The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. Dr. Phelps, Master of Sydney Sussex College,
has been elected Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University.
The Bishop of Exeter has admonished the Rev. Mr;
Rawlings and condemned him to pay the costs of the pro-
ceedings for refusing to bury a corpse without the certi-
ficate of the registrar.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel employs
in North America 249 missionaries, in the West Indies
40, and in India, Australia, New Zealand, &c., 92. Of
those in North America, 66 are paid by government.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has peremptorily re-
quested the trustees of all churches and chapels to imme-
diately give notice to all persons renting vaults under
such churches and chapels, to discontinue the sale of
wines and spirits in such places.
In a letter to the Times, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins
states that five of the Colonial Clergy have died from
fever, during their ministrations among the emigrants
from Ireland; and he suggests that their widows and or-
phans have strong claim on public sympathy, in this
country, in consequence of the reckless way in which
large numbers of diseased and starving persons have been
cast upon the Colonial shores.
The Consistory Court of Dublin has decided against the
Rev. T. D. Gregg in the suit instituted against him by
the Archbishop of Dublin to prevent his preaching in the
church of St, Nicholas Within. The rev. gentleman is
therefore prohibited from preaching anywhere in the dio-
cese of Dublin and is moreover to pay the costs of the
suit which we fear will be considerable. The chief cause
of offence is Mr. Gregg's unswerving protestantism, and
we are fallen on sad times when a preacher's mouth is
stopped on that account.
The committee of the Protestant Association have de-
termined to hold a public meeting on the subject of the
renewed diplomatic relations with Rome. One of-the re-
solutions passed by the committee with reference to the
intended meeting is the following :—" That it now appears
from the declarations of Roman Catholics both in and
lout of Parliament, especially from the rescript of the
Pope of Rome and the' resolutions of the Romish arch-
bishops and bishops in Dublin, that the object now
sought after by the Papacy is nothing less than unlimited
control over the affairs of the country."
A paragraph has been going the round of the papers,
stating that " on Thursday last the Rev. Mr. Chirol, cu-
rate of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, together with his wife
and mother, were received into the Church of Rome, at
St. Mary's, Chelsea." Similar occurrences having hap-
pened with some of the curates of Christ Church, St.
Pancras, it may not perhaps be unfair or premature to
ask the Bishop of London how long he intends to allow.
the Romish Church to be supplied with recruits from St.
Paul's, Knightsbridge, and Christ Church, Saint Pancras,
and the' incumbents to continue basking in the sunshine
of his lordship's favour ?—Times.
REV. DR. Hoox.—On Saturday .week, the above di-
vine arrived on a visit at Haigh-hall, the seat of the Earl
of Balcarres. On Sunday week he preached at Haigh
Church. In the afternoon, immediately after the second
lesson, the Holy Sacrament of Baptism was administered
by the incumbent, the Rev. John Thomas Browne, to a
large number of children,—among others, to the infant
son of the Hon. Colin and Lady Francis Lindsay, to whom
Miss Humphries, Dr. Hook, and the Rev. Henry J. Gun-
ning, of Wigan, stood as sponsors. On Monday, Dr.
Hook left Haigh for Worsley-hall, the seat of the Earl of
Ellesmere.

The Bishop of Ripon has appointed Archdeacon Head-
lam, chancellor of his diocese, and the ecclesiastical busi-
ness of the diocese will be transacted at Richmond, who e
there is an established Consistory Court in existence. One
of the new rules of the court is that in future blank marriage
licences are not as heretofore to be placed in the hands
of the surrogates of the diocese; but the party applying
for a license is to make affidavit before the surrogate, which
will be transmitted to the registry and a license will be
sent by return of post. This will occasion a delay of a
day or two, but it will have a tendency to stop clandestine
marriages, and parties applying for a license must not put
it off till the last moment. The practice adopted has long
been in use in the diocese of Chester.
STRANGE DOINGS IN CHURCHES.—A writer in the
Oxford and Cambridge Review for the present month,
states that at thelChurch of St. Mary, Aldermanbury,
London, the collection on the late thanksgiving day,
" was attempted immediately after the sermon, though
nothing was given, the churchwarden having purposely
held the plate behind his back." In another church in
London, he says " the prescribed forms of the Prayer
Book and the State Forms were both read, though at
separate places, both morning and evening." At one
church in the city it occurred that " an officiating minis-
ter (who is very old) got so completely confused, that he
used the whole State Form, (without once turning to the
Book of Common Prayer), morning and evening service
rolled into one !" Among other peculiarities of the col-
lection, he mentions " the use of two plates in some in-
stances, one labelled ' For the English,' the other For
the Irish.' This was the case at Bow church, London,
where a minature blunderbuss was actually put in the
plate For the Irish.'"
An influential meeting was held on Wednesday, at Bir-
mingham to consider the propriety of presenting the Rev.
James Prince Lee, Bishop elect of Manchester, with some
testimonial of public respect. The. Mayor presided, and
upwards of £3OO was subscribed in the room. The
Bishop of Worcester spoke very strongly in favour of the
appointment, and on the subject of the meeting. The
Birmingham Herald says :—""As a gathering of gentle-
men of influence and station in the town, it far surpassed
any meeting which has been held here for a long time
past. All parties in politics, and all sects in religion,
united on that occasion to pay a debt of gratitude .to the
distinguished, gentleman, who has so long and so brilliantly
conducted the Free Grammar School of this torough.
Although the subscription so spiritedly opened on that
occasion is confined to sums of £5 each as the maximum,
it is open to the reception of any sums beneath that
amount. The services of Mr. Lee, as Head Master of
King Edward's School, great as they have been, have
been by no means the whole which he has rendered this
town : the district schools in connection with that institu-
tion have been largely benefited by his care, and he has
laboured with his characteristic zeal and earnestness to
extend its usefulness in every possible way. Nothing but
a testimonial which shall represent the feeling of the great
numbers who have been benefited by Mr. Lee's labours
will at all meet the justice of his claims on the town, or
form a fitting token of gratitude for the zeal and ability
which he has displayed in its service."
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION AND THE BISHOPS.
It was decided to equalize episcopal revenues, and the
holders of the wealthier sees were required by act of par-
liament to surrender a portion of their property. It was
natural that men who wholly oppose this surrender on
principle, and did not allow the authority enacting it,
would not feel very scrupulous about making the best
bargain they could with the hostile power attacking them.
The commissioners concluded agreements with' certain
prelates to receive a fixed portion of their income, such
as was thought likely to leave them in possession of the
average sums assigned to their sees. It has turned out
that in almost every instance that portion has been fixed
too low. The Bishop of Durham, in particular, is under-
stood to have received double the amount intended. Now
this is a very lamentable scandal. It brings the chief
pastors of the church before their enemies in the light, of
scheming speculators, appropriating by jobbing, revenues'
to which they are not entitled.—Oxford and Cambridge
Review. [We believe that the following was something
like the arrangement made with the present Bishop of
Durhain. The average income of his predecessor was
£l7OOO, and Dr. Maltby, the present bishop, was offered
either £BOOO (at which the future income was fixed), or
permissions to pay into the hands of the ecclesiastical
commissioners the difference between those two sums,
and aPpropriate to himself the balance (whatever it might
be) of the revenues of the see.. The bishop, after con-
sulting with his agent, accepted the latter arrangement,
and so enormously have the revenues increased from the
dropping out of colliery leases, &c., that we believe we
are not far wrong in saying that the present bishop, after
paying to the ecclesiastical commissioners £9OOO per an-
num, is yet in receipt of an average income not much be-
low that of his predecessor.]
DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The venerable
Archbishop of York, has passed from time to eternity.
The mournful event took place a little before one o'clock
on Friday, at the Palace, Bishopthorpe, near York. His
Grace's death was both sudden and unexpected, having
been in York Minster on Tuesday, apparently in his usual
state of health. On Wednesday, he was found laid on his
bed in a state of exhaustion, having had a slight fit. Dr.
Ferguson, his London physician, was immediately sent
for, but only arrived at the Palace on Friday morning
when his services were of no avail. The Great Bell of
York Minster was tolled on the malancholy occasion.
The Right Honourable and Most Reverend Edward Har-
court, D.D., D.U.L. P.C. was private and metropolitan of
England, and eighty-third archbishop of the diocese. His
Grace was born in 1757, consequently was• in his 91st
year, and we believe the 41st of his translation. The
deceased was son of the first Lord Vernon, by his
third wife, third daughter of the Honourable Simon Har-
court. He was educated at Westminster School, and
afterwards removed to Christ's Church, Oxford. He was
a Fellow of All Soul's College, and Prebendary of Glou-
cester. He married hi 1784 the third daughter of
the first Marquis of Stafford (she died in 1832)
and assumed the surname of Harcourt on inherit..
ing the estates of that family. He was Lord High Al-
moner to the Queen, Visitor of Queen's College, Oxford,
was appointed a Canon of Christ's Church in 1785, and
was Governor of the Charter House, and the King's Col-
lege, London ; he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in
1794—was translated to York in 1801, and was a patron
bof,sixttwo livings. The deceased was highly respected
bran acts and parties. As a religious teacher his pre-
cepts were
_clear and forcible, and they were fully sup-
ported by a practice highly. consistent..

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The Preston and Longridge declare a dividend of 12s. 3d.
per share. The progress of the alterations was reported
as satisfactory.
A new fog signal was tried at the railway station, Rom-
sey. on Wednesday night. The light was distinctly
visible at a distance of seven miles.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The portion of line at Wal-
sall, effecting the junction with the London and North-wes-
tern, was opened on Monday. The length is about 2 miles.
A mill-owner near the Ouse obtained £l,OOO from the
company for "loss of wind " by the erection of the em-
bankment for the bridge, by the Lynn and Ely Railway,
the opening of which line we noticed last week.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—On Wednesday, the
remaining portion of the Oldham Extension line, extend-
ing between the western and eastern parts of the town,
was open fol_passenger traffic.
GREAT WESTERN SHARES.—In August, 1845, the
Great Western shares, with .£Bo'paid, were done at £235
or 200 per cent. premium. In August, 1846, with £B5
paid, at £155. In October, 1847, at par, and now a few
pounds premium !

On Thursday week, as a luggage train was proceeding
from Sheffield to Manchester, an iron pipe fell from one
of the trucks upon the rails, whilst the train was passing
under the great tunnel, and threw off and smashed seven
of the carriages behind. There being only one line of
rails, communication was effectually stopped for two or
three days, whilst the passengers went over the hill,
known as the " backbone of England."
ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Thurs-
day morning, a fatal accident occurred near the Woodles-
ford station, about six miles from Leeds, on the Midland
line of railway. The Manchester train which leaves Leeds
at half-past 7 a.m. came in contact with a truck which
was being removed from the main line on to a siding.
The engine struck the truck before it had cleared the
main line, and a porter named Henry Doncaster was
thereby killed on the spot.
AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, BOSTON, AND EASTERN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A special meeting of this Com-
pany was held at Nottingham on Friday, to consider the
proposed amalgam'ation with the Great Northern Com-
pany. On a division, there appeared against the amalga-
mation 34,903 proxies—or 11,934 votes ; for the amalga-
mation 11,375 proxies, or 3619 votes. There were also
present in the room the representatives of 10,000 shares
against the amalgamation, and 40 for it.
LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.—
On Thursday a special meeting of the shareholders in this
line was held at Lancaster, Joseph Bushell, Esq., chair-
man of the board of directors, presiding, when it was re-
solved, with but few dissentients, that the resolution
passed in June, 1843, empowering the directors to com-
plete a lease of the line to the canal company, should be
rescinded. The meeting was adjourned to the 25th inst.,
when the propriety of serving an ejectment on the com-
pany will be considered.

- THE TELEGRAPH versus VENUS.—A young lady left
Cambridge last week by the Defiance, for the Ware rail-
way terminus, en route to meet her lover in London.
The father missed his daughter soon after she left, and
the telegraph having been set in motion, two lettered and
labelled gents, dressed in blue, made themselves known
to the fair runaway at the Ware station, and by their soft
insinuations induced her to accompany them back to
Cambridge, where she had to endure parental frowns
instead of being received in the open arms of her lover at
the Shoreditch station.
BANKING UTILITY OF RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS.
—ln the late run on the Newcastle banks, a curious in-
stance of the value of the railway and telegraph system
was made known. The Branch Bank of England at that
place having necessity for a further supply of gold, sent
by telegraph to the sister establishment at Leeds to ob-
tain the required amount. The transmission of the mes-
sage was of course immediate, and the arrival of gold al-
most as rapid, a little more than an hour being consumed
by the special train, which brought £40,000 to the assist-
ance of the bank which was in want.
STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY WORKS.—The contractors for
the London and North-Western Railway have already
discharged 2,500 men, and are about to discharge a still
larger number. On Saturday last one contractor on the
Great Western line gave notice to 1400 men. In Lanca-
shire the works in hand are almost wholly stopped, and
above 10,000 men are already dismissed. On the whole,
up to Saturday last, at least 30,000 navigators had been
discharged ; and it is estimated that before the end of the
present month that number will be doubled. Besides
these there will be 10,000 mechanics thrown out of em-
ployment, most of whom have families dependent on them.
Taking the whole into the account, we may reckon on
having to support, this winter, about 150,000 persons of
the railway class, either by poor-rates or by rapine.
RAILWAY SAFETY BREAK.—At a meeting of the Me-
chanics' Institute, Glasgow, Robert Montgomery, Esq.,
read a lecture on a plan invented by him for the protection
of life in railway travelling. Mr. Montgomery exhibited
a variety of experiments with his carriages, placed on a
model railway 15 feet long. His two carriages weighed
about 50 lbs. each. He put one of his models in motion,
and when he took off its momentum by a contrivance he
had for that purpose, the carriage was immediately stop-
ped by the break, wrought into self-action. He again put
two model carriages in motion, attached to each other,
and when he stopped the momentum of the first, the last
carriage stopped, without coming into contact with the
buffer of the first : the last carriage was in this instance
also stopped by the action of the self-acting break. He
exhibited another important experiment on the incline, to
show that if railway carriages were supplied with his self-
acting breaks, no such accident as that which lately occur-
red in Glasgow, on the incline there, could have happened.
CONWAY BRIDGE.—The tube for a single line of
railway over the C6nway is now on the eve of completion,
and the chains and presses for raising it to its seat on the
piers, will be sent off from London this week, by the
London and North Western Railway, to the Birkenhead
Docks, thence to be shipped to. Conway. There is no
doubt that by the end of the month we shall he able to
record that the tube is spanning the Conway. We believe
that at the beginning of this week the tube will be tested,
which will be completed by the time the raising apparatus
reaches Conway. The pumps are placed on the same axis
as the steam cylinder, which, being in a horizontal posi-
tion, and with one pump at each end of the cylinder, having
a double piston rod, to work both pumps simultaneously,
produces one regular stream into the hydraulic presses.
The stroke of the cylinder is 16 inches; the pump bore
11 inch ; the number of strokes per minute will be about
45, sothatthetubemay beexpected toberaised, (allowing for
.the delays of shifting the chain, &c.,) about 2 feet per min.
COMMUNICATION WITH LONDON via THE TRENT
VALLEY RAILWAY.—The official time-bill forthe northern
mail trains, via the Trent Valley Railway has been pub-
lished. The mails are to be transferred to the Trent
Valley line on the Ist of next month. The journey be-
tween Liverpool and London will be made in 5 hours, and
between London and Manchester in about 4 hours 40
minutes. The early morning, or " newspaper" train,
which now leaves London at 6.15, and arrives in Liver-
pool at 3.15, and Manchester at 2.40, will depart from
Easton-square at the same time, and reach Liverpool at
2.12, and Manchester at 1.50. The ten o'clock morning
mail, now due at Liverpool at 5.10, will arrive at that
place at 4;45. The same " through" train reaches Man-
chester at five o'clock ;• it will reach that city at 4.19.
The five o'clock afternoon express, now arriving at Liver-
pool at 11.10, and Manchester at 10.40, will arrive respec-
tively at 10 o'clock and 9.40. The 8.45 night mail from
Londonl nowlt arrivesreaeiles Liverpoolaitianche
that city at 4.11. The 6 o'clock a.m. post-office express
ill
from Liverpool will leave at 6.45, and arrive in London at
ster atat 45.. 4255 ; itt
willw arrivereaeh
at 4.4
its present time, viz. 1 o'clock. The same through"
train leaves ,
Manchester at 6.15 ; will leave at 6.45.
The 9.15 a.m. from Liverpool will leave at 10 o'clock, and
instead of arriving at London at .6 o'clock, will be at
Euston-square at 5.30. The same "through" train leaves
Manchester at 9.40; it will leave 20 minutes later. The
present 4.30 afternoon express from Liverpool will leave
at 5, and arrive at 10.30—viz. half an hour earlier than it
does at present. The 8.15 mail train from Liverpool will
leave at 8.30, and reach London 33 minutes before its
present time, or at 4.45, instead of 5.18. The same
"through" train will leave Manchester 10 minutes later
than at present.
SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—SORIC Of the most
absurdly ridiculous rumours have lately referred to the
South Eastern Company, which we, should in no way have
alluded to but that several contemporaries had noticed
them. The officers in London, and every station on that
extensive line, have actually been besieged by anxious
enquirers, who expected that the engines, carriages, rails,
and all the stock of the company were about to be sold,
and the concern wound up. " The Duke" himself ap-
plied to the superintendent, Mr. Walter, to know whether,
if he went down to Walmer, he would be able to_ return
by railway. We are able to assure those persons who
have been weak enough to believe that Rothschild was in
possession, and had a person at every station to collect
the money, that the company is not- indebted -to him a
single sixpence, and that any money the company borrows
must be borrowed in no other way than the one prescribed
by Act of Parliament, and repaid under the same re-
strictions. We have reason to believe that the company
was never in so favourable a position as it is at present.
The directors have adopted recently a very extensive plan
of retrenchment, and several useless and extravagant
officers have been discharged. The greater part of
their new works have been suspended where practi.
cable during the extraordinary pressure in the money
market, which must be much more agreeable to the share-
holders than if they had to respond to calls at such a time.
The report has doubtless arisen from • this circumstance,
and while we deplore the necessity for discharging, at this
season of the year, a large number of workmen, who will
find it next to impossible to obtain other employment, we
think the directors have exercised a very laudable degree
of prudence, and attention to the interests of the share-
holders, in thestep they have taken. We believe it may
be confidently stated that arrangements are in progress,
which will effect eat changes in the rapidity of continen-
tal intercourse. Baron Rothschild, far from being inimi-
cal to the interests of the South Eastern Company, has,
accompanied by the engineer and principal officers of the
Great Northern Railway of France, recently had several
interviews with Mr. M`Gregor (the chairman) and the
directors of the South Eastern Railway, with a view to
some important movement and united action on the part
of the two companies. It is stated that the railway speed
on the other side of the water is to be increased, and other
changes in the right way are to be brought about. Ano-
ther subject of discussion at these meetings of the French
and South Eastern Boards, has been the perfecting ar-
rangements for making one payment through from Paris
to London for passengers, parcels, and merchandise trans-
mitted by the Great Northern of France, the South East-
ern Railway, and the South Eastern and Continental
Stearn-ship Companies. We understand that the greatest
desire has been shewn on both sides to carry out this ob-
ject speedily and efficiently, and we are satisfied that the
extended traffic that will he then created, will tend very
Beneficially to the interests of the South Eastern. Com-
.
pany.—Coere.spontlent. •