The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

Mr J. O'CONNELL

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.
The Rev. Geo. Wilkinson to the rectory of Whicham,
in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev.
Alexander Scott ; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. Value,
house, £243.
The Rev. Arthur Wilkin to the rectory of Bootle, in
the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev.
Alexander Scott ; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. Value,
house, £525.

The Rev. William Armitstead to the perpetual curacy
of Whitbeck, in the county of Cumberland, on the death
of the Rev. Thomas Caddy; patron, the Earl of Lons-
dale. Value, house, £i6 per annum.

There is no truth whatever in the assertion that sixteen
bishops have protested against Dr. Hampden's promotion.
The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge has refused to pro-
pose an address to the Queen, deprecating the appoint-
ment of Dr. Hampden.

The Rev. G. L. Parsons, student of Christ Church,
Oxford, and incumbent of Benson, has been appointed
vicar of Kirkham.
The confirmation of Dr. Musgrave to the archbishopric
of York took place on Friday at St. James' Church, Lon-
don. The bishops present were Winchester, Exeter,
Salisbury, Chester, and Ely.

SCOTCH CATHEDRALS.—At the Glasgow Cathedral,
workmen are engaged in taking down the clumsy tower,
to a certain extent, at least.—The erection of a thedral

catnea
on a grand and magnificent scale at Perth, is talked of.
It is said that the Rev. R. Burgess of Chelsea is to t
appointed " Bishop of the Channel Islands, with Franc
and the Netherlands annexed." The Bishop of Londoi
is about to proceed there for the formation of the diocese
The nine assistant masters of King Edward's Gramma
School, Birmingham, have presented a flattering congra
tulatory address to the Right Rev. J. P. Lee, Lord Bishoi
elect of Manchester, on his promotion .o that see.
The new Archbishop of York may be considered

orastnreman by education, being one of the 'many dis
tinguished pupils whom the late master of the Richmon(
Grammar School, the Rev. James Tate, afterwards thi
canon of St. Paul's, sent to the university of Cambridge.
At a meeting of the Bath Board of Guardians, held or
Wednesday, the Rev. Henry S. Whitley, son of the latf
Rev. Leah Richmond. author of " A 00,,L r.f

liter,"

the " Dairyman's Daub__
to the Union Workhouse

atc., was elected chaplai

ion-and the fellows of Jesus College. 0;

200 years ago, a n

lowsbip in fesns College for persons educated at Llandaff
and made it a condition that the holder of it might b(
sent abroad as a missionary, if the Bishop of London
thought fit. The Bishop of London has determined tc
enforce the provision for the first time, in conseouenep ni

the great demand for colonial clergymen ; but the Rev.
Mr. Morgan Davies, who now holds the fellowship, refuses
either to go abroad or resign, and the college support him.
Mr. Davies resigned the curacy -of Ramsgate, and ob-
tained an appointment as chaplain to a man of war, to
escape the dilemma, but the First Lord of the Admiralty,
on the representation of the bishop, has cancelled the ap-
pointment.
THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH

parliamentary paper,
iursday, on the motion of Mr. Hume, from
the diocesan return of 1847, contains some interesting
statistics of the Established Church. It appears that the
total number of resident clergy in England and Wales
amounts to 7,445, non-resident and exempt 1,625, licensed
to be non-resident 781, non-resident without license or
exemption 950, number of non-residents who perform the
duty of their parish 1,177, sequestrations and supensions
43, total numoer of glebe houses 7,785, total number of
benefices 11,386. The total number of curates serving
benefices on which the incumbents are non-resident is
2,048, of these 276 live in the glebe houses, 350 in the
parish, and 1,817 are licensed. The stipends vary from
£lO per annum to £3lO. The number of assistant curates
who receive the whole income of the benefice is returned
as 5, paid by pew rents 8, allowed 10s. a Sunday 5, allowed
20s. a Sunday 1, allowed 21s. a Sunday 3, paid by volun-
tary contributions 2, paid by fees and a house 1, without
stipend 4. The rcntal paid by curates for the use of the
glebe house varies from £5 to £4O per annum.
The Rev. Mr. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, Birming-
ham, has issued an appeal to his parishioners for help in
his parochial work. He proposes to employ four Scrip-
ture readers for two years certain, at an annual stipend of
£75 each, and asks his flock, therefore, to raise him £6OO
or £3OO for each year. The following is an extract from
Mr. Miller's appeal :—" Let it be remembered that the
Rector of St. Martin's, aided by a few district visitors,
walks to and fro along the streets of his parish ; those
streets branching into courts on evpry QM'. • Choir onurfa

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swarming with life—immortal life. Go up that entry, it
is a narrow one. It leads you to a wide court-yard—a
day's hard work is before you. And every such court of
every such street—every house of every court—every
room of every house should be visited. By every family
should the clergyman—or at any rate the Scripture reader,
as the clergyman's emissary—be known. With every
family should the tract be left. Every living soul should
know that he has a comforter in sorrow, a visitor in sick-
ness. The faithful minister feels—z -1d hp

They are my peopt,,
derers I am to gather in.' "
Dr. Hampden, who is rector of Eweline, has received
from his parishioners an address on his elevation to a
bishopric, in which they say,—" You have ever made the
great doctrine of justification by faith in the imputed
righteousness of Jesus Christ a prominent feature in your
preaching. You have laboured to -
of the ripnr.,.4,.. •

LIT sheep I am to fe

ed, the wan-

ue necessity lox
the renewing and regenerating influence of God's Holy
Snirit nn 11 PAl+ V/11l Bann darwrinovrnm.r..l f.. rvcrysi ••;••