The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop of Llandaff remains in la very precarious
position.
The foundation stone of a new church, at Moor-Aller-
ton, near Leeds, was laid on Wednesday.
The new church of Holy Trinity, Meanvrood, in the
parish of Leeds, was consecrated last week.
The Rev. H. L. Mardague, curate of Didsbury, has
been appointed to the incumbency of Haslingden, vacant
by the resignation of the Rev. N. Morgan.
THE WESLEYAN RUPTURE.—We are informed on good
authority that many Wesleyan ministers, dissatisfied with
their system, and not the least so with the recent procEed-
ings, are meditating a resignation of their charges and a
course of study preparatory to offering themselves for or-
dination in our church.—Church and State Gazette.

CHURCH. RATES.—The church rates for all England
are about £600,000 ; of this sum £30,000 only is paid by
Dissenters. What is specially for the service of the church
is not more than £200,000. If the gross sum (£600,000)
raised for church rates were equally divided amongst our
population, it would amount to about 34d. per head.
What may be expected from the voluntary system is not
difficult to conjecture. Not many years since, a church,
in which our poorer brethren were especially provided for,
was burned down. A rate was objected to, and it was
given out, that the Dissenters when released from com-
pulsory exaction would contribute largely to the rebuild-
ing of it. Of the £B,OOO required, twenty siv pounds
were subscribed by Dissenters. It is said, that in America
there are nearly 5,000,000 souls unblessed with the means
of grace.
The Morning Herald has a noble protest against the
dependent position assigned to the church by the reply of
the Archbishop of Canterbury to the memorial of the
clergy, in which his grace maintains that to authorise a
day of public humiliation throughout his province, "is a
privilege which belongs only to her Majesty in Council."
We know not," says our contemporary, with noble
frankness, " which feeling predominates as we write, re-
gret or indignation ; regret that a prelate of, personally, so
exalted a character, so endeared to every class of persons
in this country by his piety, so universally respected for
his moral and intellectual ability, should have given such
occasion to the enemies of the English Church to ridicule
her present position ; indignation, that the primate should
have so very inadequate a notion, as it seems to us, of the
duties which devolve upon him as the spiritual head of the
English Church."

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.—
At the monthly meeting (October) of the members of this
society, the Bishop of London in the chair, the following
business was transacted :—A letter was read from the
Bishop of Victoria, thanking the society for its grant of
£2,000 towards the proposed collegiate institution in
Hong Kong, and for £3OO for translations into the Chi-
nese language. The sum of £l,OOO was voted towards
the restoration of the cathedral at Toronto. This grant
was made in pursuance of notice given by the standing
committee at the general meeting in July. A letter was
read from the Bishop of Madras, informing the society
that in consequence of his ill state of health he had felt
it necessary to resign the bishopric. His lordship added
that he should continue to feel a lively interest in the
society, and thankfully embrace any opportunity of pro-
moting its designs. The Bishop of Colombo (Ceylon)
requested the society's assistance towards a collegiate
institution in his diocese, to be dedicated to St. Thomas
the Apostle, and designed for the education of a native
clergy, catechists, and schoolmasters. His lordship said
that he had purchased for £2,000 nine acres of ground,
and that, in addition to this, he would give the proposed
college £2OO per annum during his episcopate, together
with the use of his extensive library. The standing com-
mittee gave notice of their intention to propose, at the
general meeting in November, that £2,000 be then voted
towards the collegiate institution for Colombo. Grants
of a liberal character were made to several of the -colonial
dioceses, and 65 grants of books and tracts were made to
lending libraries and schools at home. Donations to the
amount of £3,764 9s. (inclusive of £3,251 4s. Bd. to the
Jubilee Fund), and legacies to the amount of £1,600,
were announced, and 28 gentlemen were elected members
of the society.