structors in incorporated seminaries of learning; five teachers of schools; three missionaries by appointment of the ecclesiastical authority; two otherwise statedly officiating; one chaplain in the United States Navy; two disabled by ill health; and one superannuated.

The changes, except those occasioned by the increase of clerical services in the Diocese, have been less numerous, I believe, than in any foregoing year of my episcopate; and I rejoice to call your attention to the fact, in the belief that it is an indication of improvement. I know, however, that much of this is owing to the great long-suffering and endurance of not a few of the clergy, who patiently continue at posts where they find work to do, and see no prospect that others could be found to do it, if they should leave, although by no means furnished with an adequate provision for their needs, nor in many cases, with a support at all commensurate to the abilities of those whose duty it is to furnish it. I shall not cease, brethren of the laity, to pray that your minds may be stirred by the Spirit of grace to more perfect remembrance and performance of your duty in this respect. It cannot be that you rightly appreciate your privileges, as members of the Church of CHRIST, while there is among you so much forgetfulness and remissness in a matter so plain as that of the support of the Gospel ministry. Until it is generally felt that to contribute a fixed proportion of your goods and gettings to that purpose is a high privilege, for which you have reason to be thankful to HIM who concedes to you the power of thus bestowing on Himself, I cannot believe that the Gospel itself is duly operative. Its letter and spirit both demand a different state of things from that which is so generally prevalent. A starving clergy is too sure an indication of a spiritually starving people.

There is improvement, however, in this respect also. Two or three noble exceptions from the prevailing practices, have come to my knowledge, and I am not without hope that the number of

instances wherein a few in number of the laity, giving really according to their ability, provide amply for their pastor's wants, will yearly multiply.

He

The Rev. Francis A. Baker, Deacon, has been officiating since August last, as Assistant Minister of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore. The Rev. Enoch Bayley has resigned the rectorship of East Newmarket Parish, Dorchester county, the duties of which his residence in Denton, as teacher of the Academy, had rendered him unable to fulfil with satisfaction to himself. occasionally officiates, as I believe, in Denton. The Rev. Philip Berry has been called to the charge of St. Andrew's Church, Clear Spring, which thus again, after some years of intermitting services, obtains the entire ministrations of a separate rector. The Rev. James A. Buck, having resigned the rectorship of St. Andrew's, confines himself to St. Thomas's Church, Hancock. The Rev. Josiah Clapham, as I am informed, has removed to the Diocese of Virginia, although he has not changed his canonical connexion. The Rev. Matthias Harris has ceased to officiate as Missionary at Woodbury and Govanstown, and is resident in Baltimore. He has much at heart a plan, which has my cordial consent and apapprobation, and shall not lack what co-operation I can afford, for the establishment of a floating chapel for seamen, in the port of Baltimore. That the undertaking is both needful and feasible I have no doubt. That it would be greatly useful, the remarkable success of similar plans in New York and Boston affords a sufficient pledge. Whether the clergy and wealthy laity of our third commercial city have the heart to take it up and carry it through, remains to be seen.

The Rev. Alfred Holmead has resigned the chaplaincy of the Patapsco Female Institute, and confines himself to the rectorship of Grace Church, and the care of his large and flourishing school. The Rev. Leonard H. Johns has resigned the principalship of the Academy at Cumberland. The Rev. Edward C. Jones has ceased to officiate as city missionary in Georgetown, D. C. The Rev.

Norris M. Jones has taken letters dimissory to the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The Rev. Samuel C. Kerr has resigned the rectorship of St. Paul's Parish, Prince George county, and accepted that of All Faith Parish, in St. Mary's county. The Rev. Meyer Lewin has resigned the rectorship of Stepney Parish, Somerset county, and accepted that of Dorchester Parish, Dorchester county, with which he combines the assistant ministership of Great Choptank Parish; obtaining from this last duty the means of support, by which he is enabled to render services, though few and far between, yet wholly gratuitous, to the very feeble parish of which he has generously assumed the charge. The Rev. Robert Piggott has resigned the rectorship of Cranmer Chapel, Baltimore. The Rev. Reuben Riley has relinquished the vice rectorship of the College of St. James, and is officiating in the Western part of the city of Baltimore, with a view to the establishment of a congregation. The Rev. Edward J. Stearns has resigned the rectorship of Grace Church, Elk Ridge Landing, and has been chosen to a professorship in the High School of Baltimore. Grace Church is very efficiently supplied with such services as a lay reader can afford, by Mr. John G. Downing, a candidate for Holy Orders in this diocese, and formerly a minister in the Methodist connexion. The Rev. Elie W. Stokes, Deacon, has been transferred by letters dimissory to the Diocese of Connecticut. The Rev. Joshua Sweet has resigned the rectorship of Christ Church Parish, Calvert county, and accepted that of St. Paul's Parish, Prince George county. He has been succeeded in Christ Church by the Rev. John P. Bausman, who has been re-admitted on letters dimissory from the Bishop of Virginia, to this diocese, of which he was formerly a member for twenty-seven years. The Rev. William Walsh has resigned the rectorship of Christ Church Parish, Queen Anne county, and taken letters dimissory to the ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese of New York. The Rev. Edward Waylen has resigned the rectorship of Prince George's Parish, Montgomery county, and taken letters dimis

Te. F

and s

sory to the Lord Bishop of London. He is succeeded in the rectorship of Prince George's Parish by the Rev. George F. Worthington, whose perfect restoration to health, to the great joy of his friends, and advantage of the Church which he so indefatigably serves, has enabled him to return to ministerial duty. The Rev. Thomas J. Wyatt has relinquished the assistant ministership of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore, and accepted the rectorship of St. John's Parish, Harford county, now for the first time separated from the adjoining Parish of St. George's to the great advantage of both of the dissociated parishes, which thus have each its full Sunday services and its resident pastor, with undivided interest and attention. St. George's is under the charge of the Rev. S. W. Crampton, who received and accepted a call to this rectorship upon his transfer to the Diocese from that of Pennsylvania. There have also been received by letters dimissory from the same Diocese the Rev. William A. White, Deacon, who is settled in the rectorship of Spring Hill Parish, Somerset county; and the Rev. Robert M. Mitcheson, Deacon, who came upon a call to the rectorship of Durham Parish, Charles county. From the Diocese of Virginia I have received by letters dimissory from the bishop, the Rev. Malcolm Macfarland, who is officiating under my appointment as a city missionary in Baltimore, and has organised a new congregation in the South-western part of that city; and the Rev. Thomas W. Winchester, who has been called to the rectorship of St. Peter's Parish, Montgomery county, together with that of St. Paul's Parish, Frederick county. By letters dimissory from the Bishop of Connecticut, I have received the Rev. William H. Clarke, Deacon, who resides and officiates as chaplain in the Patapsco Female Institute. By letters dimissory from the Bishop of New Jersey the Rev. James Chipchase, who has been called to the rectorship of Stepney Parish, Somerset county, together with that of Grace Church, Hungary Neck, in the same county. The Rev. Benjamin Franklin has lately been admitted into the diocese by letters dimissory from the Bishop

of Western New York, and is resident in Baltimore, serving the Church by editing "The Church Times," a religious periodical of weekly issue, devoted principally to the collection and circulation of ecclesiastical intelligence and other matters bearing upon the condition and prospects of the Church.

The Ordinations in the past year have been five; two special, and three at the canonical seasons. At these, seven have been admitted to the priesthood, and three to the holy order of deacons.

Of candidates for Holy Orders seven have been admitted within the year; one has withdrawn his name from the list; and one, Arthur J. G. Lalanne, has been transferred to the Diocese of Alabama by a letter dimissory to the bishop. Mr. John H. Bosley has withdrawn. Robert G. H. Clarkson, Harrison H. Webb, James Moore, Alexander Dix Jones, William J. Lynd, John Gualter Downing, and Joseph Newton Watson, have been admitted. Beside these, there are now on the list the names of Charles Tucker, James C. Tracy, Hanson T. Wilcoxon, Edward J. Rutter, M. D., Christopher B. Wyatt, Joseph J. Nicholson, Joseph P. Jenks, Levin W. Trader, Thomas R. B. Trader, Theodore P. Barber, John A. Thompson, Joseph C. Passmore, John Neely, Samuel K. Stewart, and William L. Hyland; making the whole number now twenty-two. Of these, Messrs. Tracy, Wyatt, and T. R. B. Trader, are students in the General Theological Seminary; Mr. Wilcoxon is in the Theological Seminary of Virginia; Messrs. Passmore and Clarkson are connected with the College of St. James; and Mr. Lynd with St. Timothy's Hall, where there are also three other young men pursuing preparatory studies. Messrs. Tucker, Nicholson, Thompson, Passmore, Neely, Stewart, Jones, Moore and Downing, have licenses to act as lay-readers.

Licenses as lay readers have also been granted to Henry Dade Burck and John N. Goldsborough, communicants in good stand