The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

ORDINATION.

At an Ordination, held in the Cathedral, at Worcester, by
the Bishop of Worcester, for the Lord Bishop of the diocese,
on Saturday, the 21st instsnt, being St. Thomas's Day, the
following gentlemen were ordained

PRIESTS,
Of Oxford--George Stott, 8.A., Fellow of Worcester Col
lege ; 0. A. Blakeley, 8.A., Worcester College ; Henr:
Mills, 8.A., Bailie! College; W. N. 'Filson Marsh, B.A.
Oriel College.
Of Cambridge—G. W. Robinson, 8.A., St. Peters, College
G. 11. Jones, 8.A., St. John's College.

DEACONS,.
Of Cambridge—A. F. Merrivale, M.A., Fellow of Trinity
College ; C. Felton Smith, 'Queen's College, on let-
ters dithissory frOm the Bishop of Chester ; G. Brewin,. B.A.
Chris,.'s College. _ ,

Of Oxford—Henry Samuel Eyre, 8.A., Christ Church
William 'Matthias, 8.A., Brazeimose ; R. Houghton Baxter,
8.A., Brazennose.

Richard Jones, .of St. David's College, Lampeter, in de.
gree, on letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of St
David's.

Circulars from the -Duke of Wellington, summoning the
conservative papers for a meeting at Apsley House, on the
day preceding that appointed for the meeting of parliament,
were delivered on Friday and Saturday last. Those of
ccHlut AlelhOurne,..to the will .peers, were. issued a few da,,ys
previously.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.—The Bishop of St.
Asaph has been pleased to present the Rev. William Mad-
dock . Williams, M.A., to the Rectory of Halkin, in the
. county of 'Flint, vacant by the death of the Rev. Edward
• Roberts. The Bishop has also been pleased to licence the
Rev. T. B. Ll. Browne, M.A.; Curate of Mold, and late
Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Perpetual Curacy
of Flint, vacant through the cession of. the Rev. W. M. Wil-
, limns. The Rev. I'. C. Nicholson, of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, to be Assistant-Citrate of St. James Church, Leeds.
The Rev. Roger Kent, 8.A., to be. Perpetual Curate of
Disley, void by the -death of the Rev. W. Marriott. The
Rev. Joseph Birch, M.A., Curate of High-ltoyland, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Crossends, Lancashire, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Mr. Campbell. The Rev. R. B.
Davies, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to the Curacy of
Accrington, Lancashire.—=Chester Gazelle.
PRESENT TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—During her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager's visit to this county, we under-
stand that Mrs. Smith, Hay-market, made a very unique
straw bonnet, elegantly trimmed, which was presented to the
Queen whilst staying at GopSall Hall, by the Right lion. the
Earl Howe, and the following gracious acknowledgment has
since been received by Mrs. Smith :—" Lord Howe begs to
present his compliments to Mrs. Smith, and is commanded
by Queen Adelaide to express her grateful sense of the kind-
ness which prompted Mrs. Smith to forward so beautiful a
specimen of Leicester manufacture, which her Majesty ad-
mires very much. - It being contrary to her Majesty's custom
to receive any presents whatever, Queen Adelaide has been
graciously pleased to,desire Lord Howe to inclose the accom-
panying trifle, as a small return to Mrs. Smith for her trouble
and kind attention.—Gospal. 25th Nov., 1839."—Leicester
Journal.

IlAnnouns 01 REFUGE.—The nautical part of the corn.
Triunity, and the nation at large, will be happy to hear that
the government have at last resolved to form " harbours of
refuge" for her Majesty's steamers and other vessels at
Margate and Rye, and a bill is forthwith to be brought into
Parliament for this purpose, 'and to obtain the " ways and
means" to commence these long-wished-for and most de-
sirable works forthwith. Many valuable lives of late years
have been lost off Margate and upon its dangerous sands,
and it is but recently that the eminent surgeon, Mr. Carpue,
gave a voluntary lecture, to raise a subscription, at the Royal
Hotel, Margate, - for the widows and children of our brave
boatmen who lost their lives in endeavouring to save some
men wrecked in a brig on Margate sands. It is reported
that. Mr. Walker civil engineer and surveyor, who attended
the commission Of survey, is to be specially employed at Rye,
and Mr. Edmunds (who has sent in his plan to the Admiralty)
at Margate. The estimate of the latter is £275,000, without
the backwater, which is naturally made to hand, and can be
completed at very trifling expense.—Correspondent of the
Morning Herald.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE.

(From the. Oxford Herald.)

Rev. John George Bellingham, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the Curacy of Aldsworth, Gloucestershire,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. C. W. Everett ; pa-
trons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.
Rev. Wm. Frederick Kerr, 8.A., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory of Marston Sicca, Gloucester-
shire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Robert Green Jes-
ton, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford ; patrons, Dr. Kerr
and George Barker, Esq.
Rev. P.. C. Nicholson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to
be Assistant Curate of St. James's Church, Leeds.
Rev. J. B. Reade, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, to
the Vicarage of Stone, Buckinghamshire, -vacant by the ces-
sion of the Rev. W. Fletcher ; patron, Dr. Lee, of Hartwell.
Rev. R. B. Davies, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to
the Curacy of Accrington, Lancashire.
Rev. W. H. Dearsley, to the Perpetual Curacy of Horton,
Staffordshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. C. G. Harvey,
Rev. W. F. Webb to the-Living of Dunderrow, Ireland.

TITLES FOR PRINCE ALBERT.

Among other matters of speculation connected with Prince
Albert is the title of the dukedom which will be conferred
upon him, if indeed he be so ill-advised as to accept of. a
British peerage, Some title already dignified by having -be-
longed to a royal personage would probably be selected ; but
care should be taken lest one be chosen which, though sup-
posed to he extinct, does in fact belong to some Evil'r indi-
vidual ; and the possibility of such a mistake i 4 shown by the
following instances, which are not generally known. In
1706, Queen Anne created the Electoral Prince of Hanover
(afterwards King George the SeCond) Baron of Tewkesbury,
Viscount Northallerton, Earl of Milford Haven, and Mar-
quis And Duke of Cambridge, to hold to him and the heirs
male of his body. In 1717, Frederick Lewis, eldest son of
the Prince of Wales, was made Duke of Gloucester; and in
1726, he was created Baron'Snawdon Viscount Launceston,
Earl of Eltham, Marquis of Ely, and Duke of Edinburgh.
The limitation of all those honours being " to him and the
heirs male of his body," they were inherited by his son,
Prince George, afterwards King George the Third. It has
been supposed that the dukedoms of Cambridge, Gloucester,
and Edinburgh, and all the other dignities above-mentioned,
became so completely lost in the Vegal dignity, on the acces-
sion of Kings George the Second and Thrd, as to be utterly
extinct ; and upon this presumption similar titles were con-
ferred upon various branches of the royal family. As George
111. was the heir male of George 11. and as George IV. and
-William IV. were the heirs male of George 111. all the
honours in question would have devolved upon those perso-
nages, under the limitations in the patents, so that there •
could have been no question
.on the subject; but on the ac-
cession of Queen Victoria, the sovereign and the heir male qf
the bodies of George 11. and George 111. were, for the first
time different individuals ; and it consequently appears, that
the dukedoms of Cambridge, Gloucester; and Edinburgh,
the marquisates of Ely and Cambridge, the earldoms of Mil-
ford Haven -and Eltham, the viscounties of Northallerton
and Launceston, and the baronies of Tewkesbury and Snaw-
don, have devolved upon the King of Hanover, as heir male
of his father and great grandfather, to whom they were
granted by the patents of 1706, 1717, and 1726. The dictum
of Lord hale, and other authorities, seem decisive upon the
point:. By the • common law, whatever the king may acquire
after he comes to the crown vests in a politic capacity ; but
what-he- possessed before his accession, or-inherits from a
collateral ancestor after his accession, vests in a natural ca-
pacity : hence, the honours a king-may have possessed before
his accession reniain in their- original state and when the
heir to whom they were limited is a different person from
the sovereign, they will necessarily descend to such heir,
stead of being (as is erroneously supposed) destroyed by their
•temporary union with the royal dignity.
There are, however, several royal titles which would be
fitting for Prince Albert, and to which no one has any pre-
tensions. York, Kent, and Clarence, in England ; Albany,
Strathearn, and St. Andrew, in Scotland ; Ulster and Dub-
lin, in Ireland,—afford a sufficient choice; and most of those
names are rich in historical associations. " Kendal" has been
suggested, apparently because it was the earldom of Prince
George of Denmark ; but it ought not to be chosen, for,
though it formed part of the honours of the great Duke of
Bedford, brother of Henry V. and afterwards of the Beau-
ferts Dukes of Somerset, was given to John de Foix, a Gas-
con ; next as a barony to Prince Rupert, was the dukedom
to which an infant son of James Duke of York was nomi-
nated in 1666, and was afterwards granted to Prince George
of Denmark ; the name lost all its lustre by being conferred
upon Madame de Schulenberg, mistress of George 1., who-
was created Duchess'of Munster in Ireland, and Duchess of
Kendal, in England, by her royalj,over. It has since been
the title of a barony granted- to Sir James Lowther, Earl of
Lonsdale ; but it became extinct on his death in 1802. _
The manner in which Prince Albert's peerage should be
limited is deserving of consideration. If, iu the usual terms,
to the " heirs male of his body," his honours might even-
tually descend to those for whom they were never designed,
namely, to the sons of any other marriage, on the failure of
male issue by this • and such a contingency shows the pro-
priety of Prince' this;
not having had a peerage with a
limitation of that description. The most judicious plan
seems to limit Prince Albert's- honours to the second son of
his marriage with Queen Victoria ; for the eldest son will be
the Duke of Cornwall at his birth, and will, of course, be
soon after created Prince of Wales.—Spectator.

STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN
GREAT BRITAIN.

(From the Catholic Directory for 1810.)
ENGLAND AND WALES.
Bedfordshire .... Chapels • 1 Northumberland Chapels 19
Berkshire 6 Nottinghamshire 7
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire .. ..... 1 Shropshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devonshire .
Dorsetshire
Durhatr,
Essex 7 . Wiltshire
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Heretbrdshire i
Hertfordshire
Kent lO Jersey
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire lo Brecknockshire
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
Norfolk • 7 Glatnorganshire
Northamptonshire
Total of Chapels in England and Wales _ls7
.• SCOTLAND. . .
Aberdeenshire .. Chapels 7 'Kincardineshire Chapels
Argyleshire . . 2 • Kirkcudbright
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Caithnessshire
Dumbartonshire 1 Perthshire,
Dumfriesshire
Edinburghshire

..ossshire
Porfarshire 1 Stirlingshire
Invernesshire
Total of Chapels in Scotland, 65 ; besides 20 stations where
divine service is performed.
Grand Total of Catholic Chapels in Great-Britain 522
CATHOLIC COLLEGES.
In England there are nine Catholic colleges :—viz.
St. Edmund's, Hertfordshire. Ushaw College, Durham.
St. Mary's, Staffordshire. Stouyhurst, Lancashire.
St. Peter's, 1 Ampleforth, Yorkshire.
St. Paul's, Somerset-
German, Worcestershire.
St. Gregory's, shire'
In Scotland, one, viz., St. Mary's, Blairs, Kincardineshire.
CONVENTS.
4 Western
5 Scotland
5 • -T0ta1.......-. 20

London District
Midland.
Northern

MISSIONARY PRIESTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
ENGLAND.
London District..
Midland District
Total in England
•r)42
SCOTLAND.
_

......
Eastern District _. .. -
18
'
Western District 3O
Northern District
Total in Scotland, 73. Grand Total, 615.
We have no exact data for ascertaining the numerical
strength of the Catholic body in Great Britain. They have
been estimated at 2,000,000 of souls, but we doubt if they
amount to so many. The following is the nearest hypotheti-
cal approximation we can make to the number of Catholics
in the subjoined cities and towns :
London & its vicinity..2oo,ooo Dundee..
Liverpool
Manchester & Salford 60,000 Derby
Glasgow & its vicinity. 50,000 Norwich
Preston
Edinburgh 14,000 Bristol - •• ' 5,000
Newcastle& Gateshead 12,000 Bath - - 4,000
Paisley ..... ....... 10,000 Hull ' - .. • 4,000
Birmingham ........ 9,000 York . ' :. -- " 3,000
Leeds
Blackburn
Bradford 7,000 Aberdeen - 2,500
Bolton 6,000 Dumfries 2,003
Sheffield 6,000

On Tuesday last the following Degrees were conferred :
BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW.
Francis Hessey, Fellow of St. John's College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. John David Day, Brasenose College, grand coin.
pounder.

Rev. 'William Slater, Crowdy, Lincoln College.
Rev. Nutcombe Oxenham, Exeter College.
William Dudley Ryder, Exeter College.
William Hawkins, Exeter College.
Rev. Philip Scholfield, University College.
Rev. Thomas Boys Ferris, Trinity College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Frederick H. Bennett, Christ Church. •
Richard Mallet Coley, Queen's College.
Godfrey Bolle Lee, Fellow of New College.
John Price, Fellow of New College.
John Bickley Hughes, Demy of Magdalen College.
Rev. David Jones. Jesus College.
William Twining, Balliol College. •
Philip Sankey, St. John's College.
The Lord Bishop of Chichester has instituted the Rev. J.
M. Cholmcley, M.A. late Fellow of Magdalen College, to
the Chapelry of Lower Beeding, Sussex.
The Rev. Frederick Francis Fawkes, M.A. Chaplain of
Christ Church, has been presented, by the Dean and Chap-
tei• of that Cathedral, to the Perpetual Curacy of Great and
Little Hampton, in the county of Worcester, vacant by the
cession of the Rev. Walter P. Powell.
The Rev. Joseph Birch, M.A. late of Pembroke College,
Curate of High-Hoyland, Yorkshire, has been presented to
the Perpetual Curacy of Crossens, Lancashire, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Mr. Campbell.
The Rev. Roger Kent, B.A. of Brasenose College, has
been appointed Perpetual Curate of Disley, Cheshire, void
by the death of the Rev. W. Marriott; patron, T. Legh,
Esq. of Lyme Hall, Cheshire.
The Rev. John Charnock, M.A. of Lincoln College, and
of Bishopton Close, Ripon, has been licensed, by the Lord
Bishop of Ripon, to the Perpetual Curacy of Aldfield, York-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Geldart ; patroness,
Mrs. Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence.
The Rev. H. Taylor, B.C.L. of St. Mary Hall, late Curate
of Christ Church, Maryleboue, has been appointed Incum-
bent of All Saints, Stepney, by the Bishop of London.

PROMOTIONS.
Rev. Chas. Hatch, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of M.A.,
Hampshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. Joah Furey; patrons, the Provost
and Fellows of King's College.
Rev. R. N. Whittaker, of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, has been collated to the Vicarage of Whalley, in the
county of Lancaster, by his Grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, vacant by the death pf the Rev. R. Noble.
Rev. C. Parsons to be Curate of St. Mary's, Southathp-
ton, in the room of the Rev. W. Carey, appointed to the
Mastership of the Lewes Grammar School.
Rev. Francis Duncan, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, to the .Rectory of West Cherborough, Dorsetshire,
void by the cession of the Rev. C. P. Brugge; patron, Lord
Rolle.