The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The University of Cambridge has petitioned the Legis-
lature against the admission of Jews into Parliament.
MR. BROOKE, THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.--, This dis-
tinguished philanthropist has been invited to Oxford, to
receive the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester presided yesterday
(Monday) at a public meeting intended to do honour to
Mr. Brooke and his fellow missionaries to Borneo.
The rectory of Clapham, Surrey, vacant by the death of
Archdeacon Dealtry, D.D., has been conferred on the
Rev. T. B. Bowyer, M.A. _
It is said that Dr. Phi Ipot, Master of Catherine Hall,
Cambridge, who performed the honours of Vice-Chancel-
lor during the late royal visit, has been appointed tutor to
the Prince of Wales.

ANOTHER REGIIJM DONUM.—At a late meeting of the
Congregational Union, Dr. Alexander, of Edinburgh,
warned his hearers of the probability of an offer of a re-
pium donum to the Scotch Free Church, through the me-
diation of Mr. Fox Maule.

The election of LOW Rector of Glasgow University
was decided on Monday, when Lord John Russell was
defeated by Mr. Mure, of Caldwell, M.P. for Renfrew-
shire. Mr. Mure was elected by a majority of nations
and separate votes. He is a conservative.
The Dean and Chapter of Manchester met in the parish
church (now the Cathedral) of that city, on Wednesday
last, in obedience to the cono d'ilire issued by Her
Majesty, and duly elected the Rev. James Prince Lee, to
the office of First Bishop of Manchester.
The Lord-Ordinary of Glasgow has pronounced judg-
ment relative to the Hebrew chair in the Edinburgh Uni-
versity. The judgment prohibits Mr. M`Douall from ex-
ercising the office of Professor of Hebrew to which he has
been elected, until he comply with the provisions of the
Treaty of Union.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have
granted the sum of £BOO towards the erection of a cathe-
dral at Fredericton, New Brunswick, £3OO to be paid as
soon as the building is fit for .the performance of divine
service, and the remaining £5OO upon the completion of
the works, reported by Dr. Medley, the Bishop of Frede-
ricton, to be now in progress.

OXFORD, Nov. 18.—REui us PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY.
—Dr. Samuel Hinds, formerly of Queen's College, and
Vice-Principal of Alban-hall, has been appointed Re-
gius Professor of Divinity, in the room of Dr. Hampden.
Dr. Hinds was Vice-Principal during the time that Dr.
Whateley, now Archbishop of Dublin, was Principal, and
is the author of a once popular compendium of Logic,
and a History of the Early Progress of Christianity.
CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.—A grand convocation
of the clergy took place last week in St. Paul's Cathedral.
The great doors at the west end of the cathedral were
thrown open soon after eleven o'clock, and the Bishops of
Hereford and Rochester, the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's, the advocates, proctors, and other officers of
Doctors' Commons, and a number of the clergy, walked
in procession up the centre aisle, preceded by the vergers.
The service was then read in Latin by the Bishop of
Hereford, and a Latin sermon was preached by Dr. Jelf,
the Principal of King's College. After which the proces-
sion was again formed, and the convocation quitted the
cathedral.

THE NEW BISHOP or MANCHESTER.—A correspondent
of the Record says :—" Mr. Lee has educated a son of
mine ; and I can only say, what shave often said, that,
under God, he has succeeded in thoroughly implanting in
my son deep religious feelings and thoroughly Protestant
sentiments. Comparisons are proverbially odious, but I
must say I am sure that in no school in England could my
son have received greater moral and religious benefit.
You yourself bear witness to Mr. Lee's efficiency in infus-
ing scholarship—the Universities do the same. What I
wish humbly to testify is, Mr. Lee's wonderful power in
kindling, or increasing and confirming, personal religion.
He is, you may rest assured, a spiritually-minded man.
His pupils will not easily forget the preparation they re-
ceived from him for confirmation. He is an excellent di-
vine, and makes his pupils such. I cannot speak too
highly and too gratefully of him for the decided taste for
scriptural and critical divinity which he has been the
means of exciting in my son."

THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The Right Rev.
Thomas Musgrave, D.D., is a native of Cambridge. His
father, the late Mr. W. Peete Mugrave, was a woollen-
draper and tailor, and obtained some notoriety about the
end of the last century as a warm and liberal supporter of
the whigs, at a time when whig advocacy, especially in a
university town, displayed not a little courage in the par-
tisan. Dr. Musgrave was born, we believe, in 1788 in
1806 he became a student of Trinity College, Cambridge ;
graduated B.A. (14th wrangler) in 1810; and was after-
wards elected a fellow of Trinity, which fellowship he
continued to bold until he obtained a mitre in 1837 ; and
in 1811 he obtained the second of the members' prizes
for middle bachelors, and in the following year the last of
the same prizes for senior bachelors ; he proceeded M.A.
in 1813 ; in 1821 he succeeded Professor Redouard in the
Lord Almoner's professorship of Arabic; in 1831 he was
appointed to the office of senior proctor; he succeeded
Dr. Cresswell in the incumbency of St. Mary the Great,
Cambridge ; he also filled the office of bursar of his col-
lege ; in 1837 he was appointed to the see of Hereford,
and in the same year was created D.D. by royal mandate.
In 1839 Dr. Musgrave married the Hon. Catherine Ca-
vendish, youngest daughter of Richard, second Baron
Waterpark. Dr. C. Musgrave, Archdeacon of Craven
and Vicar of Halifax, is a younger brother of the Bishop.
EPISCOPAL ASPIRANTS.—The move among the bishops
is setting the Liberal papers in full activity on behalf of
their respective proteges. Thus, the Gateshead Observer
puts in a claim for the mitre of Durham, on any possible
vacancy, in behalf of Dr. Waddington, "the excellent
Dean of Durham," as he undoubtedly is, and will for the
present, at least, remain. The Hull Advertiser waxes
bolder in behalf of a political partizan. Our last-named
Liberal contemporary informs ministers that they " are
imperatively called upon to consider the claims of those
clergymen who have distinguished themselves in the ad-
vocacy of measures by the triumph of which they have
Teen placed in office—always (adds our anxious friend)
provided they be gentlemen of spotless lives, and other-
wise well qualified to fill the high offices in the church.
None of us in Hull (says the Advertiser) can pretend to
be strangers to the strong claims of the Rev. James As-
pinall, rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire, upon a Free-
trade Government. We are all in a condition (continues
our northern contemporary) to bear testimony to the
surpassing eloquence with which that rev. gentleman, in
full assemblies of our fellow townsmen, made clear to the
most clouded intellect the enormities of the Corn-laws
and the evils of the whole system of commercial monopoly.
The Rev. Mr. Aspinall, to the erudition of the scholar
and the studies of a divine, adds the political grasp of
mind of a sound politician and an able statesman. Why
is he not made a bishop ? " Why not, indeed—with such
recommendations as those advanced by the Hull Adver-
tiser 7—Church Gazette.

THE DEAN AND CANONS OF MANCHESTER
AND THE BISHOP OF CHESTER.

The following address has been recently sent to the
Bishop of Chester by the Dean and Canons of Manches-
ter. It is a valedictory address in respect of the Bishop's
episcopal superintendence of this diocese :
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of
.Chester.
We, the Dean and Canons of Manchester in Charter
assembled, beg leave to approach your lordship with the
expression of our unfeigned respect and affection.
Long blessed, as this most important diocese has been,
under your lordship's superintendence, we cannot permit
the time to arrive when we shall be placed under other
episcopal care, without a recognition, no less due to your
lordship than grateful to ourselves, of the many and inva-
luable benefits which it has received at your lordship's
hands.

On all sides we see lasting memorials of your lordship's
indefatigable labours and Christian zeal, whilst your kind
and courteous demeanour, on all occasions of public and
private intercourse with ourselves, demands the expression
of our warmest gratitude.
In contemplating your lordship's removal from the su-
perintendence of this diocese, it is a source of high satis-
faction that your lordship will still, as we believe, be con-
nected with us as the visitor of our college.
It is our earnest prayer that your lordship may long
live to adorn your exalted station, and in the enjoyment
of health and every other blessing.—Given under our
Chapter seal this tenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
In answer the following has been addressed to the
Chapter by the Bishop of Chester :
To the Very Reverend the Dean and the Reverend the
Canons of Manchester.

My Reverend Brethren,—l beg you to accept my sin-
cere thanks for your affectionate address, on the occasion
of my separation from the diocese of Manchester. I can-
not but acquiesce in the general opinion that the diocese
of Chester required division, and that Manchester ought
to become a Bishop's See. At the same time I regret the
severance of a connexion which has continued through
nineteen years, and has left upon my mind 'the pleasing
recollection of a hospitable welcome on the part of the
Dean and Canons whenever my duties carried me to Man-
chester, and a ready co-operation in whatever measures
appeared likely to promote those spiritual interests, for
which an increasing population made it daily more and
more difficult to provide.
I shall rejoice to hear of the successful progress of those
exertions for the education and oversight of the inhabit-
ants of Manchester, in which we have been mutually en-
gaged, and with an earnest prayer for your own welfare,
both individually and collectively, and for that of the city
in which you have so important an interest.—l remain
reverend brethren, your faithful friend and brother.
Chester, November 15th, 1847.

J. B. CHESTER.

COURT AND FASHION.
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Her Majesty will, according to present arrangements,
leave London by the South-Western Railway on Tuesday
(to-day) morning for Gosport, en route to Osborne, Isle
of Wight, where the Court will sojourn about 10 days.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Letters have been received,
announcing the safe arrival, at the island of Madeira, of
her Majesty and suite, all in good health.
Prince Louis Napoleon has arrived at Eglinton Castle,
Ayrshire, from the Isle of Arran, on a visit to Lord and
Lady Eglinton.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have lately been
the guests of the Dean of Durham, and on Sunday week
their Graces attended the services at Durham Cathedral,
and were enraptured with their rich solemnity.
A NOBLE SPouTswomAN.—The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Breadalbane have been entertaining a shoot-
ing party at Taymouth. The Duchess of Montrose shot
four splendid bucks in the noble marquis's forest, three
of them having royal heads. Her ladyship stalked in
first-rate style—hill or glen no object—all obstacles being
easily surmounted when game was in view,