other, we should remember that our modern Churches are oftentimes most insufficiently endowed, and towards that important object the aid of Government would be most effectual. The exertions of the excellent representative for the University of Oxford, Sir R. H. Inglis, in this cause, will be remembered with feelings of respect and gratitude by every friend of the Church. His able speech, in the session of 1840, (on moving an Address to the Crown for providing further and full means of religious worship and instruction in the Established Church, for the people,) comprises a mass of valuable information, and may be profitably consulted by statesmen both of the present and future times.

It is sad to contrast the frigid reception of that motion with the conduct of our forefathers, when a proposition of a similar kind was submitted to them. Swift, in his Examiners, remarks, that, "the Parliament takes the necessities of the Church into consideration, receives the proposals of the Clergy met in convocation, and, amidst all the exigencies of a long expensive war, and under the pressure of heavy debts, finds a supply for erecting fifty edifices for the service of God. And it appears by the Address of the Commons to her Majesty upon this occasion, (wherein they discovered a true spirit of religion,) that applying the money granted to accomplish so excellent a design, would, in their opinion, be the most effectual way of carrying on the war; that it would (to use their own words) be a

means of drawing down blessings on her Majesty's undertakings, as it adds to the number of those places, where the prayers of her devout and faithful subjects will be daily offered up to God, for the prosperity of her Government at home, and the success of her arms abroad:

"Since the Restoration, the increase of trade, the frequency of Parliaments, the desire of living in the metropolis, together with that genius for building which began after the Fire, and hath ever since continued, have prodigiously enlarged this town on all sides, where it was capable of increase; and those tracts of land built into streets have generally continued of the same parish they belonged to while they lay in fields; so that the care of above thirty thousand souls hath been sometimes committed to one Minister, whose Church would hardly contain the twentieth part of his flock. Some few of those parishes have been since divided; in others were erected chapels of ease, where a preacher is maintained by general contribution.

"Such poor shifts and expedients, to the infinite shame and scandal of so vast and flourishing a city, have been thought sufficient for the service of God and religion, as if they were circumstances wholly indifferent.

"This defect, among other consequences of it, hath made schism a sort of necessary evil; there being at least three hundred thousand inhabitants in this town, whom the Churches would not be able to contain if the people were ever so well disposed.-I believe

there are few examples, in any Christian country, of so great a neglect of religion."

The following picture might have been drawn by Isaac Walton himself :-A merchant devotes the firstfruits of his labours to the poor. At the close of his days his sole anxiety is to partake of the Holy Communion at the altar which he had raised, and then like Simeon to "depart in peace." May we witness similar instances of piety, and singleness of heart amongst the same class of persons, so that our Traffickers" may

be truly "the honourable of the earth.”

"1634 Humphrey Booth, being, by God's blessing on his trading, made rich, gave to the poore of Salford, the first lands that he bought, to the value of £20 per annum, and payd it duely all his lifetime. He, being in greate weaknesse earnestly desired that he might live to see the Chappell, [built and endowed chiefly at his own expence] finished, which he did, but immediately after the solemn dedication of it by the Bishop of Chester, he more apparently weakened. Then he earnestly begged that he might partake of the Lord's Supper there, and he would not wish to live longer. It pleased God to revive him in such a measure, as that he was able to go to the Chappell constantly till he was partaker of the Supper (which could not be of some months after the consecration) in the Chappell, and was never able to goe forth after, nor scarce to get home."

Hollinworth's MS. History of Manchester, preserved in the Chetham Library.

IX.

Substitutes for Sepulchral Memorials.

THE subjoined statements are given as examples where posthumous honours have been paid to individuals, and where due regard has, at the same time, been shewn towards the spiritual and temporal wants of the living. By connecting the names of the dead with useful institutions, (the objects of which may have been especially cherished by them) surviving friends may be assured that they are most effectually reverencing the memories of those they lament, and causing them to be "had in everlasting remembrance."

We may not be prepared to say with Mason that

Beauty scorns to dwell

Where use is exil'd.

But the truth of this remark must be admitted when we contrast memorials like those which follow with the pyramids and "Cupids" of past times, or with the heathen trash of urns, sarcophagi, inverted torches, et id genus omne of later days.

The late Bishop Otter.

Impressed with a deep sense of the benefits conferred upon the diocese of Chichester by the pastoral labours of their late lamented Bishop, a large body of the Clergy and other persons, who had been attending his funeral, assembled with a view of testifying their feelings in such a manner as might do honour to his memory, and preserve the recollection of his name, of his services to the Church, and of the singular affection and respect which he had gained from all classes during the four years of his Episcopate.

"As that brief Episcopate had been distinguished by the establishment or revival of four most important diocesan institutions, the Association for aiding the building and enlarging of Churches, for providing a greater supply of pastoral instruction, and for the improvement and wider diffusion of Education,-the Diocesan College, to prepare Candidates for holy orders, the Rural Chapters, and the Training School recently opened at at Chichester,-it was deemed that the best mode of shewing regard for the late Bishop, and the monument which he himself would have prized the most, would be such a memorial as should also tend to promote and perpetuate some one of those institutions.

"Among these there was not much room to hesitate. The strong and active interest which the Bishop had always taken in the cause of education, and the con