The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The munificent Dr. Warneford has placed in the hands
of the Bishop of Gloucester another £lOOO to promote the
building of parsonage-houses on benefices of small value.
The appeal from Sir H. J. Fast's judgemnt in the case
of Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter will come on before the
Privy Council in December.
In the years 1828, 1838, and 1848, the matriculations in
the University of Oxford were respectively 423, 393, and
412—shewing a marked decrease in the last twenty years.
A new and beautiful church, built by private muni-
ficence, at Kingstown, near Weimer, was levelled to the
ground on Thursday morning week, during a gale of wind.
Lord Porchester, son of the Earl of Caernarvon, was
matriculated of Christ Church, Oxford, last week. The
Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Hopetoun, and Lord San-
don have come into residence this term, at the same uni-
versity.
Dr. Tait will be the new Dean of Carlisle, but will con-
tinue head master of Rugby School until midsummer. It
is said that the Rev. H. H. Milman will be the new Dean
of St. Paul's, and that the Bishop of Sodor and Man
(Earl Auckland) will be translated to the see of Llandaff.
Dr. Buckland, the Reader in Geology in Oxford, has
announced a course of Lectures in which he will use Mr.
Hugh Miller's recent publication, " The Foot-prints of
the Creator," as a class book. Mr. Miller's work is a
refutation of the Geological arguments brought forward
in the too well-known book the "Vestiges of Creation."
The Golden Lectureship in London, valued at £420
per annum, is about to become vacant by the resignation
of the Rev. T. Dale. It is in the gift of the Haberdashers,
and already there are thirty candidates, among whom the
names of Melville, D. Moore, R. Bickersteth, Griffith,
Curling, R. Montgomery, Drs. Croly and M`Caul, stand
conspicuous.
BURIAL OF I:Is:BAPTISED PERSONS.—The Archbishop
of Canterbury has recently been applied to by a dissenter,
who complained of the conduct of a clergyman, the Rev.
J. M. Randall, curate of Lowestoft, for refusing to bury
the children of dissenters on the ground of their beiag
unbaptised. The following is his grace's answer :
"In reply to your letter, I write to say that the curate of
your parish is obliged to bury with the usual forms the corpse
of a dissenter, provided that the Church service is not objected
to. The only exception is in the case of persons dying unbap-
tised. These the Rubric expressly excludes; and the rubric
differs from the Canons in being established by act of parlia-
ment, so that a clergyman is under the necessity of conforming
to it. I agree with you in the opinion that when the non-
baptism is not notorious and patent. as it is in the case of the
Baptist children, no curious inquiry should be made. A clergy-
man may be indicted for violation of the canons; b►it the
earlier ones to which you allude are superseded by the Tolera-
tion Act."

THE VACANT DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF.—On Wednes-
day, a numerous meeting of gentlemen who take an inte-
rest in the present question, relative to the vacant diocese
of Llandaff, was held in London. Benjamin Lawrence,
Esq., presided, and said that the committee bad received
letters from a vast body of the nobility and gentry of
Wales, who had promised to he in London on Friday
next, to accompany a deputation to Lord John Russell,
urging upon him the necessity of advising Her Majesty to
appoint a Welshman to the vacant diocese of Llandaff.
He was happy to say that Lord Powis, one of the warmest
advocates of Welsh interests, bad promised to come spe-
cially from "Wales to attend the deputation ; as had also
Lord Feilding, M.P., Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., the Hon.
Edward Mostyn, M.P., John Williams, Esq., M.P.
Colonel Tynte, M.P., Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P.,
Howel Morgan, Esq., (of Defynog,) and other gentlemen
of influence and station belonging to the Principality.
The Globe inclines to the belief that the bishopric of
Llandaff is to be given to Dr. 011ivant, Regius Professor
of Divinity at Cambridge, Prebendary of Brecon, Canon
of St. Davids, and well versed in the Welsh language.
The Morning Post publishes a communication, dated
" Douglas, Isle of Man, October 21," referring to the
reported translation of Lord Auckland to the Sec of Llan-
daff, stating that the people complain that their Church
is not treated with respect by the Government, who place
Bishops over it only to transfer them to another See as
soon as as a vacancy occurs. During the last ten years
the diocese of Sodor and Man has had almost or quite as
many spiritual rulers. Dr. Short, the present Bishop of
St. Asaph, Dr. Pepys, the present Bishop of Worcester,
Dr. Walter Shirley, Dr. Carr, Dr. Wilson and others,
have passed in rapid succession from the Bishopric of
Sodor and Man, to other and more wealthy Sees, or have
been removed by death. The inhabitants of the island
express themselves deeply desirous that a Bishop should
be appointed who would be contented to remain amongst
them, being unambitious of a seat in the house of Lords;
and this hope was indulged when Dr. Eden, the heir to
the earldom of Auckland, was consecrated to the See.
THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND THE ADDITIONAL
CURATES SOCIETY.—At a meeting of the society held last
week at Blackburn the Bishop said in the course of his
address, " Where I find a willing and ready population,
J would gladly relieve them ; where I find a neglected,
abandoned, godless population, still more gladly would I
seek to aid them. I will aid on no principles of party, on
no principles of private or individual pique or opinion.
But if I find incumbents preferring their wretched cere-
monial of a past time to the vital essence of Christianity
cif I find then dwelling Ivan a dreg in the Church.

instead of the spirit in which the doctrines of that Church
should be taught—clinging to the surplice in ministration,
instead of clinging to the Word and the vital truths of
God, and telling me (for, unfortunately, I am not speak-
ing cf imaginary cases) that they must cling to those anti-
quated follies, unsanctioned and unauthorised alike by the
letter and the spirit of our Church and of the Church of
Christ; telling me, I say, that they must cling to those
antiquated follies, or that they must become infidels—
then, on them I will not bestow your bounty. (Applause.)
And if I find, under the plea—the affected plea—of Cath-
olicism, and the ancient customs of an ancient Church,
disrespect to their official superiors—claiming to them-
selves the right of withholding the rite of baptism and
burial from others—sending children from the church
gates, whose parents are anxiously craving for them to be
received into that church—sending that same child un-
buried from their church gates, in consequence of the
want of that baptism which they themselves refused—
on them I will not bestow your bounty. (Applause.) I
am speaking of no imaginary cases."
THE JEWS AND THE HEATHEN.—At a meeting in
Doncaster last week of the Jews' Society, the Rev. -E,
Bickersteth said, " I remember attending, many years
ago, a meeting at Norwich, e ith my dear friend, Mr.
Simeon, when he was very zealous for the Jews, and I
was very zealous for the Gentiles. He made on that
occasion a very powerful speech on behalf of the people of
Israel, and I was a little afraid it might impair the interest
of our friends in the Gentile cause. So I wrote to him
on a slip of paper, " Dear Brother Simeon,—Here are five
millions of Jews, and six hundred millions of Heathens;
surely we ought to pay far higher attention to the case of
the Gentiles than to that of the Jews." Dear Simeon
smiled,—" But, what ! if these five millions of Jews help
you to save the six hundred millions of Gentiles ? What !
if the fulness of the Gentiles shall not be brought in till
the Jews themselves be converted ?" I felt rebuked,
and was led to study the subject; and afterwards became
as warm an advocate for the Jew as I had been for the
Gentile. Indeed who can take up his Bible, and read his
Bible, and from xii. Genesis to the end of his Bible, find
it full of the history of the people of Israel, and of God's
wonderful dealings with them, and find in every page
something about the experience of Israel, or the promises
made to Israel, or the doctrines or precepts revealed to
them, and then be indifferent about the Jews, and then
be unconcerned eb3ut that very people who form the
subject of the book, or who are more or less connected
with all that it contains ? It seems to me to be utterly
impossible to know the Bible, to read, to love, and to be
instructed in it, and to believe it to be the Word of Gehl,
and yet to remain indifferent to the welfare of Israel."

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty, it is stated, will be unable to attend per-
sonally at the opening of the new Coal Exchange, in the
City, this day, owing to indisposition—a slight attack of
chicken pox ; but Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, will participate
in the celebration.

The Hon. Mr. Charles Grey succeeds Mr. G. E,4n-
son, deceased, in the post of Secretary to Prince Albert.
The Queen Dowager is evidently sinking fast. Her
disease, dropsy, is at once chronic and acute, and leaves
scarcely a particle of hope that this amiable lady will long
survive.

Lady Charlotte Lindsay expired on Thursday, at her
mansion in Green-street, at the advanced age of 79. Her
ladyship was third and youngest daughter of Frederick,
second Earl of Guildford, and married, in April, 1800, the
late Hon. John Lindsey, brother to the late Earl of Bal-
carres.

The infant son of Lord and Lady John Russell was
christened at the Royal Chapel in Windsor Castle on
Tuesday, in the presence of her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Lord
Wriothesley Russell. Prince Albert, the Earl of Car-
lisle, and Lady Mary Abercrombie were the sponsors.
The party joined her Majesty's dinner circle in the even-
ing.

POLITICAL. MISCELLANY.

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Serjeant Murphy has at last addressed the electors of
Cork ; and as there are two other liberal candidates, the
protectionist is very likely to succeed.
A memorial to Lord Palmerston, denouncing the Aus-
trian atrocities, and advocating a constitutional system
for Hungary, is now in course of signature, by members
of both Houses of Parliament. It is prepared by Earl
Fitzwilliam.

His Excellency Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the newly
accredited Minister to the United States, accompanied by
the Hon. Lady Bulwer, left town on Thursday for Liver-
pool, there to embark for New York, to enter on his dip-
lomatic duties at Washington. Mr. Bulwer Lytton, son
of the celebrated novelist, also departed with his uncle,
having been appointed attache to the British Legation.
We hear, or used to hear, a good deal about the value
of Mr. Rowland Hill's services in the post-office. What
has be done ? He has enabled us to secure a revenue of
less than £900,000 by an expenditure of about £1,400,000
for inland conveyance, and of more than £1,000,000 for
oversea ; that is, he has so managed and reformed mat-
ters that the post-office, instead of being a profitable
establishment, is a loser to the tune of some million and
a half sterling a year ! This is rather a heavy price to
pay for Mr. Rowland Hill's services.—Cambridge Chro-
nicle.

THE LIVERPOOL STINDARD.