architecture, with plans as above, cannot be doubted, and the time for such a publication appears to have arrived. That you and your readers may judge of the wants and difficulties of those who are far from properly qualified architects and builders, I will briefly state a few facts from my own experience in India.

Soon after my arrival in Christianagaram, Tinnevelly, I found the district of which I had charge did not possess one building that with propriety could be termed a church, and as there were several congregations sufficiently near to attend the Sunday services in Christianagaram, if a suitable church could be provided, I commenced a subscription amongst the native Christians, as well as the few Europeans in or near the province, and being liberally assisted by the Bishop of the diocese and the two venerable Church Societies,-the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,-I was soon in circumstances to make a beginning, and in September 1845 the foundation-stone of the first Gothic church in the Missions of the S. P. G. in Tinnevelly was laid by the Right Rev. G. T. Spencer, D. D., then Bishop of Madras, during his Lordship's visitation of that part of the diocese. But nearly a year elapsed after this before I could proceed with the building, not having an architect within two or three hundred miles, nor working plans of a church such as I wished to erect. It was with great difficulty I procured some books on the subject, but with these, and the loan of some old plans of churches built in England, and consultation with a near neighbour, a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society, who was also engaged in building a large Gothic church at his station, I was enabled to draw the plans, and proceed with the erection of such a church as is well adapted to the climate, and is, I believe, in all respects "in keeping" with the style in which it is built; viz. "the Early English," of which Bloxam in his excellent and useful work on Gothic architecture, says, "The prominent features of this style are simple, elegant, and light, the decorative members comparatively few." It would be imposing a task upon the patience of your readers to detail the difficulties, annoyances, and hindrances we meet with, in erecting a church in those parts of India where all the workmen are natives, and (as in my case) not one of them had ever before had any experience in gothic building; but what has been stated is, I apprehend, sufficient to show the necessity and propriety of supplying the Colonial and Missionary Church with such assistance as that suggested by your correspondent in the West, as well as by,

Sir, Your obedient servant,

J. K. B.

Nov. 7th, 1850.

THE LATE BISHOP OF NOVA SCOTIA.

OUR last number contained the melancholy announcement of the death of the BISHOP OF NOVA SCOTIA; but it would be strange indeed if a publication specially devoted to the interests of the Colonial Church were to content itself with that brief announcement. By the

removal of Bishop Inglis, one of the last links of connexion between the Missions of the Church in North America during the last century, and the Colonial Church of our own days, is broken. His father, Dr. Charles Inglis, was appointed to the Mission of Dover (Pennsylvania) in the year 1759, on the recommendation of the neighbouring Clergy, to whom he had become favourably known as master of a free school for the three preceding years. Thus father and son together served the Colonial Church for a period little short of a century. the year 1777, during the heat of the contest for independence, the Rev. Charles Inglis was appointed Rector of Trinity Church, New York; and at the end of the same year (Dec. 9), his son John, the late lamented Bishop, was born.

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It is not our purpose to write his biography, but simply to supply a general notice of his ministerial career. He was ordained by his father in 1801, and immediately appointed to the cure of Aylesford, as Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. On a visit to England, in 1805, he was appointed Chaplain to the Duke of Kent. For many years he held the responsible office of Ecclesiastical Commissary to the first Bishop, and a large portion of his time was therefore necessarily devoted to the business and correspondence of the Diocese. In 1816, the year of his father's death, he was appointed Rector of St. Paul's, Halifax, and Chaplain to the Naval Hospital; and on the 27th March, 1825, he was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia.

Such is the brief outline of Bishop Inglis' history. The materials are not at hand for filling it up at present; but whenever they shall be properly brought together, they will be found to contain substantially the history of the Church in the Diocese in which for fifty years he laboured as Missionary, Rector, and Bishop.

In 1842, he stated, in a Report to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, that he had been privileged to see the numbers of the Clergy within the limits of the present Diocese of Nova Scotia increase from five to fifty. Many of our readers, especially among the Clergy, will remember the visit which the Bishop of Nova Scotia paid to this country about ten years ago. They will remember the zeal and energy with which he laboured to kindle and diffuse an interest in the Missionary work of the Church. During that time he attended, we have been told, upwards of one hundred meetings in behalf of that great Society, which had for so long a season been the main support of the Church in the North American Provinces; and to his testimony as a witness, and his warm advocacy as a friend, must be ascribed much of the new life and spirit which have been infused into the proceedings of our elder Missionary Society. The late Bishop has, we believe, left behind him nothing in the way of literary or theological works, saving an occasional sermon and address. A Colonial Bishop, especially one called to preside over such a Diocese as Nova Scotia was in 1825, is emphatically a man of active duties-in labours more abundant, in journeyings oft-and therefore it is not surprising if he finds but little time for the employments of the study and the press.

Those who may be anxious to learn further details of the Bishop's history, and to trace the progress of the Diocese which he governed, will find notices on the subject in almost every Report of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for the last half century. We will only add, that the theological opinions of the Bishop were those of our own honoured Divines-the lights of the seventeenth century, and the guides of every succeeding generation. Sound and orthodox himself, he was not disposed to judge harshly the minor differences of others: and even those who at any time may have incurred his censure, must acknowledge that it was uniformly, as far as possible, mitigated by the remarkable courtesy of his manner.

The Bishop had, during the few last years of his life, been attacked by more than one severe illness; but that from which he never recovered occurred during a Visitation at Mahone Bay in 1849.' From that moment he was almost entirely confined to his own chamber, and so disabled for the charge of the main duties of his office. He still, however, continued his correspondence, and gave general instructions and advice, not unfrequently from his sick-bed. At length, as the winter drew on, he was advised by his physician to try a milder climate, and accordingly took his passage for England, where he arrived, with his family, in a condition of extreme weakness, on the 17th of October. Ten days afterwards, he breathed his last. The remains of the Bishop were interred in a family vault in Battersea Churchyard, on the 2d November, his old and faithful friend, the Rev. H. H. Norris, performing the funeral service.

CANADIAN BISHOPRICS.

THE following Letter has been addressed to the Council for Colonial Bishoprics :

"To the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Archbishops and Bishops forming the Council appointed to arrange measures in concert with Her Majesty's Government for the Erection and Endowment of Additional Bishoprics in the Colonies and Dependencies of Great Britain.

The late happy subdivision of the Diocese of Quebec into two Sees, Quebec and Montreal, encourages me to submit for your consideration some reasons in favour of the division of the Diocese of Toronto into two or more Bishoprics, at no distant period.

This important subject has been postponed till now on several grounds. First, there was a feeling of delicacy on the part of the present Incumbent. The Diocese of Toronto having been established so recently as 1839, he thought it might appear too soon to urge such division, and that he had scarcely served long enough to be entitled to any diminution of his labours. It was, indeed, but reasonable that

1 Colonial Church Chronicle, vol. iii. p. 276.

he should continue to discharge them while it was possible to do so with advantage. But the bounds of the various settlements have been so much extended since 1339, and the parishes and stations so multiplied, as to make it next to impossible to visit them within any reasonable time. Secondly, another consideration suggested delay. Many of the other Colonies required Bishops before Upper Canada had any fair claim to a second; but now that the more important dependencies of the crown have been supplied-and, in some cases, as Lower Canada and New Zealand, two are allowed—the undersigned feels that he may, without offence, mention the following facts as sufficient to establish some claim for relief.

The Diocese of Toronto extends along the St. Lawrence, and the great Lakes of Canada, nearly six hundred miles; and if Lakes Huron and Superior be included, more than twelve hundred miles. It contains 800,000 inhabitants, of whom upwards of 200,000 are members of the Church of England; and from the rapid increase of population, (for it doubles in less than ten years,) the Province will soon contain many millions; and become the stronghold and principal seat of the Church in British North America.

The Diocese of Toronto, or Province of Upper Canada, is at present divided by the Local Government into twenty-one Districts; and these might, with some slight modifications, be conveniently arranged into three Dioceses, allowing to each seven Districts. Such division would give to each Diocese a front on the river and lakes of nearly two hundred miles, running back the whole breadth of the Province, which may average from eighty to one hundred miles; and each Diocese would thus contain an area of from sixteen to twenty thousand square miles.1

1st. The seven Eastern Districts, which at present contain about one hundred townships, and about forty Clergymen, might constitute the Diocese of Kingston.

2d. The second Diocese, retaining the name Toronto, might comprise the seven Middle Districts, containing one hundred and twentynine townships, and about seventy Clergymen.

3d. The third Diocese might be called the Diocese of London ; or, if that name be inconvenient, some other town within its bounds, Woodstock, Sandwich, or Chatham. It would comprise the seven Western Districts, with their one hundred and thirteen townships, and about thirty-six Clergymen.

4th. The North-Western, or Diocese of St. Mary.

Ultimately a See will be required for the north-western portion of Upper Canada, comprising the settlements and many establishments on the banks of Lakes Huron and Superior, and on the various islands within the same. Already an Indian Mission has been established at St. Mary, the strait which joins Lake Superior with Lake Huron. Some idea of the rapid increase of the present Bishop's labours may be attained from the following Table :

1 The American Church considers an area of 8,000 square miles sufficient to constitute a Bishopric.

This Table conveys but a very imperfect idea of the labours of the Missionaries, and of the Bishop. Each township (of which three hundred and forty-two are already organized, and in process of settlement,) contains about one hundred square miles, or about sixty-four thousand acres; and may be equal, on an average, to eight or ten English parishes.

But the Province will ultimately contain more than six hundred such townships; and, looking forward to their division into four instead of eight or ten parishes, we shall, in time-making allowance for rising towns and villages-have more than eight hundred parishes for each of the three Dioceses.

In regard to the North-Western District, (or projected Diocese of St. Mary,) it may for the present remain attached to the Diocese of Toronto till the settlements increase; but the period is not distant when it will require more immediate Episcopal superintendence. The islands in Lakes Huron and Superior are some of them large and fertile. Besides, the mining companies at different localities on the mainland will require resident Clergymen.

But as it is not likely that the division of Toronto into three Dioceses can be made at once, I would respectfully suggest that the Eastern, or Diocese of Kingston, be first established, having a prior claim, as comprising the older settlements; and because the Western Division is less distant from Toronto, and more easy of access. which is most respectfully submitted.

LONDON, BURLINGTON HOTEL,

October 5th, 1850.

JOHN TORONTO."

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ECCLESIASTICAL BOARD OF BARBADOS.

WE extract from the Barbadian, of September 28th, the following interesting account of some late proceedings in the Diocese :

"IN January last we copied into our columns a circular letter addressed by the Lord Bishop to the Rectors of Parishes throughout the Island, proposing the formation of an Ecclesiastical Board for the purpose of conference and consultation on matters affecting the external well-being and efficiency of the Church. With the Bishop and the eleven Rectors (including the Archdeacon) were to be associated a lay deputy from each Parish, to be chosen by