depended upon appears from this same letter, in which he immediately after assumes that the heading in question, "The Atonement not a Manifestation of God's Justice," implies that the "doctrine of the Atonement" is "not exhibited in revelation !" A word of comment on so unaccountably careless a perversion would be altogether superfluous. NO PHOENIX. N.B.-The insertion of the above has been delayed by the writer's having overlooked what was said in the Notice to Correspondents in the Number for last May.

ON SAINTS'-DAY SERVICES.

SIR, I beg to refer your correspondent "T. M.," who inquires whether there is any rule or custom of the Church as to the services when a saint's day falls on a Sunday, to Mant's Prayer Book, where, on "The Order how the Rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read," he will find a note, with an extract from Wheatly, upon which, in common with very many of my clerical brethren, I have acted since I have been in orders. A. B. M.

ON SAINTS'-DAY SERVICES.

SIR,-Your correspondent "T. M." asks for the rule to be observed in case a saint's day falls on a Sunday:-whether the saint's day or the Sunday is to have precedence in respect of the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel. I do not know in what light your correspondent may regard the four services usually called the "State Services," but if he is disposed to admit them as authority, his question may, I think, without difficulty be resolved; it being fair to infer that the same directions which apply to them, at least in the absence of others to the contrary, apply to the saints'-day services also.

Now the rubrics prefixed to the State Services provide expressly, in each instance, for the day falling on a Sunday. The rule is this, that the service of the holy day shall have precedence. There are exceptions, indeed, or rather apparent exceptions, in the case of the 29th of May falling on Whitsunday or Trinity Sunday, which, being themselves high festivals, and not ordinary Sundays, are not suffered to lose their proper offices. But the general rule is as has been stated. It appears, however, from the rubrics for the 5th of November and the 29th of May, which in this respect are more definite than the rubrics for the two other days, that the Collect for the Sunday is to be added to the service of the holy day.

If it should be objected, that the four services referred to, being put forth only in the authority of the sovereign, are scarcely to be regarded as expressing the mind of the Church of England, I would urge, that, at all events, they deserve respect from the office of the compilers, and from the sanction given them by the heads of the Church, and the usage of the Church, for successive generations. However, there is another rule, about which there is less room to doubt, the more frequent

I say this in ignorance who the compilers were, but taking it for granted that they were persons appointed by the heads of the Church. Perhaps some of your correspondents would furnish an account of them.

observance of which, (though I am far from questioning the utility or propriety of such discussions as the present, when carried on in a right spirit) might tend perhaps to increase both respect for authority and uniformity of practice:

“ And forasmuch as nothing can be so plainly set forth but doubts may arise in the use and practice of the same; to appease all such diversity (if any arise), and for the resolution of all doubts, concerning the manner how to understand, do, and execute, the things contained in this book; the parties that so doubt, or diversely take any thing, shall alway resort to the bishop of the diocese, who by his discretion shall take order for the quieting and appeasing of the same; so that the same order be not contrary to any thing contained in this book. And if the bishop of the diocese be in doubt, then he may send for the resolution thereof to the archbishop."-Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, concerning the Service of the Church.

Your correspondent is, no doubt, acquainted with Wheatly's remarks on the question he has proposed. I might have contented myself with referring to them, but that your correspondent wished for "authority, and not individual opinion." Wheatly has merely given his opinion founded on the reasonableness of the case. The question, whether to use Apocryphal lessons on Sundays, must still be considered open, subject to the direction just quoted, the state holy days not having Apocryphal lessons, and so not affording direction whether the otherwise universal rule of the Church in appointing only canonical Scripture to be read on Sundays is to be broken in upon.

CHURCH SOCIETIES.

C. C. C.

SIR,-Some of your readers were interested last year in the success attending the institution of the Upper Clapton and Stamford Hill Church Fund in aid of the five societies recommended in the Bishop of London's last charge, and as it probably will be some satisfaction to them to know the result of the second year's collection, perhaps you will be good enough to admit the following statement of it in your columns. The whole amount collected this year is £298 0s. 1d., being a considerable increase upon the collection of the first year.

Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. £41 15 4 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

61 17 6

Additional Curates Society

The collection was made during the offertory on Ascension-day, at which time 260%. and more of the above amount was contributed.

C. J. HEATHCOTE.

POETRY.

[The following lines were written, at the age of Seventeen, by Mr. FREDERICK ROBERT WARE, a grandson of Mr. BARON GURNEY, who died in June last, at the age of eighteen, to the deep regret of all who had had an opportunity of appreciating the early and remarkable development of his religious and intellectual character: they were composed for some music which took his fancy, and appear to us to be written with exquisite taste and beauty. We are particularly obliged by the permission to insert them.]

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A well-known Spanish Chant," Far, far o'er hill and dale."

LAW REPORT.

No. LXXIV. AN ABSTRACT OF AN ACT (3 & 4 VIC. CAP. 118,) To carry into effect the Fourth Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. (Aug. 11th, 1840.)

bishops and Bishops respectively-the number not to exceed 24, and not more than 8 to be appointed within a year from the passing of this actnor more than 2 (except in the case of vacancy) in any future year. No emolument whatever, nor any place in the Chapter to be taken by such Canon.

24. The Deanery of every Cathedral and Collegiate Church on the old Foundation, except Wales, and the 3 present Canonries of St. Paul's, shall be appointed by Letters Patent from the Crown.

25. In York when the Deanery shall be vacant the Canonries shall be in the gift of the Archbishop; and in Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Sarum, and Wells, when every person now a member shall cease to belong to such Chapter, the Canonries shall be in the gift of the respective Bishops.

26. In Ripon, the Bishop shall be Visitor, and the Canonries shall be in his Patronage; and in Manchester (so soon as the See is founded, and every person now a member shall cease to belong to the Chapter) the Canonries shall be in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester.

27. No person shall be appointed Dean, Archdeacon, or Canon, who has not been 6 years in Priest's orders, unless the Canonry is annexed to a University office.

28. Any statute for appropriating separate estates to a Dean or Canon shall be repealed; but a small portion of contiguous land may be reserved to the Church or permanently annexed to the Residentiary House.

29. The Rectory of St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster, shall be permanently annexed to the Canonries of Westminster, now held by the Rev. H. H. Milman and the Rev. J. Jennings; and the holders of those Canonries shall as such be ipso facto Rectors of the respective parishes, which shall for all ecclesiastical purposes become part of the Province of Canterbury, in the Diocese of London, and Archdeaconry of Middlesex. St. Margaret's not being rendered liable for the repair of Broadway Chapel further than it now is.

30. A Prebendal House belonging to the Chapter of Westminster shall

be appointed as the House of Residence for the Rector of St. Margaret's.

31. The profits of the 2 last mentioned Canonries shall be divided into 12 equal parts: 8 to be given to the Incumbents of St. Margaret's and St. John's; and 4 shall go in part towards providing houses of residence for the Ministers of district Churches in St. Margaret's and St. John's; and in part towards endowing such Ministers and the Minister of Broadway Chapel.

32. New Archdeaconries and Rural Deaneries may, with the consent of the signed; and the limits of present ArchBishop, be created, and districts asdeaconries and Rural Deaneries may be rearranged.

33. The Bishops of London and Lincoln may appoint one of their Archdeacons to the new Canonries added to St. Paul's and Lincoln, who shall be a member of the Chapter, and entitled to all the rights and privileges, &c. possessed by the other Canons.

34. Any Archdeaconry with the consent of the Bishop may be endowed by annexing an entire Canonry, or a Canonry charged with providing for another Archdeacon, or by augmentation out of the common fund, the Archdeaconry not being raised to more than 2007. per annum: but the Canonry must not be so charged unless after the payment of this portion it amounts to 500l. per annum; the Archdeacon to reside within the Diocese for 8 months in the year.

35. Instead of appointing one Archdeacon to the new Canonries in St. Canonry to an Archdeaconry charged Paul's and Lincoln, or annexing a with a payment to another Archdeacon, a Canonry exceeding 800l. per annum may be annexed to 2 Archdeaconries in the same Diocese which are not competently endowed, each Archdeacon residing in turn, and having all the rights and privileges of a Canon during his turn of Residence.

36. The Canonry remaining in Archdeaconry of Nottingham, and a Southwell shall be annexed to the better provision shall be made for the cure of souls in Southwell from the suspended Canonries.

37. Arrangements shall be made with respect to the Deanery and Ca