The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. T.
Pearse. to be domestic chaplain to Baroness North, of
Wroxton Abbey.—Rev. H. W. B. Daubeny, to the
rectory of Kirk, Bramwith,Yorkshire.—Rev. C. G.
Davies, lately of St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham, to the
vicarage of Tewkesbury.—Rev. J. C. Burnett, to the
vicarage of North Curry, with West Hatch and Somerset.
—Rev. E. Carlyon, to the vicarage of Lamerton, Devon.
—Rev. G. Scaife' to the curacy of Darfield Barnsley,
Yorkshire.—Rev Lane, to the living of Wrotham, Kent.
—Rev. A. Paton, A.M., to the vicarage of Tuddenham
St. Martin.—Rev. I. Gaskarth, incumbent of Haverth-
Waite, to the perpetual curacy of Lowick, near Ulverston.
THE LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The will of
Alexander has just been proved in London ; the personal
effects in this country were sworn under £7,000. It ap-
pears to have been made just previous to his lordship's
departure from this country for Egypt, and about a
month after his consecration to this foreign see, being
dated Ist December, 1841. He has left to his executors
and trustees, the Rev. John Christian Reicherdt, clerk,
and C. H, Corbett, Esq , both residents of London, the
whole of his property, real and personal, in trust for his
wife, to receive the interest for her life while unmarried,
and at her death, or second marriage, then to his childen
absolutely.
PERMANENT PAY.—A writer in the Times, advocating
the cause of the working clergy, asks—Would it be every
astounding thing for a member of parliament to bring be-
fore the house a bill for so ameliorating the lot of the clergy
as to provide for all incumbents £l5O per annum certain.
and not dependent on their places ; and for all curates at
least £lOO per annum, also certain ; and to be so arranged
that the incumbent could not in any way evade the law ;
and this might be done by having his salary paid by the
churchwardens, and not by the, rector. Would it also be
likely to meet with opposition to propose setting by a
fund for the support of meritorious clergymen in sickness
and old age; the two afflictions which bring certain ruin
to curates as well as small incumbents without private
means ?

IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL DECISION.—The Arch-
bishop of Dublin has just decided a very important ques-
tion affecting the constitution of unconsecrated places of
worship, and the rights of rectors of parishes. We allude
to the case of the North Strand rharpl, licenced by the
present Archhi.bui, during the incumbency of the Rev.
Mr. Maguire, the late rector of St. Thomas's, and who
also gave his formal consent ; and the important point
decided by his Grace (under advice of his Vicar-General
and Judge of the Consistorial Court) is, that the consent
of the future incumbent, for the time being, is nece sary
to validate such license. We believe there was nothing
personal in the transaction, and nothing further sought or
contemplated, than that of legally sustaining an abstract
question of right. The case was brought forward by
Archdeacon Magee.—Dublin Mail.

THE COURT 4,- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Court still remains at Windsor, but neither her
Majesty nor Prince Albert have been able to take their
accustomed exercise on account of the boisterous and
inhospitable state of the weather.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and a select party, have been
on a Christmas visit to the Queen.
The Earl of Lincoln, Sir James and Lady Graham, and
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, left Windsor Castle on
Friday.

The Duke of Devonshire, on leaving Worsley Hall,
Lancashire, after a visit of several days to Lord and Lady
Francis Egerton, went to Chatsworth, Derbyshire.

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RAILWAY: JNTLLLfIE CE.

LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This line has
amalgamated with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union,
which was looked upon as its chief opponent.

On the Sheffield and Manchester liailway is one of the
highest bridges in the world, being the wooden bridge at
Broadbottom, whilh is seventeen feet higher than the
Menai. It is not, however, so high as the bridge at
Basle.

The South Devon Line of Railway has been frequently
traversed by a locomotive engine and tender, during the
past week, over the once called unfathomable swamp of
Cockwood. The distance has been accomplished in from
sixteen to twenty minutes.

The Grand Junction Railway Company have advertised
for contracts for the erection of a new passenger-station at
Eccles. The preparations for the improvement of the Lime
street station are drawing to a close—tbe property has
been sold—and the works will, we believe, shortly be

commenced.
CAMBRIA AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY, CONNECTING SOUTH WALES WITH LIVERPOOL,
MANCHESTER, &C.—We learn that this company have
made a complete re-deposit of their plans and sections
with the board of trade and clerks of the peace of the re-
spective counties, and intend prosecuting the undertaking
with rigour.

A RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASE.—FRANCE. A
very important question at this moment engages the at-
tention of the Courts in Paris—being no less than a trial
of the claim of the road—carrying inerest between
Rouen and Paris, to compensation in consequence of the
competition they are exposed to by the railways between
these termini. The case will be argued on the ith of
January.

FRENCII RAILWAY SPECULATION.—In the eleven
months of 1845; the sums lodged in the Paris Savings'
Bank have been 34,987,113 francs (£1,399,484), and the
amount withdrawn 47,624,817 francs (£1,901,992), being
an excess withdrawn of 12,637,794 francs (£505,512).
This is attributed by the authorities partly to the long
strike among the journeymen carpenters, and partly to
the speculation in railway shares.
The King of Sweden has authorized the construction of
railroads in Sweden, The principal lines will be from
Stockholm to Gottenbarg, Stockholm to Istad, and Stock-
holm to Upsal and Getle, with various branches. The
English Consul-General in Norway is authorized to con-
struct the road between Christiania, Ojeren, and Mjosen,
in the event of his being able to form a company for that
purpose within a delay of six months.
The Directors of the Midland Railway Company, it
is said, have resolved to allow the sum of fifteen shillings
a week to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, police-ser-
geant, of Leeds, who lost his life in the late accident,

ten shillings a week to be allowed until the youngest child
reaches the age of fourteen, to be paid weekly in the
Leeds pay-bill.
The " Battle of the Gauges" last year, like other
battles, was rather costly ; it is estimated to have cost
£120,000. It is now known that one side. viz., the Lon-
don, Worcester, and South Staffordshire narrow gauge
line, proinoted, by the London and. Birmingham, against
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton broad guage
line, promoted by the Great Western, expended nearly
£60,000 out of £131,450 received for deposi,-
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT evo la-

—Last Monday t
ne. near Ashford s

were working a'lorry up the line, when a coke train from
Folkestone came up with them. The driver of the en-
gine blew the whistle, and did everything in his power to
give them timely warning of his approach ; but it appears
the men either did not hear him in time, or did not con-
sider the danger so imminent, for they did not mat--
parations to clear the line till the train WA.
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vancet, before Jey could get the line entirely clear
the buffer of the engine struck one of them, and he died
in a very short time.
LEEDS AND YORK RAILWAY
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peared that 5,000 shares in this company had been allotted
to ten gentlemen as the parties who were to hold the shares
as trustees for the ,Vlanchester and Leeds comyany. These
were subsequently accepted by the Manchester and Leeds
directors, and the board sanctioned the payment of
£12,500 as a deposit on those shares. The Manchester
and Leeds board, however, subsequently intimated that
it bad been found necessary, in carrying out certain ar-
rangements with Mr. Hudson, that the support of the
Manchester and Leeds board should be withdrawn from
the Leeds and York Comnanv. The report also stated

made an arrangement with the directors of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Noi th Eastern Railway Company, between
the point of junction between Wetherbv and York. The
directors expressed their confidence that the Leeds and
York line would command such decided parliamentary
support as would lead to the passing of the bill in spite of
alt competitors. During the discussion which ensued,
the conduct of the Manchester and Leeds board formed
the subject of animadversion. . _

"NOPEACE WITH" RAILWAYS.—A meeting was held
Cheltenham. on Monday. for the nurnose of receiving

a report from a committee aPpointed at a former meeting,
to guard the interests of the inhabitants against " the in-
vasions and incursions of railways." The Rev. Francis
Close presided; andithe Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P. for
the borough, is reported to have concluded some observa-
tions (on the lines affecting Cheltenham) with the follow-
ing denunciation :—" So much for my public connexion
with this railway ; now for myself—Gentlemen, as an
individual I hate your railways, I detest them altogether.
I wish the concoctors of the Cheltenham and Oxford, and
the concoc'ors of every other scheme, including the soli-
citors and engineers. were a:, rest in Paradise. (Laughter
and loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I detest railroads : nothing
is more distasteful to me than to hear the echo of our hills
reverberating with the noise of hissing railroad engines
running through the heart of our hunting country, and
destroying that noble sport to which I have been accus-
tomed from my childhood, and to which I would humbly
hope the good town of Cheltenham owes some little of its
prosperity, (Loud and repeated cheers.) Such are my
feelings against railroads ; but I know it is useless for me
to attempt to stem the stream of public opinion ; and my
object in joining the Cheltenham and Oxford Company
is to secure to Cheltenham a more direct means of com-
munication than she now possesses. My object has been
to benefit Cheltenham ; and although I know I have in-
curred great unpopularity by so doing, I feel that I could
do nothing else. By promoting facilities of communica-
tion I have felt that I must benefit this town, which de-
pends so much upon its visitors ; and whether those
visitors come to enjoy the sports'of the field, or to reno-
vate their health, or to avail themselves of the meagre
religious consolation which your reverend chairman can
afford"—[the remainder of the sentence was lost amid
storm of hisses, groans, and " shame.")