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Butler, D. . . . . King's College, London Middlesex.

Holy Scriptures elegantly bound.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. From the Annual Report of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, just issued, it appears that 95,649 bibles, 87,496 testaments, 191,723 prayer-books, 10,069 psalters, 145,479 bound books, 2,222,652 tracts, have been sold this year, making a total circulation of scriptural publications of 2,753,608. The income on the year amounts to only 83,1631. 14s. 5d., while the expenditure is stated at 85,1401. 3s. The number of schools in connexion with the Society are 6068 Sunday schools, containing 438,280 scholars; 10,152 Sunday and day schools, in which are 514,450 scholars; and 704 infant schools, containing 43,730 scholars. Total schools, 16,224; and total number of scholars, 996,460.

A new church is intended to be erected at Hillfield, in Trinity parish, Coventry. One gentleman has given 2000l. towards this object, and another has offered a piece of ground on which to erect the building.

Mr. Haslar Hollist has contributed 1001., towards affording increased church accommodation to the inhabitants of the parish of Lodsworth, near Midhurst.

ORDINATIONS.-1838.

The Lord Bishop of Norwich will hold an Ordination at Norwich, January 6, 1839. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield will hold an Ordination at Eccleshall, January 13, 1839. The Lord Bishop of Hereford intends to hold his next Ordination on Sunday, 20th January next, at Hereford.

The Bishop of Lincoln's next Ordination will be held in the cathedral church of Lincoln, on Sunday, the 24th of February next. Candidates must send their papers to his Lordship, at Willingham, near Market Rasen, before the 13th of January.

Easingwold

Borrington

Northleach

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PREFERMENTS.

Net Value. County.

£205

146

228
104

Diocese.

Patron.

York York Bp. of Chester
Hereford Hereford Lord Chancellor
Gloster Gloster Bp. of G. & B.
Hereford Hereford K. Hoskins, Esq.

Chester, Christ Ch. (New) Cheshire Chester Trustees

Hartley Wintney 108 Hants

Lotherdale in Carleton (New) York

Tendring

724 Essex

[may

Winchest. Lady St. John Mild-
York Vicar of Carleton
London Balliol Coll. Oxford

Birmingham (Bp.Ryder's} Warwick Worcester Trustees

Carter, E. N.
Chapman, J. M.

Collins, M. A..

Oxford, St. Martin's

62

225 Norfolk Norwich T. T. Gurdon, Esq.

Cornwall Exeter Bp. of Exeter

Mrs. Wheeler

Crosby, J.
Darby, M. B.
Dix, E.
Edmonson, B..

Evans, T.

Hawks, W.
Hesse, J. L.
Hogarth, D.
Kelly,

Atthill, R.
Bawdwen, W.

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Exeter

Bp. of Exeter

Northam. Peterboro'Rev. R. Roberts

Salisb. Dr. Penrose

& C. of Lord Calthorpe

Salisbury Bp. of Salisbury
P.of Dorc.General Burrows

727 Cheshire Chester W.Tomkinson, Esq.
Salisbury D. & C. of Winch.
Lincoln Sir J. Thorold
Durham Archdn. of Durham
Winchest.Trustees

Durrington
53 Wilts
Leasingham, N. & S. 924 Lincoln
Darlington, Trinity Ch. (New) Durham
Southwark, St.John's (New) Surrey

APPOINTMENTS.

Appointment.

Newmarket, Lake Simcoe, Upper Canada.
Chaplain to Manchester Infirmary.
Chaplain to Earl of Dunraven.

Chaplain to H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex.

Missionary among the Navigators on the Bristol and Exeter Railway.

Minister of Savoy Precinct.

Head Master of Gram. School, Ashby de la Zouch.
Chaplain to Block House, Worcester.

Chaplain to Workhouse, Birmingham.

Chaplain to H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex.
Chaplain to Lord Dinorben.

Chaplain to Bradford Union.

Surrogate for Diocese of Hereford.

Chaplain to Lord Stuart de Rothsay.

Third Master Devonport Grammar School.
Chaplain to Earl of Harewood.

Vice-Dean of Canterbury.

Lecturer at Carfax.

Head Mastership Maidstone Proprietary School.
Curacy of St. Thomas's, Bristol.

Travelling Secretary to London Hibernian Society.
Chaplain to Warminster Union.

Minor Canon of Gloucester.

Official to Lord Warden of Savernake Forest.
Principal of the Church of England Collegiate
School, Huddersfield.

Name.

Preferment.