The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. Dr. Phelps, Master of Sydney Sussex College,
has been elected Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University.
The 'Bishop of Exeter has admonished the Rev. Mr.
Rawlings and condemned him to pay the costs of the pro-
ceedings for refusing to bury a corpse without the certi-
ficate of the registrar.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel employs
in North America 249 missionaries, in the West Indies
40, and in India, Au=tralia, New Zealand, &c., 92. Of
those in North America, 66 are paid by government.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has peremptorily re-
quested the trustees of all churches and chapels to imme-
diately give notice to all persons renting vaults under
such churches and chapels, to discontinue the sale of
wines and spirits in such places.
In a letter to the Times, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins
states that five of the Colonial Clergy have died from
fever, during their ministrations among the emigrants
from Ireland; and he suggests that their widows and or-
phans have strong claim on public sympathy, in this
country, in consequence of the reckless way in which
large numbers of diseased and starving persons have been
cast upon the Colonial shores.
The Consistory Court of Dublin has decided against the
Rev. T. D. Gregg in the suit instituted against him by
the Archbishop of Dublin to pravent his preaching in the
church of St, Nicholas 'Within. The rev. gentleman is
therefore prohibited from preaching anysVbere in the dio-
cese of Dublin and is imireover to pay the costs of the
suit which we fear will be considerable. The chief cause
of offence is Mr. Gregg's unswerving protestantism, and
we are fallen on sad times when a preacher's mouth is
stopped on that account.
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The committee of the Protestant Association have de-
termined to hold a public meeting on the subject of the
renewed diplomatic relations with Rome. One of the re-
solutions passed by the committee with reference to the
intended meeting is the following :—" That it now appears
from the declarations of Roman Catholics both in and
out of Parliament, especially from the rescript of the
Pope of Rome and the resolutions of the Romish arch-
bishops and bishops in Dublin, that the object now
sought after by the Papacy is nothing less than unlimited
control over the affairs of the country."

A paragraph has been going the round of the papers,
stating that " on Thursday last the Rev. Mr. Chirol, cu-
rate of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, together with his wife
and mother, were received into the Church of Rome, at
St. Mary's, Chelsea." Similar occurrences having hap-
pened with some of the curates of Christ Church, St.
Pancras, it may not perhaps be unfair or premature to
ask the Bishop of London how long he intends to allow
the Romish Church to be supplied with recruits from St.
Paul's, Knightsbridge, and Christ Church, Saint Pancras,
and the incumbents to continue basking in the sunshine
of his lordship's favour ? Times. . .
REV. DR. HOOK.—On Saturday week, the above di-
vine arrived on a visit at Haigh-hall, the seat of the Earl
of Balcarres. On Sunday week he preached at Haigh
Church. In the afternoon, immediately after the second
lesson, the Holy Sacrament of Baptism was administered
by the incumbent, the Rev. John Thomas Browne, to a
large number of children,—among others, to the infant
son of the Hon. Colin and Lady Francis Lindsay, to whom
Miss Humphries, Dr. Hook, and the Rev. Henry J. Gun-
ning, of Wigan, stood as sponsors. On Monday, Dr.
Hook left Haigh for Worsley-hall, the seat of the Earl of
Ellesmere.

The Bishop of Ripon has appointed Archdeacon Head-
lam, chancellor of his diocese, and the ecclesiastical busi-
ness of the diocese will be transacted at Richmond, where
there is an established Consistory Court in existence. One
of the new rules of the court is that in future blank marriage
licences are not as heretofore to be placed in the hands
of the surrogates of the diocese; but the party applying
for a license is to make affidavit before the surrogate, which
will be transmitted to the registry and a license will be
sent by return of post. This will occasion a delay of a
day or two, but it will have a tendency to stop clandestine
marriages, and parties applying for a license must not put
it off till the last moment. The practice adopted has long
been in use in the diocese of Chester.
STRANGE DOINGS IN CHURCHES.—A writer in the
atford and Cambridge Review for the present month,
states that at the Church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury,
London, the collection on the late thanksgiving day,
" was attempted immediately after the sermon, though
nothing was given, the churchwarden having purposely'
held the plate behind his back!" In another church in
London, he says " the prescribed forms of the Prayer
Book and the State Forms were both read, though at'
separate places, both morning and evening." At one
church in the city it occurred that " an officiating minis-
ter (who is very old) got so completely confused, that he
used the whole State Form, (without once turning to the
Book of Common Prayer), morning and evening service
rolled into one !" Among other peculiarities of the col-
lection, lie mentions " the use of two plates in some in-
stances, one labelled For the English,' the other ' For
the Irish.' This was the case at Bow church, London,
where a minature blunderbuss was actually put in the
plate For the Irish.' "
An influential meeting was held on Wednesday at Bir-
mingham to consider the propriety of presenting the Rev.
James Prince Lee, Bishop elect of Manchester, with some
testimonial of public respect. The Mayor presided, and
upwards of £3OO was subscribed in the room. The
Bishop of Worcester spoke very strongly in favour of the
appointment, and on the subject of the meeting. The.
Birmingham Herald says :—":As a gathering of gentle-
men of influence and station in the town, it far surpassed
any meeting which has been held here for a long time
past. All parties in politics, and all sects in religion,
united on that occasion to pay a debt of gratitude to the
distinguished gentleman, who has so long and so brilliantly ,
conducted the Free Grammar School of this Borough.
Although the subscription so spiritedly opened on that
occasion is confined to sums of £5 each as the maximum,
it is open to the reception of any sums beneath that
amount. The services of Mr. Lee, as Head Master of
King Edward's School, great as they have been, have
been by no means the whole which he has rendered this 1
town : the district schools in connection with that institu-
tion have been largely- benefite.d by his care, and he has 1
laboured with his characteristic zeal and earnestness to
extend its usefulness in every possible way; Nothing but
a testimonial which shall represent the feeling of the great
n umbers who have been benefited by Mr. Lee's labours ,
will at all meet the justice of his claims on the town, or
form a fitting token of gratitude for the zeal and ability
which he has displayed in its service."
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION AND THE BISHOPS.
It was decided to equalize episcopal revenues, and the
holders of the wealthier sees were required by act of par-
liament to surrender a portion of their property. It was
natural that men who wholly oppose this surrender on
principle, and did not allow the authority enacting it,
best
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prelates to receive a fixed portion of their income, such
as was thought likely to leave them in possession of the
average sums assigned to their sees. It has turned out
that in almost every instance that portion has been fixed
too low. The Bishop of Durham, in particular, is under-
stood to have received double the amount intended. Now
this is a very lamentable scandal. It brings the chief
pastors of the church before their enemies in the light, of
scheming speculators, appropriating by jobbing, revenues
to which they are not entitled.—Oxford and Cambridge
Review. [We believe that the following• was something
like the arrangement made with the present Bishop of
Durham. The average income of his predecessor was
£l7OOO, and Dr. Maltby, the present bishop, was offered
either £BOOO (at which the future income was fixed), or
permissions to pay into the hands of the ecclesiastical
commissioners the difference between those two sums,
and appropriate to himself the balance (whatever it might
be) of the revenues of the see. The 'bishop, after con-
sulting with his agent, accepted the latter arrangement,
and so enormously have the revenues increased from the
dropping out of colliery leases, &c., that we believe we
are not far wrong in saving that the present bishop, after
paying to the ecclesiastical commissioners £9OOO per an-
num, is yet in receipt of an average income not much be-
low that of his predecessor.]
DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The venerable
Archbishop of York, has passed from time to eternity.
The mournful event took place a little before one o'clock
on Friday, at the Palace, Bishopthorpe, near York. His
Grace's death was both sudden and unexpected, having
been in York Minster on Tuesday, apparently in his usual
state of health. On Wednesday, he was found laid on his
bed in a state of exhaustion, having had a slight fit. Dr.
Ferguson, his London physician, was immediately sent
for, but only arrived at the Palace on Friday morning
when his services were of no avail. The Great Bell of

1 ork Minster was tolled on the rnalancholy occasion.
The Right Honourable and Most Reverend Edward liar-
court, D.D., D.C.L. P.C. was private and metropolitan of
England, and eighty-third archbishop of the diocese. His
Grace was born in 1757, consequently was in his 91st
year, and we believe the 41st of his translation. The
deceased was son of the first Lord Vernon, by his
third wife, third daughter of the Honourable Simon Har-
court. He was educated at Westminster School, and
afterwards removed to Christ's Church, Oxford. He was
a Fellow of All Soul's College, and Prebendary of Glou-
cester. He married hi 1784 the third daughter of
the first Marquis of Stafford (she died in 1832)
and assumed the surname of Harcourt on inherit-
ing the estates of that family. He was Lord Hh Al-
moner to the Queen, Visitor of Queen's College, Oxford,
was appointed a Canon of Christ's Church in 1785, and
was Governor of the Charter House, and the King's Col-
lege, London ; he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in
1790—was translated to York in 1807, and was a patron
of sixty:two livings. The deceased was 'highly respected
Pets and parties. As a religious teatiter Ins pre-
, cepts were clear and forcible, and they ,were fully sup-
ported by a practice highly consistent.