NEW COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 417, 13 April 1850, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.

Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Venerable Archdeacon Hale the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladitone, M. P., and J. G. Iluhbard, Esq., the tieasurersof the Colonial Bishopiics' Fund have mbmitted a statement to the Arclibishopsand bishops of theUnitedChurch ofEn^land and Ireland, in which they state that the sum contributed for the purposes of the fund was £133,600, which has been employed in the endowment of nine episcopal sees, and that notwithstanding the exercise of severe economy in fixing the revenues of the sees, the fund, may now be comidered as exhausted, while at the same time the rapid increaie of emigration demands not only the formation of new dioceiei, but the subdivision of those already formed, without the possibility of dividing the endowment at the same time. A statement, signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, \rmagh, and Dublin, the Bishoji3 of London, Durham, Winchester, and twenty-six other bishops/ has been drawn up, for the purpose of directing th» attention of the members of the Church of England to the foregoing announcement, with the view of eliciting further manifestation of the liberality which has been so largely shown already in the same cause* They relate what has been done hitherto by means of the fund, and advert to the urgent necessity existing for resident bishops in Sierra Lsone, Western Australia, and the Mauritius. They also remind the public that no provisions is yet made for the sees of Nova Scotia and Montreal, after the incumbency of the present bishops. That in respect both to these and many other existing dioceiei, their vast extent and increasing population will soon render subdivision indispensable, and conclude with an earnest appeal for liberal aid in their efforts to continue a work which has been found immediately to promote the interests of religion from a variety of reasons. — Nov. 7.

The desiccated floor of the London Coal Exchange consists altogether of upwards of 4,000 distinct pieces of wood, of various kinds and qualities. The great feature of the affair is, that the whole of these pieces were, only a few months since, either iv the tree in a growing state, or cut from wet logs, and were prepared for vie in the course of a few days, by the new method of seasoning. The name.} of the woods thus introduced are — black ebony, black oak, common and red English oak, wainscot, *vhite holly, mahogany, American elm, red and white walnut (French and English), and mulberry. It is mentioned as a proof of the tap:dity of this mode of seasoning, that the black oak is part of an old tree which was discovered and removed from the bed of the Tytie river, about the latier end of lait year. The mulberry wood, introduced as the blnde of the dagger in the City Shield, is no less than a piece of a tree which was planted by Petei the Great, when working in this country as a shipwrght. The patentees state that no one piece of the 4,000 occupied moe than ten or twelve days inthe seasoning. — The ■Builder.