11 JULY 1863, Page 3

Suffolk seems to be just now the chosen place of

ecclesias- tical oddities. "Brother Ignatius," of Claydon, announces that he is not going to Scotland, but intends to found a sort of monastic school, to be superintended by his "Benedictines." On the other side, a writer in the Ipswich Journal affirms that the Rev. Mr. Synge, Incumbent of St. Peter's, Ipswich, has introduced a novelty into the Church. When he reads the Churching Service for a poor man's wife he repeats, of course, "Lord, save this woman, thy servant !" but if the petitioner belongs to a better class, he changes it into "Lord, save this lady an instance of caste feeling almost without a parallel, even in England.