The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

' The last report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a
summary of which we give elsewhere, recommends the
appointment of an Archdeacon of Liverpool.
The Rev. Wray R. Hunt, late minister of St. Saviour's
Church in this town, has been appointed to the sole charge
of the curacy of Great Ripington, Gloucestershire, on the
nomination of the Nan of Gloucester.
BISHOPRIC OF MONTO.—The arrangements relative
to the permanent endowment of the bishopric of Toronto
are complete, and two appointments in the church are va-
cated thereby—the Archdeaconry of York and the rectory
of Toronto. The Rev. Official Bethune, D.D., diocesan
professor of Theology and rector of Coburg, has received
the archdeaconry ; and the Rev. H. J. Gravett, M.A., has
been preferred to the rectory of Toronto.

The Bishop of Oxford, son of the celebrated Wilber-
force, has been making considerable additions to the epis-
copal residence at Cuddesden, including dormitories for
the clergy (whom his lordship, it is understood, proposes
to entertain with something like ancient hospitality), and
a private chapel for domestic use. The windows of this
latter building are to be filled with stained glass • the glass
for one of which has been presented by her Majesty, and
for another by his grace the primate.
'THE BISHOP'S VISITATION.—We understand that the
Bishop of Chester has finally determined not to make a
visitation to those portions of his present diocese which are
intended to form a part of the see of Manchester; some
delay may therefore be expected in the perfOrmance of the
right of confirmation in such parts in the -present year.
The appointment of a Bishop of Manchester is now fully
arranged, and will be completed in about five weeks from
the present time, but who is to receive it has not yet
transpired ' • the Rev. Chancellor Raikes is named, and
from his long acquaintance with the mode in which the
episcopal functions are discharged, he would seem to be
exceedingly eligible to fill the very responsible situation.
Preston Pilot.

THE INSTALLATION.—We are enabled to state, upon
the best authority, that it is the intention of her most
gracious Majesty the Queen, as well as hiS Royal Highness
the Chancellor of the University, to honour Cambridge
with a visit at the ensuing commencement. It is expected
that her Majesty and her Royal Consort will he present
at the performance of the installation ode in the Senate
House, on Tuesday, July 6, and will pass two nights in
Cambridge. The foregoing annnouncement is in itself a
contradiction of rumours which have prevailed to the
effect that the installation will very likely be postponed.
But, in order to remove all doubt upon the subject from
`he minds of our readers, we beg to, state, as explicitly as
ilbert as the Chan-

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we can, that the installation (
cellor of the University will

yen ti

Tal election, will not be allowed
rangements that have been made

interfere wi

Cambridge

The first report of the

consider the state of the sev
and Wales, has been issued.
mending the continuance of St

ommissioners appointed
reral bishoprics in Engl.

It commences by re-com-
Asaph and Bangor as

the deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd being taken
r and annexed to the see of St, Asaph, the
county of Merioneth being included in Bangor,
deanery of Ceifeiliog being transferred to that see,
nd that the whole of Flint and Denbighshire should be
n.. 7„ el nri Q. A

from the latt(
who'

ps would be equalised. The Commissioners re-
`hat the income of the Bishop of Bangor should
_ —al°, the sum fixed for the see of St. Asaph.
They go on to advise the formation of a bishopric of
Manchester, but disapprove of the arrangement laiddown
in the Act of Parliament, on the ground that it does not
equalise the two. They propose to leave North Shrop-
shire, as at present, in the diocese of Lichfield, and add,
'` We recommend that the diocese of Chester should con-
sist of the whole county of Chester, and of the south-
western portion of Lancaster, which includes Liverpool,
being the deanery of Warrington ; except the parish of
Leigh, which, from its vicinity to the town of Manches
ter, may more convepi.,,44._

comme
not exc

ched to the diocese of
uld then

Manchester. The diocese of Manchester wo
consist of so much of the county of Lancaster
eluded within the deaneries of Kendal and Kirl
dale, the deaneries of Amound

urn, A

chester, and Leyland, and the parish of Leigh, in the
deanery of Warrington. According to these recommen-
dations, the diocese of Chester would contain a popula-
tion of 912,449, an area of 1,408 square miles, and 302
parishes and districts; and the diocese of Manchester
would contain a population of 1,123,518, L 220 square
miles, and 313 Parishes and districts. We are of opinion
that the annual income of the Bishop of Manchester
_ _ _

,200 ;. and having learned from the Ecch
issioners fos

Episcopal fund, TIOV

lent for this purpose, we humbly
to foundation and endowment of
linaly. Under ti

see of Manchester, act
the existing Act of P.
,nehester has been founded ; and ti

utkority
an arcndeaconry of

is power, 'tinder
Lry of Lancaster.

These two archdeaconriE
the new diocese of 3
that in the di

are not more than sufficient for