AFFAIRS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS.
FROM JULY 1870 TO JUNE 1871.
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE COX, 20, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.-Metropolitan Poor Act
(1867) Amendment, 70; Straits Settlements
Act, 71; Charitable Trusts Act, 71; The
Bishopsgate (All Saints District Discon-
tinuance) Act, 72, 96; The Elementary Edu-
cation Act, 97; Presentation of Benefices be-
longing to Roman Catholics, &c., Act, 127;
The Saint Mary, Newington, Rectory Act, 128,
192, 272; Census of England and Wales, 1871,
Act, 217; The St. James's Chapel Act, 272;
Lady Slaney's (Trust) Estate Act, 274.
Ascension Day, Observance of, 306, 332.
Bees (St.) College, 162, 331.
Bishop of London's Fund-Annual Meeting, 307.
Burial Acts, Mr. Cawley's Bill for amending the,
303; Burial Laws Amendment Act, 269.
Cambridge University Intelligence, 48, 73, 106,
130, 161, 189, 219, 248, 277, 305, 330.
Charities in England and Wales-18th Report of
the Commissioners, 325.
Church Congress-Southampton, 75, 124; for
1871, 222.
Church Estates Commission, 306.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-Calcutta Corre-
sponding Committee; Madras Committee;
Death of Rev. J. Thomas, Mengnanapuram ;
Church of Jamaica; Financial position of the
Society, 10; Niger Mission; Lagos; Colombo;
Masulipatum; Appointment of the Rev. John
Barton as Secretary, General Lake as Hon. Lay
Secretary, and the Rev. A. H. Frost as Principal
of the Islington Institution, 11; Ordination by
Bishop Crowther; Missions in South India;
Smyrna Mission; Lahore Divinity School;
Waiapu Training Institution; Locations of Mis-
sionaries; the Money School, Bombay; Letters
of Mr. S. Pearse, Badagry; Rev. H. Maundrell,
Madagascar; and Rev. W. W. Kirkby, Pem-
bina, 39; Return of Rev. T. and Mrs. Oldham
to Sierra Leone; Rev. B. Davis, Allahabad ;
Report of the Estimates Sub-Committee;
Massacre at Tientsin; Masulipatam Training
School; Divinity College, Lahore; Rev. T.
Green-Resolution on his Retirement; Death
of the Rev. J. W. Knott, Peshawur; Letter of
the Rev. P. Ansorgé, Mauritius, 67; Appoint-
ment of the Rev. J. H. Ballard, as Association
Secretary; Rev. H. Cheetham appointed
Bishop of Sierra Leone, and Archdeacon Had-
field to be Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand ;
Death of the Rev. C. H. Brierley at Madeira;
Outbreak at Tientsin-letter of the Rev. J. S.
Burdon, 94; South African Transvaal Re-
public and Mhow and Indore Missions; Inter-
view of Missionaries; Deficit Fund; Letters of
the Rev. T. Campbell, Madagascar; and Rev.
P. Ansorgé, Mauritius, 123; Death of Miss C.
White, Bombay, 124; Ordination of a Cate-
chist; Departure of Missionaries; Missionary
work in the Punjab; Locations of Missionaries;
Lagos; Scripture Reader for Asiatics; Society's
minor Publications; Gift of the Rev. T. T.
Perowne; letter of the. Rev. W. A. Russell,
Ningpo, 155; Ordination of Students; Report
of Estimates Sub-Committee; proposed Mis-
sionary Bishop of Madagascar; Letters of the
Rev. W. A. Russell, Ningpo, and Rev. G. C.
Moule; Rev. R. Burrows and the Bishop of
Waiapu, New Zealand, 187; Dr. Cheetham, |
Bishop Designate of Sierra Leone; Bishop
Crowther's Report on the Niger Mission; Rev.
J. H. Alcock, Sierra Leone; Financial State-
ment, 188; Mrs. Brierley's return to Sierra
Leone; Rev. P. S. Royston, Madras; Letter of
the Bishop of Mauritius; withdrawal of the
Rev. R. H. Baynes, Bishop Designate of Mada.
gascar; Letters of Dr. Koelle; Annual Sermon ;
Rev. H. Sutton, appointed Honorary Associa
tion Secretary; Society's Publications Sub-
Committee; Letter of the Bishop of Victoria,
216; Departure of Missionaries, 243; Mada-
gascar Bishopric-Letter from the Bishop of
London; Death of Rev. J. Whitchurch; Yoruba
New Testaments; Meeting and Memorandum
on the proposed Madagasgar Bishopric; Letter
of the Rev. Dr. Koelle, 244; Location of Mis-
sionaries; Rev. F. A. Klein-Jerusalem Mis-
sion; Letter from the Revs. Wolters and
Weakley, Smyrna, 268; Resignation of the
Rev. J. Ridgeway, Editorial Secretary; Church
Missionary Atlas; Letter from Mr. William Dun-
can, of Metlakatlah; Minute on the Madagascar
Bishopric; Return of Missionaries to their
stations; New Church, Pademba Road, Sierra
Leone; Mrs. Mann appointed to the Female
Institution, Lagos, 300; Rev. R. Douglas,
Jersey, appointed Association Secretary; Mr.
Henry Robbin-Abbeokuta and Lagos; Rev.
Hermann Hornle, appointed to the North
India Mission, 325.
Church Pastoral Aid Society, 249.
Clergy Orphan Corporation, 243.
COLONIAL.-South Africa-Provincial Synod,
Cape Town, 51; Canada-Metropolitan's first
address to the Synod, 76; Consecration of the
Bishop of the Orange River Free State, Bloem-
fontein, 163; New Zealand, 194; Natal, Death
of the Rev. J. H. Kirk, 221.
Consecration of the Bishops of Mauritius and
Sierra Leone, 162; and of the Bishop of
the Orange River Free State, Bloemfontein,
163; of the Bishop of Wellington, New Zea-
land, 194.
CONVOCATION OF The Province of CANTERBURY.-
(The Upper House.)-Petition of the English
Church Union, 11; Lay co-operation; Special
Psalms; a "religious" Census; the (so-called)
Ecumenical Council, 12; Committee of Re-
vision; the Irish Church; Services of the
Church, 244; Committee of Revision; Mar-
riage by Banns; Firstfruits and Tithes, 245;
Memorial to Mr. Hoare; Harvest Services;
Revision of the Scriptures, 246; the Irish
Church, 268.
(The Lower House.)-Census of 1871; Board of
Missions; Cathedral System; the (so-called)
Ecumenical Council; Cathedral Chapters, 12;
Reports of Committees, &c., 13; The West-
minster Scandal, 244; Harvest and Special
Services; Appointment of Bishops; the Welsh
Church; Inspection of Schools; the Vatican
Council; the Revision Committee, 245; West-
minster Scandal; Burials Bill, 246.
CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF YORK.-Sunday
Schools; Religious Inspection of Schools, &c.,
268; the New Lectionary; Final Report of
the Ritual Commission; the Irish Church; the
Burials Bill, 269.
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, 40.
Curates' Augmentation Fund, Grants, &c., 217.
Deaths, 24, 53, 78, 109, 135, 165, 196, 223, 252,
280, 309, 334.
Durham University, 73, 131, 191.
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for
Twenty-second Report from the, 68.
Ecclesiastical Notices, 5, 37, 65, 89, 121, 151, 183,
211, 239, 265, 295, 321.
Elementary Education Act, Official Letter, 67,
95; Circular of Oxford Diocesan Board, 74;
of Canterbury, 74; the Act, 97; Digest of, for
London, 105; National Society and School
Boards; Payment of Children's Fees, 304.
FOREIGN.-Switzerland-New Cemetery, 22; the
Council at Rome, 52; the United States;
Central African Mission, 163; United States-
Free Pew System, 194; Algiers-Consecration
of an English Church, 221; the Chaplaincy of
Smyrna, 250.
INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EN-
REPAIRING
LARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.-Meetings of, 10, 39,
187, 216, 243, 268, 300, 324; Annual General
Court, Report, &c., 324.
IRELAND.-Candidates for Ordination, 22; Uni-
versity of Dublin, 50; the Irish Church;
Union of Primitive Methodists with, 76; the
Irish Church Convention; Sustentation Fund;
Revision of the Prayer Book, 134; Diocese of
Dublin; Consecration of the Cathedral of St.
Fin Barre, Cork, 163; Diocesan Synod of Ar-
dagh; Circular to Clergy, 194; Irish Church
Synod, 304, 332.
Jenner (Bishop) and the See of Dunedin-Judg-
ment and Opinion of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, 133.
LAW.-Elphinstone v. the Rev. John Purchas,
13; Judgment, 40, 133, 157; the Prosecution
of the Vicar of Frome for Heresy-Sheppard
v. the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, 13; Judgment,
40; St. Chad's, Haggerston-Rev. W. R. Sharpe
and Others v. Lee, 14; Judgment, 40; Ex
parte the Rector of Liverpool; Ex parte the
Rector of St. Martin's, Birmingham, 127;
Voysey v. Noble, 156; Judgment, 218, 328;
Hebbert (heretofore Elphinstone) v. Purchas-
Vestments lawful to be used by the Clergy of
the Church of England, 157; Judgment, 275;
Petition of Rev. J. Purchas, 275, 301, 328;
Martin v. Rev. A. H. Mackonochie-Ritualism
at St. Alban's, Holborn, 157; Jackson v. Mar-
tin; Jackson v. Mackonochie-Judgment, 158;
Smallbones v. Edney and Lunn-Church-rates,.
Whitchurch, 158; the Merchant Taylors' Com-
pany v. the Attorney-General-Trusts for
Charity; Ex parte Stafford v. the Justices of
Surrey Church-rate, St. Saviour's, South-
wark; Ex parte the Rector of St. Martin's,
Birmingham; Ex parte the Parish of the
same--Churchyard of St. Martin's, Birming-
ham; the Rev. John Craig v. Watson and
Another-Judgment, 159; Appeal, 328; In re
the Church Estate Charity of Wandsworth,
219; the Erection of a Parochial School not a
Nuisance-Harrison v. Wood; Asterley and
Another v. Adams-Church-rates, Edgmond,
Salop, 276, 301; Religious Education of Infant
Wards-Hawksworth v. Hawksworth, 300; In
re Thavie's Charity Estate; Liability of a
School Trustee to be rated as Owner-Bow-
ditch, Appellant, the Local Board of Health
of Wakefield, Respondent, 326; Rights of Sex-
tons and of Burial Boards-the Burial Board
of the Parish of St. Margaret, Rochester v.
Thompson, 327; Russell v. the Tithe Commis-
sioners of England and Wales; Vigar v. the
Rev. L. S. Dudman, 328.
Letters to the Editor-Chairman of a Parish
Vestry, 276, 306.
London School Board, 132, 163; Meetings, 193,
220, 249, 279, 307.
Marlborough College, 22, 331.
METROPOLIS.-London Diocesan Home Mission;
National Society; St. John's Foundation
School: Clergy Institute for Mutual Aid, 22;
Completion of St. Paul's Cathedral-Meeting;
Use of Cathedral for Private Devotion; Spiri-
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