SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 156, 27 January 1847, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

We find that a Bishop may be very shortly expected — perhaps in three or four months. He will be a man of talent and standing, as the Bishop of London is interesting himself in the affair, and would certainly send no other ; and he will be accompanied, as we learn from a direct source, by several clergymen. A Bishop is sadly wanted ; for the members of the Church of England are at present unable to obtain confirmation for their children, not to mention the impossibility of laymen being ordained, while ministers are so much wanted in the country districts. The members of the Church of England are preparing for the arrival of their own Bishop, by collecting for the building of churches. They had on Monday a meeting at Trinity church, with reference to one at North Adelaide, for which more than one hundred pounds has been already collected; and last night some of our Walkerville friends assembled. The clergy are working in some instances to an extent which must endanger their health ; and there is reason to suppose that ere long the want of religious instruction in the Church of England will have ceased to exist. We have alluded in another column to the Royalty Bill, which is likely to pass in England ; but we may add that it comprises another enormity — the devotion of one-sixth to religious purposes. We cannot but hope that the clergymen and their lay coadjutors of the Church of England will, at least, reject this assistance, which comes from a fund so highly polluted, even should they not determine to throw aside the smaller grant of the local Government. They are doing so much as Voluntarists, that we long to be able to praise them in that character alone. — South Australian Register.