Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence.
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AUSTRALASIA.
Gospel Propag. Soc. --The Bishop of Australia thus announces, under date of the 9th of January, a munificent bequest left to the Society:--
We have lost good old Mr. Moore; whose purposed donation I formerly had occasion to mention, and which he has mare than fulfilled. He was taken ill with vertigo, about three weeks ago; which was followed by other bad symptoms, and brought him to his end, in peace, at the age of 79. His property amounts to about 20,000l. in money, and a considerable extent of land. He bequeaths the land to endow a College, to be built on the site of his house and garden at Liverpool, to be called "Moore's College." His money also to be invested in land is divided into four equal parts: one given to augment Clergymen's stipends; another to maintain their widows and orphans; a third to the Diocesan Committee; and the fourth to make provision for a certain number of alms-men and women, poor and old, and members of the Church of England.
It really is a noble document, worthy of better times; and shews how much good sense and sound principles may be manifested, under circumstances apparently the least likely to encourage or draw them forth; for he was bred, and came originally to this Colony, as the carpenter of a ship.
The Rev. George Selwyn, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been appointed Bishop of New Zealand.
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