The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

" £7,000 per annum is held, in sinecures, by Englishmen,
who do not know one word of the language of the parishes
from which they derive their incomes."
THE CAUSE OF SECESSIONS TO POPERY".—A weekly
ultra-Tractarian paper gravely informs its readers that all
the late-secessions to Popery have arisen in consequence
of the Bishop of Worcester's determination not to allow
the " confessional," nor to sanction the absolute forgive-
ness of sins by the priest, in his diocose!
PRINCE ALBERT'S ANSWER TO THE CAMBRIDGE UNI-

or elect, to the

etter announcin

is Royal

ness's election into that office, concludes in the following
words :----I have resolved to accept the trust which the
University is willing, to confide to me, In forming this
decision I have been influenced by a respectable deference
to the wishes of a majority of its members, by a gr
willit

bness to involve the university in the Proliable ne-
cessity of another contest; but• above all, by an earnest
hope that through a zealous and impartial discharge o
the trust which I undertake, I shall succeed in establish
ing a claim on the confidence and good-will of the whol
ern ica

aca6 body."
The Lord Bishop of Exeter has giVen notice that it
future he will not object to receive at his general-ordina-
tions, as candidates for the order of deacon, those younl
men who, having been trained in the National Schools

1 may at the ti:

tuition in the diocese of Exeter. Prom such
lordship will require a knowledge of Latin, but will forego
a knowledge of Greek. The Right Rev. Prelate has inti-
mated that candidates admitted by him.to deacon's orders

so that they will be debarred from rising to any eminent'
in the church, the canons providing that without havin

obtained priest's orders, no persoii shall be capable of
holding a benefice or sole ministerial charge. This new
arrangement will commence from Trinity Sunday, on
which day his lordship will hold his next general ordina-
tion in the cathedral church of his diocese.

,Several valuable freehold estates in Kerry were sold by
auction last week at rates, varying from 23 to 27 years

purchase.
ANOTHER NOBLE AGENT FOR DISTRIBUTING RELIEF
TO THE Inisx.—Lord James Butler, brother of the Mar-
quis of Ormonde, has humanely placed his services at the
diSposal of the Society for relieving the Destitution in
Ireland.
_ Lord de Vesci, at his oTnexpense,
has sent out several

to America

many more as soon as the necessary ar-

rangeMents are completed.
In the Cork Constitution of this day week, there were
14 advertisements of sales of flour, potatoes, and Indian
corn. In times of scarcity people do not usually adver-
tise their goods, as the demand is greater than the supply.
We again repeat our Opinion that there is no scarcity of
food.
M. SOYER'S ARRIVAL IN DUBLIN. —M•
SOyer arrived
in Dublin on'Alonday night, and on Tuesday had. inter-

Lord-Lieutenant and tne
Sir R. Routh and Sir J. Burgoyne, He ;ii[Qp3;

views
General,
mediate
he made it

Shortly

after Mr. Justice Crampton had taken his seat upon the
bench, the lion. W. Pakenham, foreman of the grand
jury, entered the court, and stated that Mr. Cooke, of
Cooksborough, had called Sir Richard Levinge a bar, and
. , 411 a atfand_

lee of Mr. Cook and Sir Richard in court, and upon their
3nearintr, they were ordered to enter into recolTiOnces,

each in the sum of £lOOO, to keep the peace. The much
respected baronet, as a matter of course, complied with
the order of We Court ; but Mr. Cooke doggedly refused
compliance, wheyeupon he was committed to the .eustody
a the High
,Sheriir,