The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-19 00:00:00

BACHELORS OF ARTS

Lord Leveson, Christ Church.
Henry Milward, Wadham College.
The Regius Professor of Divinity has given notice that he
ill read a Public Lecture on Tradition, in the Divinity
School, on Thursday, March 7th, at two o'clock.
Yesterday, Seth "Benjamin Watson, M.B. of St. John's
College, and Licentiate in Medicine of this University, was
unanimously elected Physician of the Radcliffe Infirmary, in
the room of the late lamented Dr. Charles Bishop.
The Queen has. been pleased to present the Rev. Arthur
Moore, M.A. of University College, to the Rectory of Wal-
pole St. Peter, in the county of Norfolk and Diocese of
Norwich, void by the death of the Rev. William Chester.
The Rev. Francis Turner, J. Baily, B.A. of Pembroke
College, and Minor Canon of Gloucester Cathedral, has been
presented, by the Dean and Chapter, to the vicarage of
Brockthrop, Gloucestershire.
The Rev. Edmund Telfer Yates, M.A. of Oriel College,
has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury,
to the Rectory of Aylsham, Norfolk, vacant by the death of
the Rev. Philp Hunt.
The paragraph which has appeared in the papers respecting
the Rectory of Cliffe Pypard, is incorrect. The Rectory is
impropriate, and was granted to an ancestor of the God-
dards, of Cliffe, at the time of the dissolution of the monas-
teries, and has continued in the possession of that ancient
Wiltshire family since that period. It is the vicarage which
is become vacant, and is said to be worth between £5OO and
£6OO a year. H. N. Goddard, Esq. M.A. of Brazenose
College, is now the patron.
On Thursday se'nnight was married, at Laxton, the Rev.
Augustus Otway Fitzgerald, B.A. of Balliol College, Rector
of Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, and third surviving son
of Sir Robert Fitzgerald, K. C. H., to Sarah Anne, eldest
child of the Rev. Richard Proctor, M. A. Vicar of Laxton,
Nottinghamshire.
On the 2nd inst. died, aged 64, the Rev. Wooley Leigh
Bennett, M. A. of Merton College, Rector of Water Strat-
ford, and Foxcote, both in ,the county of Bucks, and in the
patronage of the Duke of Buckingham.
At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Bath and
Wells, in the Abbey Church, Bath, on Sunday last, the 10th
instant, the following gentlemen were admitted into Orders :

DEACONS.

Augustus B. Handley, I.Viiheen's College, Oxford.
George Sweet, B. A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford.
George Vance, B. A. Exeter College, Oxford.
Augustus K.B.Granville, B.A. Christ's College,Cambridge
George A. Rogers, Trinity College, Cambridge.
PRIESTS.

Edward Caswall, M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford.
Charles Onslow, M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge.
• PROMOTIONS._

John-Martyn, B.A. Scholar of St. John's Coll. Cambridge,
to be Senior Classical Master of the new Grammar School,
Plymouth.
Rev. John Thomas, Perpetual Curate of Llangain, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Llandilo-Abercowin, Carmarthenshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. John Griffiths; patron, Mrs.
Hughes,
Rev. John Lonsdale, B.D. of King's College, Cambridge,
to be the Principal of King's College, London,in the room of
the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.
The Bishop of Salisbury has been pleased to grant his license
to the Rev; F. Oakley, Nicar of Bradpole, to perform the
duties of a Chaplain in the Bridport Union Workhouse, situ-
ate in Bradpole.
Rev. Joseph Thompson, to the Vicarge of Seighford, Staf-
fordshire ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. S. Titlow, M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of St. • Peter's, Hungate, Norwich ; patron,
the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. Charles Paul, M-.A. to the vicarage of Wellow,
Somerset, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.. F. Gardiner;
patron,. W. Cooper Keating, Esq.
Rev. John Meade, to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church,
Frome, vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Algar, M.A.
of Wadham College ; patron, the Vicar of Frome.
THE OXFORD MEMORIAL.

It is with great pleasure we inform our readers that the
subscription towards the erection of a Church, in honour of
the Martyrs, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, amounts, at the
present time, to about £5OOO.
We would recommend to the undergraduates the method
adopted, at the time of the formation of the Irish election
petition fund, for raising subscriptions amongst themselves,
viz., the formation of a committee of one, or two, or three in
each College, for the purpose of collecting in each College ;
and whereas the subscription of each member was then
limited to 10s., in this case there would be no reason for such
limitation. We are glad to perceive, by the communication
from our Watlington correspondent, that the subscription is
going on well in that neighbourhood. Thanking our-con-
temporaries for the help they have already afforded us, in this
truly Protestant undertakms, we would remind one or two
of them, who appear to consider it a local undertaking, that
it is not so, but, on the contrary, a NATIONAL one.—Oxford
Herald.

AGRICULTURAL BURDENS.

(From a pamphlet entitled " Corn Law Agitation."—By

Barnett Blake.)
Secondly, it must also be a subject for grave consideration,
what will be the effect on the interests of this country, sup-
posing the principle of a free trade was admitted by the
legislature, and that particularly in corn ? It must be per-
fectly apparent that some object has to be gained by the
present agitation, at the only time when the repeal could be
unavailable, inasmuch as the present graduated scale of
duties amounts almost to a repeal. ,We can only, therefore,
suppose that the advantages are to be prospective, and only
to take effect when the blessings of another harvest shall havA
once more shed plenty over the land, and lowered the value
of the necessaries of life. What then must be its blighting
and paralysing effect upon the agricultural industry of this
country ? The English farmer has to contend with an un-
certain climate, and doubtful chance of reaping where he
has sown ; he has to contribute to almost the whole of the
revenues for the maintenance' of the established church ; lie
has also to bear the greater part of the burden for the sup-
port of the poor (by far the heaviest portion falling on the
land); he has also to maintain the high roads, Which intersect
England in every part, greatly to the advantage of the com-
mercial and manufacturing interests ; he has also to contri-
bute about fifteen millions annually in the shape of land tax,
and more than five millions annually as malt duty, for though
this may be said to be partly consumed, and, therefore, the
duty paid by manufacturers and others, still the net value of the
produce of the soil is deteriorated by the tax, which, there-
fore, becomes a charge upon the land. Notwithstanding all
these burdens, and the maintenance of which is necessary to the
, support of the national faith, the agricultural population have
also to contribute their fair share of the various duties which
are levied upon the different necessaries and luxuries of life.
Keeping all this in view, and comparing it with the trifling
burden which is put on the shoulders of the foreign corn-
grower, it is fair to ask how the English agriculturist can
bear these burdens, if the untaxed man shall have the same
advantages in the same market ? The result must inevitably
be this, that agriculture being no longer a profitable occupa-
tion in England, the capitalists will no longer cultivate it.
As the fruit of his harvest will not afford him sufficient to
pay the wages of his labourers, he will no longer employ
them. This will not only throw many of the burdens, now
borne by the agriculturists' upon the shoulders of the manu-
facturing and commercial population, but, by creating an
excess of unemployed labourers, lower the price of labour of
the manufacturing labourers, who will be opposed, and that
to starvation, by the men they have deprived of employment,
and thereby of subsistence, by the repeal of the corn laws.
Again, is the public creditor prepared to give up his claim
upon the country by rendering the population unable to pay
it ? Is England in a condition to lose three-fifths of her
revenue ; or, on the other hand, are the manufacturers pre-
pared to have the taxes they already pay trebled in amount ?
What must be the prospect of the many, when in the first
instance we consider that the agricultural population, whether
taken as to numbers or capital, far exceed that of any other
branch of industry, and that the proposed alteration will put
them to an alternative too fearful to contemplate ? The corn
may be cheap in the English market, but where will be the
money wherewith the many shall purchase it ? The reward
of the labour that produced it will be enriching the peasants
of the north of Europe, while the labourer at home will be
starving for want of employment ; and then, bearing in
mind that the agriculturists now consume more than three
times the amount of manufactures exported to all the rest
of the world, what new field of enterprise—and that in com-
petition with an untaxed artizan abroad—will ever reimburse
the then depressed manufacturers for the loss of one-half their
trade at home, when that now exceeds in amount five times
its trade to foreign parts ?