The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-11 00:00:00

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

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Nov. 28, at Carnmenellis, Stytbians, Cornwall, the Rev. IV
Broadley, Incumbent of Carnmenellis district.
Dec. 3, after a few days' illness, the Rev. Robert Montgomery,.
Minister of Percy Chapel, aged 48.

ST. BARNABAS AND ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.
The decision of Dr. Lushington in the cases of Beale v. Liddell
and Parke and Westerton v. Liddell and Horne, was given on
Wednesday. The judgment was an exceedingly elaborate
one, and its delivery occupied upwards of three hours. Its
practical effect may be thus stated :
At St. Paul's, the communion-table, being of wood, is to re-
main, but the judge observed that it was so massive as not to
be movable with ordinary facility, which lie considered that
the law required; the "credence-table" is to be removed, also
the wooden cross which is on the communion-table ; only one
covering for the communion-table is to be used (instead of the
present rotation of different coloured cloths), and the " fair
linen cloth," at the time of administering the communion, is
to be plain, without lace or embroidery.
St. Barnabas'—The stone altar, together with the metal
cross upon it, set with jewels, is to be removed, and replaced
by a table of wood ; the credence table is to be removed, and
also the wooden cross over the chancel arch ; the brazen gates
of the chancel may remain, though the judge disapproved of
the separation indicated by them ; the ten commandments are-
to be placed at the east end of the church ; and the same ar-
rangement to be made with regard to the coverings of the
communion-table as are ordered in the ease of St. Paul's
Church.

The candles and candlesticks in both churches are to re-
main, but the judge intimated that the lighting of them
should be confined to occasions when the external light was
insufficient for the officiating ministers to perform their duties.
In dealing with the stone altar and the credence tables, the
Judge stated that he was bound by the decision, some years
ago, of the superior court —the Court of Arches—as delivered
in the well-known judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner Fnst ; but
Dr. Lushington added that he concurred in that judgment.
In considering the question of ornaments in churches, he- la-
mented that there was no such authority to guide him, nor
was there any definite rule to be obtained by a reference "to,
the authority of parliament in the second year of the reign of
King Edward the Sixth," mentioned in the direction placed
immediately before the order of morning prayer in the Book
of Common Prayer. Under these circumstances, he must
judge of the law of the case by what had been done by those
bishops who lived nearest to the times in which the several
acts, injunctions, rubrics, and canons, had been issued, which
bore upon such matters ; taking also into account what had
been the general usage in parish churches. He contended that
what had been in this way prohibited, was prohibited still;
that what was not expressly enjoined or sanctioned must be
regarded as prohibited; and that the onus lay upon those who.
introduced any novelties into our churches, to show that they
were sanctioned by the law, or by general usage, in parish
churches, since the Reformation. Dr. Lush in gton urged that the
law if available for placing crosses on our altars, was equally
available for crucifixes : and he laid great stress upon the de-
cision of the Bishop of Exeter, in 3.817, on the case of the Rev.
W. Parks Smith, of Torquay.
In both cases notice of appeal has been given.

TIfE REV. JAMES HASSALL, incumbent of St. John the
Baptist's Church, Toxteth-park, has been appointed a surro-
gate for the proving of wills, and the granting of marriage
licenses, in the diocese of Chester.

THE -REv. TIIOMA S COWAN, incumbent of St. Andrew's,
Renshaw-street, Liverpool, has been appointed a surrogate by
the Chancellor of Chester.

DIOCESE OP CHESTER : PREFERMENT.—The ROY. Robert
Gordon Calthrop has been licensed by the Bishop to the Per-
petual Curacy of Drigg, in the county of Cumberland, void by
cession of the Rev. Henry Wade Hodgson, upon the nomina-
tion of Samuel Irton, Esq., of Irton, in that county, the patron
in full right. A dispensation having been obtained froni the
Archbishop of Canterbury enabling him to- hold-it;•together'
with the Perpetual Curacy of Irton, to which he had been-
previously licensed.
TILE REV. J. D. KELLY, M.A., who has been for a con-
siderable period the curate of St. John's Church, Blackburn,
has been appointed Vice-Principal of Queen Elizabeth's
College, Guernsey. _

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER commenced his second visi-
tation on Wednesday, delivering his charge at the parish
church of Bolton. There was a full attendance of clergymen.
On Thursday his lordship visited Preston • on Friday, Lan-
caster : on Saturday, Burnley ; and yesterday, Bury • and
to-day he concludes his visitation at the Manchester Cathedral.