The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The itev. Dr. Wolff has been appointed honorary chap-
lain to Lord Carbery. The appointment of the rev.
gentleman was accompanied by a most flattering commu-
nication from his lordship.
Dr: Hinds, who has been named tor the regius profes-
sorship at Oxford, vacated by Dr. Hampden's promotion,
is understood to have refused the bishopric of New Zea-
land, many years since.
The appointment of Dr. Samuel Hinds to the Regius
Professorship of Divinity at Oxford, adverted to in our
last number, has not taken place. It is said now that the
offer was made to Dr. Hinds, and refused.
ST. BEES.—The number of clergymen who have been
educated within the walls of the college since its founda-
tion exceeds five hundred. The number of students at
present there is ninety-eight, and accommodation has
lately been provided for one hundred and twenty.
The Church of St. Mary in the South Bailey, Durham,
was re-opened on Sunday week for divine service, after
having undergone very extensive repairs, and having been
decorated both in the interior and exterior at much cost,
which has chiefly been defrayed by private subscription.
The history of the Church of St. Mary is a subject full of
interest. The period of its foundation is coteval with the
earliest parts of the Cathedral, and goes back at least to
the year 1100. Its founder was a Lord of Brancepeth,
of the name of Bulmer, from whose family its advowson
passed, by marriage, to the Nevilles, of Raby, who con-
tinued to be its patrons till the rebellion of the last Earl
of Westmorland in 1569, when it fell into the hands of
the Crown, in the patronage of which it still remains.
A convocation of the clergy of York was held in the
Minster on Friday, but proved a stormy gathering, and
was abruptly dissolved. In consequence of the death of
the late Archbishop, a special writ was issued by the
crown appointing the Rev. Canon Dixon president, and
that gentleman accordingly took the chair. Archdeacon
Thorp claimed to elect a prolocutor, but. in this he was
opposed, as was also Archdeacon Wilberforce in moving
an address to the Queen on the-affairs of the church, em-
bodying the views of the late archbishop. The president
said that these objects were beyond the province of the
convocation. Ultimately the chairman retired, leaving
the other clergy in consultation. In a few minutes he
sent the chapter-clerk to inform them that the chapter-
house must be clo'ed, but that the minister's library was
at their disposal. Archdeacon Wilberforce respectfully
declined the offer, and he and the clergy along with him
then withdrew.

A most interesting public meeting, in behalf of the
Borneo Church mission, was held in the Hanover-square
Rooms, London, on Monday, the Lord Bishop of Win-
chester in the chair. The Lord Bishop of Norwich, the
Hon. Captain Keppell, Sir R. Inglis, the Hon. and Rev.
Montague Villiers, Mr. Brooke, the Rev. F.T. M`Dougall,
and others, took part in the proceedings. In the course
of his speech, Mr. Brooke said that he did not apprehend
that any danger was likely to occur to the members of the
mission from the lawless tribes beyond the river of Sara-
wak. In the country itself they wouid find a quiet and
peaceful community, with whom they might hold the most
unreserved intercourse, and he might venture to predict
that the most timid lady attached to the mission would in
a short time enjoy a sense of security which she could
hardly experience in some parts of her own country.—A
similar meeting was held at Bath on Tuesday. Mr. Brooke,
who claimed to be a native of Bath, was present, as was
also the Mayor of Bath, the Lord Bishop of Antigua, the
Lord Bishop of Peterborough, with several of the nobility,
and a numerous company of the clergy and gentry. A
series of resolutions, in accordance with the objects of the
meeting, were unanimously adopted. The Bishop of
Antigua presided.
INSTITUTIONS FOR TRAINING SCHOOLMASTERS.—A
better substitute for the National School system has often
been recommended to our readers, which has taken its
rise at Cheltenham under the zealous efforts of the Rev.
Francis Close. But we are also glad to know, that the
metropolis is not to be deserted, but that the Home and
Colonial School Society has attracted so strongly the ap-
probation of the Government Council, that a considerable
grant of public money is to be placed at its disposal, in
order to enlarge the Institution, and enable the Society
to keep the students under instruction a much longer time
than they now can afford. But as the preliminary to this
important aid, it is stipulated that the Society shall itself
procure a sum of £5,000 by private subscription. The
fact that this intimation should have followed the report
made by Mr. Tuffnell, after a long and careful examina-
tion of every branch of the institution, is a striking testi-
mon.), to the excellence of its arrangements and the effi-
ciency of its tuition. It has been officially and publicly
announced that the Marquis of Lansdowne himself visited
the Institution, minutely inspected its details, and testified
his unqualified approbation before the grant was made.
It is under these circumstances the Earl of Chichester,
the President of the Society, has in his own name issued
an appeal to the Christian public, the aid of which is
needed in the present crisis.—Record.
THE CONVOCATION.—The attendance of the upper house
of Convocation consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishops of Winchester, Chichester, Exeter, Lincoln,
Oxford, Rochester, Salisbury, St. Asaph, and Worcester.
In/the lower house there was also an unusually numerous
attendance of the Deans and Archdeacons of the various
dioceses, with upwards of one hundred of the clergy;
among them were the Dean of Canterbury ; the Archdea-
cons of London, Middlesex, Bristol, and Maidstone ; and
the canons and prebends of several cathedrals. Important
matters connected with the interests of the church were
considered in the lower house, and the discussions are re-
presented as being generally of a highly interesting cha-
racter, and most ably conducted: It was understood—
That the address sent down from the upper house was
amended in one or two not unimportant particulars. It
will, we are infOrmed, be found to imply an earnest desire
that Convocation may be permitted to meet for the consi-
deration of the great interests of the church ; an expression
of thanks to her Majesty for giving the royal consent to the
measure for securing the separate existence of the sees of
St. Asaph and Bangor ; and a prayer that the Episcopate
may be made more proportionate to the wants of the
church and the rapid growth of the population. The
questioft d Dr. Hampden's appointment was mooted,
end a proposition made for petitioning her Majesty to
delay a cong, d' aire till certain passages in Dr. Hampden's
works had been subjected to a careful examination, by the
proper authorities. As many doubted whether it properly
came within the sphere of Convocation to pronounce upon
it, the proposition was negatived. The address to the
throne was thereupon agreed to by both houses, and will
shortly be presented to her Majesty.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—We are happy
to observe that Mr. Horsman is not going to abandon his
inquiries into the working of the ecclesiastical commission.
The hon. member has given notice of his intention of
bring forward the subject on Tuesday. The abuses which
have been allowed to grow up in the management of the
great revenues of the established church, have been, to a
certain extent, exposed and redressed. But many more
require to be searched out and ventilated. The able
speech of Mr. Horsman, on the second reading of the
Bishopric of Manchester Bill, and the valuable statistics
which it contained, have made a deep impression both on
parliament and the country. We have yet to learn by
what process it happens that the receipts of bishops cre-
ated since 1835, are swelled up to an amount far exceeding
the maximum intended to be established by parliament ;
and how it happens that so small a portion of their reve-
nues goes to the augmentation of the small livings belong-
ing to the hard-working and deserving inferior clergy.
It appears, for example, that the Bishop of Salisbury, al-
though appointed subsequent to the Ecclesiastical Tem-
poralities Bill, is in the receipt of an income of somewhere
about £12,000 a-year, and the Bishop of Durham nearly
as much. There is another subject that requires investi-
gation, and that is, the principle on which returns of re-
venue are made. In the diocese of Exeter it would ap-
pear that the deductions are such that, were it not for the
golden stall at Durham, it would not astonish us to hear
that the bishop had taken refuge in the union of Exeter,
where we suppose he has a settlement, as he unsuccess-
fully pleaded exemption from rates as non-resident. We
think the revenue of that see has been in a gradual course
of reduction, until it amounts to somewhere about £3OO
a-year !—Record. [We think that our contemporary
would find, on inquiry, that the income of the Bishop of
Durham considerably exceeds the amount he has stated.]
TRACTARIAN MOVEMENTS.—The tractarians allege
that the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury is almost
in his dotage because he declines to aid them in their
opposition to the elevation of Dr. Hampden, to the see of
Hereford, although had his grace consented to do so, we
should, doubtless, have only heard of the flourishing old
age of Dr. Howley. But we expected nothing less from
the sect whose members are bent upon creating a schism
in the Church of England, and who would fain dissever
that happy union of the Church and the state under
which religion and morality have advanced with rapid
strides—their ultimate object being UNION WITH ROME.
We do not speak idly : we have serious foundation for
what we assert, and we cite one circumstance in proof.
The Tractarian members in the House of Commons are
meditating on a scheme for giving their assent to the ad-
mission of the Jews into Parliament, on the express
ground that such admission will destroy the last remain-
ing pretext for the controul of the State over the Chris-
tian Church in this country. The activity of the Trac-
tarian party for evil is equally energetic in another
direction. They have calculated that many persons, who
committed themselves against Dr. Hampden in 1836,
would be ready to make common cause with Mr. Mozley,
and his brother-in-law, Mr. Newman, against the Regius
Professor; and our accounts from Oxford state, concur-
rently, that an intrigue of this precise nature has been on
foot, but that it has failed. We particularly beg our
readers to observe that, in the inflammatory articles of
the Times, the wily controversial writers have avoided all
allusion to Church principles so called, in the hope of
catching those whom in their conclaves they delight to style
" the stupid evangelicals." To stir up as wide a feeling
as possible against Dr. Hampden, the Times has sated its
weary readers with garbled extracts from the writings of
that divine. It was a gratuitous labour on the part of our
huge contemporary. The supposed errors in these very
extracts were long since ably explained away by Dr.
Hampden in "an Introduction to the second edition of
the Bampton Lectures, published in 1837," which ex-
planation has, to our knowledge, established him in the
confidence of the soundest divines of the Church.- All
mention of this explanation and vindication is suppressed;
and we are told that Dr. Hampden has "recanted" which
of course he has not—nor, we presume, intends to do.
So at least his Popish assailants say, and on this point we
hold them as witnesses to be depended on.— Church and
State Gazette.

The late lamented Mr. Youatt, in one'of his crations to
the members of the Veterinary College, observes—" That
by the improvements in modern chemistry, the medical
profession are enabled successfully to treat diseases which
were previously supposed as not within the reach of me-
dicine." This truth has been manifested for many years,
but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than
by the discovery of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.

Not 30,1847.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
the Lord Chancellor is progressing favourably tbwardi
convalescence.
Mr. Cobden has elected to sit for West Yorkshire, and
anew election will therefore have to take place for Stockpot;
The retirement of Mr. R. Cobden from business would
seem to be correct, for the Gazette of Friday annOuncee
the dissolution of the firm with which he is connected.
Mr. Villiers has declined to sit for South Lancashire,
and Mr. Alexander Henry, a merchant in Manchester,
has consented to come forward as the free-trade candidate.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written to the papers to sal
that he is prevented by the state of his finances from era'
ploying counsel to defend his parliamentary qualification,
but that " he will fight the battle alone and unattended:
Mr. Cowan has resigned his seat for Edinburgh, as, in
consequence of his being connected with a government
contract at the time, his election is of doubtful legalitl.
-
It is expected, however, that he will again come forward,
and be returned without opposition.
CURIOUS SCENE.—Mr. Moore, the member for Mayer
excited great laughter on Monday, by partly taking the
Protestant instead of the Roman Catholic oath. The
hon. member went on reading the oath until he came W'
the words " damnable" and idolatrous," when he in-
stantly dropped the book with the look and gesture of hor-
ror, and rushed away from the table amidst the roars of the
house. He subsequently took the Roman Catholic oatb.
On Monday a deputation, consisting of thirty-two Irish
members of Parliament, with Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., at
their head, bad an interview with Lord J. Russell on the
subject of Irish affairs. The noble lord, after hearing ISIP
Grattan, Mr. John O'Connell, and other gentlemen, inti'
mated that Government had made arrangements for the
establishment of food depots in Ireland, and that it WO
expected the Poor-law would answer the expectations
which had been formed of it.

The authorities of the Bank of England have received s
letter; signed by Lord John Russell and Sir C. Wood, ea',
pressing the satisfaction of Government at the revival o'
confidence in the commercial classes through the course
adopted by the Bank on their recommendation, and that,
too, without the least infringement of the law; and inti-
mating that the purpose they had in view in the letter
addressed to the Bank, on the 25th October, having beet
fully answered, it is unnecessary to continue that lette'
any longer in force.
It seems that no attempt is to be made to force Baro
Rothschild into Parliament, so long as the law remains
its present state. The English Parliament is to be fornialli
dechristianised by statute. On Thursday last Lord Jail
Russell gave notice of his intention to move, on that dal
fortnight, the 9th of December, " for leave to bring in-•
bill for the further relief of her Majesty's Jewish subject/
from civil disabilities." This bill will most likely be car'
ried in the House of Commons ; but unless the Lords be
content to be mere registrars to the will of the Commons,
we presume they will reject it.
WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS !—Mr. Wawa?
M.P. for South Shields, left that borough on Thursday
for London, there to commence the discharge of his duties
in a new Parliament. We have already stated that the
electors had pledged themselves to place their represents'
five at the door of the House of Commons not one penal
the poorer for his election. They have fulfilled their
pledge. The cost of the contest they discharged long ago
and on Thursday the election committee presented the,
hon. member with a first-class ticket for London, and
money to pay his cab-hire from the railway station to St'
Stephen's !
A SINGULARLY BRIGHT LEGISLATOR.—We are glat!
to find that the tedium of a debate upon an Irish subjco
may be expected to be somewhat relieved during this pre'.,
sent session ; that amidst the horror, with which the
honourable members are doomed to listen to therevoltiag
details of Irish crime and squalidness, an occasional oP'
portunity is to be allowed them of indulging in a heart/
laugh. The " punch " of the house, or we may more
properly describe him as the Irish ibtliorp,. made lire
debut on Tuesday evening, the character being undertake
by our old friend Fergus O'Connor. We give the follcoe
ing from his first performance :—" He considered that the
present government would not long retain their places,'
because they were the weakest party in the honse ;
the proposed measure would not add to their strength.
He was willing to give his cordial support to every Inca;
sure which was for the good of the people ; but he should
oppose every measure they brought forward, because he
had no faith in them. (Laughter.) He repeated that be;
was ready to give his support to every measure that should
be propounded for the good of the country; but, as the
government were not likely to propound one of that na-
ture, he should give them ids decided opposition. (Con'
tinued laughter.) He thought that a good reason, a pea
notice, and good logic." Verily, a most sensible conch'
sion, most lucidly stated. We should be obliged to and
of our arithmetieal readers to discover for us a rule. br
which the value of this paulo-post-futurum sort of Po'
wise of support could be ascertained. ,n
THE MERCANTILE HOUSE OF A. AND S. HENRY A-1
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Co.—Alexander Henry, the new candidate for c
Lancashire, whose great establishments at the corner °`
Portland-street and York-street, Manchester; at Leeds,
Bradford, and Huddersfield, in Yorkshire; at Notting-
ham and at Leicester ; at Glasgow, in Scotland ; at Bel.:
fast, in Ireland ; and whose commercial agencies are in all
the chief cities of the United States of North America
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick • in Montreal and
Quebec, in Canada • in the British West Indian islands
in Cuba, Mexico, and all the states of South America ; in`
California, the Philippino Islands, China, Batavia,- the
East Indies, Australia, Egypt, Turkey ; on the Africza
and European shores of the Mediterranean sea ; in Italy,
Portugal, Spain, and Northern Europe ; whose comma,
chl name and influence circulate from Manchester through
all Britain in the inland trade ; wider than the British do-
minions in the foreign tr_dtle--Alextinder Henry, the head
of this commercial house, whose mercantile operations,p
Tlle
round the world, was born at Loughbrickland,
county of Down, Ireland. He was named after an uncle_
settled as a merchant in Philadelphia, to whom be ,w_14,1
sent at the age of twelve years. He came to Engia.7,
from Philadelphia while still a very young man, and held
tied in Manchester in the year 1804. His first place °_:
business was in Palace-street. On finding his business
increase he removed to premises in Spear-street. There
he took his younger brother Samuel into partnership, and
the firm became "A. and S. Henry." Subsequently all
ther partner was admitted, and the firm became " A. Se.
S. Henry and C 0.," which it still continues to be. I:
1833, the large premises in Portland-street were built,
and the premises were removed there. The houses la
Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottinghaol!
Glasgow, and Belfast, are each distinct from the other
and from the parent establishment in Manchester. Ese
has partners not connected with the others, Mr. Heir)
being the connecting and sole head over all.

THE COURT.
The stay of the court at Osborne House is intended N
be prolonged until the 23d of next month, with one or Vice
short intervals.