individual, to be applied to the purposes of the society. His Grace having returned thanks for the honour that had been done him; and the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Devon, and several other of the guests having addressed the company, the party broke up at about eleven o'clock, expressing their gratification at the hospitality with which they had been entertained. THE LICHFIELD. ENTHRONEMENT OF BISHOP.-On Tuesday, April 21, the Lord Bishop of Lichfield was installed in the Cathedral Church. His Lordship was met at the front entrance by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean, Venerable Archdeacon Hodson, and other dignitaries and authorities, when the oaths were administered by John Haworth, esq., the Chapter Clerk. His Lordship was then conducted into the body of the Church, where he was duly installed by the Venerable Archdeacon Hodson, the Canon Residentiary, the Dean assisting in part of the ceremony. The Cathedral was crowded to witness the proceedings, a great number of the Clergy being present, and also many ladies. The Rev. Henry Calthrop, his Lordship's Chaplain, accompanied the Bishop. The Mayor and Corporation afterwards waited upon the Bishop at the palace, and presented an address on his appointment to the See, to which his Lordship very graciously replied. CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.-John Guthrie, esq., of Guthrie, Forfarshire, has given to the funds of that most excellent Society, the Scottish Episcopal Church Society, in addition to a former donation of 100%, the sum of 400.; thus evincing in the noblest and most unequivocal manner, the sincerity of his attachment to the Church, of which he is a member. Mr. Guthrie has been long known as a sound Churchman, earnest and active in the cause of Episcopacy in his own district. To each of the Episcopal Scottish landholders, blessed with equal means, and with equally virtuous dispositions, we address the language of Scripture, "Go and do thou likewise!" A PROFITABLE MARTYRDOM.-It appears from an advertisement, that the " martyr Thorogood has had nearly a thousand pounds subscribed for him! Shades of Ridley and Cranmer! who would not be a 66 martyr" for such substantial return? THE JEWS. A Hamburg paper, the Dorpzeitung, says, "The Jews of Constantinople have, with their Rabbi, declared that they will not wait any longer than another year for their Messiah. If within that time he does not appear, they will conclude that he has already come, and then they will try to discover by what religion he is already recognised. The Rabbi is entirely of this opinion, and has even proposed to his congregation to profess Christianity forthwith." the case. CAUTION TO CHURCHWARDENS.-We observe that the enemies to Church-Rates in some parts of the country have hit upon an expedient for evading payment, when summoned by the magistrates for default, by calling upon the Warden to prove that he made a demand in person, when for the want of such proof the magistrates have dismissed This is a point which should not be overlooked by Churchwardens when obliged to proceed against their "voluntary" parishioners for refusing to pay a just demand. JERUSALEM.. A letter from the Holy City says, "The building of the Protestant Chapel proceeds rapidly. For the present a house is hired. The English Church Liturgy is translated into Hebrew, and printed, and the missionary Nikolayson performs Divine service, with his assistant Pient. Of 400 Jews, 100 have embraced Christianity. An institution for converts has been established by the English Missionary Society, and a Hebrew Prayer-book is to be published. The English Consul endeavours to engage the Jews to cultivate the land of their fathers, under the favour of Mehemet Ali, and considerable quantities of land have been pur. chased for foreign emigrants. It is said there is somewhere a Talmudic saying, that when there shall be 25,000 Jewish inhabitants in the Holy Land, the laws and regulations must be again enforced which prevailed when Palestine was a Jewish state. The Rabbis in Turkey are endeavouring to complete the above number by colonists, which doubtless will not be difficult under the powerful protection of England. Some rich Jews in London and Italy intend to establish facto ries and manufactories in Jerusalem and some other considerable towns under the protection of England. The English Government has appointed a Vice-Consul at Jerusalem for all Palestine." Hamburg Correspondent. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We must crave the patience of many of our kind Correspondents whose communications, together with several Reviews, are still withheld solely for want of room. "M." is informed that we do not hold ourselves responsible for all the statements and opinions of our Correspondents, whose letters are sometimes inserted for the express purpose of exciting discussion. Received, "Scotus"-" Ecclesiæ Anglicana Amator "-" Hibernicus”—“ Investigator ”—“ J. C.”—“ A Dignitary"" A L.” —“ W. G.”—" A Member of St. Ann's Manchester.” "Milway"-" Delta” (Doncaster)—“ Marcus ”—“ Benedict ”—will much oblige us by sending us their names as soon as convenient, "G. H." (Liverpool), and "A Diligent Reader of the Church Magazine," (Dursley), shall have private answers to their inquiries, if they will forward us their names. The Right Rev. Father in God, Rubank, LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR. Rd Down KConnor. LNGRAVED BY PHARD M.1. LONDON HAYWARI * MJUK! THE CHURCH MAGAZINE. No. 19.] JULY, 1840. [VOL. II. MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT REVEREND RICHARD MANT, D.D., THE Right Reverend Prelate who is the subject of this Memoir, is the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Mant, D.D., late Rector of the Parish of AllSaints, in Southampton: in which place the Bishop was born, on the 12th of February, 1776. He is also lineally descended from the Rev. Joseph Bingham, author of the "Origines Ecclesiasticæ," or "Antiquities of the Christian Church;" his grandmother having been a daughter of that deeply-learned divine. The Bishop received his education on the foundation of Winchester College, to which he was admitted in 1789. From this he was removed, in 1793, to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a Scholarship of Trinity College. Having graduated in 1797, he was, in 1798, elected a Fellow of Oriel College; and the following year obtained the Chancellor's prize for an English Essay on Commerce. He took the degree of M. A. in 1801, and in 1802 was admitted to Holy Orders by the Right Reverend Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester. Shortly afterwards, during the Peace of Amiens, he went to the Continent, on which occasion he narrowly escaped being among the number of unfortunate Englishmen detained by the tyranny and breach of faith committed by Bonaparte. On his return, he was ordained Priest by the Right Reverend Thomas Randolph, Bishop of London; and continued some years afterwards in the cure of the small parish in the county of Hants, where he married, in 1804, Miss Elizabeth Woods, the daughter of a gentleman of Sussex. He was removed in 1810 to the Vicarage of Great Coggeshall, in Essex, on the presentation of Peter Du Cane, Esq. of Braxted, at the recommendation of the Rev. H. H. Norris, now Rector of South Hackney, whose friendship he has long enjoyed. During the time of Mr. Mant's holding this preferment, he was elected to the honourable distinction of preaching the annual Lectures before the University of Oxford, on the foundation of Canon Bampton, which Lectures he delivered in the year 1812. He chose for his subject on this occasion, "An Appeal to the Gospel, or an Inquiry into the justice of the Charge alleged by Methodists and other objectors, that the Gospel is not preached by the National Clergy:" and the Sermons which he delivered on this subject have justly been considered a most triumphant defence of the doctrine and preaching of the Church of England, as well as a refutation of the errors of Methodism. The volume, printed according to the directions of the founder of the Lecture, has gone through several editions, and is likely to continue a standard book in the library of consistent members of the Church. Although this was the first theological work of any considerable length which Mr. Mant had hitherto published, the parochial Clergy had already become indebted to him for some smaller publications; in particular for the "Step in the Temple, or Familiar and Easy Guide to the Understanding of the Church Catechism," a tract of great utility to those country parsons who, like George Herbert, "value catechising highly;" and Two Discourses on Baptism, produced by the neglect of that Holy Sacrament in the parish of Coggeshall, of which he was Vicar. He also published, during his residence in this parish, three volumes of "Sermons for Parochial and Domestic Use," on the leading doctrines of the Gospel, the Sacraments, and Ministry of the Church, and other subjects connected with the faith and duty of Christians. In the year 1813, Mr. Mant was removed from the Vicarage of Coggeshall, by his appointment as Domestic Chaplain to the Most Reverend Charles Manners Sutton, then Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, for which appointment he was indebted to the high character he had acquired by his Bampton Lectures and the duties of this office he continued to discharge till the year 1820. In 1814 he was appointed one of the select Preachers of the University of Oxford: in which capacity he delivered before the University, in the course of that and the two following years, several very powerful sermons in defence of the Catholic doctrines of the Divinity and Atonement of our Lord, and of the Divinity and Personal Agency of the Holy Spirit, against the Socinian preachers, who at that time were labouring with unwonted energy to impugn the truth and propagate their pernicious heresy. These sermons were printed in the year 1816, under the title of "Academical Discourses." Shortly after Mr. Mant's appointment as Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having determined to publish an edition of the Holy Bible, with Notes expla natory, illustrative, doctrinal, and practical, selected from the best commentators of the Church of England, for the use of families; an application was made to him to undertake the conduct of the work, in conjunction with his colleague in the Chaplaincy, the Rev. George D'Oyley, of Christ Church College, Cambridge. They immediately undertook the task, which occupied them with great labour for above four years, the last part of the edition having been published in the year 1817. And on Tuesday, 5th May, 1818, an unanimous resolution was passed at a General Meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, directing a handsomely bound copy of this edition of the Holy Bible to be presented to him, as one of the Editors, "in testimony of the grateful sense entertained by the Board of the ability and judgment displayed by him in the discharge of a trust of such importance." In the meantime, in 1815, Mr. Mant had been promoted by the then Lord Bishop of London, now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Rectory of Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate; and in the same year proceeded to the degree of D.D. in the University of Oxford. And in 1818 he was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the small Rectory of East Horsley, in Surrey, which he held with St. Botolph's till 1820. The publication of the Family Bible for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge being completed, Dr. Mant undertook, as a companion to it, an edition of the Book of Common Prayer, with Notes, illustrative, explanatory, and practical; which was completed in 1820, and is justly considered as a most valuable and compendious Commentary on the Liturgy of the Church of England and Ireland. In February 1820, Dr. Mant was nominated by the Earl of Liverpool to the King, and received His Majesty's appointment to the See of Killaloe and Kilfenora, then vacant by the translation of Lord Robert Tottenham to the See of Ferns. He was consecrated to the high office of the Episcopate at the Cathedral of Cashel, on the 30th of April, by the Honourable and Most Reverend Charles Brodrick, Lord Archbishop of that Province, He immedi |