The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

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The Christian Knowledge Society has voted a second
£lOOO for the cathedral at Fredericton.

CHRIST'S CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE.—The Rev. Joseph
Shaw, 8.D., Senior Fellow, and formerly tutor of Christ's
College, has been elected master, in the room of the Lord
Bishop of Chester, resigned.
Another serious difference has occurred between Bishop
Hampden and Dr. Merewether, which has already given
rise to a " protest" on the part of the Dean, the latter
declining to institute a honorary canon on the nomination
of the Bishop.
A correspondent of the Principality states, that on an
average there are at least five Welshmen occupying pulpits
in the Established Church in every county in England ;
and there is hardly a town in England of any importance
without a Welsh Dissenting minister in it.
It is said that there are no less than seventy candidates
for the Golden Lectureship, which is worth exactly
£420 16s. a-year, being the rents of two houses in Size-
lane, long devoted to the foundation of a Tuesday Morn-
ing Lectureship, by some benevolent member of the
Haberdashers' Company of the olden time. The Rev.
Henry Melvin, the Principal of the East India Company's
College, at Haileybury, and Chaplain of the Tower, is
likely to obtain it.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.—The Queen has been pleased
to appoint the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, the
Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall, D.D., Dean of Canter-
bury, William Page Wood, Esq., Robert Baynes Arm-
strong, Esq., John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., C. 8., and
the Rev. Richard Jones, M.A., to be her Majesty's Com-
missioners for inquiring how episcopal and capitular
estates and incomes in England and Wales can be most
beneficially managed with due regard to the just and rea-
sonable claims of the lessees ; and also how fixed, instead
of fluctuating, incomes can best be secured to bishops and
members of chapters. _ _

ANOTHER MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH.—We learn from
the Morning Chronicle that a large meeting of incum-
bents and beneficed clergymen, was held in Chancery-
lane, London, on Wednesday, to adopt measures for the
" restoration and preservation of church principles." Tt
was stated that one great design of the movement was,
the extinction of church societies, and it was suggested
that the external machinery which they afford might be
supplied by the instrumentality of the cathedral churches.
It was also unanimously decided to publish a series of
papers, similar to the Oxford tracts in character, but
taking higher grounds." The subjects of the first nine
tracts were agreed on. They were to strive for the de-
velopment of the parochial system in all its integrity,—
to treat occasionally on subjects connected with dogmatic
theology.—to contend for the restoration of ancient dis-
cipline, and to discuss such matters as might be demanded
by the necessities of the church. Resolutions were pas-
sed constituting the society, appointing officers, and pro-
viding for the contemplated objects.
THE CHURCH INNOVATERS.—A memorial. very re-
spectably signed by members of the diocese of Exeter,
was recently presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
complaining of novel practices being
i introduced by mem-
bers of the clergy into the churches n that diocese. His
grace has written a very admirable reply, in the course of
which he says :—" I could certainly have wished that the
younger clergy, to whom your remarks are chiefly ap-
plicable, had thought themselves at liberty to follow the
usage of their predecessors and the example of the great
majority of their brethren at the present day ;—so as to
acquiesce in those slight deviations from the Rubric which
custom bad sanctioned, and which had not been reproved
by competent authority. 1 could have wished they had
considered the Apostle's example applicable to their case,
and in non-essential things had yielded to the feelings of
the people as he yielded to those of the Jews, for the sake
of avoiding offence and gaining confidence. Especially I
regret the introduction into our parish churches of a mode
of worship which, however proper and suitable in our
cathedrals, appears too artificial and elaborate for simple
and general devotion."

THE ACHILL MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT.—On Thurs-
day. a meeting of the friends of the Achill mission was
held in the Hanover-square Rooms, London, for the pur-
pose of hearing from the Rev. Charles Seymour, rector
of the district which is situated on the western coast of
Ireland, and from the Rev. Edward Nangle, the superin-
tendent, a statement of the affairs of the colony, The
Rev. Alexander Dallas, rector of Wonston, occupied the
chair, and took occasion to speak in eulogistic terms of
the great exertions made by Mr. Nangle and his coadjutor
in raising the Achill colonists from the depths of Pagan
infidelity to the height of Christianity which the people of
England enjoyed. The Rev. Mr. Seymour entered into
an interesting narrative illustrative of the progress which
had taken place in the spread of Protestant principles
throughout the colony, despite the violent opposition the
missionaries' labours had experienced from Dr. M`Hale,
the Archbishop of Tuam, and the Romanist clergy of the
Achill district. When the Rev. Mr. Nangle first visited
the colony there was neither a Testament nor a school to
be found on the island but now no less than 800 of the
inhabitants attended divine worship each Sabbath-day.
There were 32 schools, and about 1760 children attending
them. The Protestant Bishop of Tuam had become pre-
sident of the mission, and evinced the utmost anxiety for
the propagation of the Protestant truth and the suppres-
sion of Popish error. The Rev. Edward Nangle explained
the origin of the Achill mission, and declared his convic-
tion that if the Protestants of this country really knew the
terrible evils which the existence of Popery inflicted on
Ireland, they would strenuously exert themselves to sus-
tain the mission in its exertions to promote the spread of
truth. He then detailed the difficulties against which he
and his coadjutors had to contend—difficulties of an ille-
gitimate character—and having announced that he was
responsible for the Payment of £BOO, the balance of
£2,300, the amount charged for a cargo of Indian corn
purchased for the starving people of Achill, he called on
the meeting, composed as he believed it to be, of intelli-
gent and truth-loving English ladies and gentlemen, to
sustain by pecuniary contributions the labours of himself
and his colleagues in Protestantising the wild but romantic
district of Ireland, where for the last fourteen years he
had struggled to propagate the principles of their true
religion, and to check the spread of Romanism.

COURT AND FASHION.

The Duke de Nemours and the Duke d'Aumale have
been shooting in company with Prince Albert during
their stay at Windsor.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, Sir Robert
Peel, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Earl and Countess
Fortescue took their departure from Windsor Castle on
Friday.
THE THEATRICAL REPRESENTATIONS AT WINDSOR
CASTLE.—The play of " Hamlet" was performed on
Wednesday before the court, Mr. Charles Kean, of course,
sustaining the principal character. Her Majesty was
seated on the centre of the dais, the Duchess of Kent
being on the Queen's right hand, and the Prince Consort
on her left, the four royal children occupying, as usual,
seats on the steps. Amongst the company present were
Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Carlisle, and Lord Morley.

ACCIDENT TO THE COUNTESS OF MANSFIELD.—The
Countess of Mansfield, accompanied by the two Ladies
Murray, was returning from the private dramatic perfor-
mances, at Windsor Castle, on Thursday night, to her
residence at Wentworth House, near Virginia Water,
when the carriage, in ascending Priest-hill, near Runny.
mede, was backed into a deep ditch on the side of the
road, and the Countess and her daughters proceeded on
foot to Beaumont Lodge, the seat of Viscount Ashbrook.