The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

(TO BB CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.)

ARREST OF CAPTAINS OF FOREIGN MERCITANT
SITIPS.—We find the following paragraph in the Dublin
Freeman :—A Dutch captain has been arrested here on a
judge's fiat, for having sold at Constantinople a cargo of
corn shipped at Galatz, returning to Odessa for another
cargo. The captain, we understand, alleges that the cargo
was damaged, and could not be brought home, and that he
acted under the instruction of his ambassador at Con-
stantinople, Two :iilllll4 casez 11MT OCCUrred 311 Lon-
don,

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sr a,—The Rev. W. Pollock, at a meeting of the
" Working Men's Church Association," on Tuesday last,
is said, to have alluded in opprobrious terms to certain
" practices" supposed to have been current at St. Martin's
church, which, under the epithet of " Tractarian," I pre-
sume he means to be considered violations of the rules of
the Church. The churchwardens of St. Martin's will,
therefore, feel obliged if Mr. Pollock will take the trouble,
and they hereby publicly call upon him, to substantiate
his charges, and point out any feature in the services of
that church inconsistent with the order and sanction of
the Prayer-Book. By inserting this, you will oblige
Your obedient servant,
ONE Or THE CHTIECICWARDENS.
17th June, 1854.

WEEKLY COMMUNION.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—l noticed, with much regret, in your columns of
last week, a letter written by a so-called " Churchman of
Liverpool," but whose attachment to the Church of Eng-
land is certainly most questionable. It is difficult to con
ceive that any man, who calls himself a Churchman, should
ground his opposition to the carrying out of the Church's
teaching upon an argument so puerile and so shallow as
that which your correspondent advances. The whole
ground of his objection seems to be the absence of any
authoritative direction, that the Holy Communion should
be celebrated weekly ; and, in support of his position, he
quotes the rubric, which orders that " all priests and
deacons of collegiate and cathedral churches shall receive
the communion with the priest at least every Sunday."
Now, in this injunction, I cannot find, for my own part,
any ground for asserting that the Church intends to ex-
clude from the Lord's Supper all those who have not been
admitted into holy orders ; that the same benefits are not
to be extended to the laity ; and that a sacrament, which
is declared to be " generally necessary to salvation," is
only to be administered frequently to those whose duties
are confined to collegiate and cathedral churches.

Surely the souls of the laity, the souls of the poor, who
are the Church's especial care, and to whom the Gospel is
more particularly addressed, are not of less value, or reli-
gion less " strengthening and refreshing," than those of
the ministers of Christ. Or, again, are we, in this our
day, of which religious coldness and indifference are the
striking characteristics—are we less in need of spiritual
assistance than the Primitive Christians, who considered
a daily reception of the Holy Eucharist necessary to pre-
serve them from falling from their faith.
On the supposition that the " Churchman of Liverpool"
thinks it right to partake of the Holy Communion once a
month, we ask him whence he derives his authority for
this practice, as the rubric nowhere lays down the precise
periods at which the rite should be celebrated, but only
makes it obligatory upon the members of the Church to
partake three times a year at least. Your correspondent
is evidently one of those who prefer the very minimum of
religion, and who have too high an opinion of their own
spirituality of mind to feel the necessity of a constant
supply of Divine aid. And not satisfied with their own
ignorant indifference, they seek to undermine the laudable
efforts of those who would seek to draw men nearer to
Christ, and to cement more firmly their union with Him
by a frequent participation in that saerament, which is
hallowed by His real and especial presence.—l remain, Sir,
yours very faithfully, ANGLO-CATIIOLICts.
Liverpool, June 19th, 1854.

THE PRAYER BOOK, AND WEEKLY

COMMUNION.

TO TIIE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STINDARD.

SlR,—Your correspor.dent of Tuesday last, who signs
himself " A Liverpool Churchman," has, I am sure,
utterly mistaken the intention of the Anglican Church
touching the point of weekly communion, as I hope to
convince him, if he will accompany me in a brief examina-
tion of the eucharistic office.

The last of the four rubrics which precede the office
refers wholly to matters of ritual. It commences by
ordering that "the table at the communion-time shall
stand, &c., having a fair white linen cloth upon it." There
is neither direction nor permission to commence the office
except at a table thus arrayed; and the presence of this
linen cloth would surely seem to imply at least an inten-
tion or readiness on the part of the priest to celebrate.
All that follows up to the rubric preceding the Prayer for
the Church Militant is plain enough ; but there we read,
" And when there is a communion, the priest shall then
place upon the table as much bread and wine as he shall
think sufficient." This certainly implies that there MAY BE
no communion, but gives no rule for deciding upon what
days it is to be celebrated and upon what omitted. Turn
we now to the rubrics post fixed to the office. The second
and third of these taken together decide that there shall
be no celebration except " four (or at least three) commu-
nicate with the priest. Clearly, then, there is no autho-
rity for breaking off at the end of the Prayer for the
Church Militant—much less at the sermon—except when
less than three persons are prepared to receive. And were
the Church's rules carried out, the priest would never be
in doubt upon this point, as she requires intending com-
municants "to signify their names to the curate at least
some time the day before." So far, then, the intention of
the Church would appear to be, that there shall be a cele-
bration at least every Sunday and holyday ; but she pro-
vides for the possible case of no communion for lack of
communicants.
That such should ever be the case "in cathedral and
collegiate churches and colleges, where there are many
priests and deacons," she evidently deems almost impossi-
ble ; and therefore she enjoins that in such places " they"
(i. e. the clergy) "shall all receive the communion with
the priest every Sunday at the least, except they have a
reasonable cause to the contrary." In spite of this, the
practice in Cambridge, when I was resident, was to cele-
brate in each college once a term, is e., thrice in the year.
No one will dare to say that this was in accordance with
the Church's intention ; and it is equally absurd to endea-
vour to deduce her intention from the lax practices which
have too long prevailed in our parochial and other places
of worship.
The first rubric following the Nicene Creed directs that
"then (if occasion be) shall notice be given of the commo-
nion,"—a vivd voce notice, I presume, distinct from the
exhortation which is ordered to be read at a later period
of the service. And from this your correspondent deduces
an argument in favour of his position, that weekly com-
munion is not the Church's intention. I confess that I
cannot see this. Let us suppose a case. We have a church
in which monthly communion obtains, and next Sunday
happens to be the ordinary day for it, while the Sunday
following happens to be Easter Day. The priest celebrates
on Sunday next, and also gives notice for the Sunday fol-
lowing. In doing so he neither violates the letter nor the
spirit of the rubrics ; nor would he if he were to celebrate.
every Sunday under similar circumstances. I would
observe that an examination of the first and second Litur-
gies of Edward VI. cannot fail to throw much light upon
this point ; and I would remind your correspondent that
the first of these assumes the practice of daily communion..
Upon one other point in your correspondent's letter I
am unwilling to touch, because I conceive it to be one
utterly unsuited to the pages of a newspaper (and forgive
me, Sir, if I say that you would have exercised a sound
editorial discretion had you struck out the part to which
I allude). Suffice it to say, that he could not have objected
as he has done to Mr. Wray's term " offering that sacred
memorial," had he been acquainted with the early litur-
gies, or with the writings of those Catholic fathers with
whose teaching our Reformers expressed their earnest
desire to conform.

Weekly communion is, of course, a Tractarian conceit.
Everybody knows that. But few are, perhaps, aware that
it is a practice of many most undeniable Protestants also.
The congregation of Independents in Glasgow, so long
presided over by the late Dr. Wardlaw, and one of Bap-
tists in Paisley, are within my own knowledge as rejoicing
in this primitive custom ; and not a few may be found in
England pursuing a similar course.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
K. MACKENZIE FUGUE.
[The writer of the above thinks we " would have exer-
cised a sound editorial discretion, had we struck out" a
particular portion of "A Liverpool Churchman's" letter
which appeared in our columns last week. We have
repeatedly stated, that we hold ourselves to be in no way
identified with the opinions expressed by correspondents;
and, in reference to the Proposed Free Church, we have—
from that spirit of fairness which it has ever been our
aim to preserve—been more indulgent than ordinary to
writers on both sides, with whose letters we have not
interfered, either by way of correction or omission,
from the conviction that, so long as such a controversy
is conducted with temper and moderation, the cause of
truth is sure to be triumphant.]

THE PROPOSED CHURCH FOR DAILY
PRAYERS.

TO THE EDITOR OP TER LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—What funny correspondents this terrible Church
scheme has secured for you! If the matter go on, yea will
become, by their help, as popular as Punch. First, we
have " a Real Protestant," who protests against all services
except two on Sundays, and ditto on Christmas-day and
Good Friday. With that allowance he is satisfied; and
what business has any one to desire more ? Bless his inno-
cent heart, I know lots of Realer Protestants than him. He
is but half a Protestant, after all. He keeps Pasch, and Yule,
which are abominations in the eyes of a true blue. Dees
he not see that, in admitting Christmas-day and Good Fri-
day into his calendar, he gives up the Protestant principle of
" the Bible, and nothing but the Bible ?" Upon what
ground will he admit these, and at the same time reject
the least of all the fasts and festivals ? They all stand
upon the same authority—that of the Church. May I not
go a step further, and say, that Sunday must stand or fall
with all the others ? for surely we have no command to
keep holy the first day. As regards his extraordinary
notion, that all Churchmen should be satisfied with what
satisfies him, I would ask him, in sober sadness, is he pre-
pared to be satisfied with what would satisfy the majority
of the adult population of Liverpool, who never enter
a place of worship at all ?
Your next funny contributor is Mr. Hampton, whose
notion of " integrity" is charming. He boldly asserts, that
at his church the Prayer-Book is used in its integrity ;
and then explains himself to mean, that all of it 11 used
that is used. True, he does not word his explanation in
this way ; but to this it amounts. If he mean more than
this,—if he mean that, whenever he uses the Prayer-Book,
he uses all which is appointed to be used at that time, he
means what is not true ; as I pledge myself to prove, if he
should wish me to do so.
Then again it's funny, but very sad, to hear a clergyman
assert that none of his numerous people are "pining".for
daily prayers. No doubt lie has succeeded in teaching
them to hate the Pope, and -to divide the guilt of the
' cholera, the potato disease, and the Eastern war, between
Maynooth and the Oxford tracts ; but he has not taught
them, in all the years he has been among them, to long for
a more frequent reception of the blessing promised th two
or three assembled in the Saviour's name.
I believe that his church has no district legally assigned.
However, whether this by IQ Pr IA it II fully uti9iii

that no clergyman has a right to promote the erection of
a church in his neighbourhood. Not only his own so-
called district, but all the country round for an indefinite
distance, seems to be regarded by him as his manor ; and
woe to the rash man who attempts to poach upon it !
The Puritan party have had their day, and their sun is
setting ; and Mr. H. knows it. Hinc illce lacrymce.
They will die hard, no doubt, and do mischief yet before
they are finally got under ; but die they must, as a party,
even in Liverpool, so long their land of Goshen. The
Irish brigade division of them have long had the drilling
of the Churchmen here, and what has Churchmanship
been brought to ? Let the late refusal of a Church-rate
answer this question. Let the outrage perpetrated by
so-called Churchmen at St. Michael's, last year, answer it.
Let the general religious, or rather irreligious, condition
of this town answer it : for while, on the one hand, ultra-
montane Romanism is more rampant than in any other
town in England, I do not fear to assert that, on the other
hand, few if any towns can be found in which so large a
proportion of the whole population are living apparently
without any religion at all.
But the funniest thing of all is Mr. Hampton's kind
offer to allow somebody else to do his (Mr. H.'s) duty, if
Mr. Wray will provide the funds for paying that some-
body. True, he asserts that daily prayer at St. James's is
an impossibility with the present staff of clergy, except
at the cost of neglecting other duties. I happen to know
a priest in a very large town, who has a scattered flock, a
very small income, and a residence more than a mile
distant. Ever since his church was opened, now some
eight or ten years, the services have been twice daily,
three times on Sunday, and Communion every Sunday
and holy-day. The church is fully attended on Sundays ;
and many a time have I, present by accident, seen from
fifty to a hundred worshippers there on a week-day. A
large and efficient ragged-school is connected with it ;
the sick, the poor, and others are diligently visited.
This has been, and still is done single-hand. In-
deed, so little sympathy has that good man received from
his clerical brethren in the same town, that, during one
fortnight in each summer, which he has been in the habit
of taking for change of air and scene, the week-day
services have been intermitted, no one volunteering to
carry them on. Let " the staff " at St. James's go and
do likewise. They may have their Mattins and Evensong
as early and as late as they please. It will then be pos-
sible for the hard-handed sons of toil to attend them, and
time will be well expended which cannot be devoted to
schools or pastoral calls. In fact, they will find it a
saving of time both to themselves and their people. I
once heard a clergyman, with a population of fifteen
thousand, say, that only once in the preceding twelve
months had he been sent for to his residence, and that to
baptize a newly-born infant; and yet his sick and other
calls were unusually numerous, especially in winter. How
was this ? Twice a day he was to be found at his church,
and there his people sought him, saving his time and
their own. A call to attend upon one in articulo mortis
might once in half a dozen years interfere with the duty of
daily prayer ; but of every other duty it is calculated to
render the discharge more regular and efficient. Certain it
is, that of Mr. H. the Church requires daily prayers, openly
or privately : openly, if two or three can be found to join
him; privately, if he be alone. An hour a day on the average,
no very killing work ! and time surely well invested as
compared with an hour spent in visiting. I suppose that,
when he visits, he ordinarily devotes part of the time to
reading and prayer. Now, it would not be easy to visit
more than three persons in an hour ; so that, if only three
persons attend each service, he does, in effect, read and
pray with double the number in the same time. One
disadvantage they would doubtless labour under : they
would be stinted to the prayers of the Church, and the
simple word of God, " without note or comment ;" they
would lack both Mr. H.'s extempore prayers and private
expositions. And for this I can suggest no remedy, but
only the consolation that the loss would probably not be a
great oue.
Of one thing Mr. H. may rest assured, viz., that sooner
or later the proposed church will be built. He may play
the part of Sanballat the Horonite, and interpose delays ;
but these feeble Tractarians will be more than a match for
him, through Him Whose honour they seek to promote.
Feeble in point of numbers we undoubtedly are, as com-
pared with the Puritan ; but we are strong in a good
cause. The strength of numbers lies in the democracy :
and a few more such indiscreet but truthful speeches as
one which some of your readers may have lately heard,
will do much to give us the fustian jacket and linsey-
woolsey petticoat, if it do not give us the silk, satin, and
broadcloth. Mr. H. may take what happened at St.
James's school-room last week as an omen of what is to
come. Guns are made to go off; but the great gun of that
meeting went off in another sense than that to which his
admirers are accustomed.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., _

H. E. E

ECCT,ESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE..

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. 51. Anatis, M.A., to the Vicarage of Cubington, near
Leamington,. Warwickshire.
Rey. G Alcock, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Patrick's Rock,
Cashel, and to a Preachership in Cashel Cathedral Church.
Rev. H. Atkinson, M.A., to the Prebendary and Rectory of
Edermine, county Wexford.
Rev. W. Battersby, M.A., to the Incumbency of the Chapel
of Ease, Derry: . _ _

Rev. F. Bailey, jun., M.A., to the Curacy of Dunleetray,
county Galway.
Hon. and Rev. G. T. 0. Bridgeman, M.A., to the Rectory
of_Blympi_ll,Shropshire, _ .

Rev. J. Chamney, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Sleigh,
diocese of Armagh.
Rev. W. Crofton, 8.A., to the Curacy of Termonamongau,
Derry.

Re;/.. W.. French, M.A., to the Vicarage of Reydon, near
Sonthwold. Suffolk, with the Incumbency of Wragford
annexed.

Rev. T. Gerrard, 8.A., to the Curacy of Rabid, county
Carlow.

Rev. R. C. Hubbersty, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cartmel,
Lancashire.

Rev. C. Kennedy, 8.A., to the Curacy of Trahane, Derry.
Rev. F. Lear, M.A., Rural Dean,. and Rector of Bishopston,
Wiltshire, to be a Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Salis-
bury.

Rev. H. J. Longsden, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Seacroft,
near Leeds.

Rev. J.. Murray, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Giles's
Church, Norwich, to the Vicarage of North Walsham, wits
the Rectory of Antingham St. Margaret annexed.
Rev. G. Murray, to the Vicarage of Dedham, near
Colchester. . - _

Rev. Sir C. Macgregor, Bart., late Vicar of Cabourn, near
Caistor,.to the Rectory of Swallow Lincolnshire.
Rev. G. Studdert, 8.A., to the Curacy of Drumbanagher,
diocese of Armagh.
Rev. G. Waudby, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Philip's
Church, Bethnal-green.

Tun VICAR OF PETERBOROUGIi has commenced a
system of open-air preaching, and he announces his inten-
tion to persevere in it so long as the state of the weather
permits.

THE QUEEN has appointed the Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley, Domestic Chaplain to Her Majesty, to the
Deanery of Windsor, in the room of the Hon. and Very
Rev. George Neville Granville, deceased.
Cuaisr Cnracir, SOUTHPORT.—On Sunday week,
three sermons were preached in. the above church ; those
in the morning and evening, by the Rev. Fielding Ould,
BA., incumbent of Christ Church, Liverpool; and that in
the afternoon, by the Rev. W. A. Mocatta, 8.A., curate of
Christ Church, Southport. After each sermon a collection
was made for the benefit of the Daily, Infant and Sunday
Schools, amounting to £36.
RE-CONVERSION.—Tbe Rev. Thomas Tenison Cuffe,
M.A., late of Kennington, who, some time back, seceded
from the Church and joined the Countess of Huntingdon's
Connexion, having expressed his deep regret to the Bishop
of London, and his firm attachment to the doctrine and.
discipline of the Church of England, his lordship has,
with the approval of the Bishop of Winchester, admitted
Mr. Cuffe to officiate in his diocese.
NEW SCHOOLS AT NEwTon HEATH.—The corner-stone
of the new Day and Sunday Schools, to be erected in con-
nexion with All Saints' Church, at Newton Heath, near
Manchester, was laid on Tuesday last, with a ceremonial
procession which was joined in by the leading inhabitants
of the district, the Sunday and Day School teachers, and
about six hundred others interested in the erection.
ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSIIRIDGE.—Never since the more
" popular" days of Mr. Bennett, of St Barnabas notoriety,
has such a scene of excitement been witnessed in Belgravia,
as that which manifested itself; for the election of a
churchwarden, during the whole of Thursday—a con-
tested political election being considerably beneath it
in point of local enthusiasm and general interest.
At the close of the poll, the numbers were—Westerton,
651; Davidson, 328; majority for Westerton 323.
CONSECRATION OF CHURCHES IN THE DIOCESE OP
MANCHESTER.-011 Saturday week, the Lord Bishop of
Manchester consecrated the new church, dedicated to St.
Saviour, at Ringley, near Bolton. It is to supersede the
old chapel at the same place. The church is a very hand-
some edifice, and contains, as part of its choir, an organ,
the fine instrument which used to stand in the great
gallery at Knowsley, which has been presented by the
Earl of Derby.—On the following Monday, his lordship
also, consecrated the new church recently erected at Pen-
nington, Leigh.—At Collyhurst, a handsome new church
is being built, and, indeed, so far advanced towards com-
pletion, that the document constituting trustees, for
appointing to the incumbency, and other purposes of the
church, is in course of preparation.
CHURCH RATES.—The Chancellor of the diocese of
Exeter has published a long letter in the London papers
with a view to "correct the very erroneous impressions
which exist respecting the law of church rates as affected
by the decision ip the Braintree case." He sets out by
stating that the points that have been established in the
protracted litigation in that case are that, in the event
of refusal of a church rate by the majority of a vestry, it is
not competent (let) to the churchwardens by themselves
nor (2nd) to the minority to make a rate. After gil'lng
an outline of the Braintree ease, the chancellor says, so
far is it from the truth that the House of Lords has' as has
been represented in its recent decision, abrogated ted or i
mp
pugned the legal liability of
parishioners' to provide for the
reparation and the services of their church, that, on the_ _
contrary, that liability
reasserted or declared, in
was, in the House of .60r(19, aS.III all
the previous courts, expressly. . . , _
an imperante legal
Lord Truro's own terms, to be
obligation.' And the language of Chief-Justice Tindal,
in the Court of Exchequer chamber, refusing to sanction
the churchwarden's rate, is exactly applicable to the
refusal by the House of Lords to sanction the rate by the
minority of the vestry. ' One argument, said Chief.
Justice Tindal, ' has been urged in the discussion before
us, to which we think it right to advert ; it has been said,
that to allow the enforcement of church rate to be the
matter of sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the spiritual
court, and at the same time to allow the prohibition to
issue is in effect to take away all power of compelling the
parishioners to repair the parish church. But it is obvi-
ous that the effect of our judgment in this case is no more
than to declare the opinion of the court that the church.
wardens have in this instance pursued a course not autho-
rised by law. And, consequently, all the power with
which the spiritual court is invested by law to compel the
reparation of the church is left untouched. If that court
is empowered (as is stated by Lyndwode and other eccle-
siastical writers) to compel the churchwardens to repair
the church by spiritual censures, to call upon them to
assemble the parishioners together by due notice to make
a sufficient rate, to punish such of the parishioners as
refuse to perform their duty in joining in the rate by ex-
communication, that is (since the statute 63 Geo. 111,
ch. 127) by imprisonment, and, under the same penalty,
to compel each parishioner to pay his proportion of the
church rate, the same power will still remain with the
spiritual court, uotwitiotancling tug deciaiou citlWC.'"

TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1854.

THE PARISHIONERS of Southam, 'Warwickshire, have
contributed between £5OO and £6OO towards beautifying
and restoring the parish church. The population of the
town is only about 1,700; this sum therefore must be
sidered of an unusally liberal character.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, on Tuesday, laid the foundatie.l
stone of St. Luke's Chapel, now in course of erection 1!.!
Nutford-place, Edgeware-road, London. The church I)
being built as a thank-offering for mercies vouchsafed 19).
God to the inhabitants of the district at a time of visitad
tion by cholera.
DIOCESE or MANCHESTER.—Ordination.—The BiSbaP
of Manchester held an ordination on Trinity Sunday', u`
the parish church of Prestwich, when the following gentle-
men were ordained and afterwards licensed to the camel°
set opposite their names, viz.:—Deacons,—James Taylor
Brown, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, licensed to St.
George's, Bolton-le-Moors. William George Guest, B•A''
rd.
St. John's College, Cambridge, to St. Stephen's, Salfo
George Hillyard, St. Bees' College, Cumberland, to 133/'
rowford. William Locket, 8.A., Queen's College, Cani;
bridge, to Mossley. William Haslam, BA., St. Joid4
College, Cambridge, to Christ Church, Bolton-le-WO'
Samuel Sharp Walker, to Royton. Thomas Brook"
Wrenford, St. Bees College, Cumberland, to St. Paul s,
Preston. Joseph Barber Lightfoot, M.A., and Fellow e
Trinity College, Cambridge. Priests.—William Crowther,,
8.A., St. Catherine's Hall. Cambridge. Edward 'lowan'
Gibbon, Bishop Hatfield's. Hall, Durham. John Johns° 11,,'
St. Bees College, Cumberland. Henry Fielding Sroitf'
BA., Pembroke College, Cambridge. Edward Pee,
Stock, 8.A., St. Johns College, Cambridge. Richa'
Thistlethwaite, St. Bees Collgge, Cumberland.