The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

PARISH OF SCHOLL, IRELAND.—The Rev. Tohn Trip-
hook, who acted as curate under the late Dr. Traill, has
been appointed to the rectory of Schull, vacant by the de-
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miable clergyman. The living is worth
but Dr. Traill, who had a handsome

raise of th
about £BOO a yea

relieving the distress of his Roman Catholic parishioners,
since the first appearance of the potato blight.

DUlt H AM U titl..;lE 4s IT v.—Several cases of acknowledged
fever having occurred in Durham, the warden mid senate
of the University have deemed it expedient to take a
medical opinion upon the subject. After due inquiry it
was determined that it did not seem requisite to disperse
the members of the University but that, if the immedi-

ate friends of any student were desirous that he should be.
removed from the University for a time,' leave would be
given on due application, and every facility afforded to
alleviate the inconveniences which may arise. Some of
the students have availed themselves of this permission ;
but all the lectures, as well as the ordinary business of the
town'are proceeding in the regular course.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE
held at Ex

SOCIETY

.—The annual
hall on Wed-

meeting of this_soeiety wt

there'were

present, the Bisho,

)s of Winchester, Cl

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and Cashel ; the Bishop elect of Australia • Lords Gle-
nelg and Teignmouth ; Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir T. D. Acland,
and Sir C. E. Smith. From the report it appeared that
the receipts for the year were £117,440 93. 3d., being an
increase of £16,134 14s. 3d. over 1845-6, and nearly
£6OOO more than in any preceding year: The receipts for
Bibles and Testaments during the year were £16,436 Is.

poses of the society was £56,004 7s. 10di' including
£30,851 lls. 11d. from auxiliary societies. The issues
during the year were 1,419,283 volumes,—viz., 1,109,224
at home, and 310,059 from the depots abroad. The total
issues of the society have been 19,741,710 volumes. The
expenditure during the year was £128,525 ss. 3d., being
£26,749 more than the previous year, and, with one ex-
ception, the largest expenditure in any one year. The
engagements exceed £13,000,

CHESTER TRAINING COLLEGE.-At a meeting, of tl
Chester Diocesan Board of Education, held at Newton o
the Bth of April last. A letter was read from tl

Richard Wa. __hing for an investigation into the cir-
cumstances of his' removal from the office of Vice-princi-
pal in the Training College at Chester. In compliance
with this request, a resolution was moved by the Rev.
Canon Thurlow, seconded by the Rev. W.' Hornby, and
unanimously carried,—" That this letter be referred to the
Training'School Committee, and that the honorary se-
cretary of the Training School be requested to convene a
meeting at an early opportunity, to take the subject into
consideration." In compliance with this resolution, a
meeting assembled at the Training College at Chester, on
Monday the 3d instant, the venerable Archdeacon Rush-
ton in the chair; which, after a full investigation of all
the circumstances connected with Mr. Wall's dismissal,
vindicated his character by showing that no charge what-
ever was laid against him, and presenting him with the
following testimonial :—" That this committee having
gone fully into the case at issue between the Principal and
the late Vice-principal, desire at once to record their deep
regret at an event which has deprived the college of an
officer so able and so valuable as 3lr. Wall. . They are

unwilling to allow of his retirement without expressing
their high sense of the qualifications which he exhibited
during the three years of his residence within the institu-
tion ; and they beg leave to state their conviction that he
possesses, in no ordinary measure, the talents and habits

of mind which will contribute to his usefulness in any
similar charge." Signed, J. Rushton, chairman.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of this society took place on Tuesday, in Exeter Hall—
the Earl of Chichester in the chair. At the csnclusion of
the Chairman's address, the Rev. Mr. Davis, the secre-
tary, read the report of the society, which entered at con-
siderable length into the present state and future prospects

of the different missions in the southern hemisphere and
elsewhere. All these missions were in a most flourishing

state, and the demand for Bibles at some of them was so

duiana no less than 1500 had been sold off in a single
fortnight ; and the missionary stationed there had written
back to England, to the British and Foreign Bible Society,
for a further remittance of between 2,000 and 3,000 Bibles,
which he had no doubt would be eagerly bought up.
With respect to the financial state of the society, in spite
of the distress at home, the excess of this year's income
over that of last year was no less than £14,369 ; the total
receipts being £116,827, a sum which considerably ex-
ceeded the income of any former year, and which, after all
statetate o
off the things
society afforded
io 18a4v2e, very
whenremarkable a
heavy
expenses had been paid, left a considerable balance in the
hands of the treasurer to be added to the capital of the
ys t o 't
This
§
the
debt and a comparatively small income cramped their ef-
nsoonciterta
forts. He (Mr. Davis) had to state the sorrowful intelli-
gence, that two of the vice-presidents of the society bad
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recent _led ; so recently, that it had been hoped they
would have been present at this meeting : these were Lord
Lurgan and the Bishop of Sodor and Man. At the con-
clusion of the general report, several detailed reports of
the state of different missions were read. The meeting
was subsequently addressed by several gentlemen on the
platform—among whom were the Bishops of Winchester
and Chester, Lord Waldegrave, Lord Glenelg, Sir Robert
Inglis, and several well-known clergymen of the Estab-
lished Church.
ST. BEES COLLEGE, CUMUERLAND.—TESTIMONIAL OF
RESPECT TO THE REV. J. E. MIDDLETON, M.A., THE-
OLOGICAL LECTURER OF THE INSTITUTION.—The Easter
term at this college terminated on Tuesday last. The
gentlemen who this term have completed their course of
studies, and are now leaving for ordination, were desirous
of
with
their highly esteemed Theological Lecturer
with some substantial expression of their regard, previ-
ously to leaving college for their various destinations. In
consequence of this determination, a deputation from their
number waited on the rev. gentleman at his private resi-
dence, for the purpose of begging, in their own names and
those' of their fellow students, his acceptance of an elegant
piece of plate, accompanied by a memorial, drawn up and
!agned by his students, expressive of the. high estimation
in which their worthy lecturer is universally held by them,
alike as a tutor and a friend. The folloividg is the in-
scription engraved on the plate. " Presented to the Rev.
J. E. Middleton. M.A., Theological Lecturer of St. Bees
College, by the members of the Fourth Term, as a token
respect and esteem, on the completion of their course of
studies —Easter Term, 1847." The deputation were re-.
ceived by the rev. gentleman and his' lady with the greatest
kindness and courtesy. The memorial having been read,
Mr. Middleton expressed in•the warmest terms the high
sense he entertained of the motives that had thus led to a
result in every sense so gratifying to his feelings. He was
himself perfectly sure that the manner in which he had
performed the duties of the important office intrusted to
him merited no such mark of distinction as that which he
now had the gratification of receiving at their hands ; but
to it his best energies were sedulously and cheerfully de-;
voted. He should ever highly prize these tokens of their
good will and 'esteem to him and his family; they would
be a perpetual memento of their regard. He offered them
his sincerest thanks for their munificent gift, and assured
them that, although now about to be widely separated from
each other and the scenes of their preparation for the
ministry, he should still eherish for each and all of-them
individually and collectively, and continuo to take, a lively
interest in their future welfare. His prayer was, that they
might be eminently useful in their respective spheres of
tnimistration; o'naments of the Church of ciod,