The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Bishop of Gloucester has finally settled the ques-
tion as to the manner of performing the service in Bristol
Cathedral, after hearing the question argued at great
length in the Court of Visitation last week, by ordering
the practice of chanting to be resumed.
GORHAM v. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—This case is
still proceeding before Sir Jenner Fust, in the Arches
Court. The arguments on behalf of Mr. Shore were com-
pleted on Thursday, but Dr. Addams will be heard in
reply before judgment is given.
The Rev. William Cook, Incumbent of St. John's the
Evangelist, St. Pancras, London, has been appointed
Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester, on
the resignation of the Rev. James Cartmell, now Master
of Christ's College, CambridcTe.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service on
Sunday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, London. The
Rev. Dr. Wesley preached the sermon end administered
the sacrament. At the daily service the sermon was
preached by the Bishop of Chester, the sacrament was
administered by the Bishop of London.

In the case of " the Rev. Sir W. Dunbar v. Bishop
Skinner," the Court has unanimously confirmed the in-

terlocuter of the Lord Ordinary in favour of the pursuer
or plaintiff, declaring that the Court had jurisdiction to
try the case, whether Sir W. Dunbar had not sustained
damages by the sentence of excommunication pronounced
against him by the Bishop of Aberdeen. The Bishop

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AII.REST OF THE REV
Shore preached in Spafi

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London, on Friday evening, and immediately

Gaol, in consequence of the proceedings taken by the
Bishop of Exeter. In reply to a letter from Mr. Shore,
stating that he was " cast into prison for preaching the
Gospel, and might have to lie there if the costs were not
paid," Mr. Barnes, the Bishops' Procter says—" The

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sentence of the Arches' Court being against Mr. Shore,
he appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, which court dismissed Mr. Shore's appeal, with
costs. In consequence, the usual attachment against Mr.
Shore for the costs of the appeal was issued, some time in
the last summer (I am writing on the instant, without the
power of referring to dates) after due demand on Mr.
Shore to pay the same. The attachment was in due
course placed in the hands of the officer to be executed,
and, it appears, has been put in force. The writ requires
Mr. Kore to, pay a certain sum -or costs, and nothing
more. It is not true that if Mr. Shore were to pay the
sum in which he is condemned for costs, he would still be
under contempt of court."
THE NEMESIS OF FAITH. By J. A. Froude, M.A.,
Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Chapman, Strand.—

Between Newman and Newman, between Froude and
Froude, how wide is the extreme of error ! Newman and
Froude started in a design to improve the church : they
got bewildered in their course, because they abandoned
the guidance of sound principles. The result is that
Newman is a bigotted Papist and Froude is not to be
spoken of ; and see where the brothers of these men have
been driven, perhaps, by their false leaders! Mr. Francis
Newman is with the bitter Baptists, and Mr. J. A.
Froude, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, is a
Deist.—or something still more remote from truth—and
writes books that, but for some saving passages in them
touching of humanity, we should say had been written at
hell's threshold, under the instigation of the most male-
volent of demons. Such a book is this " Nemesis of
Faith." Exeter College, of unenviable memories, has
reason to be proud of this her " Fellow !" His book has,
indeed, startled the members, and on the 27th of Febru-
ary it was solemnly committed to the flames of the hall
fire, under the auspices of Mr. Sewell.—Church and
State Gazette.

ANOTHER BISHOP'S CHAPLAIN.—We have only space
this week briefly to direct the attention of the members of
the Church of England in general, and of the Bishops of
London and Oxford as well as of the Vice- Chancellor
and Heads of the University of Oxford in particular, to a
work which has just issued from the press, the joint pro-
duction of the Rev. Thomas Allies, M.A., one of the
chaplains of the Lord Bishop of London ; the Rev. Chas.
Marriott, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; the Rev. John
Wynne, and the Rev. J. H. Pollen, also, if we are not
mistaken, Fellows of Colleges in the same University.
The publication before us purports to be a " Journal " of
a tour made by these nominal adherents to the Anglican
Church, in France and Italy, in the year 1845, 1847, and
1848; with the object, to all appearance, of conforming.
in every particular which their case admitted to that cor-
rupt communion. Monks, priests, and Jesuits appear to
have been their sole companions in their first journey—
high masses and low masses their ordinary occupation.
Three of the four confess to their intimacy with Italian
Jesuits—to having " knelt " before the Popish Bishop of
Trent—three Anglican priests receiving " his blessing !"

—and, after visiting the blasphemous imposture or the
Addolorata at Capriano in the Italian Tyrol—the wretched
victim of which is affirmed to have subsisted several years
on the flesh of the Saviour, transubstantiated from the
sacramental favour—these CLERGYMEN ask her prayers
for themselves and for England ! We believe that all
three are at this moment actual officiating ministers in
the same diocese ! What is the Bishop of Oxford about ?
—Church and State Gazette.

THE PROPERTY OF THE CHURCH.—Mr. Noel says—
" Who gave the Church property to the clergy and for
what end was it given ? It was the Legislature (I),
which justly took it from the Roman priests, because
their ministry was judged noxious to the country, and
which gave it to the Protestant clergy (I) for the good of
the whole community. As justly might they take it from
the episcopal clergy—existing i'iterests being respected—
and give it to Presbyterian or Independent ministers !"
The execrable error which here is drawn out of its hole
needs only to be seen to be disarmed of its meditated
mischief. It is enough to assert, in return, that there
were no Protestant clergy, ready to take the place of the
" Roman" priests who were supposed to have been ex-
cluded ; to which fact we need only add that, taking the
Churches as a whole, theformerly-Remi.sh clergy left the
Romish errors, remained in their respective incumbencies,
and became " the Protestant clergy.' There was, in
general, no such thing as the ousting of one race to make
room for another. Take the person of Archbishop Cran-
mer : his predecessor was Archbishop Warham, a Roman-
ist. Cranmer had been a Romanist himself, and he still
was a Romanist, though the light was fast breaking in
upon his mind. Warham died—Cranmer was appointed.
Cranmer was consecrat td on March 30; 1533: the Pope
sent his bull to " legalize" Cranmer's accession—Cran-
mer still offered mass and believed in transubstantiation.
It was not till subsequently, at the time of the persecu-
tions of the martyrs under Henry VIII.'s " Six Articles,"
that Archbishop Cranmer renounced transubstantiation.
At Edward Vl.'s accession, Cranmer became fully a Pro-
testant. In his person we see the turning-point of the
Reformation. Was Archbishop Cranmer, the Papist, put
out, that Archbishop Cranmer, the Protestant, might be
put in ? Yet this is what Mr. Noel would affirm :—" The
Legislature took the Church property (Canterbury, par
excellence) from the Roman priests and gave it to the
Protestants" ! ! This a wicked fiction in Mr. Noel's
mouth ; and the excessive ignorance which he displays he
shares with all the radical senators who declaim against
Church property : they are " steeped" to the neck in in-
fatuation. Now, Archbishop Cranmer's case is the type
of what took place at that era among " the Roman priests"
at large throughout England : they themselvesbecame the

expulsion of thes-e' Protestant ministers by bloody Queen
Mary, under whose auspices many foreign priests and
friars were imported. Nevertheless, on the whole, any
violent change of the men in occupation of the parochial
churches in England was put partial. The point would be
clear if each incumbent in the country would investigate
the particulars affecting his own Church.— Gillmor' s reply
to Noel.

THE STRETHALL BURGLARY

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)

We have stated that Mr. N. Perry has been in the habit
of keeping loaded fire-arms upon his premises, and now
add some particulars which tend to throw some light upon
the affair as it at present stands before the public. These
particulars have for the most part been gleaned in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Perry is a bit of an eccentric, and
some thirty years ago used to tolerate the presence of a
large number of gipsies upon his premises, being urged
thereto by the attractions possessed by one of the female
members of the " Shaw" tribe, with whom he had a lia-
son. This female he ultimately made Mrs. Perry ; but
the marriage, like all ill-assorted ones, has not turned out
happily. Mr. Perry has for some time past lived sepa-
rately from his wife, whom he keeps in a state of great
seclusion, at a house in the neighbourhood, on Cartmere
farm, and has threatened to visit with the most dire ven-
geance any man who should be seen speaking with her.
Notwithstanding this, however, the gypsies, when in the
neighbourhood, are generally to be found on the borders
of Mr. Perry's estate, from which they have been warned
repeatedly. They have been known to have had commu-
nication with Mrs. Perry, and the gossips do not hesitate
to assert that the deceased burglar is a member of the
gang to which the " Shaw" tribe belong, and that the
have treatment
been os f
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thee-
object of the visit to Strethall-hall.s was to wreak their
rvaenntgemaernncebei. upon. sAolmr.ePeerfr
neighbourhood very lately, and rumours are afloat in con-
nection with this last visit, which it would not do here to
repeat. If Mr. Perry has exhibited his ire towards the
3;
the r
tribe
gipsies, they have been no way backward in repayment,
and left him a memento of one of their visits by poisoning
a very valuable horse, which was found dead in one of his
closes on the morning they decamped. The inquiry was
holden at the hall, and the body of the luckless wretch
remained in the same position as he was left by his com-
panions, His countenance is of the most forbidding kind,

March 13, 11141

&iced bl.l
and, in addition, bears the usual expression in ot)
the agony of a gun-shot wound. At the inquestuPf 4,j0
body of the burglar shot by Mr. Perry, a verdict ° viod
tifiable homicide" was returned. The body "5 of tIO
in the course of the morning by a large numbe r ofo,
police, constables, and parties who are in the habiLai
tending fairs. A number of these said that the of
was a Smith, (a gipsey family,) but could not P°sd
name him. Mr. Perry was in capital spirits, °fled, It
that " if he bad known which way the rascals esc3P,d onlf
could have picked a couple more off, as they COu',, s
get through the window at which they entered °ll-e,
time." Superintendent Clark, of the Essex forc_lo
been in possession of the premises since the occurl;so!
and the place was visited on Saturday morning by
Pe rti
from all quarters, some of whom arrived before It
wo,
light, and one of the most clamorous of whom was sweis
man named Hannah Burton, from Elmdon, ich°s
was to touch a wen on her neck with the dead man S
bubo
having been advised to this course by a neighbou,tratio,
said she had been cured under similar circUm 1,10
The face of the deceased bore a most marked resew d, tY
to Madame Tussaud's representation of Daniel Gcl° bo6
murderer, which was detected by several persons t°,:bo4
it bad not been mentioned. The charge entere.o,oo,
the seventh rib, and appeared to have proceeded,' bu:,
wards through the heart, carrying with it part of t"
,e,, A 9
ton of the coat, and a piece of the coat, waistcoa,_ tv
shirt. The top of a large wine-glass would cove'
whole of the injury externally visible.

RAILWAI

AFFAIRS

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NORTH KENT RAILWAY.--Last week an expel •tb.
trip was made upon this line. from Gravesend to Erlo6
Mr. Hudson passed through York on Thursda3'9eioto
the conclusion of the investigation of the commute
his share transactions with the York, Newcastiee' poi!
Berwick Railway Company, in high spirits, and apP

satisfied with the result ofihe irWestigation. 610,
The reductions which the Directors of the pegg
Western Company hare made in the number of Pas'eoP
trains will effect a saving in the expenditure of the oC
pang to the extent of £lOO a-day, or at the rate '
wards of £36,000 a year. ling 1
RAILWAY PICKINGS.—At the half-yearly inhered
the South-Eastern Railway Company, Mr. J. 31 010'
admitted that Lord Torrington, for his services in Piried,
ment, had received out of the capital account a serptio
plate worth £2,800, given at a dinner which cost

besides 1000 No. 4 shares.
There were 112 persons killed, and 120 injured, 010 i
the railways opened for public traffic in Great Brit%lae
Ireland, during the half-year ending the 31st Dece
1848. The number of miles open on the 31st Del
was 5,007, and the number of passengers conveyed
the half-year, 31,524,641

st oille; indications of a revival of trade 111,13:

anal tne tact tnat tne tramc of tne -1-4 u— of
-Western, for seven weeks since the closins ne

last nail-yearly account, shows an increase
£17,000 over the corresponding period of the P4'6o
twelve months, or an increase at the rate of £2,
week.

SOLITARY CASE OF IMPROVED DIVIDEND .--1"t,5 r
per, as well as pleasant, to notice one exception, 111.00
suits of the last half-year, to the general rule of diro:to
profits. The Lancaster and Carlisle we are eau idel'
advancing in prosperity and making an improved cli'„edi
while all other railways, if not stationary, have for
an opposite direction, and are reducing theirs. 000,
The amount of traSc for the last week, on 4,4%51
of railway, was £175,798, thus accounted for
for the conveyance of passengers only, £55,92, 0,
carriage of goods, and a remainder of £44,509 ',?,00i
sengers and goods together, not respectively aPP°rl,le
being an increase of £30,083 over the correspondin'ori
of last year, when the mileage was £3,396. The
earnings per mile was £5O, whilst last year t''
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aah.
At the South Eastern Railway meeting, on TO-ti
the directors proposed a committee of investigatit',:;cl,(v,
a stormy meeting the chairman and directors OSP )
election of their own party by a very large majoritV;
Prichard was present, and entered into the Par)ooB,,•
which caused the differences between himself an'hut
two other directors and the rest of the board' ire
meeting was almost unanimous in favour of the eh'
whose reception was very enthusiastic. ,t.,
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY CoStikOlL
On Wednesday morning the 25th half-yearly elefi°til
this company was held at Manchester : HenrY 're9`';t
worth, Esq., in the chair. The Secretary read thf.15,,,,":
which stated that " The disposable amount of ',I IoY,
10s. 6d. would provide for the preference shares ao,"
and for a dividend on the ordinary share apita~ss,
rate of 2 per cent. per annum, subject to income of ~a
would leave a balance of £13,993 14s. ld. to be„gev,
forward. After some conversation, the report, Ili 17,
with the accounts of the directors, was unamEnowej
ried. A dividend of 2i per cent. for the halfil,
then adopted, and the retiring directors re-electe tit;
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.-011 SatUrdaY 14;.,e)
dent happened to the express train on the Y°,,r, oYf
castle, and Berwick Railway, on its way to t',7000114,
When about six miles from Darlington, at a place te
" Modern Carrs," the engine, when going at t itPik
speed, crossed over the un line, and embedded, op
es,
the soil. The engine-driver (Love) was kill=ed pot
spot, and the stoker so much injured that be I,c #(‘
pecteu to recuve.. Fortunately the coupnup,6,.e-
and the carriages escaped comparatively uniP:tia
Tuesday, on the London, Brighton, and `:)'"-cps96,
Railway, one of the beat engino-drivers of the n
lost his life, and a young wife and family are thrt'`co,cl";;
destitution. The driver had taken the twelve
down passenger train from London Briagevr
passed Brighton in safety, but when betweli
hampton and Arundel, he, it is said, was "larks
the roof of one of the carriages or tender, and o'"
under a bridge forgot its dangerous proximity „ 6°
dashed from the train, then going twenty miles II" ,

and instantaneously killed.
MR. HUDSON AND THE COMMITTEE OF tbe
• —The Yorkshireman says :—" During, 00

week, the Committee of Investigation appointed ups
into the facts relating to the sale, by Mr. dIP
2,800 £l5 shares of the Great North of England IDloe
has been sitting. The inquiry has not yet ter 591
nor have we received any information—that is tfult•
thentic information—touching the probable re'citf
course there are various rumours floating in the 01‘
(Friday) morning, but it would be hazai dons ttl-irff
readers to depend upon one of them. The iqueseo,
bably, will not terminate before this (Saturdaliiitiool
Our own impression, however, is that no exPlai°,oo,,,
be sufficient to entirely exonerate Mr. thinsPf
charge of upwards of £2,000 for broker's co,,'',
look upon as fatal to the abdicated Iron .„air,l3
Yorkshire Gazette, on the other hand, ettY:oinV
public have been told that the charge made V.'„
Hudson is, that he, being chairman of the 'JO ;'0
castle, and Berwick Railway, had sold to the coo:1'01i
shares in the Great North of England line at Pioreo,
aging £5 per share above what they mightthst°ol/
bought at in the market. Now the fact is ,:therg,k4
charge was ever made by Mr. Prance or any the r;
man. On the contrary, Mr. Prance said that
the shares in London at the time in question ty 0?
premium, and according to the published account bfti
pears that the average premium of those boug°
company was £2O 19s. 90. There is therefore")
tence for accusing Mr. Hudson of having :f P")
£14,000 unfairly, as our malignant contempt:l'l;6T(
insinuates. The committee of inquiry meet %IV
and we repeat our belief that Mr. Hudson 8:," fro'
directors will be fully and honourable acquitteutbep
and every charge that has been alleged againstop
THE RAILWAY.—A RUNAWAY TRAIN. 0100,"
last, while a train of wagons, loaded with coal _e p
conducted into the Kirkaldy branch line, for tifigya
of being shipped into one of the whalers,rlit io yid
edge of the quay. so soon as the train was eta
the drag was put on. Almost at once, hovvereetp
got unmanageable—so much so that the te
safety of their lives, sprang from their places' pt
to its fate. It soon acquired such a speed told
could stop it, and some fearful catastrophe alit ot
Fortunately the train went off the rails before.ooo)
the terminus, when all the six wagons, contsottp
five tons weight each, went over the embankty,ostri
ing the rails and sleepers, and scattering their t'ori
around. Happily no lives were lost. It 9q beep'
the accident was caused by the brake or dra!'~
r
weak to check so great a force.—Glasgow Pa

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