WITNEY.
THE NEW RECTOR.—The Bishop of Winchester has presented the rectory of Witney, Oxfordshire, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Richard Sankey, M.A., to the Rev. Francis Macaulay Cunningham, rector of East Tisted, in this county. Mr. Cunningham has been long known in the diocese for the many posts of duty which he has occupied beneficially to others, if not in any great degree to himeeif. After serving the parish of Petersfield as senior curate several years, the Bishop offered to him the rectory of an important town in this county, with no inadequate income, which, however, Mr. Cunningham conscientiously declined, as his state of health at that time did not allow him to think himself equal to the laborious duties of that parish. At this juncture, he accepted the small parish of East Tisted, presented to him by J. W. Scott, Esq., of Rotherfield Park, where for the last thirteen years he has laboured in a very exemplary manner, in succession to Rev. J. C. Wigram, the present Bishop of Rochester. His restored health and practical ability pointed him out for diocesan services, and as treasurer first to the Diocesan Board of Education and subsequently to tbe Hampshire Church Building Society, he brought the financial state of both those societies into more satisfactory condition than they had been for a long time previously. Able in the pulpit and popular as a lecturer in socia! science, and a highly cultivated mind as a scholar and a gentleman, Mr. Cunningham gives the best pledge of future-usefulness in the larger sphere of Witney, Oxfordshire.” Hampshire Chronicle—We understand that Mr. Cunningham is married to the daughter of the late, and sister of the present Sir E. Poore, Bart., of Cuffnalls, in the New Forest.