The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

Sir Robert Peel has presented £lOO to the fund for the
extension of church building in the diocese of Lichfield.
A correspondent of the Manchester Courier urges his
fellow-townsmen to the pod work of budding a cathedral
for their expectant Bishop. He says, "They have wealth,
they have power, they have talents—why not devote them
to the glory of God ?"
The Bishop of Exeter has introduced a new test prior
to admitting any clergyman into his diocese, or removing
one to another, viz. : " What are your views as to baptis-
mal regeneration ?" We question whether any bishop of
his own authority has power to introduce any such novelty.
Lord Ward has given a second donation of £5OO to the
new church now building at Pensnett ; £3OO to the re-
pairs of Coseley Church ; £lOO to the church about to
be consecrated at Quarry Bank ; and £lOO towards the
building of a parsonage at Quarry Bank. The noble
lord has added £lOO per annum to the living of St. Ed-
mund's, Kidderminster, of which the Bev. John Davies
is the incumbent. His lordship has likewise presented
the Kidderminster Chess Club with £5, and enrolled
himself as a member.

THE New BISHOPRIC Of MANCHESTER.—It has been
definitively settled, that early in the next session the
ministers will propose to parliament tae immediate erec-
tion of Lancashire into a separate see, under the title of
" The diocese of Manchester." The new diocese will
consist of the Archdeaconry of Manchester. including the
deaneries of Blackburn, Leyland, Manchester, and War-
rington, and also the independent deanery of Andrew's or
Arnounderness, comprising in the whole 405 benefices. In
fact, the whole of Lancashire, except the deanery of Cart-
mel and Furness, comprising 31 incumbences, which will
still appertain to the diocese of Chester. _ _

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THE LAWS AFFECTING CLERGYMEN.—The Rev. Dr.
Holloway. incumbent minister of Fitzroy Chapel, Lon-
don-street, Tottenham court-road, has addressed a letter
to the Lord Chancellor, in which he prays his lordship's
opposition to some " novel regulations and fu, ther en-
croachments upon the pristine liberty of the labouring
clergy," which it is intended to introduce into the House
of Lords in the course of the next session. The rev. gen-
tleman, after adverting to the laws at present in force
with respect to the clergy, alludes to the proposed regula-
tions for the " correction of clerks," which he severally
condemns, inasmuch as he contends that if more absolute
power be made over to the hierarchy, so that any and
every bishop, ad arbitrittat suum, may depose his man for
preaching, propagating, or implanting what such Bishop,
according to his own views and sentiments, may consider
"unbecoming a clergyman," there wilkhe no class of men
in Christendom placed in greater jeopardy or more abject
slavery than the Evangelical Clergy, against whom, he
alleges, the shaft is directed. Dr. Holloway views with
great alarm these and other contemplated changes, and
assures the Lord Chancellor that, if persisted in, a large
number of clergymen (probably as many as 4,000) will
leave the pale of the Established Church.—Morning Post.