By the recent demise of the Reverend Job Walker Baugh,
Chancel- lor of the diocese of Bristol, the following Church preferments have become vacant ; the Vicarage of Diddlebury, Salop, worth 900/. per annum. in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford ; the ReJtory of Ripple, Worcester, worth 1,2001. per annum, in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester ; and a Prebendal Stall in Here- ford Cathedral, which being a sinecure will not be filled up, but banded over to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in compliance with the pro. visions of the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill—Bristol Mirror. [Well done the Reverend Job Baugh ! a Vicarage, a Rec- tory, a Chancellorship, and a Prebendal Stall fell to thy share : but what service in the cause of religion or "the church" the aforesaid Job ever performed, it would not be easy to point out.1
A meeting was held at Manchester, last week, to receive from the Reverend Robert J. M'Ghee, of Dublin, and the Reverend Hugh M'Neile, of Liverpool, "some important information as to the cha. meter, effect, and designs of Popery." Many parsons and ladies were in attendance ; but before Mr. M'Ghee had completed his oration, the assembly had dwindled down to a few zealots. Mr. M'Neile re- proached the selfseeking ministers of the Establishment with their attachment to worldly things-
" I never did, I never will, with my eye. open, palliate, excuse, or plausibly daub over licensed abuses in our own Church Establishment. That there are ouch, no honest man who values his Bible will dare to deny ; and that we have been brought into the predicaineat we are in—that the necessity should be so laid upon us to endeavour to rekindle a reformation spirit in England—is mainly to be attributed to this, that the clergy of the Reformed Church of England, in years of carelessness, supineness, and prosperity, have sought their own ease rather than the salvation of others—have wasted their time in balls, in parties, in musical festivities, in preArence to —(Cheers drowned the rest of this sentence.) Oh. if we would reform at all, let us reform altogether, and let us begin at home."
The Reverend Hugh Stowell, the chairman, attacked all parties, es- pecially the Conservatives.-
" He cared not a fig for party—Radicalism, Whiggery, or Conservatism— as party ; for our friends, the Conservatives, as well as the Whigs, have very much betrayed us ; and we owe to Conservatives, I grieve to say, the opening of the floodgates through which we are now about to be deluged. Had it not been that 'the pilot that weathered the storm' treacherously opened the floodgates, and let in Catholic Emancipation, we should not have now been in our present plight."
Mr. M4Gliee's speech seems to have been intolerably stupid—all about the old story of Dens and Dr. Murray.
The Gloucester Journal of Saturday says—" Reports have been cir- culated that the Stewards at our recent Festival would be losers to an
immense amount by the spirited scale upon which it had been con- ducted. We are happy to state that the reports are very considerably exaggerated, although the gentlemen will certainly be collectively out of pocket about .500/. Still, the receipts show that spirited arrange- ments will never be entirely left without corresponding support, as the receipts for admission at the present Festival exhibit an increase of nearly 2,0001. beyond those of 1835. In that year they amounted to 2,7001. ; in 1838 they reached 4,4301. The subscriptions on behalf of the charity make a total of 751/. 16s. 5d."
The charter of incorporation for Manchester has received her Ma. jesty's approval ; and now only waits the attachment of the great seal.
—Manchester Times.
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