the noble Cathe
dral of that city, one of the first things he asked was to see the tomb of old
Izaak Walton. He had read his entertaining book on angling, and his more
serious works, the Lives in America. There was another living writer whom
he trusted he should be enabled to see— the poet oi the Church, whose beauti
ful lines were known throughout the length and breadth of his land Much
had been said of what had been accomplished by the Jubilee. The Jubilee
Year was now past and they must look to the consequences which were to'
follow. He trusted that their present visit would induce the Church of Eng
land to know more about them, and that a deputation would come to the
banks of the Hudson or the Mississippi, and unite their common labors in the
great cause. Let this be the result of the Jubilee, that their labors mio-ht be
henceforth more united. They must pray that the language which wa°s used
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effect They had witnessed a glorious Jubilee Year, which had stirred up a
missionary spirit in almost every country, and throughout America, wherever
its influence had been felt, he believed the same effect had been produced. If
such had been the consequence, let them remember that the year of work was
now to be begun— a year of more efficient labor was to be performed, and
greater contributions must be raised to further the great object which they
had in view. He called on the young who now heard him, to remember that
day; and, if God should spare them to see another Jubilee, to assemble on a
Bimilar occasion, and he trusted on a much larger scale, to promote the exten
sion of God's holy word throughout every kingdom and nation of the earth.
The operations of the Society had now been extended to China, and they were
beginning in some degree to be carried out in Japan, and he trusted that ere
long the truth would penetrate into every nation of the earth, so that they
might rejoice that the kingdoms of this world had become the kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ
The Warden of Winchester College rose to convey the thanks of the meet
ing to the Very Rev. the Bishops, and to the Reverend Ministers and Repre
sentatives of the American Church who were present on that day, and he
need not say that a more welcome and more grateful task could not be imposed
on him. He was certain that they felt the same love of country as ourselves,
and sympathy in the cause which brought them to our shores, and thiB would
teach us to measure their feelings by our own. They had come from their
own distant shores to visit England, their parent country, and their object in
so doing was enough to light up every Christian feeling within us. When he
heard the words of eloquence which flowed from their lips, his feelings were
far beyond his power to express. Let them, then, consider how nearly these
our brethren were connected with us by ties both natural and spiritual. To
both these Societies they were greatly indebted for the vast benefits which
they had conferred. Formerly they were united, but now they had diverged
to different spheres of duty, and he trusted that the most earnest exertions
would hereafter be used in their support to make up for past deficiencies. As
the Bishop had truly said, mankind were all of one blood, and the nation from
which their guests had come were formerly more nearly connected, which
could not be forgotten ; and although they might look with regret on the sep
aration of the two countries, it was gratifying to know that in affection they
were not disunited, and that God had worked out his own wise ends in accom
plishing that which at first appeared to us to be an evil ; for although the
disruption was at first viewed as a calamity, it was far more than compensated
by its results in the establishment of the Church in America. This country
was at first a niggard in dispensing spiritual blessings, and when first offered
they were coolly received by the Americans, who doubted our sincerity ; but
since the appointment of Bishops, all doubt had been removed. The Warden
concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the American Deputation.
The Rev. Canon Carus seconded the resolution, which was supported by the
Archdeacon of Winchester, speaking in the name of the Bishop and parochial
clergy, and carried unanimously.
Ihe Dean of Winchester having made a suitable acknowledgment, pro
nounced the Benediction, and the meeting then terminated.
The collection at the Cathedral, in the morning, amounted to £44 6s 8d ;
and in the afternoon, at St John's House, £9 8s 4d — total £53 16s Od.
Winchester Newspaper Report.

APPENDIX— F.
The Society's Welcome to the American Bishops, June 18th, 1852.
Yesterday an interesting special meeting of this Society was held at the
Institution, 79, Pall-Mall, for the purpose of presenting an Address to the
American Bishops, who have lately arrived from the United States, to take
part in the closing services of the Jubilee. The Chair was occupied by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and amongst the Prelates, Noblemen, Clergymen,
and gentlemen present were :— The Bishop of Armagh ; the Bishops of Lon
don, Winchester, Bangor, Oxford, Ripon, Lichfield, Chichester, and Salisbury ;
Bishops Spencer and Carr; Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan; Bishop De Lancey,
of Western New York ; Earl Nelson, the Rev. Lord John Thynne ; Archdeacons
Sinclair, Hale, Harrison, Thorp, Bethune and Shortland ; the Dean of St. Asaph,
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., M. P., Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart, M. P., Sir W. Page
Wood, M. P., the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, Bart, the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, the
Hon. and Rev. R. Cust, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, A. J. B. Hope, Esq,
M. P. ; the Rev. Drs. Russell, Jelf, Wordsworth, and Burney, the Master of the
Temple, the Revs. Ernest Hawkins, H. J. Vernon, and W. T. Bullock, the
Rev. T. B. Murray, Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowl
edge ; the RevB. H. Howarth, A. M. Campbell, H. Burrows, J. Winter, W. L
Hussey, E. W. Tuffnell, J. V. Van Ingen, T. F. Stooks, E. A. Hoffman, H. H.
Wyatts, B. C. Sangar, A. Alston, T. Randolph, R. Burgess, J. Goring, F. G.
Blomfield, N. Smart, G. Gilbert, (Charlton-lane,) S. Smith, H. Clissold, G. Hills,
E. Edwards, W. W. Scott, M. Anderson, C. Sparkes, R. W. Browne, J. Jackson,
R. Montgomery, W. Whitehead, R. Stainforth, I. Thomas, E. Bickersteth, L
Darling, E. Woodhall, W Harness, I. Browell, W. H. Drage, W. F. J. Kaye,
T. V. Fosbery, R. C. Trench, E. Lilley, C. A. Swainson, H. Mackenzie, S. Clark,
H. Caswall, G. Ainslie, R. C. Pole, W. H. W. Bowyer, R. E. Coplestone, B.
Belcher, I. Jennings, E. Nepean, E. P. Eddrupp; Dr. R. Phillimore, Dr. A. J.
Sutherland, Major Moorsom, Robert Mowbray, Esq., J. H. Markland, Esq.,
F. H. Dickinson, Esq., W. Cotton, Esq., Colonel Sim, W. W. Bird, Esq., R.
Clarke, Esq., J. G. Hubbard, Esq., T. Charrington, Esq., Colonel Short, T. Turner,
Esq., I. Parkinson, Esq., G. F. Mathison, Esq., J. Rogers, Esq., P. Carthew,
Esq., J. C. Sharpe, Esq., D. S. Moriee, Esq., J. Lindsell, Esq., E. Wyndham,
Esq., W. Wilberforce Bond, Esq.
The Archbishop of Canterbury having offered up an appropriate prayer, to
which all assembled responded with much fervor, rose and said — It is scarcely
necessary for me to observe, that the special meeting summoned for this morn
ing is for the particular purpose of receiving with that respect which we feel
to be due the Bishops from America, who have done us the favor, at great
inconvenience to themselves, of coming to witness," and to take an important
part in, this celebration. (Cheers.) We have already had so many opportu
nities of expressing our feelings towards our distinguished visitors that I will
not repeat what has been already said ; or attempt to express what is felt by
all here present. (Cheers.) Our Secretary has prepared an Address, which
he will now read.
The Rev. H. Hawkins, the Secretary, then read the following Address:
" Right Reverend Fathers in God, — It is with deep feelings of affection and
thankfulness, that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, welcomes you this day.
"Promptly accepting the invitation of the Society, conveyed through Ms
Grace the President, you have come at much personal inconvenience, the
honored representatives of a Church which is one with our own, to join in the
concluding prayers and praiseB of our Jubilee Year.

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''Your presence carries back our thoughts to those early years of the
Society's history, when the great Continent of America was the principal
sphere of its labors, and we can not call to mind the names of the Missionaries
who first went forth to preach the Gospel there, without heartfelt gratitude to
God, who has given such increase to the seed then sown.
"You, Right ReverendSirs, can, better than others, testify that the labor of
the Society has not been in vain ; and if you are witnesses that our efforts in
furtherance of the Gospel, feeble and insufficient as they were, have yet been
blessed of God, you may fitly be called to share in our jubilee rejoicings.
" You present in your own persons a striking evidence of the progress which
the Church has made in your own country since the time that it became fully
organized. " For fourscore years, the Society, as you are well aware, made strenuous
though alas ! unsuccessful, efforts, to obtain the Episcopate for America.
" Yon come the real, if not the formal, representatives of more than thirty
Bishops, whose Sees are planted in every State of your great Union, from
Maine to Florida, and from Massachusetts to Missouri.
•' You come, Right Reverend Sirs, the delegates of an independent Church,
having her own Canons and form of government, a nChureh which, if (as is
gratefully acknowledged in her Book of Common Prayer) she is ' indebted,
under God, to the Church of England for her first foundation, and a long con
tinuance of nursing care and protection,' yet is she not left behind by the
mother Church in her exertions for the propagation of the Gospel, but is
planting her Missions not only in the farthest west of America, but is sending
her Missionaries, aye and her Missionary Bishops, to the great heathen conti
nents of Africa and China.
" Cordially, therefore, do we welcome you as fellow laborers in the harvest
field of our common Lord and Master, and sincerely do we pray that our only
rivalry may be as to which portions of his Church shall serve him with the
more faithful service. His charge to all his servants alike is, ' Occupy till I
come,' and well does it become us to bear in mind that, of our common Church,
as much has been given to her, so will much be required ; much for the main
tenance of pure and undefiled religion among our home populations, much
also for the spread of the Gospel throughout the world. _
" Your presence among us, Right Reverend Fathers, is a pledge and earnest
of a fuller and more frequent communion between the Church in America and
the Church in England, and we trust that your visit will inaugurate a happier
era, in which the brethren on both sides of the Atlantic shall be knit together
in one holy and loving fellowship, as brethren in Christ, and so by the out
pouring of his Holy Spirit, be strengthened more effectually to do his work and
promote his glory. Once more then, Right Reverend Fathers and Brethren,
we beg you to be assured of our joy and satisfaction in seeing you among us ;
and we trust the pain and weariness of your long voyage will have their com
pensation in the consciousness that you have contributed not a little to kindle
m our hearts the flame of brotherly love, and to unite us more closely with
yourselves and with the Church of which you are the worthy representatives,
in the bonds of Christian communion." (Cheers.)
The Bishop of London said — My Lord Archbishop, I rise for the purpose of
moving the adoption of the address we have just heard, for which I antici
pate, of course, not an unanimous, but a most cordial and eager acceptance.
(Cheers.) Right Reverend Brethren, (addressing the American visitants,) it
has been my good fortune to be amongst the first to welcome you on your
arrival in what I trust I may, without giving you offence, still call your fath
erland, or at all events, to that Church which you call your mother Church —
that Church which looks with interest and affection upon the daughter and
sister Church of America — once a daughter, now a 6ister — a Church which we
regard as a branch of the Holy Catholic Church, now planted and flourishing
in the United States. (Cheers.) We may look upon your arrival as the return
of a child, sent to do its duty, and try its fortune in a distant land, who comes
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to it, in carrying out successfully the same great objects the mother Church
acknowledges to have been entrusted with — namely, to carry into the distant
parts of the world the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We hail your coming
amongst us as a great encouragement to ourselveB. (Cheers.) I am sure, my
brethren of the ministry will not fail to be thankful for this your visit to
recount your labors in the same holy cause, to bid us God speed, and to join in
our prayers for a blessing on the great cause we have in hand. (Cheers.) I
look on this as a meeting of the representatives of the different Churches.
We have representative Prelates here from America, from Scotland, from our
Colonies, and from our Church at home ; and our meeting together is a token
and a pledge of that substantial unity which exists in the Reformed Episcopal
Church throughout the world. (Cheers.) It is to that unity — which, although
not evinced by » perfect similarity of action, is always to be seen in their
invariable unity of design and purpose — that we must look, under God's
blessing, for success against the enemies the Church has to encounter — against
fanaticism and Puritanism on the one hand, and Popery and superstition on
the other. (Cheers.) I am delighted to see amongst us a living proof that the
Church of Christ may subsist and flourish, although not possessing the extrin
sic advantages derived from a civil establishment. (Cheers.) I do not under
value the advantages we in this country enjoy — I am not willing to relinquish
them. (Cheers.) Looking at the present state of society, I feel that if we
were to relinquish them, we should be guilty of treachery to Him who has
intrusted them to us, to carry out more effectually His great designs in the
Gospel. (Cheers.) At the same time, it is encouraging to know, that th«
Church of Christ can subsist in its integrity, its efficiency, and its purity,
although stripped of all Bueh accessory advantages. To the unity of the Re
formed Episcopal Church, the eyes of the world are more than ever directed.
The Christians of Europe — I mean those not enthralled in the bondage of
Papal superstition or of infidel tendencies — look to the Reformed Church of
England as the stronghold of true religion ; and when they see that Church
recognized, supported, and encouraged by her sister Church of America, they
will feel that there is a bond of unity between them, so secured and indisso
luble, that they will not fear the arts and attempts of the great adversary,
who strives, in spite of the promises of the Lord of his presence with his
Church to the end of time, to displace her from the rock of truth on which
she is built. (Cheers.) Indeed, we see the Church now, on every side, erect
ing fresh bulwarks, and sending forth offsets, which are springing up under
the Divine blessing, and bringing forth fruits a hundred-fold — even the fruits
of truth, unity, and social order. (Cheers.) We, therefore, feel gre'atly
encouraged by your presence, and flatter ourselves that the Church of Eng
land is not, as it has been represented by many, in a state of decadence and
inefficiency. (Cheers.) You will see many symptoms of the blessing of God rest
ing upon our labors. Churches, schools, and institutions of charity and piety,
multiply around us year after year ; and Christian liberality, far from being
wearied with past exertions, is now laboring on a broader basis, and with
increased munificence ; so that I believe I may 6ay, humbly, yet confidently
that the blessing of God is now resting on our efforts. (Cheers.) We shall be
encouraged to persevere from your presence, and what you have told us of the
labors of your Churches ; and you will carry back to the sister Church of
America an assurance of our affection and respect, and the anxiety with which ,
we watch her movements on the other side of the vast Atlantic. (Loud
cheers.) And as you have told us that nothing happens here to the Reformed
Church which does not beat through all the pulses of the sister Church in
your extensive country, so I can assure you that nothing happens in your
branch of the Reformed Church which is not deeply felt here. (Cheers.) We
sympathize in your difficulties and rejoice in your triumphs. (Cheers.) We
pray God to prosper your efforts to spread the truth in spite of those difficul
ties of which I know we can hardly nave a conception in this country • and
we are delighted wherever we see those difficulties surmounted. (Cheers.')
For the future, whenever we can lend you a helping hand we shall gladly do
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that the Church of this country should need your kind assistance, I am sure •
she will not fail to obtain it in no stinted measure. (Loud cheers.) My Lord
Archbishop and gentlemen, I speak not only the sentiments of this meeting,
but those- of thousands, aye, and tens of thousands who could not be here
present to-day. (Cheers.) I say, without hesitation, that the whole Church of
England welcomes with cordial delight the presence of the Right Reverend
Prelates who here represent the sister Church of America, and who will carry
back with themthe assurance of our best wishes and earnest prayers for her
continued and increasing success. (Cheers.) In moving the address, I must
congratulate the Secretary on the especial delight with which he must regard
the proceedings of this day, as he has witnessed with his own eyes the labors
and successes of the American Bishops and Clergy. (Cheers.) How deep an
interest must this visit have for him, and I congratulate him upon this event
as the happiest of his past life, although it may not be the happiest of the
future. (Loud cheers.)
Sir R. Inglis seconded the motion, and in doing so made an eloquent allusion
to the portraits of American Bishops on the walls, and'mentioned that that of
Bishop White, the first Bishop of the United States, was always regarded with
particular interest The motion was carried by acclamation. (Cheers.)
The Rt. Rev. Bishop McCoskry, who was received with cheers, said — My
Lord Archbishop, my Right Reverend Brethren and friends, "goodness and
mercy have followed, me all the days of my life," and I have constantly bee;i
the recipient of kindness from many friends, but never have I had such evi
dence of affectionate regard as that presented before me this day. Even before
we reached your shores, you met us with the hand of kindness ; and ever
since, we have breathed no other atmosphere but that of Christian love.
(Cheers.) I have now the opportunity of acknowledging most gratefully all
this kindness, and of saying that we have come with sentiments of the deepest
interest to this land, feeling that no sacrifice could be deemed too great.
(Cheers.) We wish' to take away the reproach with which we have been so
often met, that our mother Church had deserted her daughter ; and although
we received our Episcopate from her, she was yet isolated, and held no friendly
intercourse with us. We have been met frequently with such taunts, and I
rejoice that this day that reproach is taken away. (Loud cheers.) We come
with hearts warm with the desire of being united to you in still closer bonds.
(Cheers.) We come also for another reason. We know that in these troublous
times you must have felt some anxiety about us. We have taken it for granted
that we have been thought of by you. (Loud cheers.) Amidst all the diffi
culties with which we are surrounded — from a corrupt Church on the one
hand, and from divisions and strifes on the other — we rejoice that we can come
and say that we have been faithful sentinels at our post. (Loud cheers.)
Amidst all our difficulties we have never let go, for one moment, one jot or
tittle of the faith of that Protestant Church to which we belong. (Cheers.)
We have held on to it as our only security and our only hope ; and we are
eontented, if God shall so will, to die in the breach defending that faith " once
delivered to the saints." We are come to unite our heart-felt thanksgivings
with yours for the past, and to ask your prayers and sympathies that we may
be prepared for the great battle before us. We can not shut our eyes to the
fact that we muBt be true and steadfast, or we shall be ruined. We must
stand by each other in this contest. We can not for a moment look at the
corruptions of Rome ; and if we have any in our household who do that, they
are traitors to the cause of Christ Jesus, and we may bid good-bye to all our
privileges, civil and religious ; we must shut the book of God, and become
slaves. (Cheers.) On the other hand, you can little appreciate the difficulties
which we labor under from the divisions and strifes which abound in our land.
It was once said by an eminent Bishop of the Church of England, that " dis
sent was the handmaid of Rome." It is emphatically so in our country ; and
from this arises our chief difficulty with those who have nearly broken away
from the chains of that corrupt Church. Our would-be converts say, " But
where shall we go V We have Christianity in so many forms that the first
step is one of doubt, and they exclaim, " To what place shall we go. to. find
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the truth as it is in Jesus?" These are some of the difficulties in the TV"ay;t
but, by the blessing of God, we have stood firm, and, with prudence, and care,
and kindness, and using the only weapon to which we can look in this conflict
— the Word of God — we have not been altogether unsuccessful. " The little
one has become a thousand," and " the few scattered sheep in the wilderness"
are now a large, influential, and, I trust, increasing flock. (Loud cheers.) In
all this we have never forgotten our indebtedness to the Church of England.
We never even think of the past — you have more than made amends by your
kindness for all the apparent neglect. (Cheers.) It is to me the highest grati
fication that I am this day permitted to see the Lord Archbishop of England,
the Lord Primate of Ireland, and my Right Reverend Brethren assembled to
do honor to our Church in our persons. (Cheers.) It is cheering to us ; and
if we have been instrumental in exciting even one greater desire in the minds
of those before me for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom, and of uniting
with us in still stronger bonds of Christian union, our mission has not been in
vain. (Cheers.) If I had not already taken up so much time, I would quote
some details of what w'e have been doing. From 12 Bishops in the year 1835,
we have increased to 32 ; and the 500 Clergymen we then bad have multiplied
to 1,600; and the demand for them has been greater than the supply. (Cheers.)
We have, belonging to the general Church, between 70 and 90 Missionaries,
besides which, there are employed in every Diocese, Diocesan Missionaries.
We have also two Bishops abroad. (Cheers.) But I trust this is but the
beginning ; and if we should be permitted to come again to England, in a
few years — we cannot expect to see another Jubilee ; most of us will have
then been called to give an account of our stewardship — I think we should be
able to say that our success has even been greater, by the blessing of God,
than it has been thus far. (Cheers.) For, looking to the recent history of our
Church, I find that many great and eminent men who have been long tossed
on a sea of difficulty and doubt, now look to the Church as a haven of rest
and peace, where they may learn the truth as it is in Jesus. (Cheers.) We
have also many coming from your land to make their homes with us ; and
we are always anxious to throw open the doors of the Church of the living
God wide to receive them. (Cheers.) We ask you not to forget — (for it is all-
important that the greatest care be taken lest we lose one of our flock) — that
those who go to America shall be furnished with, credentials to us, that they
may escape being drawn aside, and find safety and security in the Church.
(Cheers.) And I urge it upon you — if I may use the word "urge" in such an
assembly — that English and Irish emigrants may be taught that they have a
Church in America, and that the relationship with their Church at home is
not broken by their removal. (Cheers.) Oh, how pleasant it is to welcome
members from your Church ! — when we have that pleasure, we feel that we
are still bound strongly together by the -ties of brotherhood. (Cheers.) We
like to see men, brought up under your care, listening to the same truths from
our lips, and joining in the^ same service which, in this land, has before so
often warmed their hearts with devotion, and carried their feelings up to God.
(Loud cheers.) Right Reverend Brethren and Christian friends, I return you
the expressions of a grateful heart. (Cheers.)
The Bishop of London regretted that he must leave so interesting a meeting,
but he was engaged to take the chair at a meeting of the Clergy Orphan Cor
poration, and the hour for that duty was already past
The Right Reverned Prelate then left the room, accompanied by the Bishops
of Oxford and Lichfield, and several other Prelates and Clergymen.
The Rt Rev. Dr. De Lancey, Bishop of Western New York, next spoke.
He said that there was a providential appropriateness in his being appointed
to visit this Society although his Right Reverend Brethren in America were
quite unaware of the fact when they nominated him to that pleasing duty '
He was the direct descendant of one of the earliest members of this Society,
Colonel Caleb Heathcote, who, at its first establishment, was one of the two
gentlemen in America selected as its representatives there. His wife also was
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Who many years ago labored amongst the Indians. (Cheers.) Having referred
to the great object of the Society, that of Missions, and eloquently expatiated
at some length upon the missionary character of the Church from the days
ol the Apostles to these times, the Right Reverend Prelate said that the estab
lishment of the Church in many parts of America, was directly and explicitly,
under God, owing to this Venerable Society. The first Parish in the Diocese
oi Connecticut, for instance, was established by this Society, and that same
Diocese now numbered 120 Parishes, and as many or more Clergymen. His
Right Reverend Brother had spoken of the Church of America as a Missionary
Church, and mentioned the number of the Missionaries ; but, besides them,
there were Diocesan Missionaries, by which the borders of the Church at
home were enlarged. In his own Diocese, for instance, there were from 40 to
50 Missionaries ; and he supposed the whole number of Diocesan Missionaries
must be, at the least, 200. One remarkable fact connected with the extension
of the Church in America, was, that at least half the new members were con
verts from Pooery, or from the numerous Protestant sects which abounded ,in
every part of America. It had been asked why, in America, the Church
should be distinctively called Protestant? The truth was, that they learnt
from their Bibles that St. Peter was rebuked by St Paul, and that St. Peter
did not preside at the council of the Apostles. They had also learnt from
history that the Church had no knowledge of any Pope for the first three hun
dred or four hundred years, and that at the Council of Nice the Bishop of
Rome did not preside. They were not very learned in this matter, but these
were indisputable, unextinguishable facts which justified the conclusion that
the Papacy was without authority, at least to the year 325. They protested
against the assumptions of the Papacy, as well as the soul-destroying errors
that had crept into the Church of Rome, and hence they were called Protest
ant (Cheers.) The Right Reverend Prelate then made some statements with
respect to the Church's controversy with the Presbyterians. A Presbyterian
Clergyman called uj}on him one day, to inquire how he might gain admission
into the Church. He said that, having to preach a sermon on the Ordination
of a Deacon, he found, on studying the Bible, that there was no such order to
be found there — a Presbyterian Deacon being a Layman, and different alto
gether from the Diaconate of the English Church. This Presbyterian Minister
said, however, that he had only looked at the question aB a matter of expe
diency, and not as a matter of conscience; and he, (the Bishop,) therefore,
declined to ordain him. This minister stated that he knew many Presbyterian
ministers who would be glad to come into the Church were it not for the six
months' probation required, and the sort of reflection it would cast on their pre
vious ministrations. Like the man he had mentioned, they did not take up the
question as a matter of conscience. (Cheers.) Some years after, he met his friend
again, and he addressed him with — "Bishop, my heart is in the Church yet !" (A
laugh.) But he did not allow his heart and his conscience to act together, and
so he remained outside. (Cheers.) Having mentioned the case of a Presby
terian Clergyman, his Deacons, and many of his congregation, who had
allowed their consciences fair play, and who had really joined the Church,
the inference he drew from this class of facts was, that there was an obligation
lying upon all of them to engage more heartily in the work of Missions, and
he trusted that all present, whether Clergy or Laymen, would more zealously,
actively, laboriously, and munificently pursue this great work. (Cheers.) It
all came back to this, that it was a matter of obligation and of duty, not for
the purpose of building up a magnificent institution in this world, but for the
promotion of the glory of God and the salvation of men. The Right Reverend
Prelate concluded with an eloquent appeal to the meeting on the subject of
Missions. -Dr. Wainwright, a. Clergyman of New Vork, explained the circumstances
under which he, a humble Presbyter, was present at the meeting. It appeared
that the Bishops of America were to have assembled on the 24th of June, for
the trial of the Bishop of New Jersey, and in the belief that the Prelates
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52 ¦ APPENDIX.
was confided to him. The Bishop of Michigan, however, was most anxious to
attend the Jubilee, and told .him that if he could only be present at that
glorious service in Westminster Abbey, he would without a murmur return
to Liverpool the same night by rail, and re-embark for America. (Cheers.)
The Right Reverend Prelate could not rest satisfied, and having traveled 1,000
miles for the purpose, accomplished the postponement of the trial until
October. (Loud cheers.) The two Prelates were thus enabled to represent
the American Church at this Jubilee. (Cheers.) Having mentioned the
Bishop of New Jersey, he would just say that he believed him to be entirely
innocent of the charges brought against him, and that his character would be
more glorious and bright after his trial than it was before. (Long continued
cheering.) He must ako say a word in reference to Bishop White, whom Sir
R. Inglis had spoken of as the first Bishop of the American Church. He (Dr.
Wainwright) saw in Westminster Abbey Bishops of Scotland — (cheers) — and
while across the Atlantic they loved and venerated the memory of that excel
lent man, Bishop White ; yet, they could not but remember that their first
Bishops came from the Episcopal Church of Scotland. (Loud and long con
tinued cheering.) When it appeared quite hopeless as far as England was
concerned, they obtained the Episcopate from Scotland. (Cheers.) Their
next three Bishops were consecrated at Lambeth, and they, with the Bishops
of Scotland, " took sweet counsel together," and determined that there should
be but one Church, and a junction was effected. (Cheers.) Here was a
Catholic principle carried out — (cheers) — and there was in Westminster Abbey
the other day a glorious exemplification of Catholic principle. (Loud cheers.)
There were the Bishops of England, of Scotland, of the English Colonies, and
of America; and, for the first time, the Reformed Church realized in some
degree Catholicity of representation, as well as Catholicity of mission. (Loud
cheers.) In connection with this subject, he would read an extract of a letter
written to himself on the subject of his mission to England, by Bishop
Whittingham, of Maryland : — "For practical advantage, it seems desirable
that, if possible, there should ultimately be arrangement between the
Churches : — 1. For an assemblage of the whole Episcopate, either absolutely
or representatively, in council, for organization as one branch of the Church
Catholic. 2. For further organization, a representative assemblage, in order
to such revision of the ' ancient' and English Canons, as might fit them for
recognition as a'body of general Canon Law by the whole of the Churches of
the two Communions. 3. For recognition, as under such a general code, of
the distinct and probably always very different organizations of the several
Churches of England, Ireland, the Colonies and dependencies, Scotland, the
United States, and the United States Mission Churches, (for these last will
sooner or later, hold the same relation to us that the Colonial Churches do
now to the English.) Immediately, the attention of the English Church might
be directed to the 12th Article of the Minute of Conference of the North
American Colonial Bishop6, at Quebec, in September, 1851,* (which Minute,
bj| the way, seems to me replete with sound wisdom and practical good sense.)
And 2. To the great urgency of taking more care than is now taken of emi
grants to the United States, furnishing them with letters commendatory.
And, 3. To the consideration of the practicability of printing cheap and large
editions of Bound books for circulation among us. Late Oxford editions of Bull
and Wheatley might be instanced as the kind we want; the Leeds and J. H.
Parker's cheap (limp) books also. Connected with this, the feasibility of
extending the operations of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
into the United States, by an American Subordinate Committee or otherwise."
That was u, most important suggestion, but it would more" properly have

*The following is the Article alluded to:— "XII. Intercommunion with other Eeformed
Churches.-We are of opinion that it is m„ch to he desired that there should he no let Thin-
drance to a full and free Communion between ourselves and other Eeformed Episcopal Ohurchel;
and therefore that where we deriye our orders from the same source, hold the same ZcS and
are virtually united as members of the same body of Christ, those impediments which (as we are
advised) are now in force throngh the operation of the civil law, ought to be removed >

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belonged to a meeting of the Christian Knowledge Society, to which he would
be glad to present the subject more at length. (Cheers.)
The Rev. T. B. Murray, Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, said, that if Dr. Wainwright would make a communication to the
Society, he would answer for its being favorably considered. (Cheers.)
Dr. Wainwright bowed assent, and continued his quotation from Bishop
Whittmgham's letter :— " Of course, our deep interest in the noble work that
our mother is doing in these days oHier rejuvenescence, can never be forgotten
as a prominent theme. We know, we mark, we love her for it all, in its many,
many varieties; and hundreds of thousands daily pray for blessings on it."
(Cheers. ) In conclusion, he (Dr. Wainwright) could say that they did pray
for blessings on their mother Church, and that they were thankful for the
reception given to them. (Cheers.) Henceforth he trusted the two Churches
would walk together in love and union, so that the whole world might exclaim
with the heathens of old, " Behold how these Christians love one another."
(Cheers.) The Archbishop of Canterbury then rose and said — In the name of the
meeting I beg to thank our Right Reverend Brethren, and Dr. Wainwright,
for the addresses they have given us to-day, and to express the gratification
with which we have heard the sentiments they have laid before us. (Cheers.)
I can assure them that I feel it to be a great privilege that, as President of this
Society, I occupied the chair on so momentous an occasion as that of the recep
tion of our American brethren. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks was then given to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster,
for the use of the Cathedral, for the excellence of the arrangement, and for
permitting the offertory to be devoted to the Jubilee fund. The resolution
also expressed a deep sense of gratitude to the Sub-dean, the Rev. Lord John
Thynne. The Treasurer reported that the actual receipts on account of the Jubilee
fund had reached £47,537, to which were to be added various sums expected
to be received to the extent of £2,523, making a total of £50,060, exclusive of
any sums which might come in from various Dioceses which had not yet sent
in returns.
These interesting proceedings then terminated.
It was stated in the room that the Bishop of Michigan would preach on
Sunday morning next, at Lambeth Parish Church, and the Bishop of Western
New York, at St John's, Paddington. Morning Post.

APPENDIX— G.
The Collation in Exeter College Hall, June 22d, 1852.
Shortly after the presentation of the testimonial,, the company adjourned to
the hall, where they partook of luncheon. The great hall was decorated with
plants and several specimens of curious ancient plate, and over the pannelling
of the dais in large gilt letters were the words, " Eccle6ia? Americanse." The
Sub-Rector presided at the high table, with the Bishop of Exeter at his left
hand, as Visitor of the College, and nearly two hundred guests were accom
modated at three other tables. At the close of the repast the " loving-cup"
went round,, and the Sub-Rector rose and pledged the meeting in it " to peace,
amity, and brotherly love." ,
After a short pause he rose again and said — " My lords, ladies, and gentle
men — I am sure that you will understand that it is impossible for any person
to rise to address you from the chair I occupy to-day without feelings of deep
emotion, and under the peculiar circumstances of this College, at present, of
considerable embarrassment. We are receiving to-day a visit, of which I can
only say that I trust we shall place upon record some where upon the walls
of ,this hall, a memorial that it has been so honored. But that visit has been
paid to us at a, time when we are suffering one of the heaviest calamities
which can fall upon a body constituted as our Colleges were intended to be
by their great and glorious founders, as families. (Cheers.) We are suffering
under the absence, and, I grieve to say, the illness — though, at the same time,
I thank God, I can tell you an illness from which we have great hopes he will
soon recover — we are suffering from the illness of our Head ; and the first
words I have to address to you are the expressions of his deep sympathy with
the occasion of our present assembling, hi3 deep regret that he is not here to
fulfil, as he would have done properly and duly, the duty that now falls upon
me. I must add that his illness has been caused — first, by his unwearied,
untiring attention to his laborious duties ; secondly, by a very keen and sen
sitive feeling of anxiety and of conscientious delicacy with regard to every
thing which threatens danger or the slightest detriment to the Society over
which he has been placed — (cheers) — and lastly, by the multifarious calls upon
his time and attention — multifarious, because no one in this University, it is
well known, ever undertakes or thinks of undertaking, any great work condu
cive to the glory of God and the welfare of man, without coming there, where he
is sure to find counsel, sympathy and assistance, — to the Rector of Exeter Col
lege. (Cheers.) _ I have also to express — I owe it to the University, who I am
sure will look with something of a most honorable jealousy upon the honor we
enjoy to-day— that we are indebted for it to the fact that the Rev. Ernest
Hawkins is a Fellow of this Society. He is the representative in a great
degree of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and
it is to him whom we love and honor as a brother that the Church, and
through this ourselves, are indebted for the happiness of welcoming our
American brethren. I am authorized also to express sorrow that the Vice-
Chancellor of the University is unable to attend, and I am sure that other
Heads of the University would be here had they not been engaged at this
particular season in calls of hospitality at home. I must also regret, and I do
regret, that the visit we are now receiving was not paid when we were in our
normal and quiet state. It is a great pride and satisfaction to receive such a
body of guests as those we welcome at this moment, but I am sure the Right
Reverend Prelates present, and all who are parents, will rejoice to think that
we have far greater pride and satisfaction in seeing before us, as we see every
day filling these same tables, those who are the hope of the country the stu
dents of the University of Oxford. With one further lament I will be satis
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you long to welcome, but there is a toast which Englishmen delight in, a toast,
the spirit of which has impregnated our British constitution, and magnified
and preserved our British empire, and which in this place God grant we may
never surrender to any of the false and miserable philosophies of the day-
Church and Queen.
The toast was received with loud applause, which having subsided,
• i?^e Sub-Reotor again rose. He said — Amongst the things which are cher
ished in every College, one of the chiefest is its historical traditions. One of
the traditions connected with this College, not one of very ancient date, but
one full of interest, is, that when the Allied Sovereigns visited this University
it was proposed to entertain them in the hall in which we are now assembled.
May we not say, without any exaggeration, that the present occasion is one
more to be valued — more deeply to be cherished even than that time so full
of earthly hope and of earthly glory. We can well understand the thoughts
which, on such a day as that, would have clustered and hung around these
walls, and become household words — thoughts of a deadly war, carried on by
an enemy of the peace and happiness almost of the human race, terminated
as it was then thought to be, and thought with the usual fallacy of human
hopes— terminated by the peace and union for ever to endure of the earthly
Sovereigns of Europe. But we are to-day assembled here on an occasion
which will cover these walls, I am sure, with memorials and associations not
different, but of a far deeper and truer nature. We shall have, I trust, no Elba
or Waterloo to follow this day. (Cheers.) I know the two words which you
are longing to welcome, and I am sure you will welcome them, not with the
usual noisy acclamations, as though it were not a subject of the deepest and
most sacred feeling, but let us all rise and tell with one voice across the Atlan
tic that we will love and venerate the American Church, that we will cling to
her with Christian affection, and that we pray God to bless her for ever and
ever. The company rose simultaneously, and Mr. Sew ell said with great solemnity
and impressiveness, "Amen, Amen."
The Bishop of Michigan, who on rising was enthusiastically cheered, then
addressed the company as follows : — My lords, ladies and gentlemen — I rise on
the present occasion with the deepest emotion, after listening to such expres
sions of respect for the American Church from my Reverend Brother who has
just sat down. They are the expressions of kindness of a mother to a daughter,
and I assure you these sentiments are warmly felt and cherished in the land
we have left. We have looked to the English Church as our mother, the pride
and hope of the world. (Cheers.) We have looked to her for support in all
the difficulties which have surrounded us, and these difficulties have not been
few or unimportant We were but few in number, we have had to struggle
against political prejudices ; we have Dissent in every form, and, on the other
hand, we have the corruptions of the Church of Rome ; still we have stood
firm and decided. (Loud cheers.) We rejoice that we can come to you this
day, and tell you that the banner which we have erected is Evangelical
truth and Apostolical order. (Renewed applause.) This has always been our
guide and our trust. Neither false charity on the one hand, nor a longiDg for
something we have not in our own household on the other, shall ever make
us traitors to that holy cause. (Loud cheers.) On behalf, then, of the Ameri
can Church, I heartily thank you for your kind expressions of esteem, and
permit me to say that one of the greatest comforts for the present and the
future with regard to yourselves, is the connection which I see every where in
England between religion and education. It is this which is the security, and
will be for ever the security, of your land. Dissever them — I believe it was
the remark of an eminent individual of your own land, whose name is always
remembered with gratitude, the Duke of Wellington — I believe it was he
who said, " Dissever.religion and education, and you only make men clever
devils." It has always been so, and if there is one thing in our land which
we deeply deplore, and with respect to which we look to the future with feel
ings of disaster, it is that disseverance. Our hope is, that God in His wise
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and in our colleges, that we may always connect the religion of the heart with
the education of the head. It is this, believe me, which forms your security in
England. Wherever I have gone, I have looked with admiration at your
noble cathedrals, your schools, and your houses of charity, but nothing has
given me greater pleasure than the scene I have witnessed this day. Allow
me once more to convey to you the hearty thanks of the American Church.
(The Right Reverend Prelate resumed his seat amidst great cheering.)
The Chairman rose and said — Will you pardon me, in such a company, for "
troubling you again, but there are sitting at this table no fewer than seven
Prelates and Fathers of our Church. You would feel as I should feel, that
any thing like panegyric, any thing like praise would be utterly out of place ;
but I think that there are occasions such as this when it will do them good,
when it will cheer them, in their trials and labors, if we tell them how thank
ful to them we are for what they are doing for us. There is here one Prelate
to whom every day in our ordinary studies we are indebted for stores of learn
ing which he collected in his youth, and by which he has shown to us, and
realized in his own person, the truth which I daily endeavor to impress upon
v the minds of the young men present, with whom I am brought into contact,
that there is a deep and mysterious connection, and one sanctioned by the
highest of all authorities, between the study of languages and the highest
truths and offices of the Gospel. But we owe him a still deeper debt of grati
tude. I will say nothing of his efforts to struggle with the deadly evil of these
days, a vast city overgrown and abandoned, filled with poverty and vice, and
without shepherds to teach the people the truths of the Gospel. But that
Right Reverend Prelate (the Bishop of London) has impressed upon this age
one great truth, that if a man conceives a gigantic good, such for example as
his grand scheme of Metropolitan Church Extension, God will enable him, if
he persevere, to carry it to a gigantic issue. (Cheers.) There is also present
another Bishop (Chichester) to whom we owe peculiar gratitude in this place,
because he has taken under his wing at once boldly and prudently a great
institution for the education of the middle classes. There is between them our
Diocesan, (the Bishop of Oxford,) the historian of the American Church, whose
very name is enough to kindle any heart that longs for the revival of Chris
tianity in a dark age, and for striking off the fetters from every thing that is
miserable and enslaved. I will utter to him what I know will be our united
prayer, that he will not labor so much as he does — that he will not risk a life
so precious, though it be by showing how much a Bishop can do, and how
well and carefully he can do it. We pray him not to risk his life by doing
more than the strength of nature will support. There is also a Bishop (Argyle
and the Isles) from a Church we love and honor, and who, on such - a day as
this, ought to be mentioned with especial reference to that Scotch Church
which has taught us the great truth that it is not wealth, or power, or con
nexion with the State, which will give the Church of Christ its power and
means of extending purity, truth, faith, and innocence. But that such quali
ties without any earthly grandeur God will glorify, as He has glorified the
Scotch Church by making her the parent of the American Episcopate. (Cheers.)
I have mentioned the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester — the good
kind Bishop of Chichester — the Bishop of Argyle, and the Bishop of Oxford,
and I have reserved the last, him of whom one of the very noble of all our
noble hearted Colonial Bishops — the Bishop of Frederieton — told me that as
he was traveling through America there was one English Prelate to whom
they all looked with veneration and respect, one whom they prayed might be
blessed in this hour of trial and difficulty, one whom in this day of menace
and of danger, blessed be God, is the Visitor of this College, the Bishop of
Exeter. May God grant health and strength to the Bishop of Exeter the
Visitor of this College. (Loud cheers.)
The Bishop of Exeter rose to acknowledge the compliment, and was received
with deafening cheers by the company, who now closely filled the whole hall
He said— I should be ashamed of myself if I could easily speak on this occa
sion. I should be ashamed of myself if my feelings did not exclude me from
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became deeply affected, and was unable for some moments to proceed.) I will
not dwell upon personal considerations. To introduce them on a day and on
such an occasion as this would be wrong, but I may be permitted to say that
that office which I have always considered the proudest distinction of the See
ol Exeter, that of being Visitor of Exeter College, has brought me here to-day
to have the delight of seeing— I hope I may be permitted to say— my College,
on anoccasion when it has reason to be proud of the distinctions conferred
Up°rJ ^ When ** is showa to be 80 illustrious a representative of the University
of Oxford. These American Prelates will go hence, and bear with them a
faint memorial of the attachment of the men of Oxford to the Church of
America, and I rejoice to think that when they produce this testimony at
home, they will also be able to say "we received it in the groves of Exeter."
(Cheers.) Among the many considerations which press upon us in connexion
with the visit of the American Prelates this day, not the least is the way in
which it tells us of the folly of human wisdom, and the worthlessness of all
hopes founded upon the schemes of men. There are few of us who have not
deplored as the most disgraceful page of the History of England, that British
Statesmen, when America was part of the British dominions, never would con
sent to recognize an American Church. Britain received the just, the heavy
infliction. I hope it is not presumptuous to ascribe it to such a cause — the
separation of the two countries. In my heart I believe that if the British
ministers had preserved the connexion with the Church throughout the domin
ion of England, America would still have been part of these dominions.
Nevertheless, I rejoice at the independence of America. I am now old. From
the first time I was able to imbibe political feelings and sentiments, I held the
principles of an English Tory. I was accustomed when young to regard as a
most unfortunate event in our history, the separation of America from this
country. I have lived to regard it as a blessing, inasmuch as America has
been enabled to exhibit an independent Church. Even if the human power
of England had been lost, it would have been amply repaid by the gain of the
Church in America. Let us hope that the Church of each country, one we
know in Catholicity, may be one for ever in affection. (Cheers.) Let ua
recollect, too, when we see American Bishops here, and when we rejoice to see
a Scotch Bishop here, that we are three independent Churches, each with its
separate difficulties, and each with its separate blessings. It is at once our
difficulty and our blessing in England to be closely connected with the State,
and I for one hope that no Statesman or Churchman now living will have the
guilt on his soul of endeavoring to make a separation between the two. If it
Bhould please God that at any time the State of England should be separated from
the Church of England, the Church of England will have illustrious examples
how she is to conduct herself in that separate state. She will look to the
Church in America — she will look to the Church in Scotland. I rejoice to
think that the one is the sister Church, the other both daughter and sister. I
will not trespass longer upon you who have so kindly received the mention of
my name. I rejoice that I am permitted to sit here this day as your Visitor.
Amongst the gratifications of this day — amongst the debts of gratitude I owe
to you, is the delight you have afforded me of seeing the youth of this College,
the College from whence the great body of my Clergy are supplied, and who
will yield to none on all the highest qualifications ior their functions — qualifi
cations the natural fruit of the instructions which they receive within these
walls. My young friends, this is no ordinary day. It is a day to which the
youngest amongst you — if he may be permitted to reach the longest term of
years which God accords to man — it is a day to which the youngest may look
back with joy and thankfulness, and a deep sense of the lesson and the warn
ing which it conveys. You, my young friends, are Churchmen, English
Churchmen, Catholic Churchmen. I rejoice in being amongst you to hail the
arrival of the brethren from the other side of the Atlantic, for you will be
able to say to your children's children, on that day when the Church of Amer
ica came to this county, in the persons of two of her distinguished Prelates,
I received the lesson which I give to you, my children, that we are one in
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drink, in that silence which so well becomes the occasion, " The union, _ the
permanent union of the Churches of England, Scotland, and America."
(Applause.) The Bishop of London then rose to propose a toast, and was much cheered.
His Lordship said — I rise, I will not say without diffidence, but with great
pleasure, to propose a toast which will meet with ready acceptance from this
distinguished company. I feel it to be a singular gratification to have come
among you on this auspicious occasion. I have felt as intensely as my Right
Reverend Brother, although I could not express it so eloquently, the immense.
importance of the occasion, as testing the strict and deeply-laid union that
exists between the Church of England and Americn. I rejoice to have come
among you, and to see the cordial welcome you give to these foreign Prelates
in your ancient University, which is one of the most efficient bulwarks of the
Church of England. There, if in any place, the youth of the country may be
trained in sound Church principles : there, if any where, they will learn the
importance of the union between education and religion. I rejoice, moreover,
to have come amongst you, for to-morrow the University bestows her highest
academical distinctions upon the two Right Reverend Prelates. (Cheers.)
Such honors have been frequently bestowed on men who have been distin
guished for military skill, for proficiency in the arts and sciences, and the
rewards have been duly valued ; but now these high distinctions are to be
conferred upon men who have come hither as heralds of the Gospel of peace,
commissioned by the great Head of the Church to bear his banner into the
remotest districts of the Western world, and to lay the foundation there of
that Church which is built upon the Apo6tles and Prophets, Jesus Christ him
self being the chief corner-stone. They have many difficulties to contend
with, but they will be encouraged by what they see and hear in England.
They will see us struggling, not unsuccessfully, against the difficulties that beset
us. They will have seen and heard much that is new in detail, but nothing
that is new in principle, and what they have been told on the banks of the
Thames and the Isis will resound on the banks of the Hudson, the Delaware,
and the Mississippi. I had almost lost sight of the toast I haste to propose, but
it is closely connected with these sentiments. I speak now of a Church which
has had but few privileges, and but a scanty share of the immunities and
endowments which we possess. I mean the colonial Church of this empire;
,and I speak with a somewhat peculiar feeling on this matter because I was
permitted to be one of the first who spoke to the Church of this country of the
importance and the duty of extending its colonial Church. (Cheers.) It ought
to be a matter of thankfulness to Churchmen that whereas a few years ago we
had only four or five colonial Bishops, we have now twenty-seven ; and I had
the happiness of introducing a principle now recognized as established by the
civil authority of this country, that whenever a necessity exists for the estab
lishment of a bishopric there one shall be founded. It is my task to propose
the health of the Scotch and of the colonial Bishops. It is unfortunate that
none of them are present. One, the excellent Bishop of Frederickton, is absent
through illness. I am told, and I congratulate Exeter College on the fact, that
three of our colonial Bishops were educated in this College. (Cheers.) You
will join, I am sure, in a cordial acceptance of my toast. I should not do justice
to my own feelings if I did not ask you to look to the records of the colonial
Church, to see how these men are discharging their duties under difficulties
which we in England cannot estimate. Look at the Bishop of Cape Town,
the Bishop of New Zealand, the Bishop of Adelaide, the Bishop of Sydney—
I might go through the whole list of the colonial Episcopate. I never turn my
eyes to the records of the colonial Church without feeling shame how little I
have been able to do with so many greater advantages to promote the orowth
of Christ's Church. I beg to propose the health of the colonial Bishops, and
may God prosper the colonial Church. The toast was responded to with much
heartiness. The Bishop of Oxford, who was loudly cheered, then said — I rise, Mr. Chair
man, at your desire, to propose that we should now drink the toast which you
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ms\.J-t *? "The faitnral ]aity of these Churches." On many accounts I feel
gratification in being allowed to propose such a toast to this' assembly. I feel
it because— and I need hardly say it to such a gathering as this— I think we
nave pretty well got rid of that mischievous notion that the Church means the
clergy. We have got at least something like the grasp of an idea that the
Church consists of the congregation of Christ's baptized people, living in the
true and undivided fellowship of his one Catholic and Apostolic Church in
these lands. It is no little gratification to look around and see the representa
tives of the Church this day. I was introduced by one of the American
Bishops to-day to an American layman, with the significant remark that "he
was a thorough faithful layman." I rejoice that such a man is with us to-day,
but I tell my brother that we can match him with true faithful laymen.
(Cheers, and name, name.) Yes, I will name, but that I hardly know out of
so many whom to begin with. Shall I go to the law, and speak of one who has
adorned thatN noble profession, not only by bringing to it the most perfectly
pure and spotless integrity, but by bringing to it also the highest gifts of intel
lect that God has bestowed, literature profound and varied, and a love and
affection for the Church of his fathers which never has been, and never will
be, surpassed. I will mention to you the name of Mr. Justice Coleridge.
(Loud cheers.) I must not exhaust the list of faithful laymen amongst us, but
I will venture to name one more. The Legislature has sent here to-day one
who properly may be designated a faithful layman. He has been engaged in
the administration of justice in his native county, and represented that county
in Parliament until failing health compelled him to retire. He was one who
never flinched from principle, and never yielded to a base expediency.
(Cheers.) Oxford men will rejoice to add to the faithful laymen the name of
Sir William Heathcote. And it is, indeed, a matter of gratification to me
that, looking to those who have already advanced in the course of their lives,
and already in public have shown what men Church of England principles make,
I can come down to our younger men, for I find young men among us
who give promise that, God blessing them, they will take up the noble exam
ple that has been set them, and will carry it on to a successful issue. I look
around, and I see those whom God's providence has putin high rank in this
University. I see the Marquis of Lothian, Lord Sandon, and others, men who
are, indeed, learning here what a Church of England layman ought to be, and
who, through God's blessing, will hereafter, on another day, show it upon a
wider stage. We may rejoice then in such a meeting as this, that we are
gathered from the different sides of the Atlantic to acknowledge a deep bond
of fellowship, and let us never forget that truth, that to be a Church of Eng
land layman, or a layman of the American Church, is not the negation that a
man is not a clergyman, but means a good deal that is positive. It is not
because a man has not joined any form of Dissent, or has not been ordained,
that he is a Church of England layman, but there are faithful laymen who
have learned their principles at the foot of their nursing mother, who know
the blessings of being baptized into her communion, and who live and die for
the truth for which she has been divinely incorporated. We met last week
on a very interesting occasion in the rooms of the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and there we received our Right Reverend
Brethren from America. It was mentioned to me by a gentleman in the room
as a remarkable synchronism that on that day Bishop De Lancey came to
represent the American Church, and that day was what Englishmen call
Waterloo day. It so happened that a relation of that Right Reverend man,
bearing the same name, and holding a high rank, was upon that celebrated
Waterloo day numbered amongst the soldiers of the English army, and was
left among the honored dead in defence of his country. A few years passed,
and the same name and blood was again mingled with English Churchmen, to
pledge himself and those around him to maintain another fight against deadlier
artillery, a fight of Christian truth against the tyranny of sin. Deeper feelings,
greater truths, mightier issues, more abundant blessings, wait upon such strug
gles, and is it not true that upon the progress of this union will depend the
hopes of Christendom ? Is it not true that they, standing as they should,
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the extension of Christianity throughout the Western world? I beg to propose
the health of the faithful Laity of our own and of our associate Churches.
The Chairman rose and said — I ought not, my lords and gentlemen, to add
one word to what has just fallen from the Right Reverond Prelate. But it is
our own Judge Coleridge of whom he has spoken. There is his picture decorat
ing these walls, and the last words which he wrote to me, were words which I
fain would hope are engraven on the minds of all who are or have been members
of this Society. I love Exeter. But I rise also under still stronger feelings.
I rise to bear my witness as a Tutor of this University, to the deep debt of grati
tude due from the whole Church, due even from you, my lords, the Chief Pastors
and Shepherds of Christ's flock, to many of the young men of this University,
decorated with the highest titles in the land, who in their own province among
their own associates, are, I know, — I speak from intimate knowledge, — laboring
to do their duty to advance the glory of God and the welfare of the Church. A
few of these I requested, — my lords, when we are honored with such a visit,
we long to display our jewels, — I requested to favor us with their company this
day, knowing how deeply they sympathized with the object of this meeting,
and longing to show the Right Reverend Prelates from America what I knew would
rejoice their hearts, the greatest glory of this great University, youDg men
remembering their Creator in the days of their youth, and those young men
selected from the first nobility of the land.
Mr. Justice Coleridge then presented himself, and was loudly cheered. He
said — I assure you that, in rising on this occasion, I might say with equal truth
and greater propriety what the Bishop of Exeter has already said, that his feel
ings prevented him from expressing what he intended to convey. I came here
to-day as one of this house — I rejoice to say a home whenever I come here — and
considered myself, I hope not boastfully or improperly, to be one of the enter
tainers rather than one of the visitors, and it did not therefore occur to me for an
instant that I should have been called upon to address you. And now that I
have risen, I have nothing to say but that, from! the bottom of my heart, I thank
you most cordially for the manner in which you have received the mention of
my name. There was an occasion, if I may be allowed to speak of myself,
early in my judicial career, when this house, always hospitable and kind to the
distinguished members of its own body, received me at a dinner in this hall.
The memory of that day has always lived in my heart, aDd I remember well
that the excellent Rector of the house, the predecessor of my present friend,
whose absence I deplore, addressed the young men of the house, and pointed
out the success which he was pleased to say had attended my industry, in the
course of my career as an undergraduate, and he added that the circumstance
might be useful and encouraging to them. I hope, indeed I may say I trust,
that the observations made that day were not thrown away, and my young
friends will perhaps excuse me for saying that they are certain to find, in this
great and free conntry, that industry, diligence, and, above all, the religious and
reverential pursuit of their studies in this place, will not go unrewarded, and
that they may be perfectly certain that the seeds will be sown and will bear
good fruit for themselves and their country. Before I set down, I beg leave to
express to you, Mr. Chairman, my thanks for inviting me to be present on this
occasion. If I had made ten-fold the sacrifices I have— I do not pretend that I
have made any sacrifices of importance, but even if I had made any real sacri
fices— I should have been amply repaid by the great and glorious satisfaction I
have received. (Cheers.) To be present at a board where so many distinguished
Prelates of our Church are placed, where so many Prelates from the trans
atlantic Church of America are present, and where we have one estimable
individual, a Bishop of the Scotch Church, and to have heard what we have
heard this day is an event which any man may set down in the tablets of his
memory as a blessing he can scarcely express.
The Bishop of Exeter, as Visitor of the College, in proposing the health of the
Rector, Sub-Rector, and Fellows, denounced the attempt which had been made
to alter the family character of the Universities, and expressed his gratification
that such an attempt had qeen frowned down.
The Rev. Eraest Hawkins, B. D, returned thanks.
_ The Sub-Rector then rose and delivered the usual Latin grace of the College
introducing on that occasion a special prayer for the American Church.

APPENDIX— H.
The Scene in the Theatre at Oxford, June 23d, 1852,
The morning of the Encffinia, we need scarcely say, usually concentrates, as
in a focus, the hopes and expectations connected with the enjoyments of Com
memoration week. This is the culminating point of the entire celebration,
and as, in addition to the gratification of curiosity as regards the official pro
ceedings at the Theatre, there are also tastes to be gratified which have refe
rence to the fresh pure air and the blue sky above as a medium of enjoyment,
the state of the weather on this day necessarily forms a matter of serious con
sideration. Happily the morning proved clear and beautiful, with a gentle
breeze prevailing which agreeably tempered the solar heat throughout the day,
and wafted along the sky a few broken and detached clouds charged with
moisture. The scene at the Theatre was in every respect well calculated to sustain the
renown which so justly attaches to this celebration as one of the most spirit-
stirring and engaging spectacles to be met with throughout the whole econo
my of public life in this country. The Encaenia, unexciting and common
place as it may appear to those whom custom has rendered familiar with its
routine, is quite unique in its interest to hundreds and thousands of strangers.
There are occasions of state ceremonial which may be considered as intrinsi
cally of greater weight and importance in relation to the public welfare, and
which are attended with more of " pomp and circumstance" and glittering
display, but even these can scarcely be held to outrival the Commemoration
at Oxford in the morally interesting and suggestive character which it derives
from its associations. In the former class of "sights," the ripened genius and
energy of the country are beheld in their fruition, while here the interest is
mainly derived from anticipations of the future which is open before the
majority of those who mingle in the scene, and who are permitted during a
brief and well-timed holiday cessation ol academical restraint to expend the
exuberance of youthful feeling in demonstrations, after their own fashion,
touching everything and everybody in the whole wide circle of public rela
tions. A peculiar interest attaches to such an exposition of that strength of
intellect and depth of feeling which have rendered Oxford for so many ages
the great battle-ground of religious and political truth and error throughout
the civilized world.
The proceedings in the Theatre on this occasion, we are glad to say, were as
a whole marked by greater order and decorum on the part of the mass of
Undergraduates than has some times been the case during past years. This
may perhaps have been owing in some degree to a spontaneous and just appre
ciation on the part of that class of what waB due to themselves and the Uni
versity in the presence of a company comprising so many distinguished per
sonages of our own and other countries ; and it might possibly be also tracea
ble in some measure to the effect of an admonition in the form of a printed
circular, signed "A Tutor," which was issued some days previously. This
document in temperate and seasonable terms appealed to the "good sense and
gentlemanlike feeling" of the class in question with respect to the more
unseemly kind of interruptions which have sometimes broken in upon the
course of the official business. " Long custom (the basis of English Law in
great things as well as small)" said the writer, "has sanctioned a free expres
sion of your sentiments on this day, as well on subjects of public interest, as on
more local topics. This liberty no one desires to abridge ; it is one of the points
of interest to visitors, and likewise affords a wholesome check upon authority,
in its nature and by necessity somewhat despotic. Yet even here you will I
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limits are not always strictly observed which separate fun and humour from
coarseness and vulgarity. But what has given most pain to those who value
our character as ' gentlemen is the practice, lately introduced and rapidly
growing, of interrupting the business of the day, not merely by ill-timed clam
our, but by vulgar facetiousness addressed too often to the highest authority."
The writer then specifically deprecated anything which might seem like disre
spect to the Vice Chancellor, and concluded by asking those he addressed
" to show those who come here to visit us that you can be independent with
out insolence, and humorous without being vulgar." We may also mention
here that one or two printed squibs, making free with different members of the
University in relation to their political and religious leanings, have been in ,
circulation during the week.
By ten o'clock a. m., the avenues to the Theatre were besieged by applicants
for admission, which could be secured only by the holders of tickets previous
ly issued by the authorities as a precaution against any possible disorder or
confusion. The gateway facing Broad Street, by which the Undergraduates
were admitted, was for some time a scene of direful struggling between them
and the police, in which the latter seemed to have no small difficulty in keep
ing their ground. But precedence was necessarily given to the ladies, for
whose benefit this entrance had been boarded over in case of rain. Mean
while the general company were admitted by the gateway facing New Col
lege Lane, and the pressure here was at times so great as to require no small
firmness as well as muscular exertion on the part of Mr. Savage, the Inspector
of the University Police, who was in keeping of the gate under the direction ¦
of the Protectors and Mr. Brown, the Marshal. It may be proper to state,
that the arrangements with respect to admission seemed upon the whole to be
well conceived and judiciously enforced. The rush of the Undergraduates
along the avenue when the gates were thrown open to them, and thence to the
upper gallery, was something worth seeing ; it could only be paralleled by the
exulting ingress of some leaguering host on the surrender of an obstinately
defended fortress, and must have been attended with extensive dilapidation of
caps and gowns, fortunately on these occasions not objects of much considera
tion. In a short time both the area and galleries, and every other available portion
of space within the vast interior, became densely rilled, without disorder,
and — for a time at least — without manifestations of discomfort or uneasiness
in any quarter. The scene thus presented was, we need scarcely say, grand
and striking in the extreme. The lower range of seats in the semi-circle, as
also a temporary gallery fitted up for the purposes of the Oratorio on the pre
ceding day, over the main entrance, were filled tier upon tier with ladies, the
elite of the best society in Britain, resplendent in personal beauty and richness
of attire. The area was crammed to the utmost with members of the Uni
versity of different grades, and strangers very probably from many lands, as
suggested by the appearance of numbers with moustachioed lips and presen
ting that peculiarity of contour and bearing which marks the foreigner even
in the atbsence of any distinctive garb. About an hour had to elapse before
the entrance of the members of Convocation in procession, and it was agree
ably occupied with the usual expressions of sentiment and sallies of wit and
humor from the upper gallery. The calls followed in rapid succession from
the beginning, and were responded to with the usual boisterous demonstrations
of applause or disapprobation ; but amidst all this, it soon became evident
that there was some want of ease and freedom amongst the Undergraduates
in their lofty position. In proportion as their enthusiasm waxed high in
response to the fast recurring demonstrations of sentiment amongst themselves,
the gallery seemed to become "too hot to hold them"— to use a common
phrase— and some commenced seeking fresh air and elbow room by driving out
the glass of the windows, besides making vigorous, and, it is to be feared too
successful attacks on the frames also. One of the first cries uttered was "'The
Queen!" ever the signal for an enthusiastic display of loyalty. "Prince Al
bert" was also very cordially cheered, though not without some few manifesta
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groaning, hissing and hooting. "Lord Derby and the Government" was
received with vociferous and protracted cheering, followed by " one cheer more"
heartily given. "Mr. Pritchard, the Junior Proctor" was received, at this
stage of the proceedings, and still more decidedly afterwards, with every man
ifestation of disfavor. "Lord John Russell" was greeted with unequivocal and
nearly unanimous tokens of disapprobation. This cry was followed, after a
brief interval, by " the Bishop of Exeter I" and there followed, as instantane
ously as the thunder succeeds the lightning-flash, a perfect storm of cheering,
so loud, long and unanimous, that the very walls seemed to vibrate in response ;
it was renewed with fresh vigor after a moment's pause to regain breath, and
was certainly altogether one of the most magnificent and enthusiastic bursts of
applause ever bestowed in the Theatre upon any public character. "The
Bishop of Oxford" was also received with much cheering. " The ladies, all
standing," was the signal for a rapturous burst — and the ladies in pink, bine
and white, respectively, were similarly honored in succession.
At this moment, however, the entrance of Convocation, in procession pro
duced a cessation of the cries; and as that body, headed by the Vice-Chancel
lor, and accompanied by the usual official retinue, moved across the Theatre
to their accustomed benches in the semicircle, the whole body of Undergradu
ates rose up and sang " God save the Queen" in grand style. As the majestic
volume of harmony swelled around the capacious interior, whence it must
have been borne to some distance along the outer air, it suggested ideas of a
homage more dignified and grateful, because more exalted by intellect, than
could be rendered to any other sovereign on earth. The various illustrious
personages in the procession, as they were recognized in taking their places,
were loudly cheered. Amongst the number were the Bisho]) of London, the
Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop
of Glasgow, the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. These several Prelates were
greeted with varied applause, and the demonstrations previously elicited by
the name of the Bishop of Exeter in particular were renewed with inconceiva
ble ardor, and joined in, with scarcely an exception, by the members of the
University and their friends who filled the area. There were also present —
the President of St John's College, the Provost of Oriel College, the Warden
of Wadham College, the President of Corpus Christi College, the Rector of
Lincoln College, the Principal of Magdalen Hall, the Principal of St. Alban
Hall, the Principal of New Inn Hall, the Ven. Archdeacon Clerke, Rev. Dr.
Jacobson, Rev. Dr. Bloxham, Rev. Dr. Froude, Rev. Dr Nelson, Rev. Dr. Faus-
sett ; and amongst the strangers or non-residents the Rev. Dr. Farquhar Hook
of Leeds, the Rev. Dr. Saunders of Charterhouse, Dr. Twiss, Colonel Oldfield
Bowles, Charles Peers, Esq., besides the distinguished personages, eight in
number, upon whom the Honorary Degree of D. C. L. was conferred, as men
tioned below.
The Vice-chancellor then opened the Convocation in an address as usual,
in which he submitted the names of those upon whom it was proposed to
confer the Honorary Degree.
The Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the University, presented these personages
in the following order, with a suitable Latin address in each case, declaratory
of their merits and claims : —
Don Domenico Lofaso di Pietra Santa, Duke of Serradifalco and Prince of
San Pietro. This eminent scientific nobleman was received with the most
cordial demonstrations of applause.
The Right Rev. Samuel Allen M'Coskry, D. D, Bishop of Michigan in the
United States. This Prelate was very warmly cheered.
The Right Rev. William Heathcote De Lancey, D. D., Bishop of Western
New York. The same demonstrations of applause were elicited by the appear
ance of this esteemed Prelate.
The Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Knight, one of Her Majesty's Justices
of the Court of Queen's Bench, late Fellow; of Exeter College. The reception
given to this eminent J]udge was enthusiastic in the extreme.
Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Knight, F. R. S., M. R. S. L, F. R. G. S., the author
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64 APPENDIX.
greeted, and amongst the cheers there was a cry of "Old Hieroglyphics,"
which elicited much laughter.
The Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, D. D., Secretary of the House of
Bishops in the United States. The Rev. Dr. was cordially applauded.
Wm. Pulteney Alison, M. D., Professor of Medicine in the University of
Edinburgh, and one of the Physicians in Ordinary 'to her Majesty in Scotland.
The reception given to this gentleman, who is as greatly distinguished by his
professional abilities and literary talent, as by a genuine and unaffected phil
anthropy, which has endeared his name to every class of society in Scotland,
was most enthusiastic, and shewed a just and gratifying estimate of his merits.
Richard Owen, Esq., Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and
Physiology, and Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
This gentleman was received also in a very flattering manner.
The Creweian Oration was admirably delivered by the Professor of Poetry,
the Rev. T. L. Claughton of Trinity College, and Rector of Kidderminister.
In the beginning of the Oration he set forth the object of their assembling
together on that day, the solemn commemoration of Founders and Benefactors,
and his own desire to speak in accordance with that ancient principle of relig
ion, " Deorum Manium jura sancta sunto." He then adverted to the proposed
changes in the University, as being a matter of interest not only to the Uni
versity, but to the State at large. He congratulated the University on the
character of those to whom the investigation of its affairs had been commit
ted, as being persons who had themselves derived the best advantages it
affords ; but expressed a fear that they had not sufficiently considered from
what quarter the desire for these changes arose ; and that innovations were
(contemplated by some inconsistent with the wills of the Founders. He then
set forth the object of Founders in placing their several Colleges under the
superintendence of a Visitor who should from time to time inquire into their
state, and correct abuses, and advocated the course which is now being adopt
ed by some Colleges, of appealing to their Visitor to investigate their condi
tion and working. Turning from these topics, the Professor then on behalf of
the University welcomed the American Bishops on the occasion of their visit
to this University,, in words to this effect : "Salvete, Pacis Ministri! qui vobis-
cum optima caritatis pignora ab Ecclesia, nostras devinctissima atque conjunc-
tissima, repertatis! Salvere vos jubet, non solum hsee Aeademia, sed etiam
omnis Ecclesia Anglicanal" This sentiment drew down a strong expression of
feeling from the assembly. In the conclusion of the oration, the name of the
Bishop of London as connected with the Extension of the Colonial Church,
but more especially that of the Bishop of Exeter as a firm maintainer of the
Catholic Faith, drew down like marks of approval and sympathy.
At the conclusion of the proceedings in the Theatre, those upon whom the
Honorary Degrees had been conferred, with a large party of distinguished
visitors, including the Bishops of London, Oxford, Chichester, Glasgow, and.
Argyll, and some members of the family of Mr. Lawrence, the American Min
ister, were hospitably entertained by the Vice-Chancellor at a collation in the
Hall of University College. Oxford University Herald.

APPENDIX— I.
Prom the Latin Oration of Prof. T. L. Claughton, June 23d, 1852.
"Sed vereor ne nimiusin his rebus esse videar, cum longe alias cogitationes
secum attulerit hujus diei solennitas, et cum neminem non tangat favor iste
plaususque quo juventus nostra atque omnis hie consessus venerandos illos
Prsepules excepit, qui ex America nuper in has oras appulsi sunt Salvete,
Pacis Ministri 1_ qui vobiseum optima caritatis pignora ab Ecclesia, nostra? devinc-
tissima et conjunctissima, reportatis! Salyere yos jubet non hsec Academia
solum, sed etiam omnis Ecclesia Anglicana! Equidem cum vos intueor, qui in
eorum locum successistis, qui Catholiere ergo in Christo fidei, 'W ayava thv ko\ov
rryaviuavTO," cum. eos qui proximi vobis a latere sedent, ilium prcesertim Epis-
copum Londinensem cujus Episcopatus hsec summa laus est, quod Ecclesite Aus-
tralenses, Africanpe, Anglo-Americame, Orientales, eo inter primos auctore, fun-
datoa sunt; ne taeeam alteram Fidei ad nosusque transmissae strenuum asserto-
rem Henricum, Episcopum Exoniensem ; cum vos omnes sanctisimi Prrcsules,
intueor, videormihinescio quo pactotempus animo prassagire cum, omnibus in
Christo fidelibusuno caritatis vinculo eonjunctis, finis ille aderit, quemprecibus
assiduis a Deo impetravimus ; in quern laboribus et impensa, quoad quisque
potuil, incubuimus ; pro quo nemo est nostrum, ut spero, qui non bonorum
direptionem, vel quawis alia, libenter passurus foret ! In quem finem si quid, Deo
juvante, contulerit hsec Academia ; si quos yiros fide, amore, zelo ferventes
Evangeiistarum nomine veri dignos emiserit, illud majori nobis honori est,
altiori prfeconio celebrari dignum, quam si scientiarum progressibus atque
artium exeultioni pro virili operam navassemus."
The end of the Creweian Oration in the Theatre, Oxford, delivered by the Eev.
Thomas Leigh Claughtom, M. A., Professor of Poetry— the Bishops of
Michigan and Western New-York being present

But, I fear that I am lingering too long upon these subjects. The solemnity
of this day has brought with it far different matters for our consideration, and
no one is unaffected by the applause and tokens of esteem with which the
younger members of this place, and I may say, this whole assembly, ha6
received the Venerable Prelates who have lately come to these shores from
America. Welcome, ye ministers of peace, who bring us the best pledges of
affectionate regard from a Church which is most intimately united with our
own. It is not this University alone, but the entire Church of England, that
bids you welcome. In truth, while I gaze upon you who have succeeded to
the place of those who once " fought the good fight" for the Catholic Faith in
Christ ; when I look upon those who are sitting close beside you, especially
the Bishop of London, the highest glory of whose Episcopate is this, that under
his especial auspices, Churches have been founded in Australia, Africa, Eng
lish America, and the East ; not to omit the mention of him who has been
the strenuous defender of the faith which has been transmitted to our own
days, Henry, Bishop of Exeter ; when, I say, I look upon all of you, most Rev
erend Prelates, I seem to anticipate the coming of that day when, by the union
of all the faithful in Christ in one bond of love, that happy consummation will
have arrived for which we have earnestly prayed, for which we have devoted
both our labors and. our means, according to our respective abilities; for
which none of us, I hope, would not willingly endure the plundering of our
goods, or aught else besides.
And if, under the blessing of God, this University has at all contributed to
this end — if it has sent forth any men of ardent faith, love and zeal, and
truly worthy of the name of Evangelists — it is a greater honor, and worthyof
being celebrated in a loftier strain, than if we had devoted our utmost energies
to advance the progress of the sciences and the full cultivation of the arts.
W. S.
E

APPENDIX— J.
The Services at Canterbury, June 29th and 30th, 1852.
To the Editor of the Guardian : —
Sm, — You have given in the pages of the Guardian several interesting
accounts of the late religious services and meetings connected with the Jubilee.
It may be gratifying, therefore, to your readers, to be further informed
respecting the late proceedings of a similar character, in the ancient city of
Canterbury. I arrived here on Monday last, and was hospitably received by the Warden
of the institution from which I write. Thirty years since I recollect the pres
ent situation of the College, while encumbered by ruins, and partially occupied
by a brewery, a public house, and a skittle-ground. Now I behold a school of
the prophets erected on the old foundations, and firmly established in the con
fidence of the Church.
After examining the library on the following morning, I attended, at ten
o'clock, an interesting ceremony in the Hall, when a jet-black negro from Gui
ana was formally admitted as a student. The Bishop of Western New York
was present, together with Drs. Wainwright, and Van Ingen, and the Rev. Mr.
Ayrault, from the United States, and Archdeacon Bethune from Canada, besides
other guests. The present number of students is twenty-two, from various
colonies, besides an Esquimaux probationer from Iat 76 N.
The chapel services soon afterwards commenced. The chanting was admi
rably performed by the students, without instrumental accompaniment, and
the deceased benefactors were duly commemorated. After the services Bishop
De Lancey preached an excellent sermon on the commission and responsibili
ties of the Sacred Ministry. The collection made at the offertory was devoted
by the Warden to the missions of the American Church.
In the evening a number of guests enjoyed the pleasure of dining in the
College Hall, with the Warden, Sub-Warden, and Fellows. I noticed the
Bishop of Western New York, and Dr. Wainwright, the Dean and Archdeacon
of Canterbury, the Archdeacon of Maidstone, the Rev. Dr. Spry, Dr. Russell,
and other well-known churchmen. At nine P. M. we again attended divine
service in the chapel.
At twelve o'clock on the following day, a meeting of the friends of the Soci
ety for the Propagation of the Gospel was held at St. George's Hall, a neat
and convenient apartment. The chairman, Dr. Russell, explained that the
object of the meeting was the reception of the delegation from America. An
address of welcome was then read by the Rector of St. Martin's, which was
responded to by Bishop De Lancey. The Bishop expressed his satisfaction in
visiting England, and declared his belief that the true principles of the Church
were decidedly gaining ground on both sides of the Atlantic. He spoke also
in terms of high commendation of Bishop Strachan, of Toronto, Archdeacon
Bethune, and the Canadian Church in general.
Dr. Wainwright followed, and in a very efficient speech assured the meeting
that he should carry back to America a faithful account of the vast improve
ments which have taken place in the Church of England since his visit in 1839.
At the same time, also, he must honestly report that the cities and great
towns in England are too much neglected, and that the laity generally, have
too little share in the management of Church affairs.
Dr. Van Ingen expressed his delight at finding himself in Canterbury, the
cradle of Anglo-Saxon Christianity. All that North America possesses, he said,
comes from England — her laws, her institutions, and her religion. The great
desideratum at the present time is, the unity of our Reformed Church through
out Christendom.

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mettio^ hf Z r T th^kei, ihe BisnoP of Weatera New YoA f°r W» kind
the ™«JL ¦£ ^lan °}UTfK He then 8P°ke of th^ peculiar difficulties of
of rW ™„ T°ront°> «d of the eruel necessity which has obliged the Bishop
TW wft T apP6al t0-the Ch™tian public in behalf of Trinity College
rovnl I I vTl110¥.11ft"il1 operation, and was about to receive a
2f, « •" , Ytlk Te^lr^ mu<* additional assistance to render it thor-
S\ e™c'ent- He concluded by expressing his delight and satisfaction with
what he had seen at St Augustine's.
' In the afternoon Bishop De Lancey preached at the Cathedral in presence
?/t£ aug! aD ^6p,y attentlve congregation. The text was from 2 Cor. ix., 6 :
¦ He that soweth plenteously shall also reap plenteously." It was shown that
the promise in the text applies to missionary efforts as well as to all the operations
ot industry. The spirit of missions was the spirit of Christianity itself
Ihrough the operations of this spirit America had received the Gospel from
England, as England had received it from our Eastern regions.
The proceedings of the day terminated with a dinner at the Dean's. The
evening was spent agreeably and profitably by a numerous company of Eng
lish and Americans. After singing the National Anthem the party broke up,
highly gratified with the hospitality which theyliad experienced.
I remain, Sir, yours faithfully, HENRY CASWALL.
St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, July 2, 1852.

APPENDIX— K.
The Meeting in Archbishop Tenison's Library, July 1st, 1852.
. The Quarterly Meeting of this Society was held yesterday, at Archbishop Teni
son's Library, Castle-street, Leicester-Square. The Rev. H. Mackenzie, Vicar of
the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, presided, supported by the Bishop of
Western New York and the Bishop of Edinburgh.
The Chairman said this meeting was one of more than usual interest, for it
was held in the very room where, a century and a half ago, the Society was in
stituted by Archbishop Tenison. He hoped that one of the results of the
meeting would be, that greater use would be made of the institution provided
by the liberality of that Prelate for the inhabitants of St. Martin's and the
adjoining parishes. If they would look back to the period of the Society's
second Jubilee, they would find that the Church which had now sent its Bishop
over at the invitation of the Society was then in its infancy. At that time
three distinguished members of that Church, Doctor White, Doctor Provost,
and a third, whose name he could not then recollect, had come over. They
came for the purpose of receiving Episcopal Consecration at the hands of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. From these good men, in conjunction with a
single Scottish Bishop, the American Church had sprung up, which now con
sisted of thirty Bishops, and more than 1,600 Clergy. He then reviewed the
progress of the Society, and referred to what they might expect it to be at the
conclusion of the fourth Jubilee. In conclusion, in showing the danger
attending upon the Missionaries, he repeated an account he had received of
the providential escape of the Bishops of New Zealand and Newcastle from
the natives of one of the Polynesian Islands.
The Bishop of Western New York then rose, and stated the feelings with
which he found himself in the cradle, if he might call it so, of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel. He then reviewed the rise and progress of the
American Church, describing the dangers and difficulties which had beset it,
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After eloquently expatiating upon the principles in which that Church had
been conducted, and by which alone it could be maintained, he expressed his
acknowledgments to the Church of England and also to the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel. In conclusion, he statecKthat the advantages of
the Church in the colonies could not be too highly appreciated, and he was
convinced that it was only by the union of the Clergy and Laity that it could
be extensively increased. They always found in their country that the Laity
who where rightly educated in the principles of the Church were its best sup
porters, and that by such a union it would make such a forward progress that
they could hardly at present estimate it.
The Bishop of Edinburgh said he could not relate such interesting details of
the progress of the Church of Scotland, which was a much smaller body. It
had now passed through its difficulties, and was in a comparatively independ
ent position. It was at least free from civil disabilities. He then stated that
upon two grounds he had always supported their Society more readily than
others. First, it was conducted upon the true principles of the Episcopal
Church, and it enjoyed the sanction of the Bishops. Secondly, it was of the
greatest service to the crowds of emigrants that left this country, and especi
ally Scotland, for it was satisfactory to know that those who left their homes
here were still in the enjoyment of the advantages afforded by that Church in
which they had been brought up. In conclusion, he begged to express his cor
dial concurrence in all the wishes which had been expressed for the prosperity
of the Society.
Sir E. Cust also addressed the meeting, bearing his testimony to the exertions
ot the Church in America and in the colonies. He also was convinced that it
was only by a union of the sister Churches of England and America they
would eventually produce that good which they were capable of doing upon
the world at large. After complimenting the Clergy upon their liberality, he
earnestly called upon the Laity to assist also.
On the motion of Mr. Churchwarden Countze, seconded by Sir W. C. James,
a vote of thanks was carried by acclamation to the Bishops of Western New
York and Edinburgh.
The Bishop of Western New York briefly returned thanks.
The blessing was then pronounced by the Chairman, and the meeting sepa
rated. July 24 1852. Morning Chronicle.

APPENDIX— L.
Letter from the Rt. Rev. W. Skinner, Primus, to the Bishop of
Western New York. Aberdeen, August 23, 1852.
Mt Dear Bishop De Lancet : — I can not express my regret on returning to
Aberdeen last Monday to find waiting, your card and kind note, announcing
your having been here on the evening of Friday week, and taken your departure
the following morning. As Mrs. Skinner and I were only on a country visit
about 16 miles off, had you been pleased to give us any previous intimation of
your visit, we might have readily been at home to receive you and Mrs.
De Lancey ; and we feel greatly annoyed that you should have had the fatigue
and exposure of a long journey to no purpose.
It was a grievous disappointment to me, my not being able to join with our
Anglican and Transatlantic Brethren in the solemn and heart-stirring services
ofJWestminster Abbey and St Paul's ; but thoughathis was the first opportunity
that presented itself for our meeting as Brethren to consent in offices of love,
yet I sincerely trust that in the providence of God it may not be the last —
but that if spared, we may yet meet in the flesh.
The Annual Episcopal Synod, and meeting of our Church Society, &c, take
place in Edinburgh this year the last week in September, and should it suit
the convenience of yourself and the Bishop of Michigan to join us there on
that occasion, say on the 28th or 29th September, to me it would afford the
greatest pleasure, and no less, I am persuaded, to my Episcopal Brethren, to
have the opportunity of expressing, viva voce, the cordial affection which the
Episcopal Church in Scotland bears towards her sister Church in America, to
whom she may be allowed to claim a somewhat nearer alliance.
With profound sentiments of esteem for your character, and fervent prayers
to Almighty God for your safe and happy return to your Diocese and home, I
have the honor to remain, my dear Bishop,
Your faithful friend and brother in the Lord,
W. SKINNER, Bishop of Aberdeen,
and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Western New Yore, U. S.

APPENDIX— M.
Irish Converts.
The statement of the number of Converts to the Church of England among
the Irish residents and emigrants was made to me by the Rev. John Edward
White, M. A., Secretary of the Irish Society of London, whose friendly call upon
me in London I have very much to regret that I was prevented by sudden indis
position from returning.
The following facts and items of intelligence confirmatory of the general
statement, and drawn from the reports and publications submitted to me, will
doubtless prove highly interesting to the Convention, and to Churchmen
generally :
1. There exists a Professorship of Irish in Dublin University. The present
Professor is the Rev. Daniel Foley, M. A., who is understood to occupy his
post with ability and zeal — delivering lectures upon the Irish language, and
giving instructions in the same.
2. The total number of Missionaries now employed by the Society is twenty-
eight, and seven Missionary stations are still vacant, owing to the difficulty of
obtaining Clergymen suited to the work. The total number of Lay Agents,
Scripture Readers and Schoolmasters for the young is 220. There are fifty
congregations of converts ministered to by the Missionaries of the Society.—
[p. 22.]
3. The Teaching Department of the Society's labors has been conducted by
the Dublin Committee, the Agency connected with which consists of 60 Hon
orary Clerical Superintendents, 4 Clerical Agents, 95 Scripture Readers, and
620 Teachers, with nearly 27,000 pupils under instruction. — [p. 21.]
4. The Districts in which these labors are prosecuted are Donegal, Tyronne,
Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Kingseourt, Galway, Roscommon, Limerick, Tipperary,
Clare, Kerry, Waterford and Cork.
5. Of the Cork City Mission it is recorded that Divine Service has been
regularly held in the Irish language ; the Missionary Lay Agents and Readers
have visited from house to house ; converts' and inquirers' meetings have" been
held; controversial sermons have been preached, and the schools have been
diligently attended to. We have the satisfaction to see our meetings well
attended, our schools crowded, and some of our inquirers become sound members
of our good old Church, and those of longer standing among our people mani
festing by their lives and conduct that they are converts indeed. — [p. 23.]
Our Reformation Schools are well attended. We have very nearly two
hundred children of Roman Catholics in attendance, and the children mani
fest great improvement. Upwards of 100 children of Roman Catholics attend
the Saturday classes of the Missionary, and each child is able every week to
repeat the Collect for the following Sunday and a hymn, while the head classes
have also learned a parable or miracle from the Gospels. — [p. 24.]
I have rarely, says an English writer sent to inspect the works of the
Society, witnessed such a scene as I was permitted to see in the large well-
lighted school room which is used by the Irish Society in the city of ' Cork.
One hundred and twenty persons of all ages and chiefly Roman Catholics'
sitting in classeB and quietly discussing the points of difference between the
Churches of England and Rome. It was essentially a controversial meeting.
Popery with its errors was the theme of the night.
6. Of the Doon and Pallas Mission it is recorded thus : Numerous conversions
from Romanism deserve notice as among the most important fruits of such

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labors. On this point we wish to be accurate, and careful inquiry enables us
to state the facts with confidence. It is always difficult to state numbers with
precision. The shiftings of society in Ireland by emigration, death, and search
:or employment, cause frequent alterations in every statistical return. In the
parish of Doon there are at present about 300 converts; in Pallas Green, 200 ;
in Tuogh, 130 ; and many others in the parishes of Ballybrood, Abington,
Oola, Cullen, &c, &c. We have thus about 800 converts at present residing
m the district, and if we add those who have been removed by death, emigra
tion, or other circumstances, not less than 1,000 persons have been saved
from the false teaching of the Church of Rome in Doon and the surrounding
parishes, within the short period that has elapsed since the year 1848. —
Formerly, in the parish of Doon, thirty persons formed what was considered
an unusually large congregation on the Lord's Day. Now there are 360
Protestants, (nearly all converts,) in the parish, and sometimes overflowing
congregations. Formerly ten or twelve communicants was a large number,
but recently eighty-one, with solemn devotion, presented themselves at the
Table of the Lord.— -[p. 81.]
During the last autumn the Bishop of Cashel held a Confirmation of 2*74
converts from Romanism, connected with the Mission at Dronkeen Church, in
the county of Limerick.
Three Missionaries are employed here in connection with the Society, one
Lay Agent, seventeen Readers of various classes, and five Schoolmasters for
the young. — [p. 34.]
1. Of Clare it is recorded that ten families in the south of Clare have left
the Church of Rome since the Mission was opened, in September last.
8. Of South Mato it is recorded that a great spirit of inquiry is abroad
throughout the whole of the district at the head of the Kellerico, and many
hundreds of converts are living witnesses that the Law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul.
We have altogether in our schools in this parish, Cong, nearly 400. All,
with the exception of seven, had been Romanists, and many of them are so
still. Our Sunday School is noble, averaging 120, and about 20 adults in an
Irish class.
There are about 200 converts at Pulathemas, in North Mayo, and 45 con
verts are reported by the return of the parish of Kileommon.
In the neighborhood of Dingle and Ventry, there are about 1200 con
verts. About 30,000 pupils are m the schools of the Irish Society.
9. In regard to the native Irish in London, the Society reports that since the
first of January last eighty-seven persons, many of them heads of families, have
renounced Popery in the Church of St. Paul's, Bermondsey, which together
with the children of the same, received into the Church, make 153 converts.
10. In Whitaker's Clergyman's Diary, published for January, 1852, it is
stated that during the last few years about 34,000 persons have forsaken the
Romish Communion in Ireland, and are now living as consistent members of
the Church of England.
11. The following extract from a sketch of the Irish Society's operations,
developing the origin and progress of this great movement, cannot but be
deeply interesting to every Christian :
" In the year 1843, a Professorship of the Irish Language was founded in
Trinity College, Dublin, the funds for that purpose having been procured by
the Irish Society, and this Chair was filled by Mr. Coneys until the period of
his lamented death in December last. The Ventry Irish School was also
adopted, in 1844, by the Irish Society for the instruction of Irish-speaking
youths, with the view of preparing them for the Ministry ; and in 1845, four
Exhibitions were established in Trinity College, Dublin, as » further encour
agement for students of the Irish language. Meanwhile the elementary
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eighteen counties, and previously to the year 1846, some hundreds of thousands
of the native Irish had been taught to read the Scriptures in their own language.
" In that memorable year it pleased the Lord to cause a blight to pass over
the land, and the staple food of Ireland was lost.
" The Famine will not soon be forgotten. Villages were swept away and
whole districts depopulated by that awful scourge. It i6 calculated that _ at
least a million of people perished during that visitation ; and although British
benevolence was prompt and early in rendering aid, many of the people, died
before the supplies could reach them. But however fearful the scourge, it
E leased the Lord in his inscrutable wisdom to employ it for the furtherance of
is own great work, and results have arisen equally unexpected by the
friends of the Gospel and by the opposers of that Gospel — the Priests of the
Church of Rome. Holy Water was sold — it produced no effect upon the
diseased potatoes. The people implored the Priests to exert the power of per
forming miracles, which they had long claimed, and to stay the ravages of the
famine, but no miracle was performed ; the people then discovered that the
Priests told falsehoods, and as a consequence they doubted the infallibility of
the Church of Rome. In addition to which the supplies for their necessities
came from the Saxons, whom the Priests had taught them to hate ; and their
lives were preserved in a great measure by the means of the Protestant Clergy,
whom the Priests were wont to call mischievous heretics and the messengers
of Satan. And the Priests having by means of political agitation uncon
sciously taught the people to think for themselves on the subject of politics,
the people not unnaturally extended the same principle of private judgment
to the subject of religion.
" All this was well. God in his wisdom overruled the famine to the break
ing down of prejudice and removing difficulties in the way of instructing the
Romanists ; but neither the Famine, nor the concomitant Fever, nor the break
ing down of Prejudice, nor Political Agitation was ' the seed.' ' The seed is
the Word of God.' Hundreds of thousands of the native Irish had been
taught to read the Scriptures by the agents of the Irish Society, and no incon
siderable number byother Protestant Institutions. And during the famine
and immediately after, many an Irish peasant might be seen taking his Bible
from the shelf in his cabin and lighting a splinter of bogwood and sitting down
to read the Word of God for himself and his family around him. Yes, that
Bible which he at first procured merely to learn his own beloved language —
the reading of which has always been the pride of the Irish peasant ; — that
Bible he now reads as a message from God ; and reading its 6acred pages,
illumined by the light of the Holy Spirit, he finds a Saviour of whose sole
Atonement and Intercession he had never heard from his Romish teachers, and
he.receives 'beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning.' This exten
sive sowing of the seed is acknowledged by all to have been the Preparation
for the Reformation Movement.
" The Lord Bishop of Cashel, in a letter to the Secretary of the Irish Society,
attests this fact in the following terms: — 'There has been a wonderful testi
mony borne to the efficacy of Irish teachers and the Irish Society. The Irish
Scriptures, put into the hands of the people, are confessedly at the bottom of
all the conversion that is so happily going on in Dingle, Doon, Connemara and
Mayo. Whatever instruments may have been raised up to gather the harvest
all attest the fact that the Scriptures in Irish have been the good seed, and
thence have come the blade, the ear, and the full corn in the ear,' "

APPENDIX— N.
Letter from the Bishop of St. Asaph to the Bishops of Michigan
" and Western New York. St. Asaph, Sept. 4th, 1852.
Mt Dear Brethren and Friends : — I had looked forward to a pleasant holi
day with both of you when you were at St. .Asaph — a day of pleasant earthly
pleasure not unmixed with something better. But our Master ordered it
otherwise, and though kindly grieving for my personal absence, I trust you
both enjoyed your drive, and the hospitality of my good friend the Dean.
It has pleased God to restore me quickly to my health and spirits, and
though I shall never probably enjoy a day in such a way as I had expected,
yet we may, I trust, all look forward in faith to a better meeting in a better
country — I hope a common country. And if while we remain on earth our
personal friendship and our official influence shall be allowed to contribute to
the closer union of our two countries, the Lord be praised.
I must beg to be remembered most kindly to Mrs. De Lancey and any other
common friends. Believe me, my dear Bishops,
Your brother in Christ Jesus,
THOMAS VOWLER, St. Asaph.
Rt. Rev. S. A. M'Coskrt,
Rt Rev. W. H. De Lancet.

APPENDIX— 0.
At Leeds— Meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts.
Never has the Music Hall been devoted to a better purpose, or been the
scene of more interesting proceedings, than on Wednesday last. The Bishop
of the Diocese, and two American Bishops, who have come to this country as
a deputation to join in celebrating the third Jubilee of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, being in Leeds for the purpose of
attending the commemoration services at the Parish Church, advantage was
taken of their presence to hold a meeting of that Society. Although no flam
ing placards had been issued, the room was well filled with a highly respecta
ble audience. On the platform were the great body of the Clergy of the town,
headed by the Bishop and the Vicar, together with some of the most influen
tial of the Laity ; and a numerous company of attentive listeners, who repeat
edly testified their interest in the proceedings, occupied the body of the Hall.
That on an occasion so destitute of the attractions of political excitement, and
so far removed from the operation of the mercenary or selfish motives of any
kind, such numbers should have been gathered together without recourse to
those puffing arts which are usually employed in the getting up of public
meetings, is a gratifying proof that the people of Leeds are not wholly absorbed
in business and politips, but with all their activity in these pursuits, have some
concern for those of a purer and more elevated character.
There were several circumstances which combined to raise the meeting on
Wednesday night above the ordinary level of those held in the same room.
The Society in connection with which it was called together, is about a cen
tury older than any similar Institution, having been incorporated by Royal
charter in the year 1701 ; a year memorable, as was aptly observed, for the
settlement of the succession to the Crown of these realms in the line from
which her present Majesty is descended. In addition to superior age and
higher patronage, this Society has stronger claims to regard than most others
of the same class, on account of its national character. The objects it was
especially designed to promote, were the diffusion of the blessings of Christi
anity among the native inhabitants of our colonial possessions, and the supply
of the spiritual wants of British emigrants or their descendants. These excel
lent purposes it has been carrying on for the last century and a half with great
success, one striking instance of which is afforded by the interesting fact, that
to its operations may be traced the origin of the Episcopal Church in the Uni
ted States, which now numbers upwards of 30 Bishops and 1600 Clergymen.
Its value as a means of providing for the religious necessities of our country
men who emigrate to British settlements, is now greater than ever, in conse
quence of the unparalleled extent to which emigration is going on. The late
President of the Poor Law Board informed the meeting that the number of
emigrants from our shores, which was 14,000 in the year 1825, had increased
to 280,000, or twenty times as many in 1850. Since this latter period it has
advanced beyond all computation. The lowest estimate for 1851, puts it at
between three and four hundred thousand ; and though we can only guess
what it will be this year, there can be no doubt it will exceed that of any pre
vious year. It is of the greatest importance that these vast and increasing
portions of our population should not be without the means of our religious
instruction. Nothing but the benign spirit of Christianity can suffice to pro
tect them against the hardening and debasing influence of a gold-digging
atmosphere. Another circumstance of interest connected with the meeting at the Music
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APPENDIX. IS
It is not every public meeting in that Hall that can boast of so distinguished
a chairman as the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. The presence of the two
American Prelates, who had come to England on an errand of peace and
love, was peculiarly significant at a time like this. Nothing could be more
honorable to both parties than the generous enthusiasm with which they were
received. If a resolution ever spoke the real sentiments of a meeting, it was
that which adverted to this topic. We rejoice with others in the hope that
such genuine expressions of mutual regard will tend to unite the two great
nations of England and America by indissoluble bonds of peace and harmony.
JLhere was yet one more individual whose presence at the meeting deserves to
be noticed, we mean the Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines. A better substi
tute for his worship the Mayor, who was unhappily prevented by illness- from
attending, could not have been found. Differing as we do with the right hon
orable gentleman on political points, we were the more delighted to listen to
the eloquent terms in which he pleaded the cause of the Propagation Society,
addressed the American Bishops, and gave utterance to his ardent desire for
peace and good will. It was with a feeling of peculiar satisfaction that we
heard him pronounce the Episcopal Reformed Church to-be " a Church as pure
and as excellent as any upon the face of the earth." Words like these from
the lips of a Baines are such as we do not often hear. 0 si sic omnia ! Leeds
may congratulate itself on having found a successor to Mr. Beckett so favora
ble to the Church, and so able to defend her sacred interests from the assaults
of violent dissenters.
LEEDS SOCTETT FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.
A meeting of this Society was held in the Music Hall, Leeds, on Wednesday
last, which was rendered unusually interesting and attractive in consequence
of the presence of two Bishops of the American Episcopal Church, the Bish
op of our own Diocese, and a Very large proportion of the Clergy of this town
and neighborhood, as well as a considerable number of influential Laity. The
hall was fully occupied by a highly respectable audience, who gave a most
enthusiastic welcome to the Right Rev. Prelates from America as they were
introduced upon the platform by our own highly respected Diocesan. The Rt.
Hon. M. T. Baines, M. P., was also greeted with applause as he took his seat
amid the principal group around the President's chair. The office of chairman
was discharged by the Lord Bishop of Ripon.
The following is as complete a list of the Clergy present as we could obtain,
but there were several others present whose names we could not learn :
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon ; the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Western New York ; the Right Rev. the Bishop of Maryland ; Dr. Hook, Vicar
of Leeds ; the Revs. Dr. Holmes, Thomas Nunns, Edward Jackson, John Bick-
erdike, Edward Cookson, J. W. Knott, H. Lomas, S. Kettlewell, W. C. Barwis,
W. Whyatt, H. Kershaw, W. Randall, H. De Renzi, G. Thomas, A. Keene, J.
M. Fawcett, W. Willey, J. Brunskill, W. T. Henham, A. Davis, R. C. Weston,
A. R. Richings, R. Twigg,  Carter, F. Rowell, R. Kemplay, 0. L. Cham
bers, D. J. Gladstone, all of Leeds; the Revs. G. Armfield, Armley; J. Clark,
Hunslet; G. Nash, Bramley; W. S. Howarth, Stanningley; A. Ibbotson,
Rawden ; W. Bnshfield, Keighley ; W. F. Black, Bradford ; W. Braithwaite,
Alne ; G. Sowden, Stainland ; R. Newlove, Thorner ; T. Carter, Heckmond-
wike ; R. Poole, Ripon, Secretary to the Archdeaconry of Ripon ; John Urqu-
hart, Chapel Allerton ; D. Mapleton, Meanwood ; R. Male, Wells, Sommerset-
shire; E. Male, Northfield, Birmingham; W. T. Dixon, Buslingthorp ; T.
Nevin, Mirfield; W. Metcalf, Yeadon ; W. H. Stocker, Horsfortb; A. J.
Brameld, Wortley ; W. Dawson, Holbeck ; J. H. Kendall, Holbeck ; W. Milner,
Shadwell; W. Chappell, Garforth; A. F. A.Woodford, Swillington ; Hugh
Smythe Thornes; W. Dixon, Tong; G. H. G. Anson, Birch, Manchester; J.
H Thompson, Middleton; Robert Chad wick, Lofthouse; A. C. Jenkins, Arm-
ley • and R. Atthill, Middleham. Amongst the Laity present were the Right
Hon M T. Baines, M. P., John Gott Esq., Humphrey H. J. Hare, Esq., T. P.
Teal'e Esq. J. M Tennant, Esq., J. H. Jowitt, Esq,, George Wise, Esq., B.

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Helliwell, Esq., H. Snowdon, Esq., H. Skelton, Esq., J. Lapage, Esq., Richard
Oastler, Esq., (the Factory King,) (fee. <fcc.
The meeting having been opened with prayer by the Rev. E. Ja ckson,
The Lord Bishop of Ripon rose to address the meeting amid loud applause.
He said it generally devolved upon the chairman of public meetings to give a
general outline of the objects for which the meeting was assembled, and, as far
as might be, a sketch or general outline of the proceedings ; but he was
entirely satisfied that the meeting then assembled had very good and sufficient
information of the general bearings of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, whose cause they were met together this evening to
advocate and promote. And if any other evidence were wanting of their zeal
on behalf of this Society, and therefore, he might presume, of their knowledge
of its merits and claims on their attention and liberality, he should find it in
the efforts which had been made in this place during the last twelve months
for the celebration of the Jubilee of this Society, for he (the chairman) believ
ed he was not wrong in stating that greater efforts had been made within the
boundaries of this ancient parish, greater liberality had been shown in con
tributing to the Jubilee funds, than in any other place in the kingdom, except
ing the metropolis. (Loud applause.) He took that, therefore, as an evidence
of their knowledge of the benefits and blessings which this Society had already
conferred on many quarters of the world, and of their earnest zeal in promo
ting its welfare. A conviction of that kind could not fail to be deeply gratify
ing to his own heart, because as their spiritual pastor, and therefore as deeply
interested in their spiritual welfare, he could not but be assured that those
who manifested such earnest zeal for the advancement of the spiritual interests
of others, must indeed duly appreciate the value of their own souls — must
have a keen, lively, and anxious desire to work out their own salvation. It
was, therefore, such features as this, that as their spiritual pastor, he felt that
he had occasion to thank God for and take courage in. But, surely, in a time
like this, and in a district 6uch as this, these results might well have been
expected ; for surely, here where wealth was accumulating ; surely, here where
that enterprise and energy were displayed on every hand which was the main
spring, under the blessing of God, of all that wealth which had been accumu
lated ; surely, here would be found those who desired to thank God for all the
comforts and conveniences of life, and for an honest independence ; they surely,
well knew how much they were indebted to Him who was the author and
giver of every good gift, and would desire to contribute to His service some
portion of those riches and abundance which He had so bountifully bestowed
upon them. (Applause.) And there was still another reason why in this
place, such a result should have been expected. This was one of those vast
hives of British industry, one of the great workshops of the world, which min
istered to the temporal and moral comfort and convenience of millions of those
who yet, unhappily, bore not the name of Christians. If, therefore, the inhab
itants of Leeds were instrumental in conveying to them the products of their
industry ; and if they held out encouragement to mutual commerce and inter
course, the people of Leeds would not permit them to be without that bread
of life which alone could sustain the soul — they themselves would be desirous
to convey to thoBe benighted countries that merchandise which was " better
than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof better than fine gold."
(Loud applause.)
Again, the meeting would be aware that it was from these vast hives of
industry the chief emigration to our foreign colonies was at present departing ;
and when their own friends and kindred, or at any rate, those with whom
they had been associated in some relation or other of life, were departing to
those distant shores, would they not be anxious to impart to them that reli
gious consolation that when on ship-board, surrounded by those alarms and
anxieties which the rude elements about them contributed to supply, they
stood bo much in need of; and those consolations which seemed especially
wanting at those moments when perhaps they were disponding over their fu
ture prospects, and the enemy of souls so easily might find an avenue and
inlet to their hearts. (Hear, hear.) And with respect to the spread of eniigra-

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i anx-

tion, they knew that this Society from its first institution, had been most i 
lous to consult the spiritual welfare of our distant colonies. They knew how
those holy and enlightened men who first of all founded this institution, never
rested until they had been instrumental in sending out additional numbers of
ordained ministers to our colonies, and how anxious they were and how they
persevered through years of disappointment and toil and apprehension, until
they achieved the establishment of an episcopate over those who had already
been sent out as subordinate ministers of the Gospel. (Applause.) And now
the blessed fruits of their exertions were plainly seen, and there were those
present at this meeting who would willingly contribute their testimony to the
benefits thus conferred — (applause) — those whose presence cheered the mem
bers of this Society in their own labors — those whom they would all welcome
to their hearts and homes — (loud applause) — those in whom they all took a
most cordial and affectionate interest. (Renewed applause.) Now, in tracing
the progress of the Episcopal Church in America, witnessing, as they did, the
fact that not above twelve or fourteen years ago, there was not half the num
ber of Bishops then as there were Bishops now, and not half the number of
Clergy then as there were Clergy now, they could not but thank God for the
manifest blessings conferred on that Church, and would desire to entreat Him
to pour down the additional blessings of His Holy Spirit upon her and to
prosper her in the labors in which she is engaged. (Applause.) Undoubtedly
it was a matter of peculiar interest to him (the chairman) to find one of the
Right Rev. Prelates beside him, the institution of whose Diocese, he recollected,
had been contemporaneous with his own. (Applause.) Although in those
days they had been entirely unacquainted with each other, yet they had since
been laboring in that holy fellowship and rivalry which it had pleased God in
His good providence, to place before them ; and it was a matter of great self-
congratulation and thankfulness that he was permitted now to meet with this
Right Rev. Prelate, and to be able to interchange with him mutual senti
ments of sympathy and encouragement, and to confer with him, and to com
pare notes as well of difficulties and discouragements as of such circumstances
as might cheer them and enable them mutually to bid each other " God speed,"
and to be encouraged in the work respectively allotted to them. (Applause.)
With regard to the general progress of the Society in various parts of the
world, others would follow him in the course of the evening's proceedings who
would give details which he was not fully acquainted with ; but in reference
to both the Right Rev. Prelates then present, he must say the meeting hailed
them not only as brethren and kindred in blood, not only as sons of the Anglo
Saxon race whose ancesters and brethren had pervaded and encircled the
whole of the habitable world ; but as joint members of the Reformed Episco
pal Church to which they all equally had the blessing to belong. (Applause.)
He hailed their presence upon this occasion as a fresh warrant for that hearty
and cordial cooperation between the two Churches, which he prayed might
never be diminished. (Loud applause.) He witnessed also in their presence,
a guarantee that the peace and union and amity between the two countries
would be perpetually cemented, and that under the blessing of God, they
would labor and work together for the promotion of that great and holy cause
which He had entrusted to their care. (Loud applause.)
The Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar, rose to move the first resolution, and com
menced his address by expressing the deep regret he felt at the absence of one
whose talents he had relied on to recommend that resolution to the judgment
of the meeting. He had expected merely to have had to introduce the subject
to their notice, and to have trusted the remainder to that talent of his much
respected friend, the Mayor of Leeds, which he always exhibited on every
subiect to which he directed his attention. (Applause.) He would have laid
before the meeting many topics relating to the American Episcopal Church,
which he was so well able to do; but he (Dr. Hook) was sorry to say, just
before coming to the meeting he had received a note saying the Mayor was
prevented from attending by serious though not alarming illness. Under these
circumstances application had been made to another gentleman, whom all
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had undertaken to supply the place of the Mayor. The gentleman he alluded
to appeared now, he believed, for the first time since his election, among any
large body of his constituents, and he was one whose character reflected honor
on the town of which he was a native. That gentleman was the Rt. Hon.
M. T. Baines. (Loud applause.) With such a seconder he (Dr. Hook) should
proceed to his own task with more confidence, and would express in the first
place his happiness to see around him such a large assembly of Churchmen,
who were, he was sure, as devoted in their attachment as he was to the Church
of England and the principles of the English reformation, as were hundreds
and thousands of others in the land. (Applause.) But he would venture to
say that in all England there was no man who loved the Church of England
more than he did. (Loud applause.) And it was because he loved the mother
Church that he loved her American daughter. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
He loved John Bull, and therefore he loved brother Jonathan also. (Applause.)
And he could only say that when any of their American friends, and any of
the Clergy of the American Church, came to England, as they did occasionally,
to raise money for religious purposes, as far as he was concerned he did not
begrudge them their success, but he heartily welcomed them, in every ecclesi
astical stream in which he was concerned, to fish. (Loud applause.) His
attachment to the American Church had commenced very early in his ministry,
before that Church had risen to its present eminence, and when it was only
little talked of or little known in England. He had made a pilgrimage to the
metropolis in 1823 to pay his tribute of respect to the first American Prelate
who trod on British ground, and he spoke under correction when he said
that that Prelate was the greatest man the American Church ever produced —
Bishop Hobart. (Hear, hear.) And why were English Churchmen so much
attached to the Church of America? Why did they, with so much cordiality
and affection, wish for and rejoice at her prosperity? It was because that
Church proclaimed, in language not to be mistaken, that the principles held
by the Reformed Church in England were not principles confined to any nation
or to any form of government. They were principles for all climes and for all
nations — they thrived as well in republican America as here in old England,
where men were accustomed "To sing with heart and voice
" God save the Queen." (Loud applause.)
The principles to which he had alluded were briefly stated by that illustrious
man to whom he had before referred, when he assumed for his motto " Evan
gelical truth and Apostolical order — not one, but both." There were many
Christian communities in the world around who retained Evangelical truth,
but, as Churchmen thought, had missed Apostolical order. There were some
who preserved Apostolical order, but who had rejected or corrupted Evangeli
cal truth. Churchmen desired to promote both, and by the union of both to
present to Christendom that via media in which they felt sure sooner or
later the children of God would see it their wisdom to walk. (Applause.)
Why should he (the Vicar) at the present time allude more particularly to the
American Church, while there were so many other subjects before them ? He
singled out this one for special attention now, because the American Church
had this year sent a deputation of two Bishops and one Presbyter, Dr. Wain-
right, (n-hose preaching in Leeds would not soon be forgotten") to join in the
Jubilee of this Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and those
among the present assembly who attended that Jubilee would never forget the
heart-stirring scene in Westminster Abbey, when foreign Prelates, with Pre
lates of our communion from all parts of the world, were assembled within
that majestic pile to return thanks to Almighty God for the blessings he had
shed on the Missionary labors of this invaluable Society. (Applause.) There
were present on that occasion many of the Right Reverend Chairman's own
flock, whose hearts throbbed within them when they heard his well-known and
familiar voice, always heard in words of kindness, mingling with those of
foreign brethren. (Applause.) And the question now came, why should the
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Gospel in Foreign Parts ? There were other Missionary Societies in existence,
ana why should the American Church send a deputation to this Society espe
cially? ihe Right Reverend Prelates would answer, because the American
Church was indebted to this Society, under God, for its existence. During the
last century the government of this country from policy— some present perhaps
might think from mistaken policy— (hear, hear)— refused to send any spiritual
assistance to the members of the English Church residing in what were at that
time the colonies of great Britain, but which now form the United States.
This Society then acted towards those colonists as it acted towards other
British colonies now. It sent out Missionaries there, and by the success of
those Missionaries the foundation was laid of that great American Church,
with her millions of Laity and more than thirty Bishops, emulating the Church
of England, and emulating her, too, in her Missionary exertions. (Loud ap
plause.) After tracing the descent of the present race of American Bishops from
the then persecuted Episcopal Church of Scotland, as well as from the Church
of England, the Reverend Doctor said it was not his intention to en:er further
into the history of the American Church. He should be content with taking
upon himself to assure the Right Reverend Fathers in God then present, that
they were surrounded in that room by Churchmen who revered their order,
who loved their Church, and who felt it an honor to be able to record that the
first pulpit from which an American Bishop preached the Gospel was the pulpit
of the Parish Church of this town. (Loud applause.) That preacher was
George Washingten Doane, a name much revered and respected in the English
Church. (Applause.) With respect to the resolution he had to propose, he
said he anticipated its unanimous acceptance. It was: "That this meeting
offers a hearty welcome to the Right Reverend Prelates from the Church of the
United States of America who have favored us with their presence, and recog
nizes in their attendance on this occasion a token of increasing union and
co-operation between the two Churches." (Loud applause.)
The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M. P., said he felt himself highly honored in
being permitted- to take any part, however humble, in the proceedings of that
meeting. The Society, on behalf of which they were assembled that night,
was one which in his opinion had peculiar claims upon the sympathy, the
untiring support, and the liberal contributions of all Britons, and of all
Christians. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Looking at the terms of the charter
originally given to that Society, which he had had the opportunity of consult
ing, he found that the principal objects proposed to themselves by the excellent
men who first devised the plan of this Society were these : — First, that there
should be an attempt to give the blessings of Gospel truth to the native inhab
itants of the British colonies ; and secondly, that there should be provision
made for the spiritual wants of the British settlers themselves. Two more
important objects it was utterly impossible for any men to propose to them
selves ; and he believed if they looked either at one object or at the other, so
far from the necessity for exertion having become less than it was, the circum
stances of the present times had created a constantly increasing necessity for
exertion on the part of all who had hitherto given this Society their aid and
co-operation. (Applause.) There were many circumstances in the past history
of this Society which he for one could never look at, without feeling in it the
greatest possible interest. It was the very oldest of the Missionary Societies
known in this country. (Hear, hear.) This Society was originated 150 years
ago in 1701, a year memorable in our constitutional history, as having
been the year in which that act of Parliament passed into law, in virtue
of which the family of her present most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, was
seated upon the throne. (Loud applause.) There was another circumstance
in the history of this Society full of interest to him, and that was the incalcu
lable amount of good which it had effected. It was quite impossible for them
to trace all the operations of the Society of this kind, but they had, m what
had been stated by his Reverend friend, the Vicar, an illustration of the good
which might be done by those who probably thought there was nothing but
discouragement in their path, whereas if they could have seen the prospects
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encouragement as to the good which would ultimately result from their, labors.
Take the case of the American Church alluded to by the Reverend Vicar.
Little did these good men who in 1720 or thereabouts labored in the wilds of
North America, discouraged by every difficulty which could present itself to
the imagination of man — little did these Missionaries foresee what would be
the results of their labor. (Hear, hear.) What were the results in that very
spot where they labored? Why, that they had a Church as pure and excel
lent as any on the face of the earth ; and the Bishops of that Church had
always been ready themselves to proclaim that they owed to the labors of the
original Missionaries of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, the foundation of their own Church, and the nursing care and attention
which that Church had received for very many years. (Applause.) They
might therefore ascribe the present position of the American Church, flourish
ing as it then was, to the labors of the very men sent out by this Society, and
who at that time foresaw but little of this great result of the labors in which
they were engaged. (Hear, hear.) Nay, but see how much further it had
gone. Not only had the American Church flourished in the manner described,
but that Church was itself now engaged — he believed he was strictly within
the mark — it was engaged in a most zealous and wide-spreading effort for the
evangelization of the rest of the world. (Applause.) That Church, which
was the result of the early labors of Missionaries sent out by this Society, now
had their own Missionaries in China, Africa, and in many other of the most
benighted parts of the globe ; and all these results were to be ascribed to tha
success with which it had pleased Providence to bless the labors of the early
Missionaries of this Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Another rea
son why he looked with peculiar interest on this Society was this, that import
ant and wide as the field for exertion had hitherto been, he believed that any
one who looked at the circumstances of the present times would feel satisfied
that that field was becoming much more extended than it ever had been, call
ing for increased exertions, and with those exertions their success in the future
would be much more important than that which had attended their efforts in
times past. (Hear, hear.)
In regard to the second object which constituted the distinguishing object
of this Society, namely, that of disseminating Gospel truth amongst the native
inhabitants of the British colonies, no body could doubt, who looked at the
last command given to them by their Divine Master, that the obligation in
that respect was on all Christians ; that it was a constant and a perpetual one
which never could be dissolved, or from which they could be released in any
way, so long as ignorance, vice and superstition continued to exist. (Applause.)
And as regarded the native inhabitants of the colonies, he felt for one, that if
they could second and improve upon the efforts already made by that Society,
they would make the best atonement in their power for many of those acts of
omission and commission of which he was afraid many pages of our colonial
history showed that the mother country had been guilty of towards the inhab
itants of our colonies. (Hear, hear.) If they by this means gave them tha
blessings of true religion, would they not, as he had said, make the best atone
ment they could for any injustice towards them hitherto committed by this
country ? With regard to the second of these objects proposed to themselves
by the excellent men who devised the plan of this Society, namely, to make
provision for the spiritual wants of British settlers in the colonies, surely any
one who had heard the speech of their Right Reverend Chairman could not fau
to see that the field for exertion and labor was becoming ampler, and more
important every day. (Hear, hear.) When they looked at the emigration
going on, and going on to that extent never before known in this country it
must be perfectly clear that the demand in the British colonies for spiritual
assistance and consolation was now infinitely greater than at any former time
— he meant amongst British settlers themselves. He (Mr. Baines) had had some
means of knowing how this matter stood. They were all aware, lie was sure,
and every heart would give a response to the sentiment, that one of the most
painful anxieties which they could any of them feel with regard to those friends
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conld feel with regard to those emigrants themselves, was as to what kind of
provision they would find in the country they were going to for spiritual assis
tance and consolation. (Hear, hear.) He had had the honor, for a period of
three years, of presiding over the Poor Law Board of this country, for England
and Wales — (hear, hear) — and they were probably aware that the pauper em
igration of the country, that which was carrried on wholly or in part at the
¦expense of the poor rate, was under the control of the board of which he had
the honor to be President. He could only say that the considerations tot
which he had adverted, could never be absent from those who had any con
cern whatever in the emigration from this country, particularly as regarded
the unprotected class he had alluded to. In round numbers, about 2000 per
sons were sent from this country at the expense of the poor rate, he meant
paupers, last year ; but that 2000 represented hardly any thing of the extent
of emigration going on in this country. He looked at the reports of the emi
gration Commissioners, from which he ascertained this extraordinary result,
that in 1825, just a quarter of a century ago, the emigration from the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was some 14,000; and in 1850 it was
280,000. (Hear, hear.) What did they think of that increase and of the impor
tance of the considerations to which such a fact as that pointed in regard to the
operations of a Society like this? (Hear, hear, and applause.) A great part
of the numbers he had last mentioned had gone to the United States of Amer
ica ; and he did rejoice from his heart that the early labors of the Missionaries
sent out by this Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
had actually prepared an important provision in that country ; and an effi
cient provision as far as it went, for those of our countrymen who were at this
day emigrating from this country. With regard to the emigration since 1850,
he did not pretend to give the numbers, he did not believe any one could, but
every body knew it was increasing every day, both to America and to the
Australian Colonies; therefore the fact he adverted to was one which became
of greater importance every day they lived. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
There was just one other point on which he begged to express his own senti
ments before he sat down, that was in reference to the Bishops now visiting
this country ; and he heartily concurred in that welcome which his Lordship
(the Bishop of Ripon) had in such eloquent terms, given to those Right Rev.
Prelates from the United States of America, whom they had the honor to see
amongst them that day. (Applause.) He rejoiced to meet them on the ground,
which in his heart he believed they would rather meet upon than any other,
which was the most strictly common ground. And when he saw the terms in
which they had spoken of the assistance, the more than assistance, which their
Church had derived from the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, he was delighted to have amongst them those who were themselves evi
dences of the sucoessful results of the early labors of this Society, and who
were themselves unexceptionable witnesses of the state of things which existed
in America. He was delighted to think of the hearty welcome they had
received. He rejoiced in it for the sake of that Society, and for the sake of
the great work which they both had at heart ; and he rejoiced in it as an
Englishman, for the sake ofthose peaoeful relations between the two countries
with which were bound up their highest interests as well as their most sacred
duties. (Hear, hear.) Whatever clouds might from time to time flit across
the political 6ky,. creating something of doubt and gloom in reference to the
relations between this country and America,,he was happy to see in that meet
ing and in that welcome, additional grounds to hope that these clouds would
speedily pass away. They had one language, one origin, one cause in common
with their American brethren, and should have only one rivalry between them,
namely, who should best cultivate the arts of peace, who should extend most
effectually and most permanently the great cause which they were that night
assembled to. promote.. (Loud applause.)
The Bishop of Western New York was received with loud plaudits and
responded in graceful and warm-hearted terms to the most cordial welcome
he and his brother from across the Atlantic, had received upon this occasion.
This welcome came to them not merely as strangers, but as brethren— not
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merely as general Christians — but as brother Churchmen. (Applause.) He
then examined into the hopes of union and harmony of action in the two
Churches which were ostensibly united by the proceedings of this evening.
United action, oh, blissful consummation, overpowering thought 1 The Chris
tian world united in its action to promote the glory of God and the salvation
of man 1 Oh, the nearer that point was approached the louder would be their
oblations of praise to the glory of God. He observed that the American
Ohurch was an independen t Church like the Church of Scotland,independent like
the Church of England, and Ireland, yet all praying together in one language,
uniting in the same worship and in the same temple, bowing before God in the
use of the same prayers, lifting up their hearts and voices in the same praises,
uniting in the participation of the same sacraments, and commemorating the
same blessed Saviour whom all were striving to serve. Was not this very
encouraging ? Who, ten years ago, w ould have thought of such an issue as the
present? Who had anticipated a meeting in London of delegates from the
Churches of America, Asia, Africa and Europe, all combined together in sup
port of the same cause ? (Applause.) He did not know whether the argument
was used on this side of the Atlantic or not, although he opined it was, but in
America the Roman Catholics said there was no unity in the English Church :
that it was a separate body ; that the American Church was a separate body ;
that the small Scotch Episcopal Church was a separate body ; each working
by itself, and totally distinct and separate : and that there was no union or
harmony of action among them. But this assertion had now been proved not
to be a fact (Applause.) Talk of holy alliances of Christians, here was an
alliance. They met togethernot merely as Christians, but as Churchmen. The
celebration of the late Jubilee would exhibit to the world a specimen of actual
unity in three different and independent Protestant Churches, three separate
Christian bodies. And this visible exhibition of visible unity would be ample
compensation for all the toil and trouble and anxiety with which it had
been accomplished. These three Protestant Churches covered a large por
tion of the world and comprehended a very large section of the Christian
world. If this principle should extend itself, and eventually all portions of the
Church should come together in a council, another direct and flat contradiction
would be given to the Roman Catholic boast, that the Protestant body was a
nonentity. (Applause.) He used the word Protestant in no party sense, but
as the rejector of Roman Catholic errors. He was a Protestant by birth, by
descent, by religion, by church, and in no other position did he ever wish to
be, but he did not feel that he was thereby absolved from his relation to the
Catholic Church. (Applause.) It was because the Church of England, the
Church of America, and the Church of Scotland, were part and portion of the
holy Catholic Church of Christ, that he loved them, and no form of Romish
subtlety or heresy could ever dispossess the true Church of those gifts and gra
ces which were everyday made more pre-eminent and conspicuous. (Applause.)
The Right Rev. Prelate then went on to advocate the claims of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He said people were very
apt to judge of the principles of an institution by its success, but this was not
always a safe guide. However, this Society had befti prosperous, and he and
his Right Rev. Brother presented themselves before that meeting in order that
it might have living evidence of the success of this Society in reference to the
Church with which they were connected He said there was a strong united ac
tion in favor of the Church of Christ going on in his country, in proof of which
he adduced a few facts showing that iu various parts, large sums of money were
being contributed for religious and benevolent pul-poses, and the Laity were
aroused to a lively sense of their duty towards their Church. In America the
Clergy depended to a great extent upon Lay influence for support, and they
universally found a conservative interest among the Laity uniformly support
ing the authority of the Church. It was, therefore, to the Clergy a matter of
the greatest moment, that the Laity should be rightly instructed. He called
upon the meeting to Bupport and sustain thiB Society, as calculated in the best
way to promote the cause of Christ. He trusted that the claims of the Society
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tamed and invigorated in the manner which their own good judgment told
them it should be, it would prove the greatest blessing to the Church of Eng
land that could have been conferred upon it. (Loud applause.) The Right
Rev. Prelate then concluded by moving the second resolution : "That the
rapid spread of the Anglo-Saxon race over the world, at this time especially
increased by the remarkable emigration to America and our Australian Colo
nies, seems to be an indication of the Divine will, that the extension of the
Christian religion in purity and perfect integrity is peculiarly committed to
this county."
John Gott, Esq., seconded the resolution, and in allusion to the remarks just
made about the Laity, said he felt that it was the deepest obligation and the
highest privilege of those living in the full light of gospel truth, to endeavor to
the utmost of their power, to convey to others those inestimable benefits which
they themselves had received and so highly enjoyed. (Applause. )
The Bishop of Maryland said he had attended the meeting in compliance
with the kind invitation of his dear friend, the Vicar of Leeds, but he was un
prepared and disqualified for making a speech, having only just arrived ou the
hospitable shores of this country, whither he had fled from a disease in his own
country, and in pursuit of that improved health of whicli he stood so greatly
in need. He had not received the honor of being appointed one of the dele
gates to the Jubilee of this Society, although he was present when those ap
pointments were made ; but he could speak of the almost audible pulsations
of the hearts of the devoted children of the Church in America, when they
heard how their representatives had been received by the Clergy and Laity
of the Church of England ; he could tell of the earnest praises which had then
ascended to God on high for the kiudness, the affection, the goodly fellowship
which was manifested towards them ; he could tell how, since that time, many
a firmer foot had been planted on holy ground, and many a stronger arm had
been put to the Christian work. (Applause.) The American Church felt deely
thankful to the Mother Church of England for the blessings she had communi
cated to them, aud for that model of her practices, and, therefore, of her priv
ileges, which were taught and inculcated by Christ himself. And it was
already recorded on the tablets of history never to be effaced, that if it had
not been for the English Protestant and Episcopal Church, the American
Church would not have existed as it now did, a branch of the Reformed
Church of Christ It was from the instructions of men sent out by this Soci
ety, that the Church in America received its present tone and character. It
was from the seed they sowed that the Church in America was able to organ
ize herself a pure and fruitful plant growing up from that seed which came
down from heaven. Being thus indebted to the Society it was that he and his
brother Diocesans had visited this country for the purpose of urging English
men to remain faithful to the institution which had conferred so much blessing
on the land they eame from. The operations of the Society were not limited
to the British Colonies, but extended to the Aborigines and to wherever Eng
lish influence had reached, to wherever English feet had rested or the English
flag was displayed. (Applause.) The great heart of England would ever find
an°answering pulse in the heart of America. Both had one history, one lan
guage, one cause,— the cause of liberty,— that true liberty which was not
licentious,— that liberty which gloried in legality. This was the cause for
which England and America stood before the world, and sure he was nothing
could strengthen the cause of the Society so much as the Church of England
and her scion which she had established on the soil of the United States. He
then concluded by moving the third resolution : " That the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel being the first Missionary Institution in the country
and the faithful handmaid of the Church of England ; and also having been a
principal ao-ent in founding the Church in the United States, is entitled to the
warmest support of all Churchmen." (Applause.)
The Rev. Thomas Nunns seconded the resolution in an appropriate speech.^
All the foregoing resolutions were carried unanimously.

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The Rev. Dr. Hook here read letters of apology for inability to attend the
meeting, from Wm. Beckett, Esq., M. P., and Henry Hall, Esq. The latter
gentleman stated that his son (Robert Hall, Esq.,) being at present on a conti
nental tour, was not able to be present at the meeting.
The Bishop of Ripon having retired from the chair, it was moved by
H. J. Hare, Esq., seconded by T. P. Teale, Esq., that the best thanks of the
meeting be given to the Lord Bishop of Ripon for his kind and able services
in the chair. (Carried with acclamation.) This compliment having been ac
knowledged by the Rt. Rev. the Bishop, the doxology was sung and the bene
diction pronounced,, after which the meeting separated. A collection was
made at the close of the proceedings in aid of the funds of the Society in
question. English Newspaper Report.

APPENDIX— P.
Leeds Parish Church Commemoration, September 2d, 1852.
On Thursday last, the 2d of September, the Anniversary of the Consecration
of the Parish Church, Leeds, was held under circumstances of peculiar inter
est, owing to the presence of two American Prelates, together with our own
respected Diocesan. At an early hour in the morning the ten bells of the
Parish Church rung out a merry peal ; and at half-past ten the Bishop of
Ripon, the Bishop of Western New York, and the Bishop of Maryland, were
received at the west door of the Church by the Vicar and Church Wardens of
Leeds, and proceeded to the vestry, where they robed. About 70 Clergymen
in their surplices then proceeded to the chancel preceded by the ohoir, on this
occasion augmented to more than sixty persons, all the choirs of the town
having taken part in the proceedings; after the Clergy, the eight Church
Wardens, with wands of- office, fell in with the procession, and the Bishops
followed one by one, the Bishop of Ripon walking last attended by his Chap
lains. The Bishops took their places, the Bishop of Ripon on the north side
of the altar, and the Bishops of Western New York and Maryland on elevated
seats on the south side. The service (Tallis) was effectually chanted by the
Rev. Mr. Whyatt, Senior Curate of the Parish Church, the lessons were read
by the Vicar, and the Bishop of Ripon read the communion service ; after
which the Bishop of Western New York, preceded by two Chaplains, went to
the pulpit, where he delivered with great energy and much action a powerful
sermon on the principles of prayer, showing how those principles are observed
in the Rrayer Book, which is admitted even by our opponents to be the most
perfect of uninspired productions, to be ranked next to the Bible itself, from
which the major part of it is taken. In the bidding prayer before the sermon
the Right Reverend Prelate called upon the congregation to pray for the
Catholic Church, especially for the reformed branch of it to which we belong,
and here in England for the Queen and all the Royal Family. When asking
the prayers of the congregation for the Bishops and Clergy, especially for the
Bishop of the Diocese, he added, " And as I am in a more especial manner
bound, let us pray for the good estate of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the United States of America."
The Holy Sacrament was afterwards administered by the Bishop of Ripon,
assisted by the American Prelates and the Vicar, to nearly five hundred com
municants. We observed in the congregation — the Countess of Harewood and family,
the Rt. Hon. M. T. Baines, M. P., Henry Hall, Esq., John Gott, Esq., and many
of the leading Churchmen of the town and neighborhood.
The Bishops were entertained afterwards at the Vicarage, where the Church
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been present at the services— Henry Hall, Esq., the Rt. Hon. M. T. Baines,
m £' WlU*a™ Beckett, Esq., M. P., T. W. Tottie, Esq., Mr. Aid. Bateson, J.
M lennant, Esq., Ac. The Bishop expressed his high approbation of the
Whole course of proceedings, and thanked the Church Wardens for their
arrangements for the preservation of order.
The evening service commenced at a quarter-past seven. The same order
was observed asm the morning; but the congregation was greatly increased.
mere must have been nearly four thousand persons present, and at one time
we thought that it would have been impossible to preserve order, so great was
the press ; nevertheless when the service commenced there was immediate
silence, and when the sermon was preached a pin might have been heard to
drop. The Bishop of Western New York again preached the sermon, instead
of the Bishop of Michigan, who has been obliged to leave England on his
return to America. We were Borry to hear that the Bishop of Maryland was
too unwell to do more than assist at the Communion in the morning. Upwards
of £110 was collected for the Church expenses. We understand that the
American Bishops expressed themselves highly gratified at the warm reception
they met with in Leeds.
We have received the following from an esteemed correspondent :
On Thursday last, we celebrated the Anniversary Festival commemorative
of the consecration, or rather re-dedication of the Parish Church of St. Peter,
Leeds — the Parish Church, par excellence, of Leeds, and, we may venture to
say, the Model Parish Church for England. The history of its re-building,
and the various changes and improvements in the manner of conducting its
services, are too well known to require recapitulation here ; we shall, there
fore, confine ourselves to a brief description of the ceremonies observed at this
Anniversary Festival, an occasion deeply interesting to all good Churchmen,
especially those of our own neighborhood ; a day of solemn thanksgiving to
Almighty God, for the privilege enjoyed by His people of worshipping Him
in all the beauty of holiness, in this, one of His noblest temples. The services
of the day were throughout characterized by the most scrupulous attention to
the liturgy and rubrics of our Church ; and we may remark that we have
never attended the services of any Church, cathedral or parochial, where the
true spirit of the Anglican Prayer Book has appeared to us to be so fully and
completely carried out, as at the Parish Church of Leeds. On this occasion,
the interest of the service was enhanced by the presence of two American
Bishops now in England * those of Western New York and Maryland, together
with our venerated Diocesan, the Lord Bishop of Ripon, accompanied by
about seventy of the local and neighboring Clergy.
The choir, consisting of seventy-six voices, was formed into procession in
the Chantry Chapel of the adjoining burying ground, and was joined at the
north transept door of the Church by the Clergy, forming a most imposing
spectacle as they filed in a reverent and orderly manner (not dropping in one
by one as is too frequently the case) to their appointed stalls, the procession
being closed by the three Bishops, who were conducted by two Deacons to the
altar! Seats were provided for ail the Clergy within the chancel. The prayers
were impressively intoned by the Rev. William Whyatt, the Precentor, and
the sermons were preached by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Western
New York ; the sermon in the evening was to have been preached by the
Bishop of Maryland, in consequence of the Bishop of Michigan having sailed
for America, but we regret to state that he was prevented by indisposition
from taking any active part in the proceedings of the day, beyond reading the
epistle and assisting in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. The Right
Reverend Prelate chose for his text in the morning the 5th Psalm, 2d verse,
" Oh hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King and my God ; for
unto thee will I make my prayer :" and in the evening from the 11th chapter
of Matthew 6th verse, "Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in
me." The lessons were read by the Vicar, and the communion service by the
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We now come to speak of the musical portion of the service, and, seldom
indeed has it fallen to our lot to criticise a performance to which we could
accord such unqualified approbation as on the present occasion. The services
in the morning were Attwood'e, in F ; responses, Tallis ; anthem, " This is the
day whicli the Lord hath made," — Croft. Introit anthem, " Lord, for thy
tender mercies' sake," — Farrant Kyrie, Purcell. Credo, Dr. S. S. Wesley,
and the magnificent chorus " Hallelujah to the Father," from Beethoven's
"Mount of Olives," was sung during the collection. In the sacramental
service the Sanctus was Spohr's, and the " Gloria in excelcis" by Dr. S. S.
Wesley. In the evening the services Were S. Wesley, in F ; anthem, a selection
from Menhelssohn's "Elijah;" the anthem before the sermon, "But thou didst
not leave," (exquisitely Bung by Master Ramsden,) and the Hallelujah chorus
from the " Messiah."
It is difficult to select any portions of the above splendid combination of the
services for particular notice. We may, however, remark that Farrant's
anthem in the morning service (unaccompanied) was the most perfect speci
men of pure ecclesiastical singing that we ever heard. Dr. Croft's anthem,
"This is the day," though considerably curtailed, was perhaps, after all,
rather too long — the alto solo might have been well dispensed- with. We are
not, however, disposed to be hypercritical, and we can congratulate the people
of Leeds in possessing a choral body second to none in the kingdom — perhaps
in the world. Having attended several of the rehearsals, we can bear testi
mony to the masterly ma'nner in which Mr. Burton, the organist, fulfilled his
office of choir master, and heartily rejoice with him at the success which has
rewarded his unwearied assiduity. His accompaniments of the service were
in every way worthy of the occasion. The crowning point of the day remains
to be noticed — the singing of the Old Hundredth Psalm by the whole choir
and congregation in unison, during the evening collection. Praise can not
express itself in more glowing colors than in the outpouring of the assembled
voices of " the great congregation" in this noble melody. We could almost
picture to our mind's eye the somewhat similar scene at the dedication of
Solomon's Temple, when " the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make
one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, for He is good, for
His merey endureth for ever," and when " the house was filled with a cloud,
even the house of the Lord." Now, though no manifest presence is vouchsafed
by God to his worshippers, we may trust that such sacrifices of praise and
thanksgiving are acceptable to Him, and that he will bless the endeavors of
those who offer in His service and to His glory the gifts with which He has
endowed them.
Collections were made after morning and evening service, which amounted
to £112, including a sum of £10 given through the Vicar, and marked "as the
first earnings of a theological student." Leeds Newspaper.

APPENDIX— Q.
At Liverpool-Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts-Sept. 6, 1852.
The Annual Meeting of this Society was held on Monday evening, in the
Collegiate Institution in this town. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of
the Diocese took the Chair.
The business of the evening commenced with a prayer by the Rev. G. W.
Warr, the Secretary, after which,
_ The Lord Bishop of Chester said he was happy to have the pleasure of meet
ing them that evening, and seeing so very respectable, numerous and influential
an assemblage of the residents of Liverpool present upon that occasion. When
they met upon a similar occasion twelve months ago, that Hall was crowded,
but then they met under circumstances of very peculiar interest. The Society
had then entered upon the third of its years of Jubilee; it had been in exist
ence 150 years. That circumstance had called forth in many parts of England
very sincere sentiments of Christian sympathy and good will. (Cheers.) In
London there had been, as they would recollect, as well as in other places, a
series of solemn religious services, gratefully to thank Almighty God for the
success of the Society during the previous 150 years; and there had been,
just before the meeting in Liverpool, a meeting in London, rendered remark
able by many circumstances, but especially so by the presence of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. (Loud cheers.) His Royal Highness spoke at that
meeting, and, in sentiments which gladdened the hearts of all who heard him,
expressed his sympathy and the sympathy of our beloved Queen in the princi
ples and objects of this Venerable Society. (Loud cheers.) There were other
meetings held in various parts of the kingdom, all of the same spirit, though
certainly not to the same extent. There had been a series of sermons preached
in the various churches of the kingdom, and especially in Liverpool, in behalf
of the Society — there had been here very great interest excited in its behalf,
but it was attended, as they would recollect, with one great disappointment,
which all would, no doubt, readily call to mind. The noble lord, who is the
President of our institution, had kindly promised to take the Chair at the
Anniversary Meeting of the Society held in that hall, but unfortunately he
was prevented by a sudden, though happily only transient, indisposition, and
consequently all were disappointed in hearing, as they would have done, his
lordship in eloquent terms advocate the claims of the Society. (Applause.)
The high office which the noble lord now holds as first Minister of the Crown
— (tremendous cheers) — had entirely prevented the Committee this year from
asking his lordship to preside on this occasion. It would have been unreason
able, considering the many palls upon his valuable time, to have done so;
still it was a pleasing reflection to know that the good will and affection
expressed by his lordship in behalf of the Society, still existed, and that his
heart was still warm in its cause. (Cheers.) But though they had not the
benefit of his services, and though the meeting was not so numerous as it had
been in former years, yet there were circumstances which gave it a peculiar
interest, and would, he hoped, be felt by all present What was done twelve
months ago — what was done in London — what was done in Liverpool and
other places was only the inauguration of the year of Jubilee — what they were
now about to do, was to mark and to celebrate the close of the proceedings
of that year. And he believed they were indebted to that for another cir
cumstance of great interest, he meant the presence which they were favored
with that evening of a most highly respectable Bishop of the Episcopal Church
of America. (Loud cheers.) Their intelligent and respectable conduct at the

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very mentionjof his name, must render it unnecessary for him (the Right Rev
erend Chairman) to assure him how much they valued his sympathy, and how
much they were rejoiced at his presence. (Hear, and loud cheers.) When
that Society first beg'an its course, 150 years ago, the principal scene of its
labors and operations was in America, then one of the colonies of England.
That country had now become a great and mighty nation, and had acquired
wealth and power with a rapidity of which there was no parallel in the world.
His lordship felt assured they all wished it prosperity, and it must be the wish
of every British subject — of every Christian heart, and more especially of every
British merchant, that these two great nations may long live in amity and
peace with each other. (Continued cheers.) That, he felt assured, would be
the earnest wish of every one present, and happily there were many circum
stances which concurred to make this the more probable. There was the
consanguinity of the races, the community of the languages, and those close
relationships of commerce which bound the two countries together, and par
ticularly Liverpool and New York. (Loud cheers.) He (the Lord Bishop)
might be allowed to express his pleasure that there was an additional cause
of congratulation, that the Episcopal Church of America was mainly owing
for its establishment to the means and instrumentality of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Episcopal Church of America
was the daughter of our own Church. He need not hesitate to say this,
because a distinguished Minister of that Church had come here expressly
deputed by that Church to avow and testify to the British public their connex
ion and their sympathy with the Church of England and with the Propagation
Society. It was as a brother in the Episcopacy of Christ's Church, and he hoped
on his part, and on the part of the meeting, he could heartily bid him welcome
in the great household of faith and the family of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Loud applause.) His lordship, after intimating that the state of the Society
did not warrant a report being yet drawn up, owing to the year not having
closed, resumed his seat amid loud cheers.
The Right Reverend the Bishop of Western New York then rose and was
received with loud applause. His lordship proposed the following resolution :
— "That the abiding blessing of Almighty God having been manifested in the
labors of the Venerable Society, demands the grateful acknowledgments of His
Church : whilst the evident openings of His providence for the furtherance of
the Gospel in the British Colonies loudly calls for increased effort on the part
of His faithful people at home." The speaker, in eloquent terms, enforced the
claims of the Society upon his audience. He was not sufficiently acquainted
with its details to dwell upon them, and would, therefore, only dilate upon its
general history. In its origin it had what might be called a very small beginning.
Few stood by and sustained it as such an institution ought to be supported,
and yet it had gone on with various providences, sometimes successful and
sometimes not so, but still with the blessing of God upon it. Now it had a
large number of Colonial Bishops and nearly 400 Clergymen, and its opera
tions covered a very large field of the Christian world. The speaker, after
noticing the advantages conferred upon the United States by being mainly
instrumental in establishing the Episcopal Church there, and the benefits con
ferred by it upon the Colonies, proceeded to observe that he came to offer the
congratulations of ten Bishops of his country, there not having been time to
convene the whole of the Episcopate of that country. He then eloquently
set forth the great utility of an Episcopal Church, observing that, as he be
lieved the Church of England to be the great bulwark of Protestantism in
England, so he believed the Episcopal Church of America to be the great bul
wark of Protestantism in that country. It had been the means of maintaining
the pure truths of the Bible, and had never been divided into sects and parties
as all other denominations had been. The principles and doctrines of the
Episcopal Church in America were identical with those of the Church of Eng
land. They were founded upon the word of God, and he wished it to be
understood as his own opinion that the Church as established was not man's
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that it was a divine institution, and as such he felt bound to adhere to it,
Whether it be borne on the gales of prosperity or scathed by the storms of
aaversity. (Loud cheers.) The speaker expressed his cordial concurrence in
the_ views expressed by the Right Reverend Chairman upon the relations of
their common countries. He never could believe but the small cloud which
had arisen threatening a thunder-storm, would speedily pass away. (Loud
cheers.) He never did believe that John Bull or Brother Jonathan would
quarrel about a codfish and a mackerel. (Loud cheers, and laughter.) He had
from the first believed it would result, as it had, in mere talk, and before
another year was over would only be a, subject of laughter. (Continued
applause.) The Rev. Rector Campbell seconded the motion. If the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel had no other claims for the support of the English
people, the fact that it was to that Society that the Episcopal Church of
America, if it did not owe its actual foundation, owed much of its fostering
care and attention — if it had no other claim to their support, it would deserve
it, from being instrumental in establishing that great bulwark of Protestantism.
(Hear, and cheers.) He regarded it with respect on another point, because it
presented the principle of Catholic union, which was one of friendship and
not a union of subjection to what he must call the non-Catholics of Rome.
(Loud applause.) That was the Catholic union which Christians ought to
maintain, not a union of subjection to a foreign Bishop, submitting to his dic
tation instead of to the Lord Jesus Christ, the fountain of all Christian graces.
A union of affection, which is the real Catholic union, and which, he trusted,
would enable both to support the principles of pure and undefiled religion —
the Christian religion. (Applause.) But it also deserved their support as a
Missionary Society. They were not to confine their operations to their own
shores, but to obey the precept of our Saviour, to preach the Gospel to every
creature. Whilst, however, he would spread the Gospel over the whole world,
he would not consent to do that by neglecting the heathen at home ; and whilst
he prayed that the Church might be not only the bulwark of Protestantism at
home, he trusted it would also be the means of grace and salvation to those
within its own pale, and to thousands now without its pale, and that it would
carry the Gospel throughout the world, wherever the flag of Great Britain
shall float in the breeze. (Loud cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The hymn beginning "All hail the power of Jesus' name!" was then Bung,
and a collection made.
The Rev. Thomas Jackson, Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, proposed the
second resolution. After apologising for the absence of the Right Reverend
the Bishop of Michigan, he proceeded in solemn and eloquent strains to set
forth the claims of the Venerable Society. With reference to the late apparent
difference which had arisen between the governments of this country and that
of the United States of North America, he was sure that the moderation of
English and Transatlantic statesmen would prevail, and that war between
those two great empires was simply impossible. They were too closely united
by the bonds of family descent ; by commercial intercourse and interest ; and,
above all, by the ties of a common faith. If there was to be any rivalry, let
it be in the earnestness of their efforts to set a high example to surrounding
people, to spread abroad in all lands the glorious Gospel of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ Instead of disputing about the limits of national fisher
ies, let each harmoniously strive to become fishers of men, to let down the nets
of Missionary enterprise in all the world, and he would not envy his American
brethren if it so pleased the Giver of Increase, that they should enclose a,
great multitude of fishes, when they so let down their nets. (Cheers.) The
Right Reverend Prelate from America had stated that he would leave to him
(Mr Jackson) the description of the Society's operations in various parts of
the'srlobe He confessed himself fairly baffled when he endeavored to give,
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to, but an account of the actual living work in which it was at that very day
engaged. Where should he begin the narrative of its varied and multiplied
Operations ? Along the vast lakes of North America — along the tributaries
of those mighty waters, populous townships were rising up, day by day, from
Quebec almost to the western limits of the continent ; shortly they would be
extended to Vancouver's Island itself, and these required and would require
the aid of the Society, in building churches and schools, and in sustaining,
during their feeble infancy, the Christian Ministry. In the Cape Colony, the
Society were anxious to promote among the native tribes, on the frontier, the
knowledge of Divine truth, as well as among the European inhabitants, being
well assured that by these means the best security would be afforded for the
establishment and continuance of quiet and peace. And what could he say
of the great Australian Colonies, of the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne and
Sydney, into which we were pouring, day after day, the superabundance of our
multiplying "population ; sending them forth from Liverpool in vaster crowds,
perhaps, than from any other port in the kingdom ? These were nascent em
pires, states in embryo, which would take their hue and complexion from their
forefathers, from the tone of feeling, the public morals, the social maxims, the
political opinions, and, above all, from the religion of the present generation of
English settlers. (Cheers.) With reference to emigration, he observed that no
one could foresee the vast importance of it, and the vast advantage it afforded in
the propagation of the Gospel in our immense colonial possessions. (Cheering.;
The object of the Spiritual Aid Fund was to afford spiritual assistance to those
who emigrated, and to care for them on their voyage out He proceeded to de
scribe the attention to their religious duties on the part of the emigrants who ac
companied him out in the emigrant ship from Plymouth to New Zealand, show
ing that the religious services they pursued were peculiarly appropriate to their
new home. In conclusion, he said that God was at this time giving to us a great
opportunity to evangelize the world, and we ought to avail ourselves of the
religious advantages which were held out to us. He proposed the following res
olution :
That owing to the vast increase in the number of emigrants to Australia, the character of the
classes settling there, and the importance of their moral training during such a protracted voyage.
"The Emigrants' Spiritual Aid Eund" possesses a peculiar claim upon the benevolent members of
the Church in Liverpool.
Adam Hodgson, Esq., seconded the motion. He came into the building with
out any intention of taking part in the proceedings ; but he felt it would scarcely
be respectful to either the Right Reverend Chairman or the Bishop who had
come from such a distance, if he simply seconded the motion. He well re
membered the occasion of the two-first American Bishops coming over to this
country to be consecrated. A layman took a part in procuring that consecration,
and that was one reason why he thought it would not be respectful simply to
second the motion. After some further remarks he resumed his seat, having
seconded the motion.
The Right Rev. Chairman put the motion to the meeting, and it was carried
unanimously. The Rev. G. W. Warr then announced that the sermons in Liverpool in aid of
the Society had been put off for a week, thinking that the statements made at
the present meeting by the Bishops and others would have the effect of improv
ing the collections.
Mr. Harmood Banner moved a vote of thanks to the Right Rev. Chairman.
He had been asked to move a vote of thanks to their excellent diocesan, which
he did with great pleasure. Mr. Hodgson had alluded to their diocesan's uniform
kindness in coming amongst them to take part in their proceedings on occasions
like the present, but he would go further, and say that his lordship was ever
ready to tender his advice and assistance in forwarding any good work, when
solicited by any individual amongst them.
The Right Rev. Chairman, in acknowleging the compliment, deeply thanked
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Liverpool. It was i that kindness which assisted him in discharging the heavy
w- ^ ¦ I6 du^-eS w]"oh de^lved upon him as the diocesan over such an ex
tensive district as this. It was such kindness that sustained not only himself, but
the ministers under him, and they could never expect to acquit themselves in
the way they ought to do without it. (Hear.) Mr. Harmood Banner had thought
proper to refer to some little advice which he (the chairman) had given on mat
ters of considerable interest ; but what had Mr. Banner himself done ? He had
put forward and established two institutions in this town, which he hoped would
never be forgotten. He alluded to those orphan asylums which had sprung up
through Mr. Banner's zeal and liberality. After impressing upon the rich the
importance of supporting institutions for the education and religious training of
the poor, his lordship concluded by expressing his hope, if he was spared, to be
present at then- next anniversary, when he hoped to see as many in attendance as
had been present during the evening.
His Lordship closed the proceedings by pronouncing the benediction.
Liverpool Standard.

APPENDIX— E.
Breakfast— The Mayor of Liverpool, Sept. 8th, 1852.
Civic Hospitalities, Yesteedat. — His worship, the Mayor, yesterday morn
ing, September 8th, gave a dejeuner, in the Town Hall, at which the Bishop of
Chester and lady, the Bishop of Western New York and Mrs. De Lancey, Mr.
Charles Turner, M. P.," and lady, the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, and Cap
tain Franklin, were present. The names of the other ladies and gentlemen
present were — Revs. Rector Campbell and Edward Campbell, J. H. Jones, Mr.
and Miss Hoggat, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, F. Walker, R. A. Lingard, J. W. Warre
and Mrs. Warre, Mr. Crooper and Hon. Miss Crooper, Mr. G. W. E. and the
Misses Royds, Mr. and Mrs. Gregson, Mr. and Mrs. Avison, Mr. J. H. Turner
and Miss Turner, Mr. and Mrs. S. Mellor, the Misses Statham, Mrs. Shuttle-
worth, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Littledale, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Molyneux, Mr.
and Mrs. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Moss, (Otterspool.) Mr. Thos. E. Moss, (Roby,)
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. To bin, Miss Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hodgson, Dr. Jack
son, Mr. John and Mrs. Tobin, Miss Heywood, Mrs. Biddulph, Mr. Torr, &c.
Liverpool Times.

APPENDIX— S.
Letter of Archdeacon Brooks to the;Bishop of Western New York.
Everton, 18th September, 1852.
My Dear Bishop, —
I have this moment received your letter, and have time only to write one
line to say how happy we shall be to receive yourself and Mrs. De Lancey on
Monday. I conclude that the Bishop of Maryland will be with you. Make my respects
to him, and say it would gratify me exceedingly if he would do me the favor
to accompany you to my house and remain with me until you all sail.
I shall have much pleasure in making the arrangements for our united par
ticipation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, on Wednesday morning, at
one of our Parish Churches. It will no doubt be a source of comfort to you in
the prospect of your voyage, and may God bless it to us all with His grace
and favor.
This is my Savings Bank day, where I shall be occupied all the morning.
I take the chance of this reaching you at Derby.
Believe me, very faithfully yours, JONA. BROOKS.

The following notice was issued to each of the Clergy :
Rev. and Dear Sib, —
I beg to inform you that, in compliance with the request of the Bishops of
Western New York and Maryland, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will
be administered in St. Peter's Church, on Wednesday morning next, at 10
o'clock. As the Bishops are to embark for America at 1 o'clock the same day,
they have expressed an earnest desire to meet as many of their Clerical and
Lay Brethren as may be able to attend on the solemn occasion named.
I am, Rev. and Dear Sir, yours truly, JONATHAN BROOKS,
Archdeacon and Rector of Liverpool.
Everton Road, September 20th, 1852.

I had also received a kind letter in London, from the Rev. Cecil Wray, of
Liverpool, upon the subject
Among the brethren of the Clergy whom we had the gratification to meet
thus at the altar, on the 22d of September, I am able to name the following
only :—
The Venerable Jonathan Brooks, M. A, the Archdeacon of Liverpool, and
Rector of Liverpool.
The Rev. John Crump, Incumbent of Bootle, near Liverpool.
The Rev. John Gibson, M. A., Perpetual Curate of Garston, near Liverpool.
The Rev. Thomas Halton, M. A., Senior Curate of Liverpool, and Domestic
Chaplain to the Earl of Lonsdale.

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The Rev. Henry Hampton, M. A, Incumbent of St. James', Toxteth Park,
near Liverpool.
The Rev. A Hume, D. C. L, LL. D, F. S. A, Minister of St Stephen's,
Incumbent of Vauxhall, Liverpool.
The Rev. J. H Jones, M. A, Perpetual Curate of St. Augustine's, Everton,
.Liverpool. The Rev. John Keble, M. A, Vicar of Hursley, Hampshire.
The Rev. C. W. Lawrence, M. A, Chaplain, St. Luke\ Liverpool.
The Rev. John W. Lester, B. A, Curate of St. Andrew's, Liverpool.
The Rev. C. Morrall, M. A, Incumbent of St. Michael's, Liverpool.
The Rev. W. T. Newenham, Curate of St. Augustine's, Everton, Liverpool.
The Rev. Thomas Robinson, Incumbent of St. Bartholomew's, Liverpool.
The Rev. L. W. Lampson. M. A, Vicar of Prescott, Lancashire.
The Rev. John Stewart, Rector of West Derby, Liverpool.
The Rev. Alfred J. Tomlin, B. A, Curate of Liverpool.
The Rev. G. W. Warr, M. A, Minister of St. Saviour's, Liverpool.
The Rev. Cecil Wray, M. A., Incumbent of St. Martin's, Liverpool.
The Rev. Messrs. Hecker, Headley, James, Moran, Redhead, Went, and
others, whose names I failed to learn.

APPENDIX— T.
From the [Report of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
for the year 1852.
BXTBACT.
"The wishes announced in the Society's Resolutions, dated April, 1851, (see
Report, 1851, Ixxxiii.,) had thus been completely realized. Throughout Great
Britain and Ireland, in the Colonies and Dependencies of the Crown, and in
foreign Dioceses in communion with the Church of England, the year had been
marked by thanksgiving, and prayer, and thank-offerings in celebration of the
Jubilee. The exceeding cordiality with which our brethren in the United
States of America concurred in the commemoration, suggested the idea of seiz
ing the opportunity to make manifest, in the sight of the Christian world, and
so to render more deep and intimate, that unity of spirit and doctrine and
discipline, which exists between the two principal branches of the Reformed
Church. At the Annual Meeting of the Society, on February 20th, 1852, it
was resolved : —
"I. That the Society desires to acknowledge the cordiality with which the
Bishops and Clergy of the American Church received, and acted on, the invi-
• tation of his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to join with their brethren
of the Mother Church in celebrating the Society's Third Jubilee ; and that
with a view to a fuller and more complete intercommunion between the distant,
portions of the Church, his Grace, the President, be respectfully requested to
address a communication to the Bishops of the United States, inviting them to
delegate two or more of their number to take part in the concluding services
of the Society's Third Jubilee year, which will end on June 15th, 1852.
" n. That his Grace be requested, in transmitting the invitation, to intimate
to the" House of Bishops, the desire of the Society that it may be permitted to
bear the expenses of the delegation."*
His Grace, the President, most kindly aeceded to the request, and addressed
the following letter to the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, Secretary to the House of
Bishops of the American Church : —

* It would be wrong to omit mentioning, that this is the only desira of the Society with which
the American Bishops have absolutely refused to comply.

94 APPENDIX. "Lambeth, February 20th, 1852.
"Reverend and Dear Brother, —
" It is my gratifying duty to transmit the accompanying resolutions of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, with a request that you will have
the goodness to communicate them, in such manner as you may think most
fitting, to the House of Bishops.
"The Society, and, I may add, the Church of England generally, has derived
real satisfaction from the cordial manner in which the proposal, contained iu
my letter of March, 28th, 1851, was received; and I feel assured that the cele
bration of the Society's Third Jubilee in America, as well as in this country
and its wide-spread colonies and dependencies, has done much to diffuse an
interest in the cause of Missions, and to promote a spirit of Christian good
will and harmony among the members of our communion in all parts of the
world. "With a view to the further advancement of these great objects, and to
manifest still more strikingly the essential unity of the sister Churches of Amer
ica and England, the Society is anxious to secure the presence and co-operation
of some representatives of the American Episcopate on occasion of the conclu
ding services of its Jubilee year.
" I trust, therefore, that in accordance with the resolutions accompanying
this letter, the House of Bishops may be induced to depute two or more of
their body to join in the religious services which will close on Tuesday, June
15th ; and I am specially required to claim for the Society, the privilege of
bearing the expenses of such a deputation.
"As soon as I am honored with what, I trust, will be a favorable reply, I
will see to the suitable arrangements to be made for the reception of the Bish
ops, and for the order of the serviees in which they will be solicited to take
part. " Meanwhile, with a sincere prayer to the great Head of the Church, for a
blessing on our common labors, I remain,
" Reverend and dear Sir,
" Your affectionate brother in the Lord,
"J. B. CANTUAR."
Dr. Wainwright immediately transmitted copies of his Grace's letter to the
American Bishops; several of whom concurred in advising (since prompt
action was necessary) an informal call of the House of Bishops, for the purpose
of taking measures in reply to the invitation. The sentiments ot the Venera
ble Bishop of Illinois were conveyed in the following letter to Dr. Wainwright :
" To the Rev. Jonathan Wainwright, D. D., Secretary of the House of Bishops :
"Jubilee College, March 29th, 1852.
"Rev. and Dear Sir, —
" I had the honor of receiving your printed communication, signed by your
self, as Secretary of 1;he House of Bishops, including letters from his Grace, of
Canterbury, and the Rev. Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, mentioning also that you had replied, saying you had written to the
American Bishops, and waited their answer.
" As an individual Bishop, I do most heartily concur with the sentiments
and wishes of his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and with those of the
Society, as expressed by their unanimous resolutions of the 20th February
last ; and most devoutly do I bless God that He hath put into their hearts so
to think, and given them grace so to act, for the spiritual good of His Church
of England, and her legitimate daughter of America.
"As you have been addressed, and have answered with great propriety, in
the character of Secretary of the House of Bishops, I think I can, though a
very humble Missionary in the far West, yet, as the oldest among my brethren
be allowed to say what seems to be my duty as Presiding Bishop, viz : not

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only to express my deep sense of the great privilege conferred on us by Divine
JrTovidence, in following the very Christian invitation of our excellent English
brethren, but also to suggest the best, pherhaps the only means, of carrying
the same into effect J s
"The House °f BishoPs' liymg> as others do, some thousands of miles from
each other, cannot, with any propriety, be called together at this season of the
year, when each must be engaged in Diocesan duties. Let, therefore, a Com-
mitteebe appointed to make the selection of delegates to England. Let that
Committee be the oldest Bishops, (omitting myself,) viz : the Right Rev. T. C.
Brownell, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Con
necticut, and the Right Rev. William Meade, D. D, Bishop of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church in Virginia. Let these two confer together, and name
forthwith the Bishops who shall be authorised to represent the Protestant
Episcopal and Primitive Church of the United States of America.
" And may God give them wisdom to do this, their duty, to the honor and
glory of His great name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
"PHILANDER CHASE."
Bishop Brownell having invited hiB brethren in the Episcopate to meet him
at New York, on April 29th, ten Bishops* assembled. Divine Service was
celebrated in St John's Chapel, after which the Bishops retired for delibera
tion, and the following preamble and resolutions were adopted : — ¦
" Whereas, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
by a resolution transmitted through their President, the Archbishop of Can
terbury, have requested the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America, to 'delegate two or more of their number to take
part in the concluding services of the Society's Jubilee year, which will end on
June 15th, 1852;' and whereas, a very large majority of the Bishops of the
said Church have expressed their desire that a meeting of the Bishops should
be convened, in order that a respectful and suitable notice might be taken of
the resolution of the Venerable Society,
" Therefore, be it resolved, by the Bishops now assembled —
" I. That our thanks are due to the Society for the Propagation of the Gos
pel, for their act of brotherly kindness and Christian courtesy ; and that in
cordially responding to the same, we regret that no such communication be
tween the Bishops of this Church as would authorize the formal appointment
of a delegation from their number, in compliance with the request of the Ven
erable Society, has been found practicable.
"IL That the Bishops now present, on their own behalf, and in the belief
that their action will be approved by their absent brethren, do request the
Right Revs, the Bishops of Michigan and Western New York to be present,
and participate in the solemn services with which the Society's Third Jubilee
year will be closed.
" III. That the Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States is deeply
indebted for its planting and early nurture in this Western Continent to the
charitable efforts of the Venerable Society, and that the Bishops of Michigan
and Western New York be requested to express to the Society our grateful
sense of obligation for the same.
"IV. That we devoutly bless God for the great success which has crowned
the labors of this first Protestant Missionary Society, in planting the Church
of Christ, and causing His Gospel to be preached on every continent, and in
the islands of the sea.
" V. That the proceedings of the Venerable Society, with a view to strengthen
the bonds of Christian union, and to promote closer and more frequent inter
course between tha Mother and Daughter Church, by inviting the latter to
* See Colonial Church Chronicle, vol v., p. 470.

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join in the services at the commencement of the Jubilee year, in June, 1851,
and by now renewing the invitation at its close, call forth the warm sympa
thies of the Bishops now assembled ; and they assure their brethren, the Bish
ops and Clergy of the Church of England, that it would afford them the
smcerest pleasure to welcome any of their number at the next Triennial Meet
ing of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, to be held during the meeting of the General Convention, which
assembles in the City of New York, on the first Wednesday in October, in the
year of our Lord 1853.
"VI. That the Secretary be appointed to convey these resolutions to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, as President of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel."
When Dr. Wainwright, charged with the conveyance of these resolutions,
arrived in England, on May 26th, it was feared that an important trial, which
had been appointed to take place on June 24th, would inevitably deprive the
English Church of the presence of the two Bishops. Accordingly, at a meet
ing of the Society, specially called on May 29th, to receive Dr. Wainwright,
the following resolutions were passed : —
" I. That the Society haB heard with sincere delight, that, at a meeting of
Bishops, held at New York, on the 29th April last, the Right Rev. the Bishops
of Michigan and Western New York, were deputed by their brethren to pro
ceed to this country to take part in the concluding services of the Jubilee year ;
in compliance with the invitation to that effect transmitted by the Society
through its President, his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
" II. That, while the Society deeply regrets the intervention of causes which
have prevented the fulfilment of tBe proposed Mission, it regards the appoint
ment of a delegation of Bishops as a recognition on the part of the American
Church, of the great principle which animates our own — a desire to strengthen
the bonds of Christian communion between two distant portions of the same
Apostolic Church, which seem, in the Providence of God, to have been set in
the two hemispheres for the same special purpose of maintaining in its primi
tive purity and integrity, the faith once delivered to the saints.
" III. That the Society desires to welcome the Rev. Dr. Wainwright with
every expression of brotherly affection and good- will, and further requests
him to communicate to th"e House of Bishops, (of which he is the official repre
sentative,) and through them to the Clergy and Laity of their several Dioceses,
the Society's earnest desire to cultivate feelings of Christian fellowship with
brethren between whom and itself, bo long and dearly cherished a connexion
has subsisted."
But the zealous exertions of Bishop McCoskry, who took a rapid journey to
Illinois for the purpose, succeeded most unexpectedly, in procuring the post-
Eonement of the trial. The two Bishops set out immediately, and arrived in
ondon on June 10th, attended by the Rev. Dr. J. V. Van Ingen, and the Rev.
Walter Ayrault. They were hospitably received by the Archbishop of Can
terbury, and by the Bishop of London.
It would be impossible, in a compressed narrative like the present, to give
a detailed account of the proceedings of the delegated Bishops in England.*
On Tuesday, June 15th, the last day of the Jubilee year, Westminster Abbey
was opened for Divine service at 9 A. M., and every available place was soon
filled. At 10 o'clock, the following Prelates entered the choir, viz : his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury, attended by his Chaplains; the Bishops of
Ripon, Salisbury, Chichester, Gloucester, Oxford, St. Asaph, Sodor of Man,
* Reference may be made to the Colonial Church Chronicle, vol, vi. p. 24 et seq., 75 et seq., and
to the Eev. H. CaswalTs spirited Tracts, The Last Weeh of the Jubilee, and A Pilgrimage to
Canterbury m 1852. There is reason to hope that a full account of this memorable visit may be
published hereafter.

APPENDIX. 9*7
Argyle and the Isles, Fredericton, Michigan, Western New York, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Moray and Ross; Bishop Gobat; and Bishops Carr and Spencer.
The prayers were offered by the Minor Canons. The first lesson was read by
the Bishop of Argyle and the Isles ; the second by the Bishop of Western New
X ork. _ Comfort ye my people," was the anthem appointed for the day. The
Communion Service was read by the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Epistle,
by the Bishop of Michigan; the Gospel, by the Bishop of Edinburgh; the
Offertory Sentences, by the Bishop of Ripon; the Exhortation, by the Bishop
of Moray; the Invitation, by the Bishop of Glasgow. The Holy Communion
was then administered to more than 850 communicants, Clergy and Laity, in
perhaps about equal proportions; and the alms offered by the congregation,
amouuted to the sum of ±401. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of
Oxford, from Ezra iii : 12, 13. In the evening of the same day, St James'
Church, Piccadilly, was opened for Divine service, which was celebrated by
the Rector, the Rev. John Jackson, M. A., the Sermon being preached by the
Bishop of Western New York, who took his text from Malachi i: 11. It was
such as to produce a deep interest amongst a numerous and most attentive
congregation. With this day the Third Jubilee year ended.
On June 16th, the 151st Anniversary of the Society was commemorated at
St. Paul's Cathedral, at half-past three o'clock P. M. when the sermon was
preached by the Bishop of Michigan, from Matthew xxiii. 8, after which a col
lection of 188Z. was made. The congregation at St. Paul's had the appearance
of being larger even than that at the Abbey ; the choir, at least, was literally
crammed, and a great number in the nave and aisles endeavored to follow the
Bervice. The Lord Mayor of London came in state, and received the Bishops
afterwards at the Mansion House.
On Friday, June 18th, a special meeting of the Society took place, under the
presidency of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, when the following
address, moved by the Bishop of London, and seconded by Sir Robert Harry
Inglis, was presented to the two distinguished visitors.
"Right Reverend Fathers in God, — It is with deep feelings of affection and
thankfulness, that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts welcomes you this day.
" Promptly accepting the invitation of the Society conveyed through his
Grace the President you have come at much personal inconvenience, the hon
ored representatives of a Church which is one with our own, to join in the
concluding prayers and praises of our Jubilee year.
" Your presence carries back our thoughts to those early years of the So
ciety's history, when the great continent of America was the principal sphere
of its labors ; and we cannot call to mind the names of the missionaries who
first went forth to preach the Gospel there, without heartfelt gratitude to God,
who has given such increase to the seed then sown.
" You, Right Reverend Sirs, can, better than others, testify that the labor
of the Society has not been in vain ; and if you are witnesses that our efforts
in furtherance of the Gospel, feeble and insufficient as they were, have yet
been blessed of God, you may fitly be called to share in our Jubilee rejoicings.
" You present in your own persons a striking evidence of the progress which
the Church has made in your own country since the time that it became fully
organized. " For fourscore years, the Society, as you are well aware, made strenuous and
repeated, though, alas ! unsuccessful efforts to obtain the episcopate for America.
" You come the real, if not the formal, representatives of more than thirty
Bishops, whose sees are planted in every state of your great Union, from Maine
to Florida, and from Massachusetts to Missouri.
" You come, Right Reverend Sirs, the delegates of an independent Church,
having her own canons and form of government ; a Church which, if (as is grate-
fuUv acknowledged in her Book of Common Prayer) she is ' indebted, under God,
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nursing care and protection,' yet is she not left behind by. the mother Church in
her exertions for the propagation of the Gospel. She is planting her missions not
only in the furthest west of America, but is sending her Missionaries, aye and her
Missionary Bishops, to the great heathen continents of Africa and China;
"Cordially, therefore, do we welcome -you as fellow-laborers in the harvest
field of our common Lord and Master, and sincerely do we pray that our only
rivalry may be as to which portion of His Church shall serve Him with the more
faithful service. His charge to all His servants alike is , ' Occupy till I come ;'
and well does it become us to bear in mind that, of our common Church, as much
as has been given to her, so will much be required ; much for the maintenance of
pure and undefiled religion among our home populations, much also for the spread
of the Gospel throughout the world,
'' Your presence among us, Right Reverend Fathers, is a pledge and earnest
of a fuller and more frequent communion between the Church in America and
the Church in England, and we trust that your visit will inaugurate a happier
era, in which the brethren on both sides of the Atlantic shall be knit together
in one holy and loving fellowship, as brethren in Christ, and so, by the outpour
ing of His Holy Spirit, be strengthened more effectually to do His work and
promote His glory. Once more, then, Right Reverend Fathers and Brethren,
we beg you to be assured of our joy and satisfaction in seeing you among us;
and we trust the pain and weariness of your long voyage will have their com
pensation in the consciousness that you have contributed not a little to kindle in
our hearts the flame of brotherly love, and to unite us more closely with your
selves and with the Church of which you are the worthy representatives, in the
bonds of Christian communion."
For the replies made by the two Bishops, and by Dr. Wainwright, reference
must be made to the publications already cited.
The primary object with which the Bishops were invited to England was thus
accomplished ; but, to the great joy of their English brethren, they consented to
prolong their stay. It would be out of place here to do more than refer to their
visits to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and to various places in Eng
land, Scotland, and Ireland. Bishop McCoskry took his final departure from Liv
erpool on August 28 th, and it was understood that Bishop De Lancey was to fol
low him in the course of September."

ERRATA.
On page 7, line 10 from bottom, for on the 21st, read on the 22<£
On page 9, in the Note, for delectm, read dilectcc.
On page 10, line 14 from top, for Vaughn, read Vaughan.
On page 13, bottom line, for invitations, read invitation.
On page 14, line 22 from top, for T. 0. Fosbery, read T. V. Fosbery.
On page 34 of Appendix, line 22 from top, for J. W. Cantuar, read J. B.
Cantuar