The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS.

,Dr Parkinson yesterday commenced his duties as prin-
cipal of St. Bee's College.
The congregation of St. DlattheW's Church, Birming-
ham,. met on Tuesday, and .-presented to the Rev. G. S.
Bull, their minister, a purse of one hundred guineas.
The Church and Stale Gazette says that Dr. Slade,
vicar of Bolton, and prebeaci,ot Chester, is lc be the new
Bishop of Manchester.
The Rev. Hugh Stowell, incumbent of. Christ Church,
Manche-ter, has been presented with the munificent sum
of .t 2,000, as a token of respect for his sae:dons in the
cause of Protestant principles during the last twenty years.
CHURCH A FPAlRS.—We.uniterk.tatid that, in conse-
quence of a representation made to, the Bishop of Wor-
cester, by a reverend gentleman who was visiting at
Leamington, the Rev. Mr. Bittlestone, one of the curates
of this psrish, has been suspended, in consequence of his
holding the Roman Catholic doctrines of auricular con-
fession and transubstantiation.—Record.
THE ARCHBISHOP or YGRE..—The occasion of his
Grace's return from Nuneham :Palk,- Oxford, to Bishops-
thorpe, on Wednesday, was an occasion of great re-
joicing. The horses were taken from the :carriage, and
it was drawn forward to the palace by, the viiiagers. The
entrance to the palace was decorated with a triumphal
arch, bearing across its centre the inscription, " God save
our gracious benefactor."
REKAILZ ABLE LONGEVITY IN THE'SERVICE OF TH FIR
DIVINE MASTER.-1 he present minister of the vale 01
Seathwaite, the Rev. Mr, Tyson, justly held in the high-
est respect by the whole of his parishioners, and his pre-
decessor, the Rev. Mr. Walker., surnamed:for his many
surprising ani inestimable qualities, " Wonderful Walk-
er;" have held the living of Seathwaite for one hundred
and twelve years; the former having Succeeded Mr.
Vv'alker,in :1802, wno then died is the sixty-ninth year of

his ministry.
Bat AL SErtvicts.—By the act 9 and 10 'Victoria, c.
61, which came int) operation on the 26th of August last,
provision is made to enable the burial service to be per-
formed in one chapel, where contiguous burial grounns
are provided for two or more parishes or places. The
Bishop of the diocese may declare, in the sentenceof con-
secration, that a chapel is intended fur the use of the se-
veral parishes or places. The act is to be extended to
any parish or place already or hereafter to be formed un-
der the provisions of she Church Building Acts, and also
any new pariah already or to be hereafter constituted by or
Under the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commission-
ers for England.
NEW CHURCH ES. —The 26th annual report of her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners for building New Churches, was
issued on Thursday. The commissioners in their last
report, stated that 343 churches had been completed, in
which accommodation had been provided for 402,259 per-
sons, including 225,217 free seats appropriated to the use
of the poor. They now state, that 27 churches have, by
the aid of grants from the stun placed at their disposal,
been since completed, in which 27 churches accomodarion
has been provided fur 20,826 persons, including 12,879
free seats appropriated to the use of the poor. Thus, in
the whole, 370 churches have now been completed, and
provision has therein been made for 423,085 persons, in-
cluding 238,096 free seats appropriated to the use of the
poor. There are 33 churches now in the course of build-
ing, and plans for more than 18 chu ches have been ap-
proved of, and they have under consideration other plans.
The commissioners state that "it will appear from this
report that during the present year considerable progress
has been made by the board in the important branch of
duty intrusted to them, of forming new parishes or dis-
tricts. Numerous other divisions of parishes are under
consideration."
The Committee of the National Society for Promoting
the Education of the poor in the principles of the Esta-
blished Church, have resolved on the establishment of
two examinations yearly, analogous to those in the Uni-
versities of Oxford and arnbridge, with a view to impart
an additional stimulus to persons preparing themselves for
the office of schoolmasters. To those who creditably
pass, formal certificates will be given, and there will be
immediately afterwards an examination of a higher kind,
in which candidates who shall have passed the first trial
will have an opportunity of showing their proficiency in
any additional branches of knowledge, directly or indi-
rectly useful to an elementary teacher in the exercise of
his vocation. For the " pass" examination, the subjects
are to be reading, writing, grammar, the Liturgy and
Scriptures, arithmetic, geography, history, vocal music,
and the theory and practice of teaching. In the " exa-
mination for honours," most stress will be laid on high
proficiency in the branches above enumerated—on skill in
English composition, the elements of history and philoso-
phy, and knowledge of classics and mathematics. The
first examination is to take place in London at Christmas
next.

THE SEE OF CHEC,TER.—ORBER IN COUNClL.—Fri-
day's Gazette contains an order in council made on tbc
27th ult., varying the amounts proposed by former
schemes of the ecclesiastical commissioners to be contri-
buted by some sees and to be received by others. These
alterations are based on later returns from the several
sees. The sums payable to or by the commissioners are
to be those stated in the fourth column of the &Bowing
table : such payments to take effect " from and after the.
avoidance of the said sees respectively :';—

Intendea
Contributing average

Annual sum
by former

Annual sum
by this
Scheme.

Income,

Scheme.

Canterbury

15000....

York ..
London

10000..
10000..

Receiving Sees.
Chester 4500.
Chichester... 4200,
Lichfield..... 4500.
Lincoln ..... 5000.

1100. . .
5000...

1450.
650.
850,
1250.

1100
150
900
500

Another part of the scheme takes the jurisdiction of pa-
rishes, churches, and chapels, out of various peculiar
jurisdictions, or exempt from jurisdiction, to vest the
jurisdiction thereover in the bishop and the archdeacons
only. This provision has been carried into effect in the
diocese of Canterbury, London, Chichester, and Lincoln,
and the present order in council extends it (with the con-
sent of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Ches-
ter) to all parishes and places locally situate within the
limits of the diocese of York, Chester, and Lichfield, and
of the several archdeaconries respectively. The exceptions
are the cathedral churches of and within the said several
dioceses, and the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which
are to remain and be subject to the jurisdiction and visi-
tation of any, to which they are now by law respectively
subject, and to none other.