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their Office by the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland; and also to extend such Provisions and Regulations to the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and also to make further Regulations in respect to Bishops and Clergy other than those of the United Church of England and Ireland."

Consecration.

V. Provided always, and be it further enacted that the Arch- Archbishop to give a Cerbishop who so consecrates shall give to the person consecrated a tificate of certificate under his hand and seal, containing the name of the country whereof he is a subject or citizen, and the name of the church in which he is appointed Bishop; and in case of such person being the subject or citizen of any foreign kingdom or state, then such certificate shall further mention, that he has not taken the said oaths, he being exempted by virtue of this act from taking them.

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VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that this act may be Act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in the present session Session. of parliament.

QUEEN'S LICENCE FOR CONSECRATION.
VICTORIA R.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., &c., To the Most Reverend Father in God, William, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, Greeting. Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of our Reign, intituled "An Act to amend an Act made in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the time being to consecrate to the Office of a Bishop Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions,' "It was, amongst other things, Enacted, that it should and might be lawful for the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the time being, together with such other Bishops as they should call to their assistance, to consecrate British Subjects, or the Subjects or Citizens of any Foreign Kingdom or State, to be Bishops in any Foreign Country, whether such Foreign Subjects or Citizens be or be not Subjects or Citizens of the Country in which they are to act, and

without the Queen's Licence for their election, or the Royal Mandate under the Great Seal for their Confirmation and Consecration, and without requiring such of them as may be Subjects or Citizens of any Foreign Kingdom or State to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath of due Obedience to the Archbishop for the time being:

And whereas it is by the said Act further Enacted, that such Bishop or Bishops so consecrated may exercise, within such limits as may from time to time be assigned for that purpose in such Foreign Countries by Us, Spiritual Jurisdiction over the Ministers of British Congregations of the United Church of England and Ireland, and over such other Protestant Congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under his or their Authority:

And whereas it is by the said Act provided, that no person should be consecrated a Bishop in the manner therein provided until the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the time being should have first applied for and should have obtained our Licence, by Warrant under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual, authorizing and empowering him to perform such Consecration, and expressing the name of the person so to be consecrated, nor until the said Archbishop has been fully ascertained of the sufficiency of such person in good learning, of the soundness of his Faith, and of the purity of his manners:

And whereas you, the said William, Archbishop of Canterbury, have humbly applied to us for our Licence, by Warrant under our Royal Signet and Sign Manual, authorizing and empowering you to consecrate the Reverend Michael Solomon Alexander (Clerk), a British Subject, to be Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem, You having certified to us that you had fully ascertained the sufficiency of the said Michael Solomon Alexander in good learning, the soundness of his Faith, and the purity of his manners, and praying that we would be graciously pleased to assign Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, as the limit within which the said Michael Solomon Alexander, might exercise Spiritual Jurisdiction over the Ministers of British Congregations of the United Church of England and Ireland, and over such other Protestant Congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under his authority, subject to such alterations in respect to the limits of the Jurisdiction so to be exercised as may hereafter be made by our Authority:

Now it is our Royal will and pleasure, and we do by this our Licence under our Royal Signet and Sign Manual, authorize and em

power you, the said Archbishop, to consecrate the said Michael Solomon Alexander to be Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem. And we are graciously pleased to assign Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, as the limit within which the said Michael Solomon Alexander may exercise spiritual jurisdiction pursuant to the said Act, subject nevertheless to such alterations in the said limit as we from time to time may be pleased to assign.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, the sixth day of November, 1841, in the fifth year of our Reign.

By Her Majesty's command,

ABERDEEN.

APPENDIX, No. III.

STATEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE ESTA

BLISHMENT OF A BISHOPRIC OF THE UNITED CHURCH

OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND IN JERUSALEM.
BY AUTHORITY.

PUBLISHED

AN act was passed in the last session of Parliament (5 Victoria, cap. 6), empowering the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, assisted by other Bishops, to consecrate British subjects, or the subjects or citizens of any foreign kingdom or state, to be Bishops in any foreign country, and, within certain limits, to exercise spiritual jurisdiction over the ministers of British congregations of the United Church of England and Ireland, and over such other Protestant congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under the authority of such Bishops.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, having first consulted the Bishops who attended the Convocation in August last, has exercised the power so vested in him, by consecrating the Rev. Michael Solomon Alexander, a Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland, to reside at Jerusalem, and to perform the duties hereinafter specified. The Bishops assisting at the consecration were those of London, Rochester, and New Zealand. The appointment of a Bishop for Jerusalem was proposed by his Majesty the King of Prussia, who made it the subject of a special mission to the Queen of England, and of a particular communication to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In making this proposal, his Majesty had in view not only the great advantages, to be derived from its adoption, with reference to the conversion of the Jews; but also the spiritual superintendence and care of such of his own subjects as might be disposed to take up their abode in Palestine, and to join themselves to the Church so formed at Jerusalem. There is reason to expect

that a considerable number of German as well as English Christians will be attracted to the Holy Land by the influence of strong religious feelings.

In order to obviate the difficulty which might be occasioned by the want of an endowment for the bishopric, his Majesty undertook to make at once the munificent donation of fifteen thousand pounds towards that object, the annual interest of which, amounting to six hundred pounds, is to be paid yearly in advance, till the capital sum (together with that which is to be raised by subscription for the purpose of completing the Bishop's annual income of twelve hundred pounds), can be advantageously invested in land situate in Palestine.

The immediate objects for which this bishopric has been founded will appear from the following statement. Its ultimate results cannot be with certainty predicted: but we may reasonably hope that, under the Divine blessing, it may lead the way to an essential unity of discipline, as well as of doctrine, between our own Church and the less perfectly constituted of the Protestant Churches of Europe, and that, too, not by the way of Rome; while it may be the means of establishing relations of amity between the United Church of England and Ireland and the ancient Churches of the East, strengthening them against the encroachments of the See of Rome, and preparing the way for their purification, in some cases from serious errors, in others from those imperfections which now materially impede their efficiency as witnesses and dispensers of Gospel truth and grace. In the meantime, the spectacle of a Church, freed from those errors and imperfections, planted in the Holy City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, will naturally attract the notice of the Jewish nation throughout the world; and will centralize, as it were, the desultory efforts which are making for their conversion. It is surely impossible not to recognize the hand of Providence in the remarkable events which have lately happened in the East, opening to Christians, and especially to our own nation, (so signal an instrument in bringing those events to pass,) a door for the advancement of the Saviour's kingdom, and for the restoration of God's ancient people to their spiritual birthright.

While the Church of Rome is continually, and at this very moment, labouring to pervert the members of the Eastern Churches, and to bring them under the dominion of the Pope, sparing no arts nor intrigues, hesitating at no misrepresentations, sowing dissension

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