The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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BIRKENHEAD NEW COLLEGE.—The site of this in-
tended building has been fixed. It is to be in Slaty-lane,
in Claughton, about midway between Oxton new Church
and Birkenhead new Park, where there are, fronting the
eastward, in one lofty block of stuccoed buildings, five

large houses, called `1 Kenyon-place." These will form
the new Theological College of Birkenhead. The Bishoi
of the diocese takes it under his own particular charge
His lordshi

Principal, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, tii, _
cumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead
of the leading gentlemen of Birkenhead hay-
come forward and guaranteed the rent of the premib—,
case the Burser should, by any misadventure, find that
the establishment will not pay its own expenses, of which
there is little fear_ The Ilishnn and the Prinninal have

hosts of applicants already. This is to be pechliarly a
Theological College—a sort of Ministerial Training
School. Its students will be the agents for the Parochial
Aid Association, lately organized for Birkenhead and it
vicinity, as well as for Liverpool and th(

burbs on ti

TRACTARIAN AND EPISCOPAL MOVEMENT.—The Rev.
Mr. Macmullen has left England for Rome to join th(
Rev. J. H. Newman, in that city. He is accomp
other members of the university who have not
formed. The Lord Bishop of P' we f-

.upon .., tear, professed
himself unequal singly to meet the difficulties in which

tile proceedings of
involved the church, and has
brethren of the episcopal bench to a conferee

the last fey

t Leeds hay

decided on inviting hi

view to extensive measures of protection and defence
Besides the case of St. Saviour's Church, and the Rev
Mr. Ward, (not the professed Romanist of that name,
Dr. Hook himself has among his curates the late edito

year or two

;eating the English Reformation th-e°7'B;-'

nx►urnlauun. vv e ►ear mum tnat these tacts, added to
that of-the Rev. Mr. Cox, a young clergyman of Leeds,
having also gone over to the Romish communion within
five weeks, prove that the bishop has but too good
he is said to be about to adopt.—
Rite.

have, from time to time, referred to the project of a cathe-
dral for Manchester. It is said that such a building, to
do credit to the town, cannot be completed under one
hundred thousand pounds, and it is proposed that, at pre-
sent, not more than thr hancel, the two transepts, and
the tower (uniting the nave and chancel, the two transepts)
be attempted, and these, with ten bells, would cost fifty
thousand pounds. This sum it is proposed to raise by
-
one 1" lrecl ',lila]l sub-

Munn- .ts contributing XSOO each, ant.
scriptions in smaller sums, for the erection of the navE
might be collected, whilst the other parts of the cathedr

were being erected. The site proposd is the high ground
at Cheetwood, rather towards Broughton. The Manches-
ter Courier says :—" We apprehend that, for a work of

,uch maguitude, these sug,
Co build a cathedral worth

Rock6,le, Ok

'owns, incompa

distrietin Great Brifain—i.

be no difficulty in

in the first install(
£70,000 or £160,0(
eel, two transepts,
PRESENTATION

Dolir; wit

as a testimonial of t

ll whid

ley. George
he value of

a and res

taylar-
kfter a few r

tion took place in the school-room.
Croston occupying the chair.
addressed the rev. gentleman in suitabl
seated him with the splendid testimoni

ion. .31r. 1/over, in returning tl►
huw inadequate the. power of lingua
mice to his feelings. He said '

mbar

cause•he thought-it neces:
gladly avoided, which WaL4
show, indeed, that he des

) do what

to speak of his
Ted, (

As entitled to

himself in accepting it. Ile then took a re'
Christian Ministry in its faationship to Go,

Cleavou'red to fulfil this important trust to tl
power, while he confessed how far his cfk
not only of the standard set up in Holy Seri'
of what his own desires would have led hi►
spoke of the valuable position of the Chm•c

ChurCh had to contend on

situation, had h

locality of it