The Bishop of Salisbury has announced that be will receive
no candidate for holy orders who is not competently versed in the Hebrew language.
A new Rama Catholic College has been nearly finished at Sutton CoWeil. at an wpm* of about 60,0001.
Risley Chapel, and the property attached to it, about ten statute same of arable land, a farm-house, and four ccttagt s, situated in Win- aick parish, Lancashire, were delivered up on Thursday week by the Unitarian trustees, into the bands of new trustees, professing orthodox principles; consisting of the Reverend Dr. Ralph, the Reverend Mr. Farb of Liverpool, the Reverend Mr. Munro of Manchester, and certain laymen resident in these towns, all of them members of the Established Church of England. This arrangement originated with, and was conducted to its termination, at some expense and no small trouble, by a very few persons, some of high rank and some in humble life, all of them members of the Established Church of England. The ex-trustees, with incredible contumacy, had refused to show the title-deeds; but when a bill was filed against them by her Majesty's Attorney. General in the Court of Chancery, they could not answer it. The Unitarians had no more right to the possession of Risley Chapel than of Westminster Abbey.—Liverpool Paper.
A discovery has been made at the Dane, Margate, of an extensive grotto, which appears to have been excavated about the time of the Saxon beptarchy, and will probably throw some light on the habits of our Saxon ancestors. The Dane is celebrated as the field of a deci- sive and terrible engagement fought between the Saxons and Danes. From time to time, objects have been disinterred ttlich show the deadly nature of the struggle, including numerous human bones not yet reduced to dust; and even entire skeletons embedded in soft chalk, and thus preserved, as with a coating of cement, from decomposition. Armour and warlike weapons of the fashions of that early period have also been found. The grotto which has just been laid open does not appear to have any reference to the battle. It extends to a great dis- tance under the hill, and is laid out in serpentine walks, alcoves, and passages of considerable extent, the sides being studded with shells, formed into elaborate and curious devices, and doubtless executed by torchlight. The discovery of this remarkable structure was entirely accidental, and in consequence of some excavation made on the spot by the proprietor of the land.—Dover Telegraph.
Some of Courteney's disciples affirm that the ghost of their late leader has appeared in the vicinity of his death-scene. They assert, that having voluntarily relinquished his connexion with the flesh, he earmot, until the lapse of a certain number of moons, again become I sojourner upon earth.
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