Victoria.-A. D. 1837.

VICTORIA.

Pius IX.
Howley.

603. During this reign an Act passed the legislature to abridge the holding of benefices in plurality, and to make better provision for the residence of the clergy; (1 & 2 Vic. c. 106.). And the whole or parts of a series of statutes from 54 Hen. III. to 33 Geo. III. imposing penalties and disabilities on account of religious opinion, and which had fallen into disuse, were now repealed (by 9 & 10 Vic. c. 59.). In 1847, four additional Colonial bishoprics were established, three out of the extensive diocese of Australia; viz. the bishopric of Newcastle (Tyrell), of Adelaide (Short), and of Melbourne (Perry), to be suffragan bishops to the See of Sydney (Broughton); and the bishopric of Cape Town (Gray). Shortly after, Manchester was erected into a bishop's See (by 10 & 11 Vic. c. 108.), to which the Rev. J. P. Lee was appointed. Not long after, by the death of the venerable Archbishop Howley, (Feb. 11, 1848), Dr John Bird Sumner, bishop of Chester, was translated to the See of Canterbury. (Feb. 22.). In 1850 the ambition of Dr Wiseman, and a few other Roman Catholic priests, led the Pope to intrench upon the Royal prerogative by establishing a Romish Hierarchy in this country, appointing Dr Wiseman, Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster: and twelve others, Bishops of territorial sees. A Bill, however, was brought in by the Government on the meeting of Parliament to resist this Papal aggression. 1851.

THE EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Want of space will not admit of the introduction here of the University Examination Papers: suffice it to say, that the References in the preceding pages in CAPITAL LETTERS refer to the Degree Papers, and the smaller Letters to the Voluntary Theological Examination Papers :—thus, A. B. C. D. E. F. G. to the several Senate-House Examinations in 1846.-H. I. J. K. L. M. N. to those in 1847.O. P. Q. R. S. T. to those in 1848.-U. V. W. X. Y. Z. AA. to those in 1849.-BB. CC. DD. EE. FF. GG. to those in 1850.-HH. II. KK. LL. to those in 1851. So [a] refers to the Voluntary Theological Papers of 1843;-[b] to those of 1844;-[c] to those of 1845;-[d] of 1846;-[e] of 1847 ;[f] of 1848;-[g] of 1849;-[h] of 1850.

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