The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

The Rev. Dr. Scoresby has been on a visit to W. Rath-
bone, Esq.
The new church at West Derby—St. James'—of which
the Rev. A. M Conkey is the.incumbent, was opened for
divine service on Sunday last.
It is hoped that Christ's Church Cathedral, Fredericton,
will be completed in October next.
There are now thirty clergymen of the Church of Eng-
land descendants from the Hebrew race, besides several
hundreds of lay members.

Last week immense meetings of the Evangelical Alliance.
were held at Leeds, at which the Rev. W, W. Ewbank,
of this town, delivered a very able address.

On Saturday week the handsome residence of the Rev,
W. Roy, D.D., the rectory, Skirbeck; Lincolnshire, was
destroyed by fire,

CHESTER. CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—On Sunday
week, the Rev. J. Lomas, curate of the parish church,
Wigan, preached his farewell sermon, on his appointment
to the incumbency of a new church, at Walton-Breck,
on which occasion he pleaded the cause, of the above
society, after which the sum of £23 were collected.
Several admirers and friends of the rev. gentleiw have
presented him with a handsome sum of money during the
past week, as a token of their admiration and respect.
CONDUCT OFTHE PERVERTS AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS.
—One of the results of the investigation instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Ripon, into the proceedings at St. Sa-
viour's Church, Leeds, has been the ascertaining that, on
the very eve of Mr. Macmullen and his confederates for-
marlly abjuring Protestantism, they obtained the keys of
that church and therein celebrated a complete Roman
Catholic service, in anticipation of the period when the
church would be wholly in the hands of that communion !
This outrageous conduct, irrational as it may appear,
nevertheless strikingly illustrates the object of the Oxford
and Cambridge Architectural Societies, and of those of
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London correspondent of the Dublin Mail says ths,t_Lora
John Russell has proposed to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury to create Manchester into a bishopric, giving to the
new dignitary the usual seat in the House of Lords., or,
should the heads of the church prefer it, to create a num-
ber of new sees, those appointed not to have the honour
of peerages. He adds.that it is for the purpose of deli-
berating upon these two propositions that a meeting of
the prelates has been summoned by his Grace. What
the object of the latter is, requires little skill to divine. It
would be the first step towards ejecting the bishops alto-
gether from the House of Lords. The London Morning
Herald says,—" A rumour has prevailed, during the last
fortnight, that it is the intention of the government to
propose the immediate establishment of six new bish-
oprics. The dissenters add, that it is also intended to'
propose to make these new bishops spiritual peers. Very-
naturally they, who were demanding a short time since,
the expulsion of the bishops from the House of Lords,
now declare that their friends the Whigs have " lost their
senses." The substantial part of this rumour we believe
to have some foundation. It has been remarked that the
Primate has lately had several interviews with Lord John
Russell; and it is not to be supposed that such confer-
ences can have had reference to trifling or immaterial
matters.