The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

SODOR AND MAN. - Sodor is from Sundery, (or
Southern) Hebrides, the diocese having once included
them, together with the Isle of Mim.
The Perthshire Advertiser says, " We understand that
it has been determined to erect in Perth, connected with
the Episcopal Church in Scotland, a Cathedral, on a grand
and magnificent scale."

On the 12th ult. ten of the bishops ordained sixty-eight
deacons and seventy-four priests. Of these twenty-two
deacons and twenty-nine priests belonged to Cambridge,
and twenty-seven deacons and twenty-nine priests to Ox-
ford; the rest were from Durham, St. Bees, &c._

TAE CLERGY IN IRELAND.--`A Connaught Rector "
writes to the newspapers to call attention to the condi-
tion of the Itish clergy. He says :—" In illustration of
the present total confiscation of church property in some
parts of Ireland, I beg to state my own case. The gross
income of my benefice amounts to £658 per annum. The
net income which I derive from the living is £420, out of
which the poor-rates are to be paid ; 6s. in the pound
sterling, the present poor-rate, on the gross income, will
amount to £250, to be stopped from my half-year's net

--, payable at November ; and there can be
no doubt that, between the poor-rates and the charges for
the Labour-rate Act, there will be a similar deduction
from my income in May next. Such is the reward which
the elercry nre to rpm.' VP after h Avince rliwntpd themselves

income of

in mind, body, and estate,' to the cause of the poor ne-
glected tenants of, for the most part, absentee landlords
during the last sixteen months of plague, pestilence, and
famine,' in this unhappy land."
CHURCH EXTENSION.—It is with sincere pleasure that
we announce the determination of a large proportion of

Bible readers to-issist the parochial clergy in the discharge
of their pastoral duties. The wise restrictions and regu-
lations under which the appointments are to be made, the
examination and license required of the candidates for this

iononrable employment, the recommendation of the in-
cumbent in the first instance. and his continued approval
throughout, both of the general proceedings of the reader,
and also of the tracts or books which he will be allowed to
distribute, are a sufficient guarantee for the maintenance
of that wholesome order, discipline, and subordination,
which our admirable parochial system is so well calculated
to ensure ; and will be found, we trust, an ample security
against those serious inconveniences which have been ap-
prehended or experienced in similar schemes, not so
deeply considered, nor so well digested, as this appears to
be. Yet, it is rather as an admission of the inadequacy of
the present resources of the church, than as an attempt to
supply them, that this concession is to be hailed with sa-

of the case just as little as the appointment of one addi-
tional Bishop of Manchester. But both are valuable.
WELSH AND ENGLISH.—It seems hard to say why

and flesh of Gloucester and Bristol. Ti has been 'dis:
covered that Sir Robert Peel's commission was, on one
side of the Severn, a lamentable fatuity ;—on the other,

its most

Why ? 0
done befo]

and Bangor was a mistake, Gloucester and Bristol is a
lunacy. The union of St. Asaph with Bangor would have
given a total of 253 benefices in the united diocese. The
union of Gloucester with Bristol gives a total of 535. The
average number of benefices in the present English dio-
ceses is 418. Thus, the united diocese of Gloucester and

Bristol, if measured by the number of its benefices, ex-
ceeds the averaze by upwards of one fifth ; and is nearly
DOUBLE the Oiled dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph,
And each of the two dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol,
ALONE, exceeds, if estimated in the same way, the two
Welsh dioceses put together. More than this ; the bene-
fices of the dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol are some-
thing larger than those of Wales. The cities of Gloucester
and Bristol have no counterpart in the Welsh dioceses.
Even the towns of Stroud, Cheltenham, Cirencester,

nothing of 'the mining population in the forest of Dean,
are far more than pendent to the two cities of St. Asaph
and Bangor. The 116 benefices of the dioceses of St.
Asaph, all put together, would hardly equal the 30 which
form the city of Bristol alone. If Bangor and St. Asaph
are two, then much more ought Gloucester and Bristol
not to be one. If Gloucester and Bristol are one, much
less ought Bangor and St. Asaph to be two.—Guardian.

DIOCESE OF-RIPON.—In answer to the call now so ur-
gently made for an increase of the number of Bishops in
this country, it is often objected that it is not .more
Bishops that we want, but an increase of parochial minis-
ters—the working Clergy, as they are specially called. It
is, perhaps, possible, that some of the hardest workers of
the whole clerical body are to be found amongst the
Bishops themselves; and another thing is pretty certain,
" Give us more Bishops, and we shall soon have an in-
crease of parochial Clergy also." We have a practical il-
lustration of this in the diocese of Ripon. The Bishop of
that diocese has just been delivering a Charge to his
Clergy, in which, after having commenced by stating, that
ten years had now elapsed since his appointment to the
Episcopal office ; he afterwards gives a brief statistical ac-
count of the progress which the Church has made in the
diocese of Ripon during that period. "In 1836, there ap-
pear to have been in this diocese 295 incumbents, 80 cu-
rates, 300 churches and chapels, and 180 glebe-houses,
with 47 of the clergy non-resident. In 1846, we find 370
churches and chapels, and 225 glebe-houses; 360 incum-
bents and 120 curates, and only 27 non-resident clergy,
showing an increase of 70 churches and chapels, besides 36
fresh school-rooms licensed for Divine Worship in remote
hamlets, containing accommodation for 6000 persons ;
100 additional clergy, with 45 new parsonage-houses built,
while there has been a decrease in the number of non-re-
sident clergy by about one-half. As regards the erection
of schools, the advance has been still more striking. For,
although the number of them does not exceed 76, yet, as

they afford accommodation
clear that in this department we are gaining on the in-
crease of our population ; for this number will represent a
population of at least 240,000, an amount far exceeding
any addition which can have accrued during that period."
—Colonial Church Chronicle.

`or near

A DIVIDED PARISH.—The parish of Leigh, in Essex,
is in a state of considerable agitation in consequence of
Lady Olivia Sparrow having withdrawn her schools at
Leigh from the pastoral care of the rector, the Rev.
Robert Eden. Lady Olivia, moreover, has published her
reasons. These are, she says, her " conviction of the
unscriptural character of Mr. Eden's religious views, now
further confirmed by the mode of conducting the cere-
mony of laying the first stone of his new schools. And
yet more, the tone of the addresses on that occasion, and
on the following Sunday, at church, wherein the
Church's voice was described as God's voice '—thus, in
reality, setting aside the authority of the word of God,
which, in the Articles of the Church of England, to
which Church Mr. Eden belongs, is held as supreme.
And whatever is not read therein, nor may be proved
thereby, is not required of any man that it should .be be-
lieved as an Article of the faith, or be thought requisite
or necessary to salvation.'—(Art. vi.) " Lady Olivia
fears, nay, on good authority believes, that Mr. Eden's
views are essentially the same with those which have led
so many from the Church of England to that of Rome.
" Truly thankful," adds her ladyship, " should she be,
were Mr. Eden to enable her, by a return to the genuine
principles of Protestantism, to replace her schools under
the superintendence of the pastor of the parish." To
this Mr. Eden replies, also in print. He says :—" If her
ladyship would kindly state to Mr. Eden what she means
by the genuine principles of Protestantism, a return to
which on Mr. Eden's part would enable her (as she is
good enough to say) to replace her schools under the
superintendence of the pastor of the parish,' Mr. Eden
would weigh with the deepest respect and attention any
such statement from her ladyship. Will it not satisfy her
ladyship on this head, when Mr. Eden says that he re-
joices in the ' Reformation of the Church of England,'
and that he gives his full assent and consent to every-
thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer' as set
forth by the Chureh of England ? As a member of that
Church, her ladyship can scarcely desire a stronger decla-
ration from one of its ministers. Or, if she wishes him
to express his abhorrence of the errors of the Church of
Rome,' she has her wish before it is expressed."