The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

friends of. the society dined with the Lord M-ayor

Strange as it may appear, Sowerby Church, near Halifax,
although it has been erected 80 years, was not consecrated

JEAN D'ULLOA

until the 27th ult. The reason of the delay has been some
difficulty in obtaining a valid title to the ground On which
it was built.

REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—The Rev. Thomas Scott
received six converts from Romanism in Saint ttudoen's
Church on Sunday week. When they abjured the system,

and partook of the holy communion, he presented to each
of the converts a handsome Bible and a Book of Common
Prayer. The first Sabbath in the --"- -"

ily is fixed

for receiving another class of persons from the error of
that system.

PARISI! OF SCIIULL, IRELAND.—The Rev. Tohn Trip-
hook, who acted as curate under the late Dr. Traill, has
been appointed to the rectory of Schull, vacant by the d'
mise of that amiable clergyman. The livin,
..-out £BOO a year ; but Dr. Trail!, who had a
-te fortune, bestowed far more than this t.

g is worth
handsome

relieving the distress of his Roman Catholic parishioners
since the first appearance of the potato blight.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY.—SeveraI cases of acknowlr
fever having occurred in Durham, the warden and e.
of the University have deemed it expedient to take a
medical opinion upon the subject,
wal 1 that ;4- rlirl tint sr

After due inquiry it

—eterminec.. -cal_ MU um.
the members of the University ; but that, if the immedi-
ate friends of any student were desirous that he should be
removed from the University for a time, leave would be
given on due application, and every facility afforded to
alleviate the inconveniences which.may arise. Some of

the students have availed themselves of this permission ;
but all the lectures, as well as the ordinary business of the
town are proceeding in the regular CORI
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SO(

The annual
meeting of this society was held at Exeter-hall on Wed-
nesday. The Marquis of Chohnondeley presided, and
there were present, the Bishops of Winchester, Chester,
and Cashel ; the Bishop elect of Australia ; Lords Gle-
nelg and Teignmouth ; Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir T. D. Acland,
and Sir C. E. Smith. From the report it appeared that
the receipts for the year were £117,440 9s. 3d., being an
increase of £16,134 14s. 3d. over 1845-6, and 'nearly
£6OOO more than in any preceding year. The receipts for
Bibles and Testaments during the year were £16,436 Is.
5d.. and the total sum apportionable to the general pur-
poses of 'the society was £36,004 7s. 10d., 'including
..£30,851 Ils. 11d. from auxiliary societies. The issues
during the year were 1,419,283 volumes,—viz., 1,109,224
at home, and 310,059 from the depots abroad. The total
issues of the society have been 19,741,710 volumes. The

£26,749 more than the previous year, and, with one ex-
ception, the largest expenditure in any one year. The
engagements exceed £43,000.
CHESTER TRAINING COLLEGE.—At a meeting of the
Chester Diocesan Board of Education, held at Newton on
the Bth of April last. A letter was read from the Rev.
Richard Wall, wishing for an investigation into the cir-
cumstances of his removal from the office of Vice-princi-
pal in the Training College at Chester. In compliance
with this request, a resolution was moved by the Rev.
Canon Thurlow, seconded by the Rev. W. Hornby, and
unanimously carried,—" That this letter be referred to the
Training School Committee, and that the honorary se-
cretary of the Training School be requested to convene a
meeting at an early opportunity, to take the subject into
consideration." In compliance with this resolution, a
meeting assembled at the Training College at Chester, on
Monday the 3d instant, the venerable Archdeacon Rush-
ton in the chair; which, after a full investigation of all
the circumstances connected with Mr. Wall's dismissal,
vindicated his character by showing that no charge what-
interrupted. By the terms of capitalation, the garrisons ever was laid against him, and presenting him with the
were allowed to march out of the city with all the ho- following testimonial :—" That this committee having
nours of war, and then to lay down their arms. They gone fully into the case at issue between the Principal and
were provided with four days' provisions. The Mexican the late Vice-principal, desire at mite to record their deep
officers were allowed to preserve their arms and private regret at an event which has deprived the college of an
effects, and five days to retire to their respective homes. ofcer so able and so valuable as Mr. Wall. They are
All the materiel of war, and all public property found in unwilling to allow of his retirement without expressing
the city, the castle, and their depeniencies, to belong to the their high sense of the qualifications which he exhibited
United States. The sick and wounded Mexicans were to during the three years of his residence within the institu-
be allowed to remain in the city, and no private property tion ; and they beg leave to state their conviction that he
or building was to be taken possession of by the American Possesses, in no ordinary measure, the talents and habits
forces. of mind which will contribute to his usefulness in any
similar charge." Signed, J. Rushton, chairman.
Miss Martineau has arrived at Jerusalem. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
On Monday week, the Royal Court of Paris ordered of this society took place on Tuesday, in Exeter Hall—
Suisse, the valet of the late Marquis of Hertford, to refund the Earl of Chichester in the chair. At the csnclusion of
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dreds of Mexicans, and thus ended the demonstration.
" Although the foreign consuls and their families did
not accede to the offer of General Scott, and leave the
town, yet, during the bombardment, they attempted to
reach the ships of their respective nations, when they
were arrested in their course and ordered back to the

The following is from Vera Cruz, under date of the 29th
of March :—At ten o'clock, the whole Mexican army
marched out, and stacked their arms on the road near the
cemetery. Our army then marched on each side of the
Mexican lines into the town. All the best of the inha-
bitants had left the city before the attack. On our en-
tering it looked like a deserted city. The city is very
much iniured by the shot and shell. Nine thousand Mex-

lean troops were within twelve or fifteen miles of the city
on the night of the 28th, and were driven back by Col.
Harney, of the Dragoons. During the sixteen days that

roop! and

the opening of negotiations, there were five days of vio-
lent "northers," in which all landing of stores, &c., was

77,716 francs of his pickings to the present Marquis. the unairman s aaaress, tne tcev. IJEt%IS, uuc oc,u
ALLEGED CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.—The Moniteur tary, read the report of the society, which entered at con-
Beleze, of the 3d inst. states that a civil war had taken siderable length into the present state and future prospects
place between two neighbouring departments in the pro- of the different missions in the southern hemisphere and
vince of Gokien, in which 24,515 houses and 668 huts elsewhere. All these missions were in a most flourishing
were pillaged and burned to the ground, and 130,638 per- state, and the demand for Bibles at some of them was so
sons killed or wounded. The statement appears incredi- great that at one missionary station alone at British
ble. Guiana no less than 1500 had been sold off in a single
The Queen of Portugal, it is said, had decided upon fortnight; and the missionary stationed there had written
making concessions in favour of the people, and back to England, to the British and Foreign Bible Society,
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everything was settled. These conditions had been sig- for a further remittance of between ZMuu and
nified to Sada Bandeira, who was at Setubal, but he had which he had no doubt would be eagerly bought up
refused to listen to them, stating that he was under the With respect to the financial state of the society, in spite
orders of tne Junta of Oporto, and referring the overtures of the distres3 at home, the excess of this year's inemni
to his superiors there. The Queen had changed her Mi- over that of last year was no less than £14,369 ; the total
nistry, which was to be composed as follows :—Minister receipts being £116,827, a sum which considerably ex
of Foreign Affairs, M. Bayard ; Minister of Justice, M. ceeded the income of any former year, and which, after all
Leitao ; Minister of the Interior, M. Proense • Minister expenses had been paid, left a considerable balance in the
of Finance and Marine, M. Tojal ; Minister of VV'ar, Baron hands of the treasurer to be added to the capital of the
Ponte Barca. society. This state of things afforded a very remarkable
The Chinese Repository gives an account, which contrast to the state of the society in 1842, when a heavy
could hardly be credited were there not positive proofs debt and a comparatively small. income cramped their ()f-
a the density of the population of the Chinese Empire. forts. He (Mr. Davis) had to state the sorrowful intelli-
According to the above journal, published by the Amefi- Bence, that two of the vice-presidents of the society had
can missionaries, a civil war, or rather feud, took place recently died ; so recently, that it had been hoped they
between the two neighbouring departments of Chang would have been present at this meeting : these were Lord
Chao and Tseven Chao, in the province of Gokien, in Lurgan and the Bishop of Sodor and Man. At the con-
which 24,515 houses and 668 huts were pillaged and elusion of the general report, several detailed reports of
burnt to the ground, and 130,638 persons killed or the, state of different missions were read. The meeting
wounded. It appears that wars of this kind are of fre- was subsequently addressed by several gentlemen on the
quent occurrence in the interior of this country, without platform—among whom were the Bishops of Winchester
the government attempting or caring to interfere. and Chester, Lord Waldegrave, Lord Glenelg, Sir Robert
Inglis, and several well-known clergymen of the Estab-
lished Church.
ST. BEES COLLEGE, CUMUERLAND.—TESTIMONIAL OF
RESPECT TO THE REV. J. E. MIDDLETON, M.A., THE-
The fiat issued against Messrs. Stockdale has been an- OLOGICAL LECTURER OF THE INSTITUTION.—The Easter
nulled. term at this college terminated on Tuesday last. The
An action has been commenced by Mr. Bunn, in the gentlemen who this term have completed their course of
Court of Queen's Bench, against Jenny Lind, for an studies, and are now leaving for ordination, were desirous
alleged breach of contract, and on Friday week an appear- of presenting their highly esteemed Theological Lecturer
ance to the writ of summons issued a few days previously with some substantial expression of their regard, previ-
was entered by a solicitor on the part of the defendant. ously to leaving college for their various destinations. In
The next proceeding will be the declaration, in which the consequence of this determination, a deputation from their
plaintiff will estimate his damages. Sir F. Kelly and Mr. number waited on the rev. gentleman at his private resi-
Cockburn, Q.C., have been retained for Mr. Bunn. The dence, for the purpose of begging, in their own names and
cause cannot be tried until the sittings after Trinity Term, those of their fellow students, his acceptance of an elegant
commencing the middle of July. piece of plate, accompanied by a memorial, drawn up and
THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF THE QUEEN'S BENCH.-- signed by his students, expressive of the high estimation
It has been earnestly reported within the last ten days, in which their worthy lecturer is universally held by them,
that Lord Denman has intimated his intention of resign- alike as a tutor and a friend. The followidg is the in-
ing the high office of Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's scription engraved on the plate. " Presented to the Rev.
Bench, to which he was elevated in 1832. Fifteen years J. E. Middleton. M.A., Theological Lecturer of St. Bees
service allows the occupant a judicial seat to retire on a College, by the members of the Fourth Term, as a token
pension. It should be mentioned, that, though entitled respect and esteem, on the completion of their course of
to a salary of £lO,OOO a year, Lord Denman has declined studies,—Easter Term, 1847." The deputation were re-
receiving more than four-fifths of the sum, or £BOOO a ceived by the rev. gentleman and his lady with the greatest
year. In the natural and legitimate course of succession, kindness and courtesy. The memorial having been read,
Sir John Jervis, the Attorney-General, should take Lord Mr. Middleton expressed in the warmest terms the high
Denman'seat on the bench, if his lordship vacate it, but sense he entertained of the motives that had thus led to a
there is a whisper that Lord Campbell has proposed him- result in every sense so gratifying to his feelings. He was
self for it., himself perfectly sure that the manner in which he had
Mr. JUSTICE MAULE'S LAST.—During the trial of performed the duties of the important office intrusted to
Hannah Thomas, for the murder of her child, at Mon- him merited no such mark of distinction as that which he
mouth Assizes. a letter was banded to Mr. Justice Maule, now had the gratification of receiving at their hands ; but
who demanded—" Who has had the impudence to send to it his best energies were sedulously and cheerfully de-
me a letter during a trial for murder ?" The trembling voted. He should ever highly prize these tokens of their
javelin man replied, " A female gave it me, my lord, with good will and esteem to him and his family; they
would
directions to give it your lordship immediately." The be a perpetual memento of their regard. He offered them
judge (throwing the letter contemptuously from him)— his sincerest thanks for their munificent gift, and assured
"He calls himself Samuel Jordan, and says lie is a landed the& that, although now about to be widely separated from
proprietor; be's a very impudent fellow to semi me a let- each other and the scenes of their preparation for the
ter in the middle of a trial in such a case, and as to the ministry, he should still cherish for each and all of them
female, she is an impudent—something—or other." A individually and collectively, and continue to take, a lively
Cheltenham paper observes—Mr. Justice Maule has a i interest in their future welfare. His prayer was, that they
knack of concentrating much meaning in few words, into might be eminently useful in their respective spheres of
svkieb he infuses a dash of vinegar; and he exercised ministration, and ornaments of the Church of God.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR,