The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

OBITUARY,

The Rev. John Bishop, M.A. minor cannon and precentor
of Gloucester cathedral, and vicar of St. Mary de-Lode, in
that city.

At Southoe, aged 78, the Per. Robert Pointer, vicar of
Southoe with Hail Weston, in the county of Huntingdon,
rector of Bosworth, Cambridgeshire, and Prebendary of
Lincoln.

At Welling, aged 74, the Rev. S. Tucker, vicar of Borden,
Kent.

At the rectory, Newbury, the Rev. James Rose, M.A. up-
wards of 40 years rector of that parish, and 53 years perpetual
curate of Dorchester, Oxon.
At Frasersburgh, 4berdeenshire, the Right Rev. Alexan-
der Jolly, D.D. Bishop of Moray, Scotland. He was conse-
crated in 1796. By a late arrangement of the Episcopal
College, the see of Moray, founded in the 12th century, exists
no longer. The clergy and congregations composing it con-
stitute parts of other dioceses.
The 11ev. William Tremenhere, vicar of Madron, with
Marvah, Cornwall.
Aged 44, at Brackley, Northamptonshire, the Rev. An-
selm tones.

In Galway, the Hon. and Rev. Nicholas Wrench, brother
of Lord Ffrench.

THE WRATHER.—The continued succession of heavy
showers which have fallen during the past week has been very
unfavourable to the hay -field. Yesterday the rain came down
in torrents. The farmers are anxiously looking for fair
weather, as the grass in this part is now- being injured for
want of cutting. The crops of grass are abundant, but it is
feared that much, will be spoiled in the getting.—Blackburn
Standard.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—It is stated, that
in consequence of the engineering difficulties which attach
to the proposed course of the Great North of England Rail-
way through the county of Durham, the parliamentary line
of road will be altered, and that, avoiding the heavy cutting
at ShinclifY, use will be made of the splendid Bridge recently
erected across the River Wear at Fatlield. Economy, and
a regard for the interests of the pr9rietors as well as the
public, certainly suggests the propriety of this course.—
Newcastle Joitinal.

It has been officially announced that the Durham Junc-
tion Railway, which is tributary to that prosperous under-
taking, the Stanhope and Tyne railway, will be opened in
about a month. The Durham junction will afford the
facility of shipment on the river Tyne to the rich and exten-
sive Coal Field of the County of Durham, south of the river
Wear, and may therefore be expected to bring avast addition
to the trade of this port.—Newcastle Journal.
LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.--The smothered fires of
this establishment, are now bursting into public notoriety,
beyond the means of concealment. The £l,OOO deficit in
accounts is only a loss, but the fierce contention in the me-
dical school has grown to such a pitch as to render it expe-
dient to revoke the charter, in order to recognise the body
politic. The whole matter is before the Home Secretary,
and some measures must be adopted to heal this strife, which
so injuriously agitates the university.— Lilera7y Gazette.
A CONVERTED POLITICIAN.—About a month since, a
veteran reformer called Edmund Hall, of Ashton-under-
Lyne, had occasion to be in London, and having business
to do, and wanting the assistance of a member of parliament,
he applied to all the liberal members whom he could think
of from Lancashire, but not one of then gave him a satisfac-
tory answer. He then applied to Lord Francis Egerton,
M.P., for the county, who gave him the assistance he wanted.
This kindness on the part of his lordship has so worked upon
the old radical's feelings, that he has since he returned from
London joined the Operative Conservatives, and last week
he gave an account of his conversion, from what he had
always called liberal principles. He now states that although
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machinery, demonstrated the process of reducing the size of
the maps and charts for the use of the mariner and the guid-
ance of the overland traveller. His Grace paid Mr. Baker
and the artists under his charge a very high but well-merited
compliment. It may not be improper to correct an opinion
which has been for many years prevalent. Mr. Baker here
alluded to is the benevolent individual whn for many years
visited the condemned cells of Newgate, and who is generally
spoken and written of as a clergyman.—Globe.
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