The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

CONVOCATION.

In reply to a question, Lord J. il.trssEm. stated that
the result of inquiries he had made on the subject was,
that a prorogation of Convocation was the act of the
archbishop, and had the effect of an adjournment—that
there existed in that body the right of appointing a com-
mittee on the eve of prorogation—that there could be no
doubt as to the legality of the course pursued by the
Upper House, and that, under these circumstances, it
was not the intention of Her Majesty's government to
take any steps on the subject.

CANADA CLERGY RESERVES.
The second reading of this bill was opposed by Sir J.
PAKINGTON, who said he had no hope of the measure
being amended in committee, and had, therefore, no
alternative but to reject it altogether. The property
which the bill had affected had been appropriated by a
succession of sovereigns and parliaments to the support
of the Protestant religion in Canada. This appropriation
was ultimately confirmed by the act of IS4O, and it was
not open to the government or parliament now to depart
from the arrangement without breach of the national faith,
and he was afraid he might go so far as to say without
national sin.

Sir W. MOLESWORTII said the opinions of many Go-
vernors General of Canada were against giving peculiar
privileges or primary advantages to any sect, and the pro-
gress of these opinions clearly indicated the progress of
the doctrine of religious equality. He thought the colo-
nial policy of that country ought to be to leave all matters
of local interest to be legislated upon by the Colonial
Parliament, and upon these grounds he called upon the
house to sanction the arrangement now proposed by the
Government.

Lord J. MANNERS complained of a Government call-
ing itself Conservative, sanctioning a measure which in-
volved an unwise and illegal robbery and violation of the
national faith, as a concession to what was called religious
equality.

After some further discussion,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
present measure was one of the necessary results of the
establishment of free governments and free institutions in
their colonies. Let them not act over again the events of
late American war with their Canadian colonies. He hoped
he was not indifferent to the welfare of the Church of Eng-
land. (This remark was followed by ironical cheers from
the Opposition, and a burst of counter-cheering from the
Ministerial benches.) He defied any enemy of the Church
of England to proffer her a more deadly gift than that of
combining her in a resistance to the just claims of their
fellow-countrymen in distant lands.
Mr. NAPIER spoke against the bill, and said he re.
joiced to find that there was only one Bishop of the Church
in this country who gave his sanction to thin act of spoli-
ation, which, if carried out to its ultimate results, would
justify, and probably entail the spoliation of the Church
of England and of Ireland.

UpcM a division, the motion of the second reading was
carried by 277 to 194.

ECCLESIASTICAL.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.—Prgferment : The Rev. George
Huntington has been licensed to the office of clerk in
orders, of the Parish Chuich of Wigan, on the nomina-
tion of the Rev. H. S. Gunning, the rector. Vacancy :
The perpetual curacy of Little Budworth, Chester, by
the death of the Rev. C. T. Burslem.—The Bishop of
Chester has granted a license for the performance of
divine service in the school-room connected with Christ
Church, Liverpool, on the representation of the Re 7.
Fielding Ould, incumbent thereof. The license for the
performance of divine service in the new church at Waver-
tree, near Liverpool, has been renewed for another year,
the necessary preliminaries to its consecration having not
vet been completed.—The Bishop of Chester intends to
hold a visitation and confirmation throughout his diocese
in the course of the ensuing summer. Due notice will
be given of the particular times and places.
THE SEE or LINCOLN.—The Rev. John Jackson,
M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, Canon of Bristol,
Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, and Chaplain in Or-
dinary to Her Majesty, has been nominated by Her Ma-
jesty to the vacant Bishopric of Lincoln.