The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-01 00:00:00

2834 12 9

Increase in present quarter

Total cash receipts for shares up to June 24, 1864 8116,165 Id 4
Deduct withdrawals 1,196 18 1

Balance
The shares In progress or uncompleted, tukon tip to the
34th June, 104, were
The shares completed to ditto zero

Total abates 9,866

THE foundation festival of the new institution
called the Clergy College was held on Wednesday at
the London Tavern. About 150 guests attended
under the presidence of Mr. Booker, M.P.:—
" The object of the society is to afford a home to the
superannuated and disabled clergy of the United Church of
England and Ireland. In order to carry out this purpose
the promoters propose to found nn establishment after the
model of our collegiate institutions, with dining-hall,
library, and chapel, in which there shall be daily service,
morning and evening, and in which two rooms shall be re-
served for each married or single fellow, while three rooms
shall be placed at the disposal of a limited number of
fellows. so that the widower or unmarried inmate shall be
solaced by the society and care of some sympathising
relative or friend. The founders of the establishment have
expressed a hope that the liberality of a Christian public
will be extended to an institution which seeks to afford
relief in their declining years to those clergymen of the
Established Church who in youth and in the maturity of
their powers have devoted their energies to the duties of
their holy calling."
Addresses on behalf of the institution were made by
the chairnian, the Rev. Lord A. Hervey, Mr. H.
Gwyn, M.P., and other gentlemen. The subscrip-
ions of the day amounted to 2,779/.
AT the Elgin market., last week, a Morayshire
farmer and cattle dealer cleared no less than 4001.
on a lot of fat cattle which he purchased only a few
days previously.

JULY 1, 1854.

"COMMEMORATION WEEIC" has just passed at Ox-
ford University; but, though signalised by the usual
aeries of academic ceremonies and festivities, the
proceedings have presented little matter of general
interest. Wednesday was the great or founder's day.
The gathering within the walls of the Sheldonian
Theatre was as crowded and brilliant as usual, and
the undergraduates amused them during an hour's
waiting by alternate volleys of cheers and groans, be-
stowed upon the names of certain individuals, par-
ties, or principles, which proved at once the strength
of their lungs and of their political opinions. It is
recorded that intense cheers greeted the names of
" The Late Government," " Lord Derby," and " Mr.
Disraeli." Fainter applause honoured " The Present
Government," among whose individual members only
the name of Lord Palmerston elicited much appro-
bation, while groans drowned the cheers on the men-
tion of " Mr. Gladstone." At eleven o'clock the
heads entered in procession, and took their chairs of
state. The honorary degrees were then conferred on
the following personages :—..

Hie Highness the Prince Louie Lucien Bonaparte.
The Right Rev. John Wm. Coleneo, D.D., Bishop of Natal.
The Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, M.P., M.A., of Mag-
dalen College.
John Wm. Fans, Esq., of Wormsley, High Sheriff of the
county of Oxford and Lieut.-Colonel of the Oxford Militia.

Sir-George Grey, C.k)., Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.
Sir Chas. Geo. Young, Garter, Principal King-at-Anus, F.A.S.
Rear-Admiral Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., K.M.T.
Sir George Back.

John Din'sey, Esq.
The Rev. James Grant, Da, of Edinburgh.
The Rev. Ftancia T. MPougall, of Sarawak, M.A., of Mag.
dalen-hall.

The prize poem and essays were afterwards recited
by their successful composers. The " Newdegate,"
which is this year in blank verse, was won by Mr. G.
T. Lee, of St. Edmund Hall. Subject," The Martyrs
of Vienne and Lyons."
AN influential public meeting, to promote the plan
for holding a national festival in celebration of the
union between England and France, was held on
Wednesday afternoon in the Egyptian-hall, Mansion-
house—the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair.
Among the company were Visct. Ebrington, Messrs.
Gore Langton, M.P., J. Masterman, M.P., W.
Brown, M.P., B. Oliveira, M.P., C. Geach, M.P.,
Colonel Freestun, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Starr,
Aldermen Sir 11. W. Carden, Rose, and Moon, Sheriff
Wire, and other eminent citizens.

THE EARL OF ERROLL, according to a paragraph in
the Standard, is under arrest at Varna for disrespect
to his superior officer. A general court-martial has
been ordered, which is thought will result at least in
his receiving a severe reprimand. The earl, who is a
captain in the Rifle Brigade, is a young man, havilig
been born in 1823 He is Hereditary Lord High
Constable of Scotland.

THE loss of the employers during the thirty-six
weeks of the Preston strike is estimated at 105,0001. ;
of the operatives on strike, 250,0001.; of the con-
tributors to the working peoples' strike fund, 97,000/. ;
to shopkeepers, &c., 21,250/. ; making a total loss to
the community of 533,250/.

THE presence of a large squadron of piratical
junks is reported on the east coast of the Malay
peninsula. The nakoda of a junk which arrived at
Singapore on the 30th of April from Anarn was
attacked two days before near Pedra Branca by a
Malay junk, manned by about SO or 100 men, and
plundered of all her cargo except the salt.
THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND, who is DOW in
England, at a general meeting of the Church
Missionary Society, held yesterday week, after re-
commending a plan for the subdivision of his diocese,
announced his intention of appropriating the whole
of his annual income from the colony, namely, 000/.
a year, towards the endowment of the new see. On
Monday Sir George Grey, the new Colonial Secre-
tary, announced the determination of Government to
discontinue the annual allowance of 800/. hitherto
made by vote of Parliament to the bishop. The
right rev. prelate's income was 1,2001. a year, derived
from these two sources, so that he is now left without
a shilling of regular stipend.
Two OF THE CURATES AT ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTS-
BRIDGE, have resigned their licences in consequence
of the ecclesiastical disputes in the parish. The
senior, the Rev. George Nugee, explains, in a letter
to Mr. Liddell, the cause of his resignation to be the
unwarrantable interference of the Bishop of London.
Under the episcopal injunction, Mr. Liddell had
ordered his curates to read the church services in•
stead of intoning them. "If this principle be once
admitted," says Mr. Nugee, " you have no choice
but to grant yet another and another concession, if
required by any body of your parishioners, until our
ritual is stripped of all its ceremonial beauty, our
chancels and altars of all their distinctive furniture,
and our sermons and other teaching of all their
catholic truth." The Rev. C. E. Parry, the other
curate, has addressed the incumbent to a somewhat
similar effect. There is much curiosity afloat re-
specting the course which the bishop will take under
these circumstances.

THE QUEEN has contributed 500/. towards the
funds of the London Diocesan Church Building

THE PRESS.

Society, recently instituted to provide for the fearful
daflciency in the means of religious worship in the
metropolis, brought to light by the census returns.
The provision of all kinds throughout England and
Wales is fifty. seven per cent., but in the metropoli-
tan parts of Middlesex and Surrey it is under thirty
per cent., and the provision in churches throughout
England and Wales is twenty-nine per cent., but in
the metropolitan districts only seventeen or seventeen
and a half per cent.