The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The Bishop of Newfoundland, during his stay in this
town, prior to embarking on Tuesday, was the guest of
the Rev. Cecil Wray.

The Rev. E. B. Chalmer, who recently received three
tokens from-Great Crosby, has had presented to him by
his parishioners at Sheffield, as a new year's gift, a very
elegant pocket. communion service. _ _

'The amount already subscribed to the Liverpool Church
Building Society exceeds £12,600, having been recently
augmented by a donation of £5OO from the Society for
8.C.P., per J. 8., treasurer.
On the 4th instant, the parishioners and friends of the
Rev. Wood, incumbent of Altham, near Padi-
hat* presented to that gentleman a purse, containing up-
wards of one hundred guineas.

The Rev. R. W. Kyle, whose license was recently with-
drawn by the Archbishop of Dublin for his adherence to
the Evangelical Allidnce, has been appointed to a living
in Guernsey.

John Wakefield, Esq., of Kendal, has offered to contri-
bute £5OO towards the erection of a vicarage-house in that
town, provided Trinity College will add another £5OO for
the same purpose.
The Earl of Vernlam has given the munificent donation
of £1,500 towards the endowment and building of the pro-

o gifen a piece of

,nd as the site for the

NEW CHURCIIES.—During the present month of Janu-
ary, three hew churches will be consecrated in the metro-
polis, viz., St. Jude's, Whitechapel; St. Andrew's, Ox-
ford-street ; and the Mariners' Church, near the north
entrance to the London Docks, all of them having been
erected within the last twelve months.
Lord Ashley, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, the Rev. A. R.
Dallas, and others, have raised a special fund in connex-
ion with the Irish society. amtnintim, to nesrly. -eon ono

present tieing considered from recent personal visits tc
numerous districts, a very favourable opportunity for the
propagation of Scriptural truth.
WORK IN THE COLONIES.—The whole of this mission
including six churches, and being more than thirty miles
in length, is at present under the care of one missionary,
Dr. S. Thompson. Since his return from England, him-
self and his curate, the Rev. H. Tippett, undertake tc
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serve five ' S,

ye churches every unday, each taking three full
—Visitation Journal of the Bishop of Frede-

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—On

1.1%, OIMUI cilium ►n the beautiful little vil-
lage of Kelsall, on the edge of Delamere Forest, assembled
in the school-room with the children, (about two hundred)
and took tea, which was provided by the Rev. John Dal-
ton, the worthy and beloved curate of the church. After
tea the teachers presented the reverend gentleman with a
handsome pocket communion service, the presentation of
which was made with so much simplicity and frank ho-
-sty by Mr. Robert Rowe, the schoolmaster, that the

rev. gentleman was quite over

)owered, and unable for
some time to give utterance to his feelings. He had not
the least previous knowledge of the compliment about to

s.vca, ..... wrnuu eimancea tne value of it, and parti-
cularly as the gift came from the individuals solely con-
nected with the Sunday-school.

The site of the first of the new churches for Toxteth Park
having been fixed on, the Church Building Committee have,
within the last few days, selected for its design one fur-
nished by Mr. John Hay, of St. George's Crescent. The
Building Committee deserve thanks for the, good taste
and judgment they have shown in awarding to Mr. Hay
that encouragement which his efforts on behalf of a
I strictly

Church architecture so richly deserve. Over-
coming all the difficulties of the shape of the site, Mr.
Hay; with the assistance, we believe, of his brother, Mr.
James Hay, has succeeded. in offering a most beautiful
design, which, when realised, will afford, as it .were, a
living proof that ecclesiology is beginning to find a home
in the good old town. The style of architecture is purely
ecclesiastical—the middle-pointed ; the building will con-
sist of a nave, with spacious aisles and cloistory ; the
roofs, high-pitched and showing all.the interior timbers,
are to be constructed on a .new principle introduced by
Mr. Hay, and which combines two qualities not often
united—elegance and economy. There will be open
benches for 1100 people.
MISS BURDETT COUTTS' NEW CHURCH AND SCHOOLS.
—lt has already been stated that Miss Burdett Coutts had
determined to "4 and endow

_ bb- r• a new church and schools
for the education of the poor in the city of Westminster,
which hei late father represented for so many years in
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in the first instance ; but no less than £45,000 will be re-
quired to carry out the intentions of Miss Coutts. The
site chosen is in Rochester-row, opposite Emery Hill's
Almshouses. A piece of ground has been cleared for the
new church, the first stone of which will be laid in a few
weeks. Adjoining the ground is a chapel, lately beloilg-
ing to the sect called Irvingites, and three houses adjoin-
ing. The three houses have been purchased by Miss
Coutts at an expense of £7,000, and the chapel, which is
a remarkable plain one, for £3,000 more. A district has
already been assigned to the new church, and the Irvingite
chapel was re-opened, under a licence from the Bishop of
London, on Monday, when divine service was solemnised,
for the first time, according to the forms of the Esta-
blished Church. The officiating clergyman was the Rev.
William Tennant, M.A., the appointed minister of the
district. The cost of the site, including the buildings,
will be £lO,OOO, the endowment of the church £lO,OOO
more, and £25,000 will be expended in the erection of the

ADDRESS TO THE BISIIOP OF RIPON.—An address will
be immediately presented by the Evangelical Clergy of
this town to the Bishop of Ripon, on the subject of the

woversions to the Homan Catholic .
remarks with just severity on the principles commonly
known as Tractarian or Puseyite ; and it cannot fail to be
felt by Dr. Hank- whn has haan mainly ingt-rnmpntsal in

introducing and 'spreading those doctrines in this neigh-
bourhood. *Dr. Hook endeavoured on Sunday last to
exonerate himself from all blame in the matter. We do
not suspect the Doctor of ever favouring the gross corrup-
tions of Popery ; but all persons holding evangelical opi-
nions, both in and out of the Establishment, have seen to
what his opinions tended. The author of " Hear the

Church," of • The Dictionary of the Church," and of the
Letter apologising for and declaring substantial agree-
ment in Mr. Newman's Jesuitical Tract, No. 90, cannot
shift from himself the imputation of attaching that false
and dangerous authority to the Fathers, to tradition, and
to apostolical succession, which are the chief appeal and
lliance of Pinery We

Asc.. have ourselves said over
and over again that Puseyism contained the essential prin-
ciples of Popery ; and the result has proved to be true.
We hope the recent events will he a warning to the High
Church, whether-strictly Puseyite or not, that there can
be no solid foundation for any church in human authority,
however high and venerable, but only in the New Testa-
ment.—Leeds Mercury.—[The address is signed by thir-
teen clergymen, among whom are the Rev. James Faw-
cett and the Rev. W. Sinclair.]
PERVERSION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME.—ANOTHER
JESUITICAL PLOT.—Considerable excitement has hop,'

caused in Leeds, by a clergyman and three other members
of the Church of England, having left the pale of the
Establishment, and gone over to the Church of Rome,
into which they were received at St. Ann's Roman Catho-
lic chapel, in Leeds, on Friday week, by the Rev. H.
Walmsley, the senior priest of that place 'of worship.
The persons who have gone over to
the
RomishChristiu
are, the Rev. It. G. Macmullin, Fellow Corpus
College, Oxford,
, Rev. who residing
w
's Church
Leeds; Mr. T. W. Wilkinson, 8.A., who belongs to
with
ianrespectable family in the county of Durham, and re-
ceived his degrees at the Durham University, and who has
also been residing with Mr. Ward ; Mr. Edward Bruce, of
Leeds ; and Mr. D. H. Haigh, who lately offered to give
£lO,OOO for the building and, endowing of a church in
Leeds ; and the offer having been accepted by the Bishop
of the diocese, the foundation stone of the intended edifice
was laid a few weeks ago ; but we suppose, whether or
not he has paid any of the money over for the purposes of
erecting the church, that it will not be erected, now that
he has seceded from the Protestant Chuich. On the fol-
lowing Sunday a sermon was preached by the Vicar of
Leeds, declaring against the whole transaction. But we
cannot discover in any portion of the doctor's discourse
any censure of Tractarianism, which has notoriously been
the true agent on the occaasio n. It would be not un-
becoming in him to speak a little more explicitly on this
point. 'But it must be acknowledged that, if he is inclined
to shelter himself behind authority, he has quite enough
of it for his example. What can be more astonishing
than to see Tractarianism still unrebuked, still unsen-
tenced, nay, winked at, nay, protected, nay patronised ?
The Bishop of Ripon has visited Leeds to make every in-
quiry into the matter.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB.—CHATSWOUTH
MEETING, Jan. 6th and 7th.—The Chatsworth Cup was
won by Mr. Taylor's Blue ; Mr. Barnes's Bounty ran
up.—The Devonshire Puppy Cupwaswon by Mr. Barnes's
Lady ; Mr. Taylor's Cambridgeshire ran up.—The Bur-
lington Cup was won by Air. Barnes's Ben ; Mr. Slater's
Sharebroker ran up.—The Cavendish Stakes was won by
Mr. Jepson's Flisker ; Mr. William's Manchester ran up.
—The Ebensor Stakes was won by Mr. Barnes's Marquis;
Mr. Robinson's Bob ran up•—The Bakewell Stakes was
won by Mr. Bradley's Bellona ; Mr. Bake's Rosetta
ran up. _ _

The celebrated race mare Alice Hawthorn has been sold
to Mr. C. Peck; the price £BOO. Parmaid, a brown
mare, fetched £BO ; Ophelia, dam by E 0, £7O, and Miss
alba:air, by Physician, £7l,