The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Gazette of Tuesday contains the appointment of
the Rev. James Prince Lee to the bishopric of Manches-
ter.

The Reverend John Rushton, archdeacon of Manches-
ter, has been appointed rector of Prestwich by the Earl of
Wilton.

It appears that the Bishop of London is not so ill as hai
been represented. His Lordship fell whilst walking on a
polished floor, and received a violent blow on the temple,
and is under medical treatment for it, but his general
health is in no way. affected.
BIRMINGHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—The Rev. Sidney
Gedge, Preacher at the Magdalene Asylum. Birmingham,
will succeed to the Head Mastership of King Edward's
Free Grammar School, in that town, the appointment
having been rendered vacant by the preferment of the
Rev. James Prince Lee to the Bishopric of Manchester.
The Rev. Edward Bird, late rector of St. Thomas, Bir-
mingham, has been presented by. his late congregation,
with a handsome silver tea kettle, mounted on a massive
stand with lamp complete ; also a pocket communion
service and a set of papier mache tea trays, as a memento
of their affectionate regard and also of his praiseworthy
efforts to suppress the disgraceful practice of Sunday
trading in that borough.
SIX NEW BISHOPS FOR INDIA.—It is contemplated to
apply the principle of subdivision which has recently been
made in the diocese of Australia to India, the whole of
which enormous territory is under the ecclesiastical juris-
diction of the four Bishops of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras,
and Columbo. These four sees are to be divided, and six
new sees formed, so that for the present there will be ten
Indian bishops instead of four, and this number will be
increased as speedily as circumstances will admit.
SECESSION FROM THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—The
Rev. Mr. Chirol, curate of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, was
on Thursday received into the Church of Rome, at St.
Mary's, Chelsea. The Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman offi-
ciated at the ceremony, attended by several clergy of the.
Roman communion. Mrs. Chirol and Mrs. Chirol senior,
the lady and mother of the reverend gentleman, made
their profession of obedience to the Roman Catholic
Church at the same time.

CHURCH GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—Six important
pieces of preferment have fallen in since Lord John Rus-
sell took the helm of Government, and the appointments
are as follow :—The Rev. Hon. Montagu Villiers (brother
of Lord Clarendon), Canon of St. Paul's, in addition to
the rectory of Bloomsbury; the Rev. Robert Eden (bro-
ther of Lord Auckland), Bishop of Sodor and Man ; the
Rev, Simon Jenkinson (brother-in-law of Sir George
Grey), Vicar of Battersea ; the Rev. V. Elliott (cousin of
Lady John Russell), Rector of Trinity, Marylebone; the
Rev. C. Baring (brother of the late Chancellor of the
Exchequer), Rector of All Souls', Marylebone; the Rev.
D. Erskine (a Whig) Dean of Ripon.
PRINCELY MUNIFICENCE.—The parish church of Ewell,
Surrey, being in an extremely dilapidated condition, be-
sides being insufficient for the population, a parish meeting
was held some time since to consider the propriety of
repairing the old or erecting a new one, when Sir G. L.
Glyn, the rector, offered to pay the whole expenses in the
first instance (the supposed cost about £6000) if the
parish would agree to raise £lOOO out of the above sum in
twenty years, to which they agreed. Sir G. L. Glyn also
gave an acre of land upon which to erect it, and a spacious
and handsome edifice is now rapidly in progress. The
sum of £3OO is given by the Church Building Society.
The present building will hold about 600 persons, being
double the number of the other, and about one-third of
the whole population.
The Bishop of Norwich invited Miss Jenny Lind and
entertained her at his palace during her professional en-
gagement at that city—a circumstance which has elicited
from the Rev. Mr. Cobbold the remark that his lordship's
hospitality might just as well be shown towards the infe-
rior clergy. At present they have in turns to come from
all parts of the diocese to preach before the bishop at the
Cathedral, and yet there is neither a bed nor reception of
any kind at the Palace. The preacher has to take up his
abode at an inn. The bishop has explained to Mr. Cob-
hold that lunch is always provided at the palace for the
preacher, but that his lordship does not give special invi-
tations, as it might interfere with his domestic privacy on
the Sabbath. Mr. Cobbold has in consequence apolo-
gised.
THE LIBERAL GLOBE, A CHURCH-EXTENSIONIST !
We givea few plain and pithy sentences, extracted from
this very liberal print, the tenor of which must startle
some of its dissenting admirers :—" We -would wish the
poor to go to church : we would encourage them to go
there, by providing for them sufficient accommodation,—
by giving them ample opportunities. The great mass of
the people have no accommodation provided for them.
Give the people the means of going to public worship, and
leave them no excuse for not going. We have no preten-
sion to the name of a National Church, if something of
this sort be not done. Our firm belief is, that if some
such means be not resorted to, the mass of our population
will be lost to the Church of England. A church, to be
good for anything, must be the poor man's church as well
as the rich man's." In its first and newly-awakened
zeal (says the Herald) it is natural that the Glode should
blunder in the suggestion of a remedy. And blunder it
does, most, preposterously. Because we have not churches
enough, the Globe recommends, not that we should build
more, (which would be the common sense plan), but that
we should proceed to alter the whole church service.—
reducing it to " half an hour, or three quarters," in
length! and then, of this short service, ordering half-a-
dozen repetitions on each Sunday, so that there might be
half-a-dozen congregations supplied in turn !
THE NEW BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—We have taken
the opportunity, since our last, of making a few inquiries
respecting the clergyman who is understood to have been
selected as the first Bishop of Manchester; and we are
glad to believe that the appointment of the Rev. James
Prince Lee is likely to do credit to her Majesty's advisers.
Mr. Lee has very properly abstained, during his residence
in Birmingham, from taking any active part in political
questions. He was, however, induced to come forward
this year to support the educational measure of the go-
y ernment ; but we rejoice to add, that Mr. Lee distinctly
expressed his opinion that Roman Catholics ought not
to be excluded from a participation in the grant. This
affords a sufficient guarantee that on religious subjects his
views are liberal. We may add that Mr. Lee is an inti-
mate friend of the Bishop' of Worcester, one of the most
liberal and enlightened prelates on the bench. Mr. Lee's
high reputatjon for learning and scholarship was alluded
to in our last. He is stated to be a good and sensible
speaker, but without any pretensions to oratory.. We
may state (for we believe it would be false delicacy to
avoid alluding to the subject), that no reliance is to be
placed on some statements, to Mr. Lee's discredit, which
have been punished by a surgeon at Birmingham. On
receiving one of the circulars, we at once applied to a gen-
tleman at Birmingham in whose judgment we had confi-
dence; from whom we learn that Mr. Lee incurred the
hostility of his libeller, by oppos ng his application for an
n"t,i'intment in the eneral Hospital at Birmingham.
liar. Lee never dremed it worth while to prosecute his
calumniator, who has taken this oppytupy of reneFing
his fitaieks 3-- L 441751 Paper.