The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEW

The Earl of Ellesmere has been unanimously re-elected
Lord Rector of the Univers'ty of Aberdeen.
The weekly organ of the Tractarian party seriously sug-
gests that. incumbtnts engaging citrates should stipulate
for a certain number of months notice of any intended
seceAsion to Rome.

The Hull Advertiser seriously and • warmly contends
for the promotion of the Rev. James Aspinall to the
Archhi,,.hoprie of York. We think our contemporary,
notwithstanding his eloquence. will fail in inducing the
government to ac on his recommendation.

The Rev. Benjamin Strettell Clarke, curate of Christ
Church, Liverp.ol, and tiepin w of the Hon. Judge Jack-
son, of Sutton-house, Howth; county Dublin, has been
promoted to the incumbency of Thorp-hesley, West
Riding of Yorkshire. .

EDINBURGH HEBREW CHAIR.—The Lord Ordinary
has refused to grant interdict against the induction of the
Professor elect. Should' he be installed, it is under•`tood
that the Presbytery will raise an action against the Town
Council.

The Earl of Digby has given a donation of £2500 to-
wards the necessary repair and restoration of the ancient
abbey church at Sherborne, Dorset. The venerable fabric
was fimnded in 704, and it is computed that £5OOO will he
required fur its restoration. .
Four new churches have just been consecrated in the
diocese of Ripon—one at Hull—another at Manstone, a
colliery district—a third at \\Tyke, near Bradford—and a
fourth at Little Holbeck, near Leeds. The latter is to he
built at the cost of J. G. 'Marshall, E-q., M.P. for Leeds.
The Morning Chronicle says that Dr. Maltby-, Bishop
of Durham. islikely to be promoted to the archl,ishopric
of York ; tut we do not think it likely, as the revenues of
Durham are consieerably greater than those of York,
though, of course, additional honour would be conferred
by the translation.
THE DEATH OF THE REV. ALEXANDER STEWART.—
Intelligence was received in Edinburgh. on SundaY, of the
death of the Rev. Alexander Stewart, of Cromarty, who
had received a call to succeed the Rev. Dr. Candlish, in
St. George's Free Church, Edinburgh. The rev gentle-
man died of brain fever, supposed to have been excited
by the prospect of translation. His congregation in Cro-
marty having been deep!y at tached to hint, there was every
reason to anticipate their opposition to his translation.
THE PasHOP OF MANCHESTER A PEER.—By the death
of.the Archbishop of York the new Bishop of Manchester
will at once probably attain a seat in the House of Lords.
The. Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester are
the only bishops who have an absolute right to a seat in
the upper house, and if the present Bishop of Chester (as
is likely) he elevated to the archiepiscopal seat of York,
or i ideed any of the other bishops, except the above, the
succ;ssor of either of these parties will he considered only
a junior upon the epi-•copal bench, and will have to wait
his turn for a seat in the lords.

THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.—A movement is in progress
in the Scottish Episcopalian Church which deserves serious
consideration. About five years ago, the Rev. Mr. Drum-
mond, of Edinburgh, was rebuked by his diocesan, Bishop
Terrot, for holding religious meetings composed of his
own congregation, at which be did not use the Scottish
liturgy, or any other liturgy, and which, therefore, the
bishop declared to be uticanonical. Mr. Drummond per,
sisted ; and, after an unpleasant dispute, Mr. Drummond
and a large number of his fellow-clergymen renounced
the authority of the Scottish bi: hops lobo ectlo, and vir-
tually separated from • the communion of the Scottish
Episcopalian Church. The separatist party have expressed
a strong desire to place themselves in actual communica-
tion with the English Church. and to occupy the same
position in Scotland as the Church of England in the
colonies. A movement is now in progress with this ob-
ject in view—a committee has been appointed to carry out
the scheme; and we have no doubt that application. will
be promptly made to parliament with the view of pro-
curing a legi lative warrant for carrying it fully into effect.
THE LATE PERVERSION.—The late Rev. W. J. G.
Bennett, perpetual curate of St. Paul's, London, has
published an address to his congregation on the sulject of
the late secession of one of his curates to popery, in which
he says,—" Whereas. Mr. Alexander Chirol, late assistant
curate of this parish, having joined certain schismatics
and sectarians, generally called Romanists, and being
thereby ipso facto deprived for the present of all the.spi-
ritird functions of holy orders, and excommunicated from
the Church of England; and whereas the said Mr. Alex-
ander Chirol has been circulating letters, and otherwise
tampering with the faith of certain of the parishioners,
endeavouring to induce them to join him in his sinful act
of schism and apostacy, it is my duty. as the parish priest,
to warn the parishioners and all other faithful members of
the Church ; and they are hereby warned ; against holding
any intercourse by letter, speech, or otherwise, in Spiritual
matters, with the said Mr. Alexander Chirol, until such
time as he may be restored to the Communion of the
Church. The rule of Holy Scripture and the Church is,
that the faithful should not hold communion with schis-
mhtics and apostates." Mr. Bennett also announces his
intention of delivering a lecture "on the peculiar features
of the Church of England, as opposed to dissent, and the
schismatic Communion of Rome, called forth by the con-
duct of the late curate."

THE BPIIIOP OF MANCHESTER.—A surgeon, of the
name of Gutteridge, residing in Birmingham, has openly
charged the newly-appointed Bishop of Manchester with
immorality, and the matter, for the last few days, has
been the subject of discussion in the Manchester
papers. Mr. Gutteridge says his object is simply to
have the truth of his charges tested before a jury.
Another writer is the Rev. J. Molesworth, who says that
in his view, the ceremony of consecration ought not, for
the sake of the church, to take place, till the matter has
II been fairly brought to trial—this, the rev. gentlemen says,
without in the slightest degree prejudging the case. It
seems that a meeting on the subjoct has been held in Bir.
mingliam, at which there was a decision in favour of the
Rev. Mr. Lee, but Mr. Gutteridge says he has also had
other and larger meetings in his favour. Mr. Lee has
written to Dr. Molesworth, condemning strongly his in-
terference, and announcing that he has laid the published
charges against him before the law officers of the crown,
and expresses his determination to abide by their advice.
This advice is, that they (Sir J. Jervis, Sir D. Dundas,
and Mr. Whateley,) are of, opinion that a criminal in-
formation should be moved for without delay, and they
think that the court will make the rule absolute. Mr.
Gutteridge will now, therefore, have the opportunity '
which he has professed to desire. of establishing his
charges against Mr. Lee, who appears to have acted with
great judgment in the difficult and harassing position in
which he has been placed.
SHAMEFUL CONDITION OF A CHURCH.—On Sunday
week the Rev. Dr. Croly, rector of St. Stephen's, Wal-
brook, took occasion to allude to the state of the parish
church in the following powerful words :—" You may
easily imagine with what feelings I look round this church.
When I see its shattered casements; its panes actually
boarded; its stained cupola; its vaults sending up their
vapours ; its roof letting in the rain ; its walls showing
the track of the shower ; and the floor heaved up as if the
church had been shaken by an earthquake,—l cannot
help feeling the utmost regret at the sufferance, and the
utmost indignation at the cause. But I restrict myself
within the walls ; on this subject I speak reluctantly, and
speak no more.. But this I must say, in justice to others,
that this condition of things has not been for want of
exertion on the part of the principal parishioners. They
have given up their time and their money to the attain-
ment of its remedy ; they have even undergone the dis-
comfort of that most comfortless of all discomforts—a pro-
tracted litigation. They have already spent five years_risk in
the pursuit of the parochial rights, at their personal
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own eyes see the condition of the church—that it is repul-
sive, squalid, and scandalous. Your eyes can show you
its disgrace, but they cannot show you its dilapidation.
I am not sure at this moment that there is a sound case-
ment, or a sound rafter, a safe foot of stone, or a safe inch
of timber in the whole fabric. lam not sure that from
week to week the fabric itself is secure, or the worshippers
under its roof free from danger. Why have those things
been ? But on this matter I say no more ; it comes be-
fore another tribunal. The result of all is, that the pa-
rish is without a shilling."