The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man (Dr. W. A. Shirley) ex-
pired on Wednesday last, after a short but severe illness.
It is reported that the clergy and laity of North Wales
are busily engaged in preparing a plan to carry out the
immediate building of a college, similar to the flourishing
little establishment at Lampeter, but the plan of studies to
be pursued is to be somewhat different. The college is
to be called the " Powis College," founded on a testimo-
nial about to be built in one of the counties of North
Wales, but the site is not fixed upon.
INCORPORATED CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—Since
the formation of the society, in the year 1818, it has con-
tributed towards the erection of 675 churches and chapelS,
to the re-building of 433, and to the enlargement of 1,400.
The grants appropriated to these pious purposes amount
to no less a sum than £389,695 ; and accomodation has
been supplied to 698,000 persons, of whom 510,000 have
now the privilege of attending the services of the church,
free of all expense for sittings, and at no greater outlay by
the society than fifteen shillings for each individual.
Large as have been the contributions that have enabled
the society to effect so much good, the sum remaining at
their disposal amounts at this moment to no more than
£1,125.

LAY TITHES.—"A project (says the Nonconformist in
alarm), is on foot for restoring lay tithes to the Church of
England. It is set forth in a circular signed by Lord
John Manners, Mr. 'William Wyndham Malet, vicar of
Ardeley, in Hertfordshire, and by other clergymen and
gentlemen. The object is to provide for spiritual destitu-
tion by means more certain than the Additional Curates
Fund and Pastoral Aid Societies. The movement began
in 1845 i subscriptions have been received; owners of
impropriate tithes have expressed willingness to cede
them at a sacrifice ; and it is proposed to establish a pub-
lic board, to be called 'the Tithe Restitution Trust for
the Church in England and Wales,' the whole episcopal
body acting as a 'Council of Direction and Advice' in the
appropriation of restored tithes."

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

There is now an arrear of four hundred and fifty-five
causes standing for hearing in the Courts of Chancery.
WARRANTY OF PROVISIONS.—The Court of Exche-
quer decided, on Wednesday, that the general rule of law,
that persons selling provisions entered into an implied
contract that the provisions were sound and fit for human
food, was confined to dealers ; and that an ordinary indi-
vidual selling meat accidentally, in ignorance that it was
not marketable, and acting bona fide, was not liable. The
question arose out of the sale of a pig from one farmer to
the other, the seller not knowing that it was diseased and
unfit for food, as it proved to be when cut up.
MOZLEY v. ALSTON.—On Wednesday last, the Vice-
chancellor granted an injunction, restraining from acting
the twelve directors of the Birmingham and Oxfbrd Rail-
way Company who are alleged by the bill to have incapa-
. citated themselves to manage the company's affairs. The
counsel are still continuing their arguments on the appeal
to the Lord Chancellor against the Vice-chancellor's de-
cision over-ruling the demurrers to the bill ; and leave
has been obtained to move for the dissolution of the in-
junction granted by the Vice-chancellor.—The Lord Chan-
cellor is to give his decision in this case on Wednesday
(to-morrow.)

PEES FOR PAUPER BURIALS..—In the Court of Ex-
chequer, on Wednesday, the Lord Chief Baron delivered
judgment in a special case, raised in an action brought by
the Rev. Dr. Spry, rector of Marylebone, to recover
from the master of the workhouse a fee of Is. 6d. on the
burial of each workhouse pauper buried in St. John's-
wood burial ground. The court decided that no such fee
was payable at common law, and that it could only be
claimed under some special act of Parliament or local
euitom. As there was no act or custom to sanction Dr.
Spry's claim, judgment was ordered to be entered for the
4)efencht4t.