The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Prince Albert has appointed the Rev. G. 1-1. Liddell,
M.A., to be one of his Ris Royal Highness's Domestic
Chaplains, in the room of the Dean of Westminster, pro-
moted to the See of Oxford.

Dr. Symons, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, in an-
swer to a letter from Mr. Golightly makes the heartsick-
ening confession that he must forbear to re-impose an
oath upon Dr. Pusey, because, an oath taken by a person,
holding the opinions which Dr. Pusey has not scrupled to
declare he has adopted, is no test whatever of the sincerity
of him who makes it—" Proh pudar !"
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—OR Sunday, immediately
after giving out the text, the Rev. W. H. George, of
Spaxton,t Somerset, suddenly dropped in his pulpit, to the
great consternation of all present, and especially when it
was ascertained that life was extinct. The Rev. gentle-
man was about fifty years of age, and much respected.
IMPORTANT STEP.—The Times say , that the Dean of
Christ Church has deprived the Rev. Thomas Edward
Morris, M.A., Student of Christ Church and Tutor, of
his tutorship in that College. Mr. Morris is brother of
Mr. Morris, of Exeter College, who has just gone over to
the Romish Church. The Dean, it is said, being anxious
to protect the young men of the College from Romanizing
influences, called on Mr. Morris to sign the 39 articles,
which Mr. Morris said he had lately done in the sense of
Tract No. 90. Hence the deprivation alluded to.
ADDRESS OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION TO THE
DIGNITARIES OF THE CHURCH.—The committee of the
Protestant Association have addressed a respectful repre-
sentation to the Archbishops and Bishops of the United
Church of England and Ireland, setting forth the alarm
with which the association views the progress of a Ro-
manising party in the Church, who declare they must re-
cede from the principles of the English Reformation; the
apostacy more recently manifested from the Scriptural
truth maintained in the Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy ;
and the avowed secession of some of the chief leaders of
that party, with many of their followers, to the Church of
Rome, &c., and humbly urging their lordships to exert
their influence and authority to stay these and other con-
comitant evils, the onward course of which has not yet
been checked by effectual measures. They lament that
new and strange doctrines infect both our universities,
those fountains out of which the blessings of sound learn-
ing and religious education should flow ; also that the
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church are frequently and
avowedly signed in a " non-natural sense," a practice
which strikes at the foundations of all honour and honesty
amongst men. Finally, after some remarks on the excel-
lence of these Articles " for avoiding diversities of opinion.
and for the establishing of consent touching true religion,"
the committee express to their lordships their earnest de-
sire, that the bishops and pastors of our Church " should
perseveringly exert themselves to maintain and diffuse
among every portion of the clergy a high and holy stan-
dard of conscientiousness, integrity, and faithfulness,
both in taking upon themselves and in fulfilling their or-
dination vows and engagements ; and to hold up to general
detestation all jesuitical reservation and evasion, in regard
to an office so sacred and pledges so solemn and impor-
tant." The committee expresses the readiness of the
association to afford any assistance in their power to the
Fathers of the Church, in their efforts to banish the erro-
neous and strange doctrines referred to, and look to their
lordships to call upon others to do the same. The address
concludes with a prayer, that a blessing may rest
on their lordships pious endeavours for the purification
and protection of the Protestant Church.