The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Eton. Montem has been at length abandoned.
The students at St. Bees College have remitted nearly
£5O to• the Irish relief fund.

Mr. Hattersley, the eighth wrangler at the recent com-
mencement at Cambridge, was for many years a member
of the Society of Friends.
The Bishop of Oxford was to preside yesterday (Mon-
day) at the annual meeting of the Church Missionary
Society, at Oxford.
A fire broke out at Cuddesdon Palace, the seat of the
Bishop of Oxford, on Wednesday, but the consequence
is not serious.
The Bishop of Oxford has appointed the Rev. E. M.
Goulburn, of Merton College, his examining chaplain.
Mr. Goulburn is one of the leaders of the anti-tractariaa
party.
Mr. Edward Dewhurst, for some years the preacher at
the Independent Chapel, Billericay, Essex, has re-
noanced the principles of dissent, and will shortly be or-
dained by the Bishop of Rochester.
Lord Hardinge feeling for the " spiritual wants of a
distant part of the parish of Penshurst, in which he re-
sides, has sent £l,OOO towards building and endowing a
church or chapel there."
The mobbing of the Proctors at Cambridge, when out
at nights apprehending loose women, has not been dis-
continued: Legal proceedings have been commenced
against five of the rioters ; who are to be tried at the next
,assizes.

The architect employed to build the Protestant Church.
at Leeds, to which Mr. Haigh was to give ten thousand
pounds, has this week followed the example of Mr. Haigh,
and of his pupil, Mr. Bruce, and been received into the
Roman Catholic Church, at Oscott College, by Dr. Wise-
man.

The Directors and contractors of the North Stafford-
shire Railway have placed £l,OOO at the disposal of the
Bishop of Lichfield, to be employed in promoting the
spiritual welfare of the labourers engaged in constructing
that line, an example well worthy the imitation of all who
embark in similar undertakings. His Lordship has placed
the sum under the control of the Ven. Archdeacon Hod-
son.

PARISH CLERK IN ORDERS.—The Rev. C. E. Douglas,
8.A., has been appointed parish clerk of Brighton, under
the act of 7 and 8 'Victoria, intituled " An act for better
regulating the offices of lecturers and parish clerks." He
is appointed by the rector, and afterwards licensed by the
bishop, to perform all such spiritual• and ecclesino-ical
tduties as are performed by stipendiary curates. this is
he first case of the kind in the diocese of Chichester.
SECESSIONS FROM THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—The
conversion of Mr. Haigh, of Leeds, to the Roman Catho-
lic faith, has been followed by that of his brother, who
made his abjuration of the Protestant religion in the pri-
vate chapel of the Bishop's house at Birmingham, last
week. On Sunday week Mr. Walter Buckle, of Exeter
College, Oxford, was received at Oscott College, into the
Romish Church, by Dr. Wiseman.
THE UNIVERSITIES.—If the opponents of our universi-
ties will consult any ordinary English History, they will
discover that the Universities always were as they now
are, connected with the church of this country ; and that -
the introduction of the Thirty-nine Articles into the
Universities, at the time they were, is explained by the
fact that the church at that time adopted them. So the
whole rationale of the two Universities is simply, that they
are Church of England places of education conferring
degrees ; and we ask again, why should not the church
have her own places of collegiate education, as other
bodies have theirs ?

BEBINGTON Cuuncll.—Tbe restoration of this building
is now ahnost completed. The gallery, which formerly
excluded the west end from the part appropriated for
diNine service, has been taken away, and the Tranmere
aisle extended, so that the church is now perfect in its
proportions, consisting of a chancel, nave, and two aisles.
The whitewash has been scraped from the pillars, the
plastered ceilings destroyed, and the old roof exposed to
view. There are five entire windows, besides the tracery
of many others, which have been enriched with'stained
glass. The reading desk is a continuation of the old
stalls, and has been made of a part of the chancel screen,
which was found in the church at the commencement of
the alteration, and has furnished a copy for the pulpit,
which is being finished in exactly the same style. The
improvements have been conducted under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Roberts, of Berry-street, who some
years ago restored the parish-church of Woodchurch.
We congratulate our neighbours- upon the spirit and
energy which has thus restored one of the finest churches
in this vicinity from the mutilations which had been in-
flicted upon it by former generations.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, Mr. Wakley
obtained a verdict, with 1.375 damages, against the pro-
prietor and publisher of the Medical Times for a libel.
A supplement to the London Gazette of Saturday con-
tains two orders in council abolishing all courts for the
recovery of small debts on the 13th of March next, except
for Middlesex, Bath, Bristol, Liverpool, and Sheffield ;
and ordering that on the 15th of March next the act of
the last session shall be put in force.
NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—A number of new Queen's
counsel will be made either previous to the circuits or in
Easter term. Amongst the applicants for silk the follow-
ing are mentioned :—Mr. Bliss and Mr. Granger, of the
Northern circuit; Mr. Townsend, of the North Wales
circuit ; Mr. Miller, of the Midland ; and Mr. Prender-
gast and Mr. O'Malley, of the Norfolk Circuit.
COPY Booxs.—ln the Court of Queen's Bench, on
Thursday, an issue from the Court of Chancerywas brought
to try whether a series of copy-books, published by
Messrs. Darnell and Co., booksellers, were or were not art
infringement of a series of copy books, called " Foster's
Copy books," of which Messrs. Souter and Co., of Fleet-
street, are the proprietors. Of the first series of the lat-
ter, it appeared, no less than 450,000 had been sold up ta
Christmas last. The great principle of the invention was
the introduction of faint lines, so as to keep the letters of
uniform size. The case was adjourned.
CHURCH-RATES.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on
Monday, Lord Denman gave the decision of the court on
another important question raised in the celebrated Brain-
tree church-rate case. The judgment was to the effect,
that if a meeting be called for the purpose of levying a
church-rate, an amendment that there be nq rate is not
legal, and cannot be entettained, it being the duty of the
meeting to make a rate. If, therefore, the majority re-
fuse a rate, they are to be considered as not taking part
in the business of the meeting, and the minority may
make a rate. In future, then, it will be impracticable ab-
solutely to refuse a rate ; but the object of the opponents
will be substantially obtained by proposing a rate too small
in amount to be collected.

An action was tried last week 511 London against (the
Marquis of Conyngham for goods supplied the marchion-
ess, from whom he is living separate, and to whom he
allows £2,400 a-year, which the jury considered ample,
and found for the defendant. The affairs of this ill-starred
family were again exposed with painful minuteness ; but
the feature of most mterest to the public was the fact,
that, though his lordship's income from his Irish estates
should be about £30,000, it does not in reality amount to
more than £12,000. The property lies principally in •
Donnegal, and is the came whose runious mismanagement
was depicted in the earlier of the Times Commissioner's
letters, especially contrasted with the same writer's ac-
count of.the adjoining estates of Lord George Hill. The
marchioness is daughter to the Marquis of Anglesey, and
sister to the Duchess of Richmond ; and the Albion says
that the mother of the marquis, the present dowager
marchioness, celebrated for her intimacy with George the
Fourth, is the daughter of the late Joseph Denison, the
Liverpool banker, and was considered the most desirable
heiress in the three kingdoms, both on account of her
fortune and her beauty.
MELANCHOLY STATE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION.—
The existing judges of local courts having a prior claim
to the judgeships under the small debts acts, the appoint-
ments to be made by the Lord Chancellor, do not exceed
' twenty. For these, it is said, no less than 750 arplica.-
tions were made. • The story runs in Westminster Hall,
that among these 750 petitioners for places were all but
four of the seijeants ; to such straits are these dignitaries
reduced by the abolition of their monopoly of the Com-
mon Pleas. Another curious appointment, according to
rumour, is that of one of her Majesty's counsel, of thirty-
seven years standing at the Chancery bar, and
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the briefs, and multiplies the competition for them. The
Herald calculates that, out of the 3,000 barristers cata-
logued in the law list, not more than 200 are 'sufficiently
employed to earn a respectable maintenance.---Lazo Times.