The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

THE 141/IE.RPOOI STANDARD.

CLERICALSINTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. Canon Eaton, Vicar of Eastkant, has been
appointed Rural Dean of 'Wirral.
VALUE OF PRESENTATIONS.—At a sale by Mr. T. M.
Fisher, at Manchestert.on 'Thursday, the next presenta-
tion to the rectory of • Middleton was sold for five thousand
pounds. The living ,is> -worth upwards of nine hundred
pounds per annum after all charges are paid.
LIBERALITY.—The 'Marquis of Bute has given two
acres of valuable land, 'near the town of Cardiff, fora
burial-ground for the; parishes of St. John and St. Mary,
and has also undertaken, at his sole expense, to drain and
enclose it, and to build .a Burial Chapel, which, altoge-
ther, will cost the noble'marquis at least £l5OO.
THE MERCHANT PRINCES.—The richest see. in the
kingdom is that of the Diocese of Manchester,—with its
bishop without a cathedral, and likely to remain without
one ;—the only capital of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction
which performs its high offices in the vestry of the parish_!
Look at the liberally: of Liverpool ! St. Luke's cost
£44,110 ; St. Michael's, X 45,000 ; total, £89,000. Now,
mark what is to come from the mammon millionaires !
Shrewsbury Journal.

THE BISHOP OF RIPON.—The Right Rev. the Bishop
of Ripon is now on a triennial visitation of his diocese.—
His lordship observed, that he was aware that many pious
young men of the middle classes, who had not the means
or opportunity of studying for the ministry, were, for want
of a proper sphere of action in the church, driven to join
the Dissenters. He therefore:recommended every incum-
bent to look round in his own neighbourhood among such
pious young men, and to propose to him the one who ap-
peared the best qualified for the work. He (the Bishop)
would then examine him, and, if approved of, would appoint
him a scripture reader. The duty of such parties would
be to visit from house to house, hold meetings, read the
Bible to the people, and also the Common Prayers ; but
they would be required to abstain from preaching. After
two years of a zealous and efficient discharge of these
duties, they would enjoy the privilege of being admitted to
ordination as deacons, after a second examination by
himself.

REv. DR. WARREN.—A very crowded congregation as-
sembled on Sunday afternoon at the Temple Church, in
consequence of an announcement that the doctor would
occupy the pulpit. Dr. Warren's action is chaste and
simple, his elocution remarkably distinct and emphatic,
but a little too slow. Some portions of the sermon were
of a high order of eloquence ; and we allude to one in
particular, which consisted of a very solemn and feeling
appeal to the stated members of the congregation at the
Temple Church, against suffering themselves to be so im-

.ering prizes of
ambition, as to turn the Creator's choicest gifts into a
means of forgetting their Giver, and His object in bestow-
towing them. Dr. Warren was for many years, it may be
recollected, a leading minister of the Wesleyans, from
whom he separated about ten years ago. For the last
six years he has been the incumbent of All Saints, Man-
chester.

On Monday, kmeeting of the clergy of the Archdea-
conry of Middlesex was held at the vestry of St. Paul's
Church, Covent Garden, in pursuance of citations issued
by the apparitor of his Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, to nominate two of their body as procurators to re-
present the archdeaconry in convocation. The Venerable
John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, presided, and,
lings, remarked that although for
ng of convocation had been

some years

little morethan a mere form, the clergy must see that it
was more than probable a very long period could not pass
by without some of its original importance being attached
to that solemn assembling of themselves together, as pro-
vided for by the ancient canons of the church. The ques-
tion of the revival of that ancient usage had been agitated
amongst persons whose opinions on such a matter were
entitled to the highest respect and consideration, and
there could be little doubt that the results of that investi-
gation would be productive of the greatest benefit, both
to the church and the nation.
The Bishops of Exeter, Norwich, Oxford, Ely, and se-
veral other right rev. prelates, have intimated their in-
tention of adopting a plan for extending the ministrations
of the church, by the revival of the deaconate, and recie-
ving candidates for holy orders on the qualifications set
forth in the 34th canon, which does not require a knovv-
ledge of Greek, and on the authority of an act passed, 13th
Eliz., cap. 13, which declares that the bishops should or-'
dain any person to the deaconate " who has a special gift
or ability to be a preacher." At the convention of the
American episcopate, in 1844, the deaconate was re-stored
by repealing all canons which required an educational
qualification for the office, similar to that demanded for
the presbyterate, which has enabled persons to enter the
ministry of the Church whose talents do not fit them for a
higher field of activity than that of the deaconate, and
who, had it not been restored, would have been altogether
evcluded from the ministry. Some such regulations it is
intended to recommend in the Church of England. As a
general rule, persons so ordained will now be admitted into
the priesthood, although where extraordinary aptitude for
ministerial duties is exhibited, the door will not be closed
against them.
EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH.—The Rev. Thomas Scott,
who has officiated as curate at St. Audoen's Church,
Dublin, for fourteen years, and has worked efficiently,
having received into the church a very great number of
Roman Catholic converts, is removed from that post ; and
his parishioners, as a mark of their esteem, have deter-
mined to erect and endow a capacious church, in a suitable
district in Dublin, as a tribute for his services, and they
appeal to all the Protestants in the United Kingdom to
aid them in the good work. Several meetings have
already been held, at which Edmund Grogan, Esq., M.P.,
was one of the speakers. The Earl of Roden is appointed
one of the trustees, and the Archdeacon of Dublin another.
Mr. Scott was the originator and the indefatigable agent
of some of the most valuable of the Protestai
in Dublin ; and when we know his eminent services, his
sacrifices, his charities, and his labours, we hope the
object will abundantly succeed. Some suitable testimo.
nial of Protestant appreciation is 'certainly due to him,
and this seems to be in every way appropriate. It has
been suggested that those who are disposed to give thanks-
offerings to Almighty God for an abundant harvest could
not set them apart more properly and suitably for that
sacred purpose than by sending them to the committee
who have undertaken the erection of the New Free
Church

MORE TRACTARIAN DOINGS.—The Church and State
Gazette publishes a letter from W. R. Harris, Esq.,
brother of the authoress of a work which has caused a
good deal of sensation, entitled " From Oxford to Rome."
We make the following extract from the letter. The letter '
from the Rev. F. Oakeley to the authoress of " From Ox-
ford to Rome," published by you last week, was not the
only communication that gentleman had with the authoress
of the recantation. Mr. Oakeley went to Wallingford—
there sought and obtained an interview with my sister,
who told me, not long after the conversation had termin-
ated, that the object of Mr. Oakeley's visit was to induce
her to retract or recant the opinions and statements she
had made in the book " From Oxford to Rome." I con-
fess my spirit was deeply stirred at such a demand, and I
could only reply, " Will you do so ?" To which, with
some emotion, and strong emphasis, she answered "
SUPPOSE I MUST !" I leave these facts for you and your
readers to ponder over and pronounce upon : I will only
add that I believe " From Oxford to Rome " contained
my sisters real opinions respecting Roman Catholicism,
and Mat the recantation has been extorted by mental
torture ! In proof of this I could assign other reasons,
and thereby unfold some of the modern Jesuitism of the
men who boast that their Church is " unchanged ;" and
truly, some of their doings might excite a smile of satis-
faction on the face of Loyola himself, could he witness
the natural or (if they please) " non-natural" dealing
with truth practised by his recent converts. Fellow-
countrymen !—the enemy is not merely at the gates but
in the citadel. Awake to Christian union and co-opera-
tion against the powers of darkness ! Arm.! but only
with the " sword of the spirit, which is the word of God."
Educate ! educate ! educate !—and with a Bible-reading
population, seeking direction from the Holy Spirit, our
beloved country will continue to be the " light of all -na-
tions." .
THE BISHOPS AND TRACTARIANISM.—The Rev. W.
Carus Wilson has addressed a letter to the Bishop of
London, on what he had seen and heard at Margaret-
street Chapel. The rev. gentleman alludes to a former
letter which he addressed to his lordship, and for which
his lordship " rebuked his meddling." In this second
letter he earnestly calls on his lordship to put a veto on,
the proceedings in, the church alluded to, and asks his
lordship,—" Could you not have gone yourself to the
chapel, and seen the huge cross on the table which I saw,
and .many of the early worshippers before the service
commenced evidently aiding their private devotions by
occasionally lifting up their eyes to, and. gazing upon it ;
and might not your lordship have' seen, as I saw, . the
clergy reverently. making pbeisance as they passed the
chancel, and the. reader turning from the people during
the prayers ; and, moreover, .the Popish book of devo-
tions, entitled `. The Garden of 'the Soul,' lying on the
shelves of the pews ? and could you not have heard, as I
did, the heterodoxy of the pulpit ; the merit ascribed to
penance, &c. ? and was there nothing tangible for a bishop
in all this ? Who can doubt but that a timely and ener-
getic interference might have prevented in that instance
much of the fearful evil that cannot but endanger the
eternal interests of immortal beings, while it has torn up
by the roots the union and happiness of many respectable
families, •and made the. enemies of. our Church to tri-
umph ?" Mr. Wilson then refers to the pastors of Mar-
garet-street Chapel having gone over to Rome, and adds,
—" But there is Mr. Dodsworth still unworthily and
dishonourably continuing within the pale of a Church
that he is Undermining ; but his curates are already gone
over to Rome, and his congregation fast following. And_
yet, my lord, you do nothing to arrest the mischief.
Appeal cannot be made to public charges ; documents
like these, which blow hot and cold in the same breath,
are utterly unimpressible for good—and If the trumpet
give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare for the bat-
tle ?' I never conversed with any one on the subject,
who did not express the conviction that favour for the
Tractarians was more. prominent in y9ur lordship than
displeasure ; and that when displeasure is expressed it is
fearfully neutralised by, sentiments of a contrary descrip-
tion. Your lordship must excuse me if I write strongly,
for I write with stricken and wounded feelings,, having
just learnt that a dear cousin of my own, and for many
years a constant and devoted member of Mr. Dodsworth's
congregation, has followed the example of the curates of
that church. Ah ! what would her sainted mother have
said, if she had lived to witness such an event! My lord,
the mischief is fearful enough when remote in its opera-
tions ; but when it comes into one's domestic circle, and
takes away captive those whom we have fondly loved from
childhood, and snaps in sunder for ever the long-cemented
ties of an endeared relationship, then it is that one's spirit
is stirred within us, almost beyond endurance, and that
we cast around to see who are most to blame in such a
catastrophe." Mr. Wilson then solemnly charges the
Bishop with incurring largely the responsibility of this
wide-spreading fGy 1101, L4,""i) tanalliOZ to put
a stop by these Popish practical.