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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

The Very Rev. Geo. Waddington, D.D., Dean of
Durham, has been offered and has declined the Bishopric
of Manchester.

at of Walkden Moor,
Lancashire, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. G. S.
Bull in the incumbency of St. Matthew's, Birmingham.
It is averred in some quarters that the Rev. J. Dufton,
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the author of a pamphlet in favour of the governmen
educational measure, is to be the new bishop of Man-

chester

PREFERMENT.—The Right Hon. the Earl of Effingham
has appointed the Rev. W. G. Wilson, M.A., Fellow of
St. John's College, Cambridge, to the valuable rectory of
Foincett, St. Peter, Norfolk. The rev. gentleman vacates
the second mastership of the Kensington Proprietary
Grammar School, and also his fellowship, in consequence
of the preferment.

CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.—During the past
month, three grants, amounting to £225, were relin-
quished, which enabled the general committee, which

sth inst., to make a grant of £lOO, for
a curate to an incumbent recently appointed to the charge
of a parish containing nineteen thousand souls, in lieu of
a grant of £75. for a lay assistant made to his predecessor ;
also a grant of £lOO. for a curate, to have charge of a
new district in Southwark, to conduct public service in a
licensed room, and perform the pastoral duties until the
new church is built and endowed. This grant was one of
the five grants for additional curates promised to the
Southwark Fund Committee two years ago. The state of
the society's funds obliged them to decline all fresh
applications for aid. The present grants of the society
are three hundred and seventy-three in number; three
hundred and one for curates, and seventy-two for lay
assistants. The liabilities of the society, when all the
grants shall be in operation, are £33,000.
THE SCOTCH CHURCH.—The number of Presbyterian
ministers in the Scotch Establishment is 936. Their
income is made up by Parliament to £26o,ooo—that is,
£2lB each, exclusive of the glebes.
Dr. Cunningham is to succeed Dr. Chalmers as princi-
pal of the New College, Edinburgh, and Dr. Candlish is
to take his place as professor of divinity.

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FACILITIES FOR DISSENT AND IMPEDIMENTS

FOR THE CHURCH

(From the Church and State Gazette.)

If good Bishop Coleridge but appear, as he has done,
as a spectator at an election nomination, or if the hum-
blest of parish priests, in the exercise of his civil rights,
be bold enough to propose a candidate for the public suf-
frage, a host of dissenting and republican authorities are
shocked at the unseemly abomination. A spiritual pastor
has no Inisiness on the hustings : a teacher of the Gospel
has no admission to the benches of the House of Com-
mons : the soldier of Christ may be dispensed with in the
House of Lords—such is the toleration of Dissent. It
takes greedily and denies wantonly : it would have laws
for others but not for itself ; it claims a licentious freedom
for its own community, but in act and in spirit—in every-
thing, perhaps, but in word, it opposes the extension of
safe and healthy liberty to all who walk not in the crooked
ways of Dissent ; but what is law for one should, at least
in its present application, be law for all. The clergy of
the Church of England are unrepresented in the House
of Commons ; they have an advocacy in the Upper House,
but in the true Parliamentary sense of the word they are
unrepresented in the Legislature. It is not lawful for a
clergyman to occupy a seat as a member of the House of
Commons. Allowing at once that such an arrangement
may be one, the wisdom and justice of which are about
equal, we would nevertheless enquire why a similar ar-
rangement should not be made to affect dissenting minis-
ters who claim, as is well known, to be as truly ordained
stewards of the mysteries of God as any who receive their
mission from the descendants of the apostles ? Such,
however, is not the case. Mr. Miall, a Baptist minister,
and the rejected of Southwark, puts up for a provincial
representation, but very properly he is again rejected.
With better fortune, but with as little desert, Mr. Bro-
therton, a Methodist preacher, if we mistake not, now en-
joys an honour which the law and Dissenting principle deny
to the Church of England clergymen. With still prouder
show of fortune, but with infinitely less desert, Mr. Fox,
the Unitarian minister, the Anti-Corn-Law-League lec-
turer, and the writer of theatrical critiques in the Morn-
ing Chronicle, is now member for Oldham, at which place
he has ousted a fellow Unitarian, but a ci-devant-Church-

, Mr. Fielden. The same cases have occurred in
r places whose names we cannot, at the moment, re-
,o mind. We have, however, cited enough to show
while facilities are given to every class of Dissenters

r their objects (and among these objects are the
destruction of the Church and the downfall of Monarchy),
impediments are cast in the way of clergymen, whereby
the cause they would maintain, though it may not suffer
injury, nevertheless endures injustice. If the dissenting
minister claim right to represent his fellow subjects on the
score of his citizenship, the clergyman is surely as good a
citizen as he ; and, on the other hand, if the dissenting
minister plead that it were gross wrong to deprive him of
senatorial honours. because he exercises a religious minis-

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THE CELEBRATED PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN

The following is a second letter from Sir Culling E.
Eardley, Bart., respecting the character of M. Alcan, the
person selected by a Romish priest in Newcastle to disclaim
the idolatrous uraver to the Virgin, and who calumniously