The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Bishop of Manchester has accepted the Rev. J. S.
Birley's resignation of the perpetual curacy of Hoghton,
in the parish of Leyland. The Vicar of Leyland is the
patron.
Mr. Thomas Carter, of St. Bees' School, has been
elected to one of the valuable Exhibitions at Queen's Col-
lege, Oxford, founded by Lady Elizabeth Hastings, and
open to certain schools in Cumberland, Westmorland, and
Yorkshire.

ORDINATIONS.—On Sunday week, the two Archbishops
and several of the Bishops of the Established Church in
England held ordinations. The following are the num-
bers of gentlemen ordained by each Bishop to the re
spective offices of deacon or priest :

D. P.
Archbishop of Canterbury l2
Archbishop of York
Bishop of London
Oxford ....
- Peterborough 8
Chichester ....
Exeter
Manchester l4 .. . ..... 22
Gloucester and Bristol .... U.
-- Ely
St. David's . 7

Mr. Allies has addressed a long letter to the Tablet,
Romish newspaper, the last passages of which are as fol-
lows ;—" Accordingly, what I have done in the churches
abroad I am in the habit of doing, and trust to have the
grace always to do , as often as I am present at the cele-
bration of the Holy Eucharist in the English Church—l
adore, that is, with the adoration due to God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, truly, really, personally, and substantially
(ousiodos) present under the species of bread and wine.
To do this is not necessary to believe, and I do not be-
lieve, that the sacramental elements undergo a physical
change, which sort of change the English Article rejects,
as does St. Thomas, under the term conversioformalis,'
one, that is, which continetur inter species motus natu-
ralis.' (Qums. 75, art. 4.) It is enough to believe,
which I do most fully believe and profess, that by the
descent of the Holy Ghoseupon them they become in an
inscrutable manner, and by the very greatest of miracles
and mercies after the Incarnation itself, the body and
blood of God the Word Incarnate. Thus you have in
your remarks wronged equally the English Prayer book
and me : you have made the Prayer-book to pronounce
that to be idolatry which it does not pronounce to be
idolatry, and then upon your own groundless assertion
you have based a charge of dishonesty against me. I am,
sir, your faithful servant, T• W. ALLIES."

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND 711 E PRIVY COUNCIL.—
The Rev. Mr. Denison took little by his motion on Wed-
nesday at the meeting of the National School Society.
In fact he was defeated ; and the following amendment
suggested by a less vehement Tractarian, Mr. Manning,
was adopted :—" That this meeting acknowledges the
care and attention of the Committee in conducting the
correspondence still pending with the Committee of Privy
Council, and they regret to find that a satisfactory con-
clusion has not yet been attained. That while this meet-
ing desires fully to co-operate with the State in pro-
enotieg the education of the pecple, they are under the
necessity of declaring that no terms of co-operating can
be satisfactory which are not based. ore principles and
models sanctioned and commended by the Church of
England. And in particular, when they shall so desire
it, to put the management of their schools solely in the
clergy and the bishop of their diocese." We trust the
Government will be firm to the position they have taken.
That position is one becoming a Christian and paternal
Government to assume. They refuse to become parties
to a scheme which lay at the root of the apostacy of the
Romish Church, and which will ruin any Church which
is subjected to its Anti-christian sway. We speak of the
principle which lodges all effective power in the clergy as
cnntradistinguishable from the body of the Church, and
makes their unchecked will its rule and law. Making
their rule to be that of " lords over God's heritage,''
instead of that incomparably more honourable and genial
influence which naturally follows from their being " ex-
amples to the flock." At the meeting the Archbishop of
Canterbury presided. In anticipation of the resolution of
which the Rev. G. A. Denison had given notice, an unu-
sually large meeting was assembled, among whom were
many of the bishops, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lords Har-
rowby and Nilson, and several members of the House of
Commons.—Attar the report of the committee had been
read, Mr. Denison proposed, in a long and violent speech,
a resolution respecting the matter in dispute between the
National Society and Committee of Privy Council on
Education, stating that no arrangement which involved
the imposition of any management clause whatever, as a
condition of state assistance, ought to be accepted by the
church. The Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, at great length,
seconded the resolution. A long and animated discussion
ensued, in which Archdeacon Allan, Archdeacon Wilber-
force, and the Earl of Harrowby took part ; after which
Archdeacon Manning proposed an amendment, which
simply insisted on the right of the church to claim one of
the points in dispute, viz., the appointment of the Bishop
of the diocese final rereree Iu easra of clicagrotsmont--Altor
a stormy discussion, in which the Bishops of Oxford,
Salisbury, and Chichester, took part, Mr. Denison with-
drew his motion in favour of the amendment of Archdea-
con Manning, which was carried by a lerge majority.
CHINESE MISSIONS.—At a missionary meeting in Bath
last week the Lord Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) after
dwelling on the mingled encouragements, and difficulties
of the Chinese Mission, and the plans by which we might
avail ourselves of the former, and overcome the latter,
proceeded to show that the grand hope and desideratum
for Christian Missions in China was the raising a body of
native Missionaries; who, acquainted with the language,
inured to the climate, and familiar with the character and
customs of the country, might diffuse the knowledge of
the Gospel among the native population on the mainland
of China. For this purpose, a college was needed at Hong
Kong, where a number of Chinese youths, of suitable
talent, and promising religious character might receive
the advantage which a thorough instruction in the litera-
ture and theology of Christendom might impart to them,
in controverting the errors of their heathen countrymen.
He proceeded to state, in detail, the remaining reasons
which rendered England, and the Northern cities of
China, ineligible, as the scene of such an institution. He
appealed to the meeting to support such a college, to be
founded at Victoria, in the Island of Hong Kong, under
the superintendence of the Bishop of the new diocese,
£5,000, at least, was required to complete the building, of
which there was a prospect of obtaining about £2,000.
For the remaining £3,000 or £4,000, which was barely
adequate for completing the building, and also for the
future annual subscriptions towards the permanent sup-
port of the tutors and students, he had mainly to depend
on the pious liberality of Christians in this country. He
read, from a letter lately received from China, a statement
of the large scale of operations on which the Romish
Mission was conductedat Hong Kong, by a numerous
staff of priests and nuns, under the superintendence of a
local bishop. After alluding to the peculiar circumstances
of his present mission to China, and dwelling on the
mingled difficulties and privileges of his high office, as the
first English Protestant Bishop of China, his lordship con.
eluded by commending himself, and his fellow mission-
aries, to the sympathy, the pecuniary help, and the
prayers, of the assembly.