the morning, Venus on the 27th at 20 minutes past seven in the evening, and Jupiter on the same evening. She is in perigee on the 8th, and in apogee on the 20th. The planet Mercury is in perihelio on the 4th, stationary on the 6th, and arrives at his greatest western elevation on the 14th, when the attentive observer will probably obtain a view of him a little before sunrise. Venus is the evening star, setting on the 1st at 30 minutes past six; on the 25th she has eight digits illuminated on her western limb, her apparent diameter being 18 seconds; her unfavourable position will render her visible to very few, but the most attentive observer. The distance between the Sun and Jupiter is daily decreasing, and in consequence he is scarcely visible this month. Mars may be observed in the constellation Virgo during the mornings of this month: he is first situated a little to the west of Theta Virginis; he passes under this star on the 4th, and his approach to, and subsequent recess from Spica, is the most interesting feature in his course. Saturn is noticed near the same spot as last month; his motion is very slow, and on the 29th he is stationary in the 18th degree of Leo. Art.-A curious specimen of cutlery is exhibited in the shop of a surgical instrument maker in Dean Street, Tyne; it is a musical knife with 208 blades! Wine Cooler-The King's new wine-cooler, mannfactured by Rundell and Bridges, which is sufficiently capacious to hold six men, weighs upwards of 8,000 ounces, and is by far the largest piece of plate ever marked in this country. Good Fortune-A poor woman lately bought an old chair at a broker's in Golden-lane, Cripplegate, and upon ripping the top off to have it new covered, found concealed in one corner, 21 guineas-all Queen Anne's coin-and a Bank 5. note, both tied up in a canvass bag. She gave for the chair eighteenpence. She is a widow, and has a large family to maintain. Burman Paper.-Three descriptions of paper are used by the Burmans. The first is a domestic manufacture, made from the fibres of the young bamboo; this is a substance as thick as pasteboard, which is rubbed over with a mixture of charcoal and ricewater; thus prepared, it is written upon with a pencil of steatite, as we write on a slate. The impression may be blotted out with the moistened hand, and the paper is again fit to be written upon. This process, if the paper be good, may be often repeated. 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This promotion virtually aided the interests of the celebrated Dr. Paley, though the circumstance is not stated by that eminent divine's biographers. In a Memoir of the late Rev. Dr. Zouch, prefixed to the edition of his works by the Ven. Archdeacon Wrangham, who has been from 1814 sole Examining Chaplain to the Archbishop, it is stated, that to this prelate the admirable writer in question was indebted, not only for a benefice in that diocese (the first, which his lordship had in his power to bestow), but also indirectly for his more valuable preferments -the rectory of Bishopwearmouth, and The Hon. EDWARD VENABLES VERNON, the sub-deanery of Lincoln. The patrons of LL. D., who is the eighty-third Arch- these preferments acted less disinterestedly bishop of York, was born October 10, than the Bishop of Carlisle: for they had 1757. His Grace is the third son of the sagacious prudence to stipulate for the George Venables, Lord Vernon, Baron of presenting to the benefices which Dr. Kinderton in Cheshire; by Martha, sister Paley would vacate; though they had of George Simon, Earl of Harcourt. In affluent patronage of their own in abunhis twelfth year, he was sent to West- dance, and the see of Carlisle has not minster school. Thence he removed to much, under the most favourable circumChrist-church, Oxford, where he was ad- stances, to bestow. It may be farther mitted Student in 1775. In 1778, he was added, that the judgement and generosity elected Fellow of All Souls' college, in thus exerted were honourable to both that University.-In June 1781, he was parties, as appreciating and rewarding the ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford; divine, to whom English theology is under and, in the October following, priest by such deep and complicated obligation. the Bishop of Peterborough, on letters For it is only an occasional age, that prodimissory from the Bishop of Lichfield duces a mind capable of adding a Hora and Coventry. Immediately after which, Pauline to the evidences for the truth of he was instituted to the family living of Christianity. The descendents of the veneSudbury in the county of Derby. rable Archdeacon of Carlisle have not been overlooked or neglected, as his son Edmund was presented by his Grace to the vicarage of Easingwold, his first option from the see of Chester. Perhaps the first step to his present eminent station was laid in 1782, when his late Majesty George III. appointed him his chaplain. In February, 1784, he married Annę, third daughter of George Granville Leveson, Marquis of Stafford; by Louisa Egerton, the only sister of the late Duke of Bridgewater. In 1785, he succeeded to a canonry in Christ-church, and shortly afterward, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor Thurlow, to a stall in the cathedral of Gloucester. When Dr. Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle, was translated to Salisbury in 1791, Dr. Vernon was promoted to the vacant see, 120.-VOL. X.* It is supposed to have been his late Majesty's intention to translate the subject of this Memoir from Carlisle to the see of Worcester, when Dr. Hurd was spending the remainder of his days in otio literato: but Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York, dying in 1807, Dr. Vernon was elevated to his present high station. Ever since the commencement of his archiepiscopal labours, they have been performed with so much dignity toward his clergy, that they look up to him more as a father than as a 3 x diocesan. And though he has been sometimes constrained to perform the office of censor, yet the duty has been discharged with so much Christian prudence, as to convince every ingenuous mind that the offence, and not the offender, was the object. The church at Bishopthorpe presents a most interesting scene on the Sabbath morning of ordination-days. Opposite to the pulpit, the venerable prelate occupies a kind of cathedra, and the candidates for ordination place themselves on his right and left. This forcibly represents primitive times to the spectators: and a person disposed to moralise would easily find sufficient in this juxtaposition, to indicate that the office of the one is to lead in the cause of divine truth, and that of the others to attend. As the episcopal function is chiefly (according to the import of the name) to inspect others, so his Grace is anxious that all those, over whom Providence has placed him, should feed the flock of Christ with the word of life with unremitting attention. It has been, indeed, acknowledged by those, who have voluntarily taken their stand without the pale of the Established Church, that pure religion has been making progress in the extensive diocese of York ever since he commenced his arduous labours in it. "Exemplum grave praebet." His Grace's clear and grave elocution is admirably adapted to the magnificently spacious Minster at York. Soon after his translation, an individual who had been accustomed to attend the most popular preachers of the day, having visited the Minster to hear the Archbishop for the first time, returned with the impression that he had heard one of the very best models for a public discourse. At his last Visitation, in 1825, his Grace delivered a Charge replete with so much sound reasoning, and so many apposite quotations from Scripture, that numbers both of the clergy and laity followed him to hear it a second, and even a third time delivered. It would be unjust to omit mentioning, that the younger clergy find a friend and protector in their venerated Diocesan. There have not been wanting instances, where obstructions have been thrown in the way of their usefulness; but these have readily been removed by his Grace's intervention. Indeed, the laborious industry, and prudent zeal, of his numerous clergy present abundant demonstration that indifference to character and qualifications did not open the door for their admission to the sacred offices. To the regret of all who love sound sense and orthodox doctrine, united with constitutional principles and Christian moderation, only three of his Sermons have been printed one, preached before the House of Lords, another before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and a third at the coronation of His present Majesty George IV. Of the principal charitable institutions for which the county of York is distinguished, his Grace, it is believed, patronises nearly the whole. When opportunity admits, he not unfrequently occupies the chair of their committees, and at their annual meetings. Of the various good qualities, also, enumerated in St. Paul's character of a good Bishop, he possesses the pλoževía in an eminent degree; for he has his annual public days at his princely mansion at Bishopthorpe. His Grace's family, all bearing the name of Venables Vernon, are as follows :— 1. George Granville, born August, 1785, M. P. for Lichfield; married the Rt. Hon. Lady Elizabeth Bingham. 2. Edward, born February, 1787. After having distinguished himself at Christchurch, by gaining, within the compass of one week, the first college-prize, on the subject of Chiron, and the university-prize for his Latin verses on Natale solum in 1805, this highly gifted young man died of the scarlet fever in 1806. (Extract from Barré Roberts' unpublished Works, a young student of Oxford, who died also in early life.) 3. Leveson, born May 1788, Rector of Stokesley, and Archdeacon of Cleveland; married the Hon. Mary Peachy, sister of Lord Selsey. 4. William, born June, 1789, Rector of Etton and Wheldrake in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Prebendary and Canon Residentiary of York, and President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; married Miss Matilda Gooch in 1824. 5. Frederick Edward, born July, 1790, Post Captain in the Royal Navy, who has exerted himself, with great zeal on the behalf of the Jewish Society. 6. Henry, born July, 1791, Lieutenant Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. 7. Granville, born July, 1792, late M. P. for Aldborough in Yorkshire, and Chancellor and Commissary of the Diocese of York; married Miss Francis Eyre of Grove, near Retford, Nottinghamshire. 8. Octavius Henry Cyril, born Decem |