The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

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The Maidstone Journal announces the postponement
of the re-opening of the parish church, owing to the indis-
position of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, is staying with
Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart., M.P., at Le!gh Park, previous
to his embarkation for his distant and interesting diocese.
The Rev. John Wallas, curate of Aikton, Cumberland,
was killed on last week, through his gun accidentally
going off whilst he was out shooting on the moors.
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, son of the Rev. Dr. Carpenter,
formerly minister of George's meeting, Exeter, has been
appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence to King's
C•illeq,:. London University.
The lev. Dr. Carter, Dean of Tuam, died of cholera
yesterday week, at Salthill, near Kingsto. The rev.
gentleman had reached an advanced age, an 4 was incum-
bent of Ballymore, in the diocese of Armagh.
A site has been chosen at Oxford for the erection of a
new university museum, which is expected to cost more
than £50,000, of which part will be raised by subscription,
and the remainder supplied from the university chest..
The Builder states that Wilton Church, built at the
expense of the Hon. Sydney Herbert, cost £36,000, and
that its length from the western porch to the chancel apse,
is 120 feet ; the width, 53 feet ; height of nave 57 feet ; of
tower. 100 feet.
The Rev. Dr. Mortimer writes that he has been com-
pelled. to part with his chapel, in Gray's Inn Road, in
consequence of ill health, and that he would not have sold
it to Mr. Baptist Noel could he have found a member of
the Church of England willing to buy it.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Rev.
W. Goode, the literary antagonist of the Bishop of Exeter
on the subject of baptismal regeneration, to a valuable
living in the metropolis. It is hence inferred that his
Grace's opinion is in unison with that of the Archbishop
of York on this point of doctrine.
Charles, the son and pupil of the Rev. Wm. noutledge,
M.A., of Bishop's Hull, near Taunton, was last week
elected a " King's Scholar" of Eton College. This, we
understand, is almost the only instance, since the scho-
larships were thrown open to the competition of all Eng-
land, of a boy, ten years of age, having attained this dis-
tinction.

It is intended to add another to the two dioceses of
which Canada is composed, and a bishop's see will be
erected at Quebec as well as at Montreal. It is expected
that the first appointment to the new bishopric will be
conferred on the Rev. Isaac Heilmuth, M.A., Professor
of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at Bishop's College,
Lennoxville, Montreal.
CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.—Last week but
one at Watton, Herts, a meeting in behalf of this Society
was held on the rectory lawn, the Rev. E. Bickersteth in
the chair. The speakers were—Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Revs.
Messrs. Dury, Chomley, Birks, Lloyd, Olive, Prowett.
The amount contributed, including the collection of a
sermon on the Sunday previous, reached the large sum of
£225 12s. 4d.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—The biennial meeting of
the Hertfordshire Reformation and Protestant Associa-
tion was held on Tuesday week. A sermon was preached
on the occasion at All Saints'Church, by the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, D.D. The preacher, in the course of a very
powerful and eloquent discourse, referred to the question
of baptismal regeneration, which was at present agitating
the Church. The meeting was held in the Shire-hall at
the close of divine service. The chair was taken by the
Rev. M. M. Preston, Rector of Chesbunt. The meeting

I was numerously attended. Amongst those present were
I —the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, D.D. ; Revs. E. Bickersteth,
J. Olive, C. Jollands, R. H. Webb, T. R. Birks, R. W.
Morice, J. W. Birch, T. Dury. C. Prowett, H. F. Skrim-
I shire, Franks, C. Thornton, E. H. Bickersteth. J.
Raban, C. S. Chauncey, S. H. U. Heathcote, and J.
Lord, Esqrs., &c. The collection at the doors amounted
Ito £3lBs. 4d. Subscriptions to the araount of £2B 3s. 6d.
were also received at the table. The collection after the
i service at the church amounted to £l6 7.