The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

THE iIVERPOOt sTANDittb.

ERSITY

AND CLERICAL NEWS.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER

ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS

Henry Marlen to the District of All Saints,
n the nomination of the Bishop of Chester.
Matthew Isaac Finch, to the Perpetual Cu-
!, in the county of Westmoreland, on the
vicar of Kendal.
Henry Massie to the Rectory of St.
;heater, on the pre-
aster.

Till, in the city of
Marquis of Westn

Rev. Geo. Waddington, D.D., Dean of
been offered and has declined the Bishopric

Rev. S. R. Waller, incumbent of Walkden Moor
hire, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. G. S
the incumbency of St. Matthew's,
averred in some quarters that the Rev. J. Dufton,
hor of a pamphlet in favour of the government
oval measure, is to be the new bishop of Man-

3irmingharr.

FERMENT.—The Right Hon. the Earl of Effingham
pointed the Rev. W. G. Wilson, M.A., Fellow of
lin's College, Cambridge, to the valuable rectory of
tt, St. Peter, Norfolk. The rev. gentleman vacates
!coed mastership of the Kensington Proprietary
nar School, and also his fellowship, in consequence

H PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.—DUring the past
hree grants, amounting to £225, were relin-

I, which enabled the general committee, which
led on the sth inst., to make a grant of 100, for
e to an incumbent recently appointed to the charge
rish containing nineteen thousand souls, in lieu of

1 of £75. for a lay assistant made to his predecessor ;
grant of £lOO. for a curate, to have charge of a
istrict iii Southwark, to conduct public service in a
hl room, and perform the pastoral duties until the
hurch is built and endowed. This grant was one of
ce grants for additional curates promised to the
wark Fund Committee two years ago. The state of
)ciety's funds obliged them to decline all fresh
tions for aid. The present grants of the society
hundred and seventy-three in number; three
3ne for curates, and seventy-two for lay
ie liabilities of the society, when all the
,ball be in operation, are £33,000.
QCOTCH CHURCH.—The number of Presbyterian
he Scotch Establishment is 936. Their

a of the glebes

gham is to succeed Dr. Chalmers as princi-
w College, Edinburgh, and Dr. Candlish is

LITIE

FOR DISSENT AND IMPEDIMENTS
FOR THE CHURCH.

(Prom the Church and State Gazette.)
ood Bishop Coleridge but appear, as he has done,
or at an election nomination, or if the hum-
ish priests, in the exercise of his civil rights,
ugh to propose a candidate for the public suf-
;t of dissenting and republican authorities are
the unseemly abomination. A spiritual pastor
ness on the hustings : a teacher of the Gospel
ission to the benches of the House of Corn-
soldier of Christ may be dispensed with in the
cords—such is the toleration of Dissent. It
ily and denies wantonly : it would have laws
,ut not for itself ; it claims a licentious freedom
community, but in act and in spirit—in every-
aps, but in word, it opposes the extension of
slthy liberty to all who walk not in the crooked
nt ; but what is law for one should, at least
application, be law for all. The clergy of
England are unrepresented in the House
they have an advocacy in the Upper House,

rue Parliamentary sense of the word they are
:ed in the Legislature. It is not lawful for a

r occupy a seat as a member of the House of
Allowing at once that such an arrangement
the wisdom and justice of which are about
ould nevertheless enquire why a similar ar-
tould not be made to affect dissenting minis-
m, as is well known, to be as truly ordained
the mysteries of God as any who receive their

the descendants of the' apostles ? Such,
-^a.. Mr. Miall, a Baptist minister,
puts up for a provincial
but very properly he is again rejected.
tune, but with as little desert, Mr. Bro-
)dist preacher, if we mistake not, now en-
rhich the law and Dissenting principle deny
f England clergymen. With still prouder
, but with infinitely less desert, Mr. Fox,
sinister, the Anti-Corn-Law-League lec-
riter of theatrical critiques in the Morn-
; now member for Oldham, at which place
ellow Unitarian, but a ci-devant-Church-
en. The same cases have occurred in
le names we canno`, at the moment, re-
?, have, however, cited enough to show
are given to every class of Dissenters
)jects (and among these objects are the
1 the Church and the downfall of Monarchy),
are cast in the way of clergymen, whereby
y would maintain, though it may not suffer
heless endures injustice. If the dissenting
i right to represent his fellow subjects on the
tizenship, the clergyman is surely as good'a
and, on the other hand, if the dissenting
' '1- were gross wrong to deprive him of

of Southwark,

use lie exercises a religious
wrong is a hundred-fold oppressive

Lpply to those whose office of love it is
God, and reverence for the throne.

D PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN

a second letter from Sir Culling E.
,ecting the character of M. Alcan, the

by a Romish priest in Newcastle to disclaim
prayer to the Virgin, and who calumniously
Protestants were the authors of it :
July 31st, 1847.
—The Voix Nouvelle of July 28th contains
extracts from the judicial journals of Paris :
ias been brought against M. Akan, pub-
wings, and M. Rene, printer ! The former
ng the legal declaration of an engraving
the Apparition of the Holy Virgin ; the
same offence, and for noL depositing the
ccompanying the engraving ! The Tri-
Tectional Police (6th Chambre) has deli-
(July 3rd, 1847) its judgment in the affair.
nned M. Alcan to a month of imprison-
Me of a hundred francs ; and M. Rene to
thousand francs ; one thousand for non-

, one thousand for not making the deposit, and
and for omitting the name of the printer ;
ltenced both to pay costs in equal shares."
he parties, (at least one of them) who wished
Df Newcastle to believe them about the name
ter on the celebrated prayer to the Virgin.
fence of God has wonderfully interfered and
T. 'Alvan of being in the habit of publishing
I fraudulently evading the responsibility of pub-
beg you to insert this letter in the Newcastle
:onfirmation of the proof which I have already
iat Messrs. Alcan's denial of the authenticity
er, bearing the name of their predecessor, Vic-
is not to be credited.

ar sir, yours faithfully,
C. E. EARDLEY

THE NEXT PARLIAMENT

ly adverted to the confessed alarm which
icter of the late returns to Parliament has
public men, and especially official men,
fears ooze out through such journals as

I the Globe

view the composition of the n

) such terror, but rather with satisfac-

rly claiming every doubtful man
)bliged to admit that of men not

' han 300 in the new Hon

,pite of all the treachery of the
that "breaking up of the Con-
the Liberals, at the East Sur-
pass a vote of thanks to Sir
1 be found, in the parliament

;ersitive array than ha; existed in
since the passing of the Reform
:eption of that of 1541:

Low., with greater clearness, the

'onservative Principles and feelings
people, than such a result, obtained

'orking of the new Parliament ?
s arise, in such a strange state of

but these difficulties we quietly
,n Russell and Sir Robert Peel,
lu have created these perplexities,

he Tower Hamlets, Nottingham,
return troublesome and dangerous

we always foretold ? And can
ly last, Lord John Russell was
folly, or hypocrisy, of fabri-

repealing the.rate-paying

11, i.e., for allowing paupers
Lain result of which would be,
:onnor now elected we should
ruse of Commons, so chosen,
) collision with all the other

.1 the new house- work ? It will
to the extinction of Whlvgism.

is party is now rapidly tOrt
the old Whig confederac

Orneral Aliati

The house in which Burns, the Scottish poet, lived and
died, is in the market.
The sale of tickets for
burgh has realized £lBOO

Jenny Lind's con

Dr. Griffiths, the Roman Catholic Bishop of t
don district, died on Thursday.
A portion of a supplement of The Times was found in

an out-house.
SHARSPERE'S BIRTH-PLACE.—SO great is the curiosity
excited by the sale of this relic of the immortal bard, that
the catalogues are already selling at half-a-crown each.
A whale has been made prize of in the Humber, twenty
miles above Hull, by four men in a billy boy. Another

has taken a sudden turn at Wick ; in one day the extra-
ordinary number of 20,000 barrels were landed.
It is said that several millers in the neighbou

.hood of

their creditors, through the shock in the corn trade.
On Saturday week, Mr. E. Rendell, a farmer, of Nei

ing on his estate, was sl

dead by the trigger of his g
was getting over a hedge.

an Catching in a twig as he

Government has made a magnificent offer.
by subscription,_ will purchase Shakspeare

f the public,

house, the

are so
din 20

ad constant

A. few days ago, Mr

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!ction at the Bank to I