The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY (5- CLERICAL NEWS.

The Honourable Spencer Cowper has contributed the
munificent donation of £5OO towards the completion of
the new church of St. John's, Lynn.
The Peel Club candidate for the rectorship of the Uni-
versity of Glasgow, for the ensuing year, is Lord Ashley;
and the liberals are divided on the comparative claims of
Lord John Russell and Mr. Macaulay.

On Monday week, the Rev. George Drinkwater Bourne,
A. 8., was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol, to the Rectory of Weston-Subedge, in the•
county of Gloucester, vacant by the cession of the Rev..
Hugh Smith.—Patron, Mrs. Margaret Bourne.

The Committee of the Prote"stant Association have
adopted resolutions, preparatory to an address. calling on-
all who take a part in the support of the religious institu-
tions of the country to oppose the contemplated endow-
ment of the church of Rome.
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On Wednesday, the Rev. W. Harrison, one of the-
canons of Winchester Cathedral, expired at his house in
the Close, without any apparent previous illness. The
rev. gentleman, who was in his seventy-eighth year, went
to bed in his usual health, and finding himself ill the next
morning, got out of bed, and dropped dead a few moments
after leaving it. _ . . .

On Thursday the Rev. George Leigh Cooke, of Cab-
bington, presented a purse, containing five hundred and
fifty• five sovereigns, to the Rev. George Lincoln Galton,
in the name of the inhabitants of Leamington, anxious to
testily their respect for him previous to his ceasing to mi-
nister in that parish. Mr. Galton immediately gave £lO5
to the chaplain's fund of the Warneford Hospital, Bir-

mingbam.
The living which Lord John Russell has presented to
a son of the late General Sir W. Nott is that of Tatter
ton, near Boston, Lincolnshire, worth from £9OO to a
£lOOO a year. His lordship, in announcing the presen-
tation, says—" I trust that you will be enabled by this
increase of income to give that assistance to your sisters
which your circumstances may warrant. It is as the son
of Sir W. Nott, as well as it the character of a deserving
clergyman, that I have brought your name before her
Majesty."
The Rev. C. B. Taylor, M.A., Rector of St. Peter's•
and Lecturer of St. Mary's Chester, has been presented
by John Tollemache, Esq., M.P., to the vicarage of
Acton, near Nantwich, in the diocese of Chester, vacant
on the death of the Rev. R. Mayor. Subsequently an ex-
change has been effected by which the rev. gent. becomes
Rector of Otley, Suffolk, in the diocese of Norwich. the
patron being the Earl of Abergavenny, population 647,
value £5lO. The Rev. F. Storr, M.A., appears in the
clergy list as the Rector of Otley, and we presume he is
the new Rector of Acton.

BIDSTON C lIURCEI.—The parishioners of Bidston have
shown a laudable desire to raise their church from its
hitherto much dilapidated condition, to some ?That near
the level of the churches around. With this view several
alterations and additions have been made internally. A.
gallery has been erected at the sole, and voluntary, ex-
pense of the parish, for the accommodation of the children
of the national schools. An organ has been placed therein,
the expense of which was defrayed by subscription among
the parishioners, aided by Robert Vyner, Esq., the Hon.
Sir Edward Cust, Bart.. and the Rector. The organ. was
opened on Sunday the 30th ultimo, when two excellent
sermons were preached, and most liberal collections made
towards the funds.

CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.—At the meeting
of the. General Committee on the 2d instant, five new
grants for additional curates, one for a chaplain to the
labourers on the North Staffordshire Railway, one for
the incumbent of a new district not yet endowed, and
three for lay-assistants, were made, the ten grants
amounting to £985. The aggregate population under the
ministerial charge of the incumbents aided is 52,000.
The average amount of their incomes, £175. At the
same meeting, thirteen grants for additional curates, and
one for a lay-assistant were renewed, amounting to
£1,429. The society now aids 297 incumbents, having
under their ministerial charge a population of 2,083,611,
or, each an average charge of above 7,000. while the aver-
age rate of their incomes is only £202. The grants pro-
vide stipends for 285 additional clergymen, and 64 lay-
assistants, calling for the expenditure of £31,028 when all
the grants shall be in operation. The present actual lia-
bilities of the society are estimated at the rate of £26,600
per annum.