The foundation-stone of a new school for the education of
children in the principles of the Church of England, was laid at Liverpool on Monday. It will be recollected, that the determination of the Town-Council to introduce the Irish system of education into the Corporation Schools gave great offence to the Church party; who with great zeal set On foot a subscription to erect new schools, where the " un- mutilated Word of God" might be taught. In the course of a few weeks 100001. were raised ; and the site of the school-house being fixed upon, it was resolved to make the ceremony of laying the first stone of the building as imposing as possible. Accordingly, there was a grand pro- cession of "operative Conservatives," children, and clergymen in full canoniculs, headed by the Reverend Jonathan Brooks, who delivered an address before laying the stone. [As the Corporation School funds should not be applied to sectarian purposes, the Town-Council did per- fectly right in refusing to establish a system of education which would operate as an exclusion to the children of Catholics. On the other baud, the exertions of the Church party on this occasion were laudable, and illustrate the folly of supposing that there is any necessity for a State Church to preserve Protestantism in this country. The efficacy of the Voluntary principle is proved by the acts of Churchmen.] The Earl of Derby has given the munificent sum of 1000/. towards building two new churches in the town of Bury, Lancashire. The grr at increase of population in the town and neighbourhood of Bury makes it very evident that an increased supply of reom dedicated to the public religious worship of God, has become absolutely necessary.
Under this impression it was a short time since determined, at a meet-
ing held for the purpose, that measures should be immediately taken for building two new churches, to contain 1200 persons in each ; the one in Elton, in the neighbourhood of Bury Bridge, the other in the -vicinity of Free Town, upon sites to be fixed hereafter; and that MOM should be raised by subscription for this purpose, and for maks big an endowment to each of 1000/. The subscriptions already amount to about 4]00l.—Times. ['1 he Voluntary principle again!] I A statement having been made in one of the Durham papers, and copied into the Globe, that the new Bishop of Durham had been refused the usual honours on his first entrance into the county by his clergy, Dr. Maltby has written the following letter to the Globe, contradicting the report, and explaining its origin. " Auckland Castle, Sept. 3. "Sta—1 feel myself hound, injustice to the clergy albs diocese, to correct a mis• take airicir has been trausterreti to your pages, and a hich has originated in the change both or station and Meteor respect ing Bishops of this sce. " W hen the Bishop a as Count Palatine and Curios Botutorum, it was customary for the clergy and getdry to meet ltim on his first entrance into the county, and conduct him to Dart legion, where a very sum pi nous intern ainit.ent was provided, at the Bishop's expense. As it appeared to roe no longer necessary to enter the diocese in so mach Pomp. nor tiesirable to incur the expense of such an entertainment, 1 signified, through the Archtleaeon, my a ish to dispense unit the parade heretotere observed. It %as, therefore, in consequence of this expression of my a ish that the clergy did not as- semble to meet me as usual ; and 1 am bound, in justice as a ell as gratitude, to de- clare Ilea no Bishop can have been received a ith more general respect and kindness
by his clergy than I Irate been. " I am, Sir, your obedient seri ant. " E. BuNELm."
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