The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE CHURCH.—The report of the incorporated society
for enlarging, building, &c. churches for the past quarter,
states that during that period fifty-one grants of money
were made for the purpose of aiding the erection of nine-
teen new churches, the rebuilding of two, and the enlarge-
ment or re-arranging of the seats in thirty existing
churches. This shows a considerable increase in the
society's business, beyond that of the previous quarter ;
and what makes this view more satisfactory is, that it dis-
plays something like a revival of the former exertions to
build new churches—which undertakings have been, for a
long time past, less numerous than they used t) be; and
this agreeable prospect is made evident by the summing
up of the grants made in this period, which were 101, 40 of
these being towards the building of new churches, 10 for
rebuilding, and 54 for the enlargement, &c., of existing
churches, The number of additional seats which will thus
be obtained are calculated at about 29,000; of which
nearly 26,000 are to be free and unappropriated—in fact,
solely for the use of the poorer classes. The sum to be
bestowed to aid these objects from the funds of the society
is £13,810. Since the issuing of the last quarterly report,
a legacy of £3,000, free of duty, was bequeathed to the
society by the late John Curteis, Esq.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev.
Dykes, curate of Malton, Yorkshire, to be a minor canon
in Durham Cathedral.—The Rev. E. Greatorex, to be a
minor canon in Durham Cathedral.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AGAIN.—We have autho-
rity to state, with reference to the case of the Rev. Charles
Rookes, that the Lord Bishop of the diocese has com-
menced proceedings under the act for better enforcing
Church Discipline, and that Mr. Rookes has already been
served with notice thereof.—Exeter Flying Post.

QUEEN'S. COLLEGE. BIRMINGHAM.—The Rev. Dr.
Warntford has just contributed another £l,OOO towards
promoting the interest of the above institution, being the
third thousand which has been given by that distinguished
divine to the funds of the college. The £l,OOO now given
is towards an endowment of the Professorship of Pastoral
Theology, and has been announced at a special meeting of
the council.

THE VICAR OF HAREWOOD.—The six months' pro-
hibition from preaching which was pronounced, in the
Ecclesiastical Court, at York, upon the Rev. Richard
Hale, the vicar of Harewood, having expired, that vene-
rable gentleman resumed his duties at Harewood Church,
on Sunday week. The church, long before the time for
commencing divine service, was crowded in every part.
Mr. Hale took for his text the 12th verse of the second
chapter of the First Corinthians, and, we understand,
departed from his usual custom and read his sermon ;
but very little of it was heard, even by those who sat
nearly close to the pulpit.
CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. —An importai t
case has occupied the attention of one of the Equi v
Courts for three days this week, in which the right of the
Dean and Chapter of Rochester to dismiss the master of
the Cathedral Grammar School of that city is questioned
by the latter, he (Mr. Whiston) having been lately dis-
missed from that office, the ground of dismissal being the
publication of a pamphlet reflecting odium upon the
Dean and Chapter generally, and upon the present Dean
and Canons individually. Much learned argument has
been expended by counsel on both sides during the hear-
ing, and on Friday Vice-Chancellor Wigram stated it to
be his intention to read certain statements in reference
to the matter before he gave his judgment.
SUBDIVISION OF PARISHES.—Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners have made a report on this subject from which we
make the following extract :—" We are of opinion, that
the Church Building Commissioners should be required to
re-consider the boundaries of all divisions or subdivisions
of parishes which have been effected under proper autho-
rity, with special reference to the question of a just and
equitable distribution of the church rate ; and then to
recommend your Majesty in council to fix a time when
the new parish may be properly and fairly exempted from
the double rate, and the remaining part of the original
parish, and the new parish or district severally made liable
only for the repair of its own church or chapel ; and we
recommend that each parish or district should then pos-
sess an open parish vestry, with all the incidents, powers,
and provisions applicable to vestries of parish churches,
with separate churchwardens, one chosen by the inhabit-
ant ratepayers within the particular parish or district, and
the other by the incumbent : and that the churchwardens
belonging to any new parish or district should, so far as
may be practicable, have the same power of seating the
parishioners as is possessed by the churchwardens of old
parish churches ; and under such circumstances we recom-
mend that all select vestries formed under the Church
Building Acts should be abolished. We intend to prose-
cute our inquiries, in the hope of arriving at further prac-
tical conclusions, and expect to be able shortly to lay
before your Majesty a general view of the probable num-
ber of new parishes and new churches required in all the
dioceses of England and Wales."